From Alan Grayson

[elleng]

Dear Ellen,

A week ago, $250,000 in lying attack ads by a polluting oil company.

This week, over $600,000 in lying attack ads by the drug companies.

And now . . .

Over $100,000 in ads - in five days - by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Earlier this year, in the race to fill Ted Kennedy's seat in the Senate, the media covered angry teabaggers descending on Massachusetts like a swarm of hornets. They demanded the repeal of Social Security and Medicare, the release of the President's "real" birth certificate, and the election of Scott Brown.

What the media failed to report was the $1 million+ that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent in that race, airing mind-numbing, trance-inducing ads in support of Scott Brown. "Scott Brown believes in fiscal responsibility," the Chamber ads droned. "Scott Brown has a plan to fix our economy." "Scott Brown's plan supports businesses, not politicians."

Which do you think had a bigger impact: the crazy teabaggers, or the Chamber's hypnotic ads? And now, Big Business wants to do the same thing in my district.

From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: "democracy (n.): a government in which supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them . . . ."

That "supreme power" belongs to us. Not the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, or Big Oil, or Big Pill. Us.

At the end of the Constitutional Convention, an observer asked Ben Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?" Franklin replied, "a republic - if you can keep it."

Let us try to keep it.

Truth

Alan Grayson

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[spanone]

1. a thousand kicks

recommended

[elleng]

3. Thanks

[NightWatcher]

2. we cant out donate Big Business, and I refuse to try to do so

and Franklin was right, but we couldnt keep it

[elleng]

4. no thanks

[nykym]

5. We can identify

and stop using any company or supporting them. They obviously to not support their customers.