Tuesday, April 28, 2009

California Democrat Russ Warner Announces Another Bid For Congress

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With everyone preoccupied with Arlen Specter's label switch, I imagined that the only big news out of California today would be the appropriately stiff sentence for former Republican Party crown prince, "America's Sheriff," Mike Carona. One of the most overtly crooked politicians in California history got a stern lecture, a $125,000 fine and five and a half years in prison, of which he'll have to serve a minimum of 4 years and seven months. But an announcement of far greater significance for California progressives just came down the transom.

One of Blue America's hardest working candidates from last year, Russ Warner, just announced what grassroots and progressive Democrats were hoping against hope he would do: Russ has decided to finish the job he started and he'll be running against David Dreier again. First a little background. Obama won the suburban L.A. area district 51-47%. Ironically, Russ-- while bringing Dreier's 2006 winning number (57%) down to the incumbent danger zone (53%)-- didn't win largely because of a massive Mormon turn out for the bigoted Prop 8 their church was pushing. I say "ironic," because few of those anti-gay Mormon voters understood that by pulling the lever for Dreier, they were voting for one of Washington's most notorious and hypocritical closet queens.

At the California Democratic Party Convention Saturday, Howard Dean presented Russ with the Ron Platt Courage Award on behalf of the Red to Blue Coalition and Russ told the participants he would run again next year. It's official now! And Russ is already out there swinging. "Don't be fooled," says Russ Warner. In announcing he would take on Dreier, who spent $2,919,351 last year told hold onto his seat (Russ spent $1,261,171), Russ reminded Democratic activists that "This is the same David Dreier who voted against the best interests of this district and stuck with House Republicans in an effort to block President Barack Obama's $787 billion economy recovery package in February. It's high time Dreier stop playing party politics and start looking out for the needs of the people he was
elected to represent."

The former chair of the House Rules Committee, and now ranking member, Dreier has routinely voted for every single special interest bill the banksters and crooked realtors have asked for. He's been a fanatic deregulation extremist. And, what a coincidence, he's taken $367,750 from the finance/insurance/real estate sector in "donations," far more than the average corrupt member of Congress. The banksters are delighted that they always get what they pay for from Dreier, who even voted against allowing bankruptcy judges to re-adjust mortgages on families being threatened with foreclosure, despite the fact that CA-26 is one of the three-dozen hardest hit districts in the country by the foreclosure blight. (It is estimated that 13,487 families have been kicked out of their houses in the district, something that has had a devastating impact on property values.) Dreier, who lives in DC and Kansas City doesn't have much contact with the district and knows nothing at all about the strains on area homeowners.

Anyway, please help me welcome Russ back into electoral politics with a donation to his campaign. He's going to need all the help he can get if he's going to finally retire Dreier. Volunteers are welcome and can sign up at his website.

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1 Comments:

At 6:09 PM, Anonymous passerine82@yahoo.com said...

I'm a proud American and proud democrat and optimistic about the future of this great country. I consider myself just below middle class, I'm a local truck driver for a small business in chino ca. I know first hand how difficult it is to survive paycheck to paycheck. It's a day to day struggle to keep up with the continuous bills that keep coming. I haven't had a raise in 3 years and I don't have health insurance. I've asked my employer about it and even offered to pay half but he says he can't afford it. he has 4 employees(2 legal and 2 illegal)he lives in a million dollar home and he and his wife both drive 60,000 dollar cars. I'm fine with how they live but I'm upset when he tells me he can't afford health insurance coverage for me and the other employees. that tells me he just doesn't care about his workers!I guess it would be easier to replace me if I got sick and couldn't work. our ancestors moved to this country to get away from the tyranny of the business owners and landlords of europe but it seems to have followed them here. In this age of corporate tyranny where ceo's are paid millions and given million's in bonuses while they continue to lay off american workers and ship our jobs to other countries is shameful, deceitful and irresponsible! most Americans just want a job that pays decent and has some kind of health care and retirement plan. They're happy and loyal to their employers when offered these things. when they have money to spend they spend it, and when they spend, the economy does well also! My question to corporate America is: How much profit is enough? You are destroying the American dream because of your greed, arrogance and selfishness! shame on you for deceiving the American workers who built your co's with their blood and sweat! corporations and ceo's are clearly looking out for themselves and don't care about the middle or lower class working people of this great nation! I stand with Russ warner and the democrats, they seem to care for the American workforce!
James white, pomona

 

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