[NV Greens] Fwd: Keep Your Eye on the Corruption

[Paul Etxeberri]

>Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:22:09 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Ellen Miller, Campaign for America's Future" 
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>To: eusko at earthlink.net
>Subject: Keep Your Eye on the Corruption
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>AMERICA'S FUTURE | www.ourfuture.org
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>Dear Paul,
>
>It's payback time! After contributing tens of millions of dollars to 
>Congressional candidates, last week the fat cat corporate lobbyists 
>successfully pushed their self-serving agenda through the most 
>corrupt Congress ever.
>
>The very first bill passed by the U.S. Senate severely limits your 
>right to sue a corporation that does you wrong. Remember Erin 
>Brockovich -- the crusading mom who discovered that Pacific Gas & 
>Electric contaminated the ground water in a small town? In the 
>1990s, she was able to organize the community, sue the corporation, 
>and win $333 million for the victims. Today, thanks to the most 
>corrupt Congress ever, corporate America can rest a little bit 
>easier knowing that it's harder for innocent victims hold them 
>accountable.
>
>Now, this tort reform bill heads to the House of Representatives 
>where it will be voted on before the end of the week. Send a message 
>to your lawmaker now -- let them know that you're watching and 
>expect them to vote to protect you not their big money lobbyist 
>friends.
>
>http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=354505&l=78919
>
>The second bill set to be passed by the Congress restricts your 
>ability to seek relief from greedy creditors. Credit card companies 
>have long pushed their deceptive credit schemes on unsuspecting 
>families, and now this bill will pull the rug out from under these 
>families. Who suffers? Ordinary Americans -- like Rose Shaffer -- a 
>working class nurse from Chicago who suffered a heart attack, and 
>then had to contend with sky-rocketing medical expenses.
>
>A week after Rose was released from the hospital, she received a 
>bill for $18,000. Under pressure from her hospital to pay the bill, 
>she was forced to file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Now, the most 
>corrupt Congress ever is siding with greedy creditors who want to 
>make it more difficult for people like Rose Shaffer to get 
>bankruptcy protections for the little money that they have left.
>
>Write your Representatives and tell them that it's their job to 
>protect you, not their big money lobbyist friends.
>
>http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=354505&l=78919
>
>There will be more big money lobbyist payoffs to come. The National 
>Association of Manufacturers -- the same group pushing to limit your 
>right to sue -- is leading the fight to privatize Social Security. 
>We must act now to send a clear message to Congress that -- 
>regardless of the issue -- the rights of ordinary Americans cannot 
>be defeated by the power of corporate contributions.
>
>Before these bills are taken up by the House of Representatives, 
>send a message to your members of Congress -- tell them that you're 
>watching, and will hold them accountable.
>
>http://action.ourfuture.org/ctt.asp?u=354505&l=78919
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Ellen S. Miller, Deputy Director
>Campaign for America's Future
>
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Paul Etxeberri

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