In a year when Americans are looking to elect leaders committed to rebuilding the middle class, MoveOn’s members in Connecticut voted overwhelmingly to endorse Chris Murphy. Noting Murphy's proven track record fighting for working families throughout his six years in the U.S. House of Representatives, MoveOn members expressed confidence in his ability to take the fight for the 99% to the Senate.
MoveOn has more than 90,000 members in Connecticut and of those who participated in the endorsement vote, more than 85 percent voted to endorse Murphy.
"By this time, with years in the State Legislature, and 6 years as our Congressman, Chris Murphy is a seasoned legislator,” said Malcolm, a MoveOn member in Sharon. “He possesses high intelligence, a great ability to communicate clearly, and undisputed integrity and honesty. His record is excellent. He is just the person we need as our Senator."
Max, a MoveOn member in New Milford, agreed, "Chris has been a dedicated progressive voice in the House for 6 years. We need him in the US Senate!"
"I'm thrilled to earn the endorsement of MoveOn and their thousands of grassroots activists all across Connecticut," Murphy said. "We've already fought together for universal health care, pay equity for women, and stronger Buy American laws. Now it's time to take our fight to the U.S. Senate. We know that Linda McMahon is going to vastly outspend us in this campaign, but together we'll prove that her millions are no match for boots on the ground spreading our grassroots message."
“In his time in office, Chris has shown himself to be a true champion for the 99%,” said Daniel Mintz, MoveOn’s National Director of Coordinated Campaigns. “Chris helped pass Connecticut's landmark campaign finance reforms, fought to include a public option in health care reform, and helped pass ethics reform in the U.S. House to reduce corporate influence in Washington. So it’s no surprise that MoveOn members are fired up to send him to the Senate.”
As part of their support for the Murphy's campaign, MoveOn’s thousands of members in Connecticut will help provide the grassroots support—both online and on the ground—needed to propel him to victory.
MoveOn.org Political Action is a political action committee powered by more than 7 million Americans from every state and every congressional district. Since its founding in 1998, MoveOn has raised more than $29 million in small-donor contributions and MoveOn members have volunteered tens of millions of hours for progressive candidates. MoveOn members believe in the power of grassroots action to make our country a more progressive place and elect candidates who will fight to put the American Dream back within reach for all Americans.
And didn't we get past this religion thing when John ran for office, or is being Catholic sort of OK but otherwise you have to be a WASP? PS: I am neither a bigot nor a racist....
The real campaign is about how Romney will "fix" the economy. He doesn't like to talk about being Governor of Massachusetts because that health care issue comes up and he is trying to distance himself from that. His "success" at Bain Capital is supposed to be his primary qualification, yet making profits for himself and his investors sometimes meant losing jobs for many American workers. The one tax return he has released showed that he paid a lower tax rate than most middle class families, yet he supports more tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. Many conservatives have called on him to release more tax returns, but he seems to think that revealing all the (I presume) legal loopholes he used to avoid taxes would make him look bad. I have no idea what you mean about the "religion thing". Are people suggesting that Romney is secretly a Muslim? I haven't heard anyone attacking him for his religion. Well, maybe a few hard core evangelicals.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18312789/ns/politics/t/americans-siding-dems-against-bush/#.UBW9sbSe76A
Large companies like GE have also been affected by the downturn in the economy.. as we well know when looking at our 201K's... They had no FED income tax liability in 2010 for legitimate IRS reasons (like operating loss carry-forwards), but the company paid millions that year in every other kind tax they were required to pay. Please get your facts straight before you decide to get on your soap box.
Why can't MSNBC be fair and balanced like the example the voice of reason on the right has set? Roger Eugene Ailes (born May 15, 1940) is president of Fox News Channel, chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush and Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign (1989).
Obama does not respect his office, our nation's founders or the Constitution, the Rule of Law or Separation of Powers, or the American People. He won't even allow the military and National Security agencies like the FBI to NAME the existential threat and call it what it is, "Islamic extremism"!!! He also meets with Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorist sympathizers in the WH. Obama believes our nation is nothing special or unique, and has actively promoted the destruction of our national SOVEREIGNTY, both as a senator and as president! Then there is the matter of his ridiculous belief in a "fixed pie" theory of economics, such that people in other countries can only get out of poverty if Americans become poorer! That is exactly why his first term (please, God, may it be the last!!!) has only made our economy and unemployment much WORSE!!! That was actually Obama's objective, although he always says otherwise. He loves putting millions more Americans into a state of DEPENDENCY upon government as the 'Daddy,' because that makes most of them afraid to vote his party out of office, for fear they will starve, or because they like not working!!
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2004/04/the_outoftowner.html
Maybe 9/11 would never have happened if Jamie Gorelick had not been bumped up to a job she had NO qualifications or experience for!!!!! http://steveking.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3389&Itemid=300100
...“We need to establish open channels of information sharing between agencies, but not cripple them with top-down control. The testimony today established that there was not a single model of an intelligence culture that ‘got it right.’ We must find the models we can use to create the types of agencies that can think outside the box. “Also, to concentrate privacy protection responsibility in the Executive Branch sets the scene for many more bureaucratic, Jamie Gorelick-styled ‘walls of separation.’ These walls hinder the US response to terrorism. In addition, if the bureaucracy determines that certain types of data should not be kept, such as religion, ethnicity, background, or sexual orientation, then every special interest group will be exempt from intelligence analysis, and we will be left with a very small pool of information with which to prevent future terrorist attacks.” We are still vulnerable to terrorist attacks, not only because of Janet Incompetano, but also because the "administration" won't allow government agencies, like the FBI, and the military to call the Islamic EXTREMISTS what they are, or allow the TSA and others to inspect those who pose the real threats!! This misguided "political correctness" is what caused/allowed the slaughters at Ft. Hood and elsewhere!
If I were you, I'd send Chris Murphy a letter and ask him to see if he can appropriate you a new computer in the next federal budget. Your Shift key seems to be sticking, and your Google searches are being redirected to FoxNews.com.
When I was in debt, I kept spending my money on personal investments: a better car so I could job hunt farther from home, a college education, and living expenses during that period. (Fortunately, this was easy because Obama hadn't yet said that credit card companies can't throw credit lines at college kids.) I graduated college with tons of debt; however, I'm now making much more money than I was now, and while a lot of it is going to debt payments, I'm much better off because of it — even if the Republicans can accuse me of being a tax and spend liberal. Had I decided to instead cut spending and hoard my meager income, I'd be a college dropout still making minimum wage, and the Republicans would accuse me of being a lazy welfare-collecting liberal. Personally, I'd rather live a pretty-good life with manageable debt, than to be completely austere and still living in my parents' basement.
Unemployment: we're ranked 19th nationwide. Yes, CT went up 0.1% this month, but we still have a net job gain since 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_unemployment_rate http://bit.ly/QkYsw8 The crime rate? It's fallen in recent years despite a few unsurprising hot spots: http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/crime/crime-stats-drop-in-connecticut-in-2011 Highest gas prices? I think we rank #2 for gas tax (48.5¢/gallon?, second only to NY), but overall, we're #7 in the union. Still high, but hardly the highest, and unsurprising for the greater NYC area. (For what it's worth, I drive a clunker and a guzzler between here and upstate NY, and I still find prices reasonable.): http://gasbuddy.com/GB_Price_List.aspx Raised taxes? I'm not posting my tax returns online, but I will say that I got huge refunds for tax years 2010 and 2011 — meanwhile, I actually owed money in tax year 2009. In short, Democrats are as responsible for this mess as your definition of "highest" is correct. The economy was slipping into moribundity well before November 4, 2008.
42 months of 8+% unemployment, a record since 1948; lowest labor participation rate of 63.6% since 1981; weakest recovery since WWII; record 5.5 trillion in new debt; lowering of US credit rating; largest tax increase in history, Obamacare; UAW bailout costing taxpayer 26 billion because the UAW, Obama supporters, were treated as first creditors, unheard of in bankruptcy; billions wasted by DEP on green energy loans to companies that failed, Solynadra, First Solar, Fisker and others that were Obama supporters. Obama violated the Constitution on at least 3 occasions, with the healthcare mandate unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause, contraceptive executive order violates Freedom of Religion, un approved appointments when Congress still in session, not enforcing immigration laws, or voter intimidation laws (New Black Panther Party); Obama’s anti business policies, FinReg, Obamacare, DEP and attitude have damaged the country ,stalled hiring and will hurt the small business owner. This is his legacy of failure. And the media refuses to vet him or demand he open his college, attorney and professorship records.
For all arguing about what the employment numbers are, the bottom line is that unemployment has been above the number that Obama used as a scare tactic for well over 14 months. He wasted billions of dollars bailing out his friends and contributors but he failed to meet the standard of success that he set for himself. He told us in no uncertain terms that if he failed to halve the national debt and deal with unemployment he didn’t deserve a second term. He doesn’t and neither does anyone who supported the policies that have made us a laughingstock: our enemies don’t fear us; our allies don’t trust us; and, the economy is in a shambles.
What was a “failure of leadership” under Bush should be considered to be a failure of leadership under Obama. Neither he nor his supporters get to demand a different standard of judgment. One would think that a Harvard trained lawyer would understand that when you “inherit” something you own it. To continue to pretend that every failure is the fault of his predecessor is the height of dishonesty; to believe those claims is the height of idiocy. Those who support his policies are equally blameworthy.