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50 Reasons to Elect a Democratic House

and Democratic Senate

On November 7

Sponsored by Richard Greene and The People For The American Way Voter's Alliance

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The importance of the Midterm elections is WAY beyond the difference between a Jim Webb and a George Allen or even a Bob Casey and a Rick Santorum 


Electing, or not electing these individuals makes relatively little difference to their states.  But the difference is HUGE to the country.  The REAL issue this November 7 is whether The United States continues under what amounts to One Party Rule.  That means no checks and balances as the Constitution calls for and virtually no oversight or brakes on George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, John Bolton, Karl Rove and the rest of this Administration.

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Richard Greene 		1. The End of ONE PARTY Rule and The Chance To Take Back America. (Click to listen)




Peter Coyote 		2. The BEST chance to reduce terrorism and minimize or eliminate the increase in terrorists due to the war in Iraq. (Click to listen)



3. The ONLY way to have oversight of and in Congress and make sure that Congressmen who are Co-Chairs of The Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus don’t exploit children and that under ONE PARTY RULE Congressional leaders don’t hide the criminal and unethical conduct of ANY Members of Congress. ActBlue.com




Joely Fisher 		4. Very likely, the LAST chance to save a woman’s right to choose by being able to oppose yet another anti-choice right wing Supreme Court nominee. ActBlue.com




Harrison of KTLK 		5. The opportunity to veto more radical right wing District Court Judges and Circuit Court Judges. (Click to listen)




Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 		6. The ability to finally bring legislation to the floor for a vote that will require that the 4 private, partisan companies who manufacture electronic voting machines open their software up to inspection and that the electronic votes are accompanied by voter verified paper ballots. (Click to listen)



7. The ability to call oversight hearings; in either house of Congress and in every single committee on the actions of the President, Vice-President, Attorney General, etc. ActBlue.com

 


8. The ability to subpoena witnesses to get to the truth, and the ability to demand that witnesses be under oath when they testify to Congress. ActBlue.com



9. The ability to say “NO” to “Bridges to Nowhere” pork barrel legislation. ActBlue.com



10. The opportunity to return to the fiscal responsibility of the Clinton era and begin to reduce the $3 Trillion EXTRA debt that George Bush and this Republican Congress have run up in less than 6 years and the Billions of dollars per month in EXTRA interest we must now pay to our creditors China, Japan, and others. ActBlue.com





11. The ability to introduce and pass legislation to increase the gas efficiency of American made cars. ActBlue.com



12. The ability to introduce and pass environmental legislation that will reverse the damage of Bush Administration rule changes. ActBlue.com




Richard Kind 		13. The opportunity to override the President’s veto of the bipartisan Stem Cell Research Bill.




Peter Coyote 		14. Ending the Culture of Lies (Part One):  Joe Wilson and Iraq,  No WMDs, "Mission Accomplished", "Greeted as 'Liberators'",  "The Final Throes" (Click to listen)




Mike Papantonio 		15. Ending the Culture of Lies (Part Three): Downing Street 1,  Downing Street 2, The August 6, 2001 PDB. (Read by Mike Papantonio
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Joseph Wilson 		16. Ending the Culture of Lies (Part Three) (Read by Joseph Wilson)



17. Ending the Culture of Secrecy. ActBlue.com



18. The opportunity to have a Democrat as Chairman of all of the committees in the House and Senate, allowing Democrats to responsibly control the entire agenda of Congress. ActBlue.com




Rachel Maddow 		19. The opportunity to find out why George Bush said “I truly am not that concerned about him