"John Kerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fight Back Against The Veto Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 13:07:42 -0500
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Hi Theresa j.,
When I first introduced legislation with Russ Feingold to set a deadline to
end the open-ended policy of massive military presence in Iraq and bring our
heroes home, I knew it would take a lot of work to get us to that point. And,
as I've said to all of you before, we've made tremendous progress. Thanks to
all of your work, we have a Democratic Congress that has passed legislation to
challenge President Bush's failed policy in Iraq and put us on a new course.
But the Republicans are putting up a roadblock to our efforts, succumbing to
White House pressure to back the President on this. And the President vetoed
our efforts.
It's time for that to change. It's time to put the pressure on these
Roadblock Republicans.
The Republicans are already showing signs of cracking. Many are running away
from this President's disastrous policy. But that's not enough; we need to
splinter the GOP on this one. To do that, we need to speak to them in a voice
loud enough that they can't help but hear it, and we need to speak in the
language any politician understands: grassroots pressure.
So we're launching a unique campaign to pressure the critical points in the
GOP caucus. We are targeting a few key Senators for this message: Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senators Sununu, Collins, and Coleman. The
last three are already top races for 2008, and Senator McConnell is the bulwark
of the GOP leadership on this.
So go here to contribute to a fund run by our friends at ActBlue that will go
to the eventual Democratic nominee in those states and then write an email
message to those Senators explaining why you did this.
This is an extraordinary campaign; to my knowledge, nothing quite like this
has ever been done. But this money can make all the difference in each of these
races, and these Senators will know it. Senator McConnell is secure in his
belief that no one will be able to raise the money to challenge him. We can
show that he's wrong. The other Senators are already top targets in 2008, but
they hope the power of incumbency and fundraising can save them. We can show
them that the power of Washington won't stand against the power of the people.
We can raise the stakes for them and make the pressure they feel from the
people greater than the pressure they feel from the White House. And when that
happens, they just might help tell this President that his policy is a disaster
and we must change course.
Let's clear the way for a new direction in Iraq -- let's insist on a policy
that lives up to the sacrifice of our incredible troops.
Sincerely,
John Kerry
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