Sign up with Russ Feingold! He may run for WI gov when Walker recalled!!

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Friend,


It's everything that's wrong with corporate power today:

News broke last week that General Electric, America's largest corporation, made $14,200,000,000 in profits last year and paid $0 in taxes -- that's right, zero dollars in taxes. At the same time, C.E.O. Jeffrey Immelt saw his compensation double. Now I hear that GE is expected to ask 15,000 of their unionized workers to make major concessions in wages and benefits.

But what really adds insult to injury is the prestigious and influential position Jeffrey Immelt holds as chair of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

That's wrong. Someone like Immelt, who has helped his company evade taxes on its huge profits -- and is now looking to workers to take major pay cuts after his compensation was doubled -- should not lead the administration's effort to create jobs.

We cannot stand by and watch while we are led down this road. Mr. Immelt must step down from the president's jobs panel -- and if he won't, President Obama needs to ask for his resignation.

Help us build public pressure on GE's Jeffrey Immelt to step down or President Obama to get his resignation from the jobs council: Sign our petition at www.ImmeltMustGo.com today!

How can someone like Immelt be given the responsibility of heading a jobs creation task force when his company has been creating more jobs overseas while reducing its American workforce? And under Immelt's direction, GE spends hundreds of millions of dollars hiring lawyers and lobbyists to evade taxes.

All of this at a time when Fox News and the right wing are demonizing public workers, like teachers, as the cause of our economic problems.

It's time for policymakers to stop coddling corporate interests, and get to work creating jobs and wealth for Main Street. We shouldn't reward wealthy CEOs and Wall Street for behavior that undermines the nation's economy.

Be a part of this meaningful fight. Help us tell President Obama that if GE isn't paying taxes or treating workers well, Immelt Must Go!

President Obama has been talking about how we must "win the future," and I agree with him in that goal. Jeffrey Immelt is not the person for that job.

Thanks for uniting as a progressive,


Russ Feingold
Founder
Progressives United

now K & R

[xchrom]

1. that would be excellent! nt

[polichick]

2. Forget the gov - we need a populist primary challenger for prez...

I'm glad Feingold started this group and joined it right away.

K&R

[elocs]

5. I live here in WI, so I don't think I'll forget the gov.

Besides, Feingold is too smart to run in the primaries against Obama simply as a gesture to satisfy disgruntled Democrats. At least in running for governor here in Wisconsin he has a chance to actually do something to help the millions who live here, particularly when he would win.

[polichick]

8. "simply as a gesture to satisfy disgruntled Democrats"???

How about in an effort to take the gov't back from corporate rule - it's supposed to be gov't of, by and for the people?

[Jackpine Radical]

9. My heart says yes, my head says no.

Not in 2012.

A Primary challenge would fragment the party beyond any chance of winning in 2012. While I'm very disappointed by this administration in many ways, I would rather have Obama steering us somewhat slowly down the slippery slope to perdition than have a Republican Administration push us off the cliff to the same destination. Russ will be available in 2016.

[Wilms]

10. Yep. 2016 sounds good.

:thumbsup:

[polichick]

11. There may not be anything left to save by 2016 - but I'm also thinking that...

...the timing is perfect for a true populist candidate.

[Jackpine Radical]

12. I think the timing is right for a populist uprising at the state level

across the Rust Belt, in the territories where unions were once strong & where there lingers a progressive spirit. That sets the stage for 2016.

No Democrat other than Obama is going to win in 2012, for a lot of reasons.

--Historically, nobody has ever done a primary challenge against a sitting President & gone on to win the General Election.

--A lot of black voters would feel betrayed if the Party dumps Obama now.

--Obama has the best potential for financing (which on one level is part of the problem, but on another level makes it very costly to throw him to the wolves).

--Simply BECAUSE Obama is a Corporate Dem, he will not face the level of frantic, desperate vitriol that someone like Feingold would generate.

Let's use 2012 to get a solid footing in the states & elect as many progressive Congresscritters as we can.

Then we cango for the throat in 2016.

Don't get me wrong--I don't like that timing, but I think it's the best chance we have to wrest back the government and make it for once start serving the needs and interests of the people.

[polichick]

16. Well, I hope the passion lasts until 2016.

[Shiver]

18. I was going to say exactly that:

"Let's use 2012 to get a solid footing in the states & elect as many progressive Congresscritters as we can.

Then we can go for the throat in 2016."

Movements need to start at the bottom, to establish a solid and powerful base of support. Win the states and communities first, then work our way upwards.

And I agree on the primary challenger as well. Not once has anyone made a primary challenge against a sitting president and won, then went on to win a general election. And the idea that it would make the sitting president stronger - show me an instance where that happened, because I can't think of one.

[Myrina]

3. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE run Russ!!!

A fresh injection of progressive sanity would give me a reason to move back to WI and get the hell out of Indiana before Inquisitor Pence takes over ...


:patriot:

[Blue Owl]

4. Talk about turning lemons into lemonade

GO RUSS!

[pacalo]

6. I hope for the good people in Wisconsin that he does run!

:thumbsup:

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Actually, I hope that

even for the bad people.

[pacalo]

14. Certainly! They'll thank us later.

:fistbump:

[IScreamSundays]

7. Russ is soooooooooooo hot!!

Lucky for WI.

[felix_numinous]

15. Great news.

:kick:

[dragonlady]

17. What is the source on running for governor?

I haven't seen anything from Russ to this effect yet, just wishful thinking from some of his admirers.

[Jackpine Radical]

20. To the best of my knowledge he hasn't committed to any such thing.

People have been advancing his name for months now, though.

He did a very tentative exploration if a Presidential run in 2008 & quickly abandoned it. I do think that if he ran for Governor his chances of election would be above 80%, while his chance at the White House would be virtually nil in 2012. He has a lot going for him locally with name recognition and therefore could run a good campaign on little money, but would be very vulnerable to Big Money at the national level. I think he lost in 2008 due to a "Throw 'Em All Out" disinformation campaign combined with apathy from the base resulting in low voter turnout, and a heavily financed RW M$M propaganda campaign.We'll shortly be seeing if the RW Money Machine can buy an election again in WI on April 4 with a critical Supreme Court election, and that will provide a little litmus test of whether the WI populace has become propaganda-proofed after the Walker fiasco.

[mod mom]

19. Not from WI but donated to Progressives United and will gladly send more to candidate Feingold!

love Russ! (although secretly I'd love for him to get a lifetime apptmt on the SCOTUS!)

[Zorra]

21. I'd rather he ran for Prez, but governor is cool. nt

[Scuba]

22. Russ, or...

Jon Erpenbach

or maybe

Peter Barca

Right now Jon Erpenbach seems to have more steam. Russ has alot of name recognition and respect.

[thanks_imjustlurking]

23. I joined and donated way back on what I'm pretty sure was the first day. nt

[in_cog_ni_to]

24. Signed! K & R!

Though I would prefer he challenge Obama for President instead. :) If Wisconsin gets him for Governor, they are SOOOO freakin' LUCKY! Cherish him!