DO IT NOW DOSSIER: Occupy Wall Street - Day Three: 11 Things You Can Do In Support

http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/Occupy-Wall-Street--Day-T-by-Chaz-Valenza-110919-698.html

By Chaz Valenza (about the author)

Monday, September 19, 2011:   I knew nothing about Occupy Wall Street, hadn't heard a word about it up until about a week ago.   Did you?

The connection between money and politics is the issue I write about!   This is the issue I read every book and blog I can get my eyes on!   How did I miss this?

Wall Street Occupation General Assembly by Chaz Valenza

My point is none of us knew.  That is unless you were not part a tiny core of people at Annonoymous, Adbusters, Culture Jammers or hung out on the right night in Thompson Square Park in NYC.

Occupy Wall Street is not ASTROTURF organizing, it is not even GRASSROOTS organizing, what you're seeing on this live feed – OCCUPY WALL STREET LIVE STREAM – is what's left after about 3,000 GRASS SEEDS gathered on Bowling Green this past Saturday.  

It's just a core of about 500 people who have camped in Zoccotti Party at Liberty Street and South Broadway, under the shadow of the erection of the Ground Zero Freedom Tower.   Could this fizzle?   Absolutely.   Is it inevitable at this point?   Absolutely NOT!

More people, many more, know about the October Event in Washington D.C.   I say, so what? (Sorry, Rob Kall.)  All that's going to happen in D.C. is already conjoined at the hip to the money that the Democrats must raise from Wall Street.   You may go.   It may feel good but it will have no lasting significance.

What is happening in NYC is embryonic, democratic and authentic.   If it doesn't work this time we, and I will be part of this, will be back.

The enemy is clear, it's money flowing from the banks, the hedge funds, the financiers and the corporations to Washington that is the problem.   Not your congressman, not your senator and not Barack Obama; they are just pawns being played by the money.

These patriots in Liberty Park (on Google Maps now as Zoccotti Park) don't have a dime.   I talked to them.   They came with bedrolls and recycled cardboard.   The most expensive things this protest has are video cameras and millions of dollars worth of police "protection."

These patriot occupiers are fighting for 99% percent of us.   Those who are unemployed, uninsured, under employed and totally insecure in the face of ever increasing social and financial inequities.   They are standing up for those who cannot be there right now.

Believe me when I tell you nobody, but nobody knows this is going on!

Here's the good news --  you can help, right now today -- no matter where you are.   

1) Spread the word -- there's something going on.  People have started a movement, they're occupying Wall Street.  Hundreds of people have been camped out in lower Manhattan for three days!  

2) If you're in New York and can only spare a little time or money: bring American Flags, cardboard, markers, water, etc. down to Liberty Park

3)  In the New York area and have a day, a morning, an afternoon go down there.   The weather appears to be holding.  Take the day off and just go.   I know it sounds hard to believe but you will be heard, literally.   This is a open general assembly effort and you will get your say and be a real participant.

4)  A little ways from NYC -- organize foursomes to go to NYC for the day.   It will cost you the train/bus/car fare.   Take nothing but some food and water and your body.  

5) Too far to get to NYC?  Sign this petition and I will read your name and comments in Liberty Park this week, I promise. Break Up Goldman Sachs Now!

6) Be subversive against the big money interests wherever you are and encourage others to do the same: Don't give the banksters 4% of every purchase you make with a credit or debit card -- Use Cash.   See:UseCashMovement

7) Be subversive: max out your credit card on large ticket items and return them the next day (This one is right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook.)

8)  Move your money from a big bank to a credit union.

9)  Picket a local branch of a bank, when the press asks you what the heck you think you're doing tell them it's in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street

10)  Send food to the protesters in Liberty Park through a New York friend or go to the live stream chat for information on local eats that will take your order.   (yes, you'll have to use your credit card, big spender!)

11) Do you know anybody who knows anybody that knows a writer, a celebrity, etc. that will show their face at the protest?   Get to them now.

Bonus Support Idea 12) Spread the word again, and repeat!

See you in Liberty Park.  

Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:
I support the Occupy Wall Street - We Must End the Inequality and Economic Crisis Now

The Enemies Within: The 20 Most Dangerous Conservatives And Their Organizations

August 4, 2011
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.

America has enemies. Not just abroad, but within our shores as well. And our domestic enemies, as it turns out, are MORE dangerous and destructive than the terrorists could ever hope to be. Because while the terrorists want to destroy us, the following people and their organizations are doing far more damage.

1. Roger Ailes: The President of Fox News keeps the right-wing mouth piece biased and unbalanced. He literally proposed a right-wing news network as a propaganda tool to use during the Nixon Administration. And now, Fox News makes every effort to slander Democrats, lie to the public, and support conservative groups, activists and politicians at all costs.
Want to tell Ailes what you think of him? Feel free to contact Fox News Channel by mail, phone, or email.

FOX News Channel
1211 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-301-3000
Web: www.foxnews.com

2. The Koch Brothers: Yes, there is more than one Koch brother, but rather than jotting down the same paragraph twice, it makes more sense to combine the two. Charles and David Koch are the owners of Koch Industries, a private oil and chemicals company. They have spent big money in elections and have pretty much bought and paid for all of Republicans that sit on the energy committee. They also have ties to The John Birch Society, of which their father was a founding member, and several other conservative think tanks and organizations including, Americans For Prosperity which David Koch leads as chairman, the Heritage Foundation, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and the Cato Institute. They helped create and fund the Tea Party and have been very influential in the watering down of environmental laws and the destruction of unions. If you really want to see the scope of their influence look at what is happening in Wisconsin and in the U.S. House of Representatives.
I know you must be dying to contact Koch Industries to give them your opinion, so here’s how you can do that.

Koch Industries, Inc.
P.O. Box 2256
Wichita, KS 67201-2256
Phone:316-828-5500
Fax:316-828-5739
info@kochind.com

3. Dick Armey: His FreedomWorks organization helped to create the Tea Party and he has worked closely with the Koch brothers. Armey’s organization seeks to deregulate and tear down reform. He opposed health care reform and is largely responsible for hatred, paranoia and anti-government sentiments displayed at town halls during the health care debate.

FreedomWorks
400 North Capitol Street, NW
Suite 765
Washington, DC 20001
Toll Free Phone: 1-888-564-6273
Local Phone: 202-783-3870
Fax: 202-942-7649

4. Tom Donohue: The US Chamber Of Commerce President gained a hell of a lot more power in the wake of the Citizens United ruling. The Chamber is the largest conservative lobbying group in the country. Representing big corporations more than small businesses, the Chamber opposed health care reform and Wall Street reform. The group is in favor of tearing down any and every law designed to protect the American worker. Donohue once stated that “there are legitimate values in outsourcing — not only jobs, but work….” and once told unemployed people in Ohio to “stop whining”. So, not only is he for deregulation, he supports job killing policies. That is a double dose of dangerous.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce
1615 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20062-2000
Main Number: 202-659-6000
Phone: 1-800-638-6582

5. Tony Perkins: Perkins is the President of the Family Research Council, a hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Council opposes abortion for any reason, believes homosexuality should be against the law, believes in teaching “intelligent design” in schools, and believes global warming is a hoax. FRC was listed as a hate group after it falsely linked gay males to pedophilia. It basically lobbies the government to make laws that govern our personal and private lives. The Council is a Christian Right-wing organization that has a heavy influence on the Republican Party, hence all the abortion laws being proposed by them.

Family Research Council
801 G Street, NW
Washington DC 20001
Phone: 1-800-225-4008

6. Pat Robertson: Robertson founded the Christian Coalition in 1989 and claims to be non-partisan. The problem with this claim is that it’s a bunch of crap. The Christian Coalition passes out “voter guides” in churches and yet is granted tax exempt status. It clearly supports a conservative agenda and is associated with Christian fundamentalism. It is yet another group that believes that America should be a Christian state. They are a threat to the Constitution.

Mailing address:
Christian Coalition of America
PO Box 37030
Washington, DC 20013-7030
Phone: 202-479-6900

7. Edwin Feulner, Jr.: Feulner is the President of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that took a leading role in the conservative movement during the 1980′s and continues to push conservative ideals today. The Foundation has strong ties to many Republican politicians, and many Heritage personnel members have gone on to serve in senior governmental roles. Not only does it stand by supply side economics and tax cuts for the rich and corporations which led to the current economic crisis, it also believes in a strong defense which has become more and more expensive. Heritage Foundation is also a part of the Koch Foundation Associate Program and is perhaps the most powerful public policy think tank on this list. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has taken money from the organization. It has far too much influence on American policy and that influence must be brought to an end.

The Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington DC 20002-4999
Phone: 202-546-4400

8. Arthur Thompson: Thompson leads the radical right-wing John Birch Society, which is yet another organization that has Koch family connections. Founded in 1958 by Robert Welch, Jr., the John Birch Society is an anti-communism group that has pretty much denounced every liberal person and policy as socialist. It opposes the Civil Rights Act, the United Nations, and believes in immigration reduction. It aims to dismantle the Federal Reserve System and wants to return to the gold standard. The group is a sponsor of CPAC and is no longer exiled from the mainstream. Another interesting fact is that Fred Koch, father of the aforementioned Koch brothers, was a founding member.

John Birch Society
770 N. Westhill Blvd
Appleton, Wisconsin 54914
Phone: 920-749-3780

9. Rupert Murdoch: Known as “the man who owns the news”, Murdoch controls a vast media empire around the world including Fox News, The New York Post, and the Wall Street Journal here in America. Advertising his media outlets as “fair and balanced” Murdoch and his News Corporation relentlessly push conservative talking points and provide campaign donations to many Republicans running for various positions. News Corporation now has to answer for hacking cell phones and impeding investigations. Long the mouthpiece for Republican propaganda, Murdoch is a threat to Freedom of the Press and the foundations that keep America free.
If you want to contact News Corporation and tell them what you think of them, here is their contact information.

News Corporation
1211 Avenue of Americas
New York, New York 10036
Phone: 212-852-7000
Web: www.newscorp.com

10. Grover Norquist: Norquist is an especially dangerous individual. In fact, at the moment, he has the most influence on Republican congressmen. Republicans in the House and Senate refuse to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy and Norquist and his group, Americans For Tax Reform, have made sure Republicans continue to do so. 235 members of the House and 41 Senators signed the Norquist pledge to not raise taxes and now our economic future hangs in the balance. Norquist is basically calling the shots and holding America hostage on behalf of the rich. And he isn’t even an elected official.

Americans for Tax Reform
722 12th Street, NW
Fourth Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Office: 202-785-0266
Fax: 202-785-0261

11. David Bossie: Citizens United isn’t just a bad Supreme Court ruling. Citizens United is the conservative organization that the conservative majority of the Supreme Court ruled in favor of in 2008. Founded in 1988, located near Capitol Hill, and led by President and Chairman David Bossie, Citizens United’s goals include withdrawal from the United Nations, and defeat of campaign finance laws, among others. They also produce “documentaries” that serve the conservative agenda. The group is mostly a threat because of their fight to allow corporate ownership of elections. The Koch brothers, and many conservative think tanks and organizations have flooded elections with cash since the ruling. The Supreme Court decision alone is enough to put this dangerous organization and Bossie on the list.

Citizens United
1006 Pennsylvania Ave SE
Washington, DC 20003
Office: (202) 547-5420
Fax: (202) 547-5421

12. Tim LaHaye and Kenneth Cribb: Once again, you’ll notice that two people occupy this spot. After some thought, I decided this was necessary to avoid repetition. Tim Lahaye founded, and Kenneth Cribb is the current President of, the Council for National Policy. The CNP is a conservative organization for social conservative activists. Described by The New York Times as a “little-known group of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country,” the organization is perhaps the most powerful group on this list. Members include many who are already on this list such as James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, Phyllis Schlafly, and Edwin Feulner Jr. What makes this group particularly dangerous is that they support theocracy and Dominionism as national policy. They are also incredibly secretive and that’s scary all by itself.

CNP is apparently so secret that no address or phone number is available, so you’ll have to email them.

info@cfnp.org

The Center for National Policy is a 501(c)3. Guidestar.org has its 990s. The address is:
1411 K St NW, Ste 601
Washington, DC 20005
EIN: 72-0921017
13. Steven J. Law: Law is President and CEO of American Crossroads, a conservative organization that has raised and spent tens of millions of dollars to defend and elect Republican candidates to federal office, and was very active in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections. Basically, Law and his group are listed because they have taken advantage of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision the most since the ruling. The Kochs and Karl Rove have connections with the group and are a major reason why the House is under GOP control.

American Crossroads
P.O. Box 34413
Washington, DC 20043
Phone: ( 202) 559-6428. info@americancrossroads.org

14. James Dobson: Dobson is the Family Talk radio personality and Family Research Council founder that contributes greatly to all the hate we see from conservatives. A frequent guest on Fox News, he is perhaps the most influential religious leader on the Christian-Right even though he has never been ordained. Dobson believes that women should only focus on mothering (and probably cooking too) and is totally against gay rights. He supports private schools and special tax privileges for religious schools. He opposes sex education and only supports abstinence as the only technique for pregnancy prevention. Dobson is on this list because he is the one that began all of the anti-gay, anti-women, and anti-education speeches that are now commonplace in the Republican Party.

Family Talk Radio
540 Elkton Drive
Suite 201
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
Phone: 877-732-6825

15. Phyllis Schlafly: She is the only woman on this list. Undoubtedly, you may have thought that Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin would be, but they are not. I consider Palin and Bachmann mere pawns compared to Schlafly. As founder and President of the Eagle Forum, Schlafly opposes feminism and equal rights for women. Eagle Forum promotes a pro-life, anti-gay, anti-sex education, and anti-vaccination agenda that has contributed to the current wave of social conservative extremism in the Republican Party. She believes women should remain in the home and that there is no such things as marital rape. She is certainly the most influential woman in right-wing activism and as such, the most dangerous one too.

Eagle Forum
PO Box 618
Alton, IL 62002
Phone: 618-462-5415
Fax: 618-462-8909 eagle@eagleforum.org

16. David Keene: Up to now David Keene led the American Conservative Union, which is the oldest operating conservative lobbying organization in the country. The ACU runs the event known as CPAC and spends money on lobbying and political campaigns. Keene is still the current President of the National Rifle Association. Which is also a strong lobbying group that is virtually an arm of the Republican Party that glorifies guns and believes that people should be able to carry guns anywhere they go, even near the President of the United States. Keene is mostly on this list because of the NRA. The NRA used to actually serve a valid purpose but has since become a pro-Republican political organization that has mixed guns and politics. It makes them a danger to the political process.

The American Conservative Union
1007 Cameron Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-836-8602
Fax: 703-836-8606

National Rifle Association of America
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: 1-800-672-3888

17. Tim Wildmon: Classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Family Association is headed by Tim Wildmon. AFA is just like every other conservative Christian group. It opposes abortion and gay rights, as well as other public policy goals such as deregulation of the oil industry and lobbying against the Employee Free Choice Act. The group has actively boycotted just about any business that disagrees with them. In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, the AFA released a video in which “God” tells a student that students were killed in schools because God isn’t allowed in schools anymore and blamed the shootings on abortion and lack of prayer in schools. AFA is against all other religions and has an obsession with Christmas, often boycotting companies that do not mention Christmas in their advertising. AFA is here on this list because they represent one of the biggest threats to intellectual and personal freedom in America.
Want to boycott AFA? Send them a “friendly” letter.

American Family Association
P.O. Box 3206
Tupelo, MS 38803

18. David Barton: Despite not having any history or law credentials David Barton passes himself off as an expert in early American history. Most of his claims have been disputed and written off as false by real historians. Barton’s organization is Wallbuilders, which seeks to destroy one the basic foundations of American life: the separation of church and state. Barton’s mission is to revise history in an effort to turn America into a Christian state with Biblical law instituted as the law of the land. He has also created false quotes to justify his claims. Barton is a danger to the history of America, the Constitution, and education.

WallBuilders
PO Box 397
Aledo, TX 76008
Phone: 817-441-6044

19. Noble Ellington: American Legislative Exchange Council, also known as ALEC. The Council is basically a pay to play organization that carries the corporate agenda into state legislatures across the country. They work to end unions, end environmental and labor regulations, and end consumer protection laws. ALEC has been funded by the Koch brothers for two decades. The price for corporate participation is an ALEC membership fee of as much as $25,000. For that price, corporations are basically writing the legislation that you are currently seeing being proposed and implemented in Republican controlled states across the country.

American Legislative Exchange Council1101 Vermont Ave. N.W., 11th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005
Phone: 202-466-3800
Fax: 202-466-3801

20. Edward H. Crane: Crane is the founder and current leader of the Cato Institute. While they have supported some liberal policies and claim to abhor neo-conservatives, the Cato Institute does push many objectives that should make everyone cringe. Among the various policies that Cato supports, privatizing Social Security, abolishing the minimum wage, abolishing affirmative action, and some environmental regulations, are among them. Of course, it’s understandable why Cato holds these positions considering Charles Koch is chairman of the board and a major funding source. Even Rupert Murdoch had a place on the board at one point which connects the Kochs and the right-wing media.

Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington D.C. 20001-5403
Phone: 202-842-0200
Fax: 202-842-3490


Americans For Prosperity
2111 Wilson Blvd, Ste. 350
Arlington, VA 22201
Phone: (703)-224-3200
Toll Free: (866)-730-0150
info@AFPhq.org
Read more: http://www.americansforprosperity.org/contact-us#ixzz1U6ju5Yui
And there you have it. All of these people and their organizations pose a serious threat to the American people. They target women, senior citizens, minorities, homosexuals, non-Christians, and American workers. So which person or organization is the most dangerous to democracy? The common thread throughout the list is the Koch brothers. They have ties to many of the people and organizations on the list and share many of the same goals. If one were to remove the Koch brothers from the equation an important source of funding and leadership would be eliminated from the conservative sphere. The Koch brothers are by far the biggest threat to American values and institutions. The truly evil thing about this group is that NONE of these monsters are elected by the people. Yet they have more power and influence over our elected officials and system of law and government, than we do.

"GO FOR IT" Where to look for threads/write Opeds in MN

Minnesota Newspapers

Here are links to the letter to the editor email addresses and websites of Minnesota newspapers.  Keep your letter to under 150 words.  Make sure to include your name, address, and telephone number as the paper will want to contact you to verify that you wrote the letter.

Bemidji Pioneer

Crookston Daily Times

Duluth News Tribune

Grand Rapids Herald-Review

Mankato Free Press

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Rochester Post-Bulletin

St. Paul  Pioneer Press

Woodbury Bulletin

How to contact US Senators and House members, plus Obama

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Link for email activists:  http://dawn.thot.net/virtual_activist_training.html

How to contact US Senators and House members, plus Obama

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Open challenge to Tom Tom Emmer. Go for it Tom!

I challenge Tom Emmer to debate - in a large public place of his choosing - on topics he raises in his "rant" against Carl Gibson and myself, ASAP.  How 'bout the Saint Paul Hotel ballroom, Tom, where people can come and watch and listen and decide for themselves who is "on the right page" and who is not.  Bring your guests, I'll try to provide a few, too.  Oh, I had a better idea - how about at Keys Restaurant! Man that would be fun.  I don't think too many waiters and waitresses are too thrilled to see you, but we can work around that.

Free publicity as you provided on http://www.ktlkfm.com/pages/davisandemmer.html?article=8789034

is certainly welcome (and hard to come by I've noticed) BUT I am just poor poor poor and would like to point that out to people. You have maligned my friends and shown a lack of courtesy to visitors to our state publically.  Give me a chance to counter your "charges" .  I love to talk about budgets:  Let's talk about mine.

We can discuss anarchism, we can discuss why I worked for Mark Dayton's election, we can discuss why we bullhorn right wingers and have many many choice chants to use to wake people up that the right wingers are attempting to hijack our State. The Koch brothers are here, Tom. Would you like to talk about it with an audience?  Or do you just like to sling mud and be "entertaining" for your "fans" and sockpuppets?

We can "discuss" the 36,000 plus reasons to Stop the State SHUTDOWN and why the budget stalemate is a symptom, not the cause.

We can talk about cognitive dissonance, grief, trauma, homelessness, despair, loss of hope, hunger, enslavement -  and then about the five-star dinners your friends enjoy.  My friends go to food banks, just like me.

I will debate you, Tom - and I will ask you how you feel about the 36,000 retirements and "furloughs" while plenty of Legislators are accepting their pay checks and health benefits.  This while many State employees enter STARVATION level incomes.  They wonder how to feed their kids this summer while they are home from school.  You know, basic stuff.  Food, shelter, clothing - a need to have lives with stimulation.  Lives that are now seeing the reality of austerity.

I will ask you to explain the sense of sending hundreds (12,000) to nursing homes at the cost of $60,000 per year (do you and your friends have investments in them?) when helping them live independently only costs $15,000 per year to the taxpayer.

I will challenge you, Tom Emmer, to tell me just how many Republican legislators in this state belong to the American Legislative Exchange Council and/or swore oaths to Grover Norquist while trying to GUT protections for vulnerable children - and fail teenagers who have been beaten by their dysfunctional families. These are runaways who have no shelter accomodations despite years of attempts by concerned citizens to achieve that simple goal.  The state is failing our young, isn't it, Tom Emmer ?

And you worry about bullhorns?  When everything including prisons are up for the grab of privatization, the perpetual money machines for your PAC people?

I will ask why my friend who is disabled cannot work as an accountant any more because he has not enough PCA help was a "reform" of a "bad" system.

I want to debate you about dog whistle politics, bafflegab, greediness, sourness, lack of compassion and honest shame as well as the robotronics so evident in our MN GOP led by Tony Sutton.

I want to know why the closure of 77 State Parks doesn't bother you - and all the loss of tourist dollars is less important than discussing my friends - friends who stay with me in a State housing grant financed apartment I am about to lose.

I want to know, Tom, why it is that the MN Chamber of Commerce did not complain long and loud about the cutting of the LGA grants and why you kept your mouth shut about it.  Do police, firemen, snow removal, and other "amenities" of Main Street mean less than the allegiance to reckless Wall Street in your playbook of politics?

I want to know why the St. Paul police sent in thousands of dollar$ worth of cops, bicycles, squad cars to cover a demonstration of 35 people in 100 degree heat who merely wanted to say:  "Tax the rich!  Help the needy" and "Money Outta Politics" and "End Corporate Tyranny!"  Maybe you have some forceful ideas about public unsafety.  [pun intended]

Why are YOU allowing the looney right to say GAWDAWFUL things about Mark Dayton, make up websites in other states spouting lies about US Uncut - and then taking them down? Why do you allow YOUR followers to call for the impeachment/recall of Mark Dayton when your party has gravenly, with malice aforethought and nonfeasance RUINED our state for GOD KNOWS how long?

How do you feel about US Uncut MN calling for the recall of ALL GOP legislators?

Wanna have a verbal rumble, Tom?  Wanna get it down on the record? Wanna have it help me get US Uncut and US Uncut Minnesota on the national media where you say it belongs?

Then, hey, Tom!  Take the bait - let's go for the gold here on the press circuit.  I am ready.  I am willing.  I am CHARGED and on fire !  I am sick to death of being treated like a second-class citizen in my own home state. I don't appreciate my friends who come to visit me being chastised in print.  It's a RIGHT for them to come here and express their right to free speech and freedom of assembly - or don't you know that?

We can discuss what is wrong in MN in the media, the indifference of the left and the unions here to promote unity, the mealy agenda of the professional poverty industry lackies who aren't losing their Saabs and Volvos - but spoke for the victims of cuts while the true victims were left UNHEARD.  Tom. Tom.  I beg you to understand why Carl and I give them bullhorns to  be heard above the deafening silence of their plight. The supposed advocates saying:  "We should settle for no new taxes as it's "politically astute."  I keep wondering who "we" is. Sigh.

We can discuss what sane, responsible moderates might do to understand what is going on this State, eh?

We can discuss what cognitive dissonance is, what red herrings are and why you get paid to write drivel and innuendo when you can so easily give me a ring.  My number and email address appears on the lit "SOMEONE" gave you.  Give me a call.  Let's set a date, time, place.  We can elucidate the why, the who, the where, the how, the why.  Would you like "my people" to call "your people" ???

Wanna know where I get my money to promote events, Tom?  Do you want to know if  I ever met George Soros?

I'll bet I can answer your most intriguing questions, Tom.  Let's give it a shot !!

Here's to a MN handy dandy spectacle for the citizen's benefit.

Kiss, kiss, hug, hug.

Virginia Simson, Uncutter Deluxe (who has never ever been an anarchist of any kind)

~ DFL caucus email addresses, if you want to do it all at once ~

 This way you can put YOUR rep at the top of an email and bcc all the others.  I'll do the republican ones, too - A few are missing becuz I have been provided website addresses for them so far.  This will be corrected as I get them.

This is useful to support specific bills or just to voice your important (and it is) opinions.

COMPOSING EMAILS HINTS

The best emails and letters come from the heart.  
Be specific about how policies affect you and those you care about.  
Please stress the ACTION YOU WOULD LIKE TAKEN.  
And if you want a response, be sure to include your contact information.

To be sure you have the right State Senator or Representative, these are websites to visit:

www.house.mn/members/hmem.asp

www.senate.mn/members

If you want more help, I suggest going to Take Action Minnesota - 

(651) 641-6199 - www.takeactionminnesota.org

And then also be sure to check Project Vote Smart to see how they voted on issues you care about.  www.votesmart.org

Because - THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE !!

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