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Some interesting tapes have surfaced of Tricky Dick and his miserable staff talking nasty about Mcgovern and a few others.It is on CNN as we speak,I believe they said you could read transcripts on the National Archives website...
Corporate Media pundits and sell-out Democratic personalities are denouncing a return to the Fairness Doctrine standards in broadcasting eliminated by the Reagan Administration. They are falling into a trap set by the Republican Right and the largest corporations in America. Essentially, they are letting Republican political spin set the agenda for “acceptable” political views.
Grassroots Democratic activists do want a return to the Fairness Doctrine and Equal Time provisions in broadcasting. Private business owners are using without charge the public airwaves. These businesses are making huge profits by using public assets that belong to all American citizens. They owe us a public obligation to present diverse opinions and provide balanced public programming.
Using public property for private profit comes with strings. Private profits are only acceptable if the overall policy serves the public good. Our government policy cannot be based solely on making the highest level of profit for the private businesses involved in broadcasting.
Broadcasters who do not give all major viewpoints a voice on their segment of the public airwaves should lose their licenses. This was the situation before the corporatist radicals surrounding Ronald Reagan rigged the system by gutting almost all the public service regulations previously in effect. We need to return to our traditional, pre-Reagan standards.
It is unfortunate that the Corporate Media wants to take support for the Fairness Doctrine off the table for the political leadership of both major Parties. It is really a fool’s errand. The grassroots of the Democratic Party strongly support the Fairness Doctrine and will demand that our candidates support it in 2008.
The Corporate Media attacks on the Fairness Doctrine are creating a backlash. Activists now will not stop at a return of the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting. Centralized media control is now widely seen as a serious threat to our democratic institutions by most reformers. We need a complete change of direction when it comes to regulating broadcasting.
We need to limit radio station ownership to no more than 20 stations. We should encourage local ownership and minority ownership. Ownership of major city newspapers, radio stations and television stations in the same market should be prohibited.
Democrats should join with other reformers to make our public airwaves actually serve the public interest. Centralized media ownership curtails competition. It lowers the quality of programming. It promotes the possibility of politicization of programming. It drives up advertising costs. It hurts content diversity. It is broken and needs fixed! Democratic politicians who side with the large media corporations instead of the grassroots activists are going to have serious future political problems.
Written by Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio Link. Mail: P.O. Box 283, Earleville, Maryland 21919. Email: midsouthcm@aol.com . Phone: 443-907-2367.
Feel free to publish at no charge without prior approval.
Grassroots Democratic activists do want a return to the Fairness Doctrine and Equal Time provisions in broadcasting. Private business owners are using without charge the public airwaves. These businesses are making huge profits by using public assets that belong to all American citizens. They owe us a public obligation to present diverse opinions and provide balanced public programming.
Using public property for private profit comes with strings. Private profits are only acceptable if the overall policy serves the public good. Our government policy cannot be based solely on making the highest level of profit for the private businesses involved in broadcasting.
Broadcasters who do not give all major viewpoints a voice on their segment of the public airwaves should lose their licenses. This was the situation before the corporatist radicals surrounding Ronald Reagan rigged the system by gutting almost all the public service regulations previously in effect. We need to return to our traditional, pre-Reagan standards.
It is unfortunate that the Corporate Media wants to take support for the Fairness Doctrine off the table for the political leadership of both major Parties. It is really a fool’s errand. The grassroots of the Democratic Party strongly support the Fairness Doctrine and will demand that our candidates support it in 2008.
The Corporate Media attacks on the Fairness Doctrine are creating a backlash. Activists now will not stop at a return of the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting. Centralized media control is now widely seen as a serious threat to our democratic institutions by most reformers. We need a complete change of direction when it comes to regulating broadcasting.
We need to limit radio station ownership to no more than 20 stations. We should encourage local ownership and minority ownership. Ownership of major city newspapers, radio stations and television stations in the same market should be prohibited.
Democrats should join with other reformers to make our public airwaves actually serve the public interest. Centralized media ownership curtails competition. It lowers the quality of programming. It promotes the possibility of politicization of programming. It drives up advertising costs. It hurts content diversity. It is broken and needs fixed! Democratic politicians who side with the large media corporations instead of the grassroots activists are going to have serious future political problems.
Written by Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio Link. Mail: P.O. Box 283, Earleville, Maryland 21919. Email: midsouthcm@aol.com . Phone: 443-907-2367.
Feel free to publish at no charge without prior approval.
MA05 debate at Alumni Hall in UMass Lowell at 10:30 A.M. Saturday June 30 ,if anyone in the district happens to read this,I just found out the location myself...later there will be a parade in Ayer Ma. where some candidates will be marching ,including my choice Barry Finegold,part of the dynamic new generation of leaders bringing new sciences and technologies to the area and building the new economy in Massachusetts....
In the aftermath of the recent Supreme Court ruling gutting affirmative action to deal with the historical impact of racial discrimination, I propose that Democratic political figures should push for new laws promoting affirmative action on behalf of poor Americans of all races. Unequal educational opportunities are an important factor contributing to pockets of entrenched poverty.
We need to deal with entrenched poverty in America. Racial and ethnic minorities are often victims of this poverty in numbers much greater than their share of the general population as a result of past discrimination. However, rural white Americans are in much the same situation in many parts of this nation. They suffer from disproportionate poverty along with Native Americans, Afro-Americans and Hispanics.
Americans with disabilities or chronic health problems suffer disproportionately from poverty. Anyone living in communities devastated by the outsourcing of our manufacturing industries has serious issues related to poverty. Communities devastated by natural disasters or industrial pollution face similar challenges.
The Republican Radical Right majority on the Supreme Court sought to cripple socially progressive measures in this area. We should never have accepted Supreme Court Justices like Thomas, Alito and Roberts in the first place. I would support impeaching them because I believe they pose a danger to American traditions and established law.
Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans should turn the legal attacks by the Court’s Republican Radical Right majority to America’s advantage by enacting new laws. The Supreme Court Radicals did not rule affirmative action based on income illegal.
I am supporting John Edwards for President because he is trying to make poverty in America a major political issue. Edwards supports labor unions largely because strong labor unions are a proven path out of poverty for many working Americans. It is no accident that the Republican Radical Right majority on the Supreme Court along with the Bush White House has been trying to denying millions of Americans their right to unionize and bargain collectively for a better economic future.
It is my belief that most of the major Democratic candidates do or will soon support anti-poverty legislation. They already support legislation like the Employee Free Choice Act which will defend workers’ right to unionize.
Middle Class Americans need to act to wipe-out poverty. The Republican Party in America is promoting a whole series of economic policies that will both benefit the wealthiest of the wealthy and drive millions of Middle Class Americans into the ranks of the working poor.
The public would support educational affirmative action based on income. I believe they would support affirmative action in hiring or granting of government contracts to deal with poverty in America. Such an approached should be coupled with single-payer, universal national health care and other measures as part of real national effort to wipe-out poverty in our lifetime.
Written by Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio Link ). Mail: P.O. Box 283, Earleville, Maryland 21919. Email: midsouthcm@aol.com . Phone: 443-907-2367.
Feel free to publish at no charge without prior approval.
We need to deal with entrenched poverty in America. Racial and ethnic minorities are often victims of this poverty in numbers much greater than their share of the general population as a result of past discrimination. However, rural white Americans are in much the same situation in many parts of this nation. They suffer from disproportionate poverty along with Native Americans, Afro-Americans and Hispanics.
Americans with disabilities or chronic health problems suffer disproportionately from poverty. Anyone living in communities devastated by the outsourcing of our manufacturing industries has serious issues related to poverty. Communities devastated by natural disasters or industrial pollution face similar challenges.
The Republican Radical Right majority on the Supreme Court sought to cripple socially progressive measures in this area. We should never have accepted Supreme Court Justices like Thomas, Alito and Roberts in the first place. I would support impeaching them because I believe they pose a danger to American traditions and established law.
Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans should turn the legal attacks by the Court’s Republican Radical Right majority to America’s advantage by enacting new laws. The Supreme Court Radicals did not rule affirmative action based on income illegal.
I am supporting John Edwards for President because he is trying to make poverty in America a major political issue. Edwards supports labor unions largely because strong labor unions are a proven path out of poverty for many working Americans. It is no accident that the Republican Radical Right majority on the Supreme Court along with the Bush White House has been trying to denying millions of Americans their right to unionize and bargain collectively for a better economic future.
It is my belief that most of the major Democratic candidates do or will soon support anti-poverty legislation. They already support legislation like the Employee Free Choice Act which will defend workers’ right to unionize.
Middle Class Americans need to act to wipe-out poverty. The Republican Party in America is promoting a whole series of economic policies that will both benefit the wealthiest of the wealthy and drive millions of Middle Class Americans into the ranks of the working poor.
The public would support educational affirmative action based on income. I believe they would support affirmative action in hiring or granting of government contracts to deal with poverty in America. Such an approached should be coupled with single-payer, universal national health care and other measures as part of real national effort to wipe-out poverty in our lifetime.
Written by Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio Link ). Mail: P.O. Box 283, Earleville, Maryland 21919. Email: midsouthcm@aol.com . Phone: 443-907-2367.
Feel free to publish at no charge without prior approval.
Corruption and dirty politics is nothing new in America. However, the level and scope of dirty politics within the Republican Party at this point in American history seems to be unprecedented! It increasingly looks like the Republican leadership has become a kind of mafia-style criminal gang pretending to be a political party. Read More »
They have attacked my candidate for the Ma 05 congressional race because he signed a 24 hour waiting period bill ...whoop te doo,I am prochoice and have no problem with a waiting period..Barry Finegold is consistantly prochoice,and was defended by planned parenthood and naral,as well as other candidates and liberal bloggers against this stunt...Nikki tsongas is a good candidate but she should refrain from this kind of thing,if she wins the nod she is going to need the support of al the Democrats to beat the Republican annointee ,Jim Ogonoski,brother of sept 11th pilot John Ogonoski,who also has no legislative experience and was recruited for his name...
Time for Republicans to Choose: Bush-Cheney or America
The recent claim by Dick Cheney to have both executive privilege and not to be part of the executive branch of government seems to amount to a claim that Cheney is simply above the rule of law. It appears that both Bush and Cheney think they rule by divine right like the absolute monarchs of medieval Europe or the dictators of the old Soviet Bloc. Both need to be impeached. Until they are removed from office, the media, Congress and the courts should be aggressively investigating, exposing and opposing their abuses of power.
Bush has ignored the rule of law repeatedly. He has wiretapped American citizens without court orders in clear violation of the law by claiming nonexistent Presidential authority. Both Bush and Cheney lied to the American public and Congress to take America into an illegal war in Iraq.
Republican politicians helped Bush and Cheney pack our federal courts and the US Department of Justice with partisan political hacks who do everything possible to make illegal actions benefiting Republicans appear legal. Elections have been essentially rigged by denying millions of Americans of their right to vote or to have their votes accurately counted.
Corporation channeling money to Republican organizations or candidates have been able to win billions of dollars worth of no-bid government contracts under highly questionable or obviously illegal conditions. Corporate givers were able to ignore government regulations and federal laws concerning oil and mineral leases, environmental considerations, worker safety, consumer rights, fair competition, price-gouging and anti-monopoly concerns.
Congress should immediately repeal the falsely-named Patriot Act because neither Bush or Cheney can be trusted with the powers that law hands to the White House and the Executive Branch. All funding for the White House should be strictly limited and closely monitored by Congress.
White House funding should be conditioned on Cheney revealing all details of his Energy Task Force and all details of Karl Rove’s role concerning the various election scandals seemingly connected to the White House. All details concerning the outing of CIA agent Valerie Palme and the lies promoted by the White House leading up to the invasion of Iraq should be revealed to Congress. White House involvement in torture and secret prisons should be publicly exposed.
Our national security has been undermined. Our civil liberties threatened. Our traditional political freedoms badly trampled by an out of control Executive Branch actively abetted by Republicans in Congress and Republican federal judges.
Corruption and incompetence dominates the leadership of the Republican Party at the state and national level almost everywhere in America. Investigations are underway in state after state from California to Texas to Ohio of Republican political abuses. Many more are called for in places like Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Partisan political considerations should never trump the rule of law. It is up to Republicans to clean-up the corruption and contempt of American political traditions by their leadership. Republican leaders need to choose between their Party leadership and the future of the American nation!
Written by Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio Link ). Mail: P.O. Box 283, Earleville, Maryland 21919. Phone: 443-907-2367. Email: midsouthcm@aol.com .
Feel free to publish without prior approval and at no charge.
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The recent claim by Dick Cheney to have both executive privilege and not to be part of the executive branch of government seems to amount to a claim that Cheney is simply above the rule of law. It appears that both Bush and Cheney think they rule by divine right like the absolute monarchs of medieval Europe or the dictators of the old Soviet Bloc. Both need to be impeached. Until they are removed from office, the media, Congress and the courts should be aggressively investigating, exposing and opposing their abuses of power.
Bush has ignored the rule of law repeatedly. He has wiretapped American citizens without court orders in clear violation of the law by claiming nonexistent Presidential authority. Both Bush and Cheney lied to the American public and Congress to take America into an illegal war in Iraq.
Republican politicians helped Bush and Cheney pack our federal courts and the US Department of Justice with partisan political hacks who do everything possible to make illegal actions benefiting Republicans appear legal. Elections have been essentially rigged by denying millions of Americans of their right to vote or to have their votes accurately counted.
Corporation channeling money to Republican organizations or candidates have been able to win billions of dollars worth of no-bid government contracts under highly questionable or obviously illegal conditions. Corporate givers were able to ignore government regulations and federal laws concerning oil and mineral leases, environmental considerations, worker safety, consumer rights, fair competition, price-gouging and anti-monopoly concerns.
Congress should immediately repeal the falsely-named Patriot Act because neither Bush or Cheney can be trusted with the powers that law hands to the White House and the Executive Branch. All funding for the White House should be strictly limited and closely monitored by Congress.
White House funding should be conditioned on Cheney revealing all details of his Energy Task Force and all details of Karl Rove’s role concerning the various election scandals seemingly connected to the White House. All details concerning the outing of CIA agent Valerie Palme and the lies promoted by the White House leading up to the invasion of Iraq should be revealed to Congress. White House involvement in torture and secret prisons should be publicly exposed.
Our national security has been undermined. Our civil liberties threatened. Our traditional political freedoms badly trampled by an out of control Executive Branch actively abetted by Republicans in Congress and Republican federal judges.
Corruption and incompetence dominates the leadership of the Republican Party at the state and national level almost everywhere in America. Investigations are underway in state after state from California to Texas to Ohio of Republican political abuses. Many more are called for in places like Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Partisan political considerations should never trump the rule of law. It is up to Republicans to clean-up the corruption and contempt of American political traditions by their leadership. Republican leaders need to choose between their Party leadership and the future of the American nation!
Written by Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio Link ). Mail: P.O. Box 283, Earleville, Maryland 21919. Phone: 443-907-2367. Email: midsouthcm@aol.com .
Feel free to publish without prior approval and at no charge.
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Bethlehem City Democratic Committee
Annual Summer Picnic
Saturday, July 14th, 2007
12noon-5pm
Tri-Boro Sportsmen Club
Northampton, PA.
$15.00 per person includes:
Food, Refreshments, Raffles & DJ
Current Office Holders & Candidates Introduced at 2PM!
For tickets, directions or additional information, James S. Schlener at 610-217-5123 or schlen@unions-america.com
Annual Summer Picnic
Saturday, July 14th, 2007
12noon-5pm
Tri-Boro Sportsmen Club
Northampton, PA.
$15.00 per person includes:
Food, Refreshments, Raffles & DJ
Current Office Holders & Candidates Introduced at 2PM!
For tickets, directions or additional information, James S. Schlener at 610-217-5123 or schlen@unions-america.com
I just made a small donation to the dccc million dollar match ing fund,I strongly believe small donations by large amounts of people will win elections .I make regular donations to DNC and committee for a Democratic Majority,after todays veto by the 12 step president,I think its time to crank up the machine to increase our majorities and take the Big One...please support your party(not every time ,you'll go broke!)
Think its safe to say we need to focus on soon to be Republican frontrunner outsider/actor Fred Thompson...thanks to our friends at the rapid response team,info has surfaced that Thompson was a Washington Lobbyest for decades on behalf of Westing house and a London insurance company trying to limit liability in asbestos related cases...I,m thinking it might be my lifes work this summer to try and shatter the myth making machine that is sure to exploit this phonies ability to seem presidential...There are still people out there that think John Wayne was really in the green berets,not just the movie...
Dear Stephen,
Working families are struggling to make ends meet these days,
and our middle class is disappearing. The best opportunity
working people have to get ahead economically is by uniting to
bargain with their employers for better wages and benefits.
Send a critical message to your state legislators today urging
them to support the federal Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041),
a bill that will level the playing field for workers and help
rebuild America’s middle class.
Please contact your state legislator right now…quot;we need their
support for the Employee Free Choice Act. Click on the link
below to take action:
Link
The Employee Free Choice Act would restore workers’ freedom to
form unions and bargain.
Recent research has shown that 60 million workers would join a
union if they could, but the current system for forming unions
and bargaining is broken.
The Employee Free Choice Act would make it easier for our
state’s working families to get a union card…quot;the “straightest
ticket to the middle class.”
Please contact your state legislator now by clicking on the link
below:
Link
Already, more than 1,000 state lawmakers have shown their
support for the Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041) by signing on
to the letter to Congress in support of the bill.
Please ask your state lawmakers to join their colleagues from
around the country in supporting the Employee Free Choice Act by
signing on to the letter to Congress.
Please ask your legislators to sign the letter by clicking on
the link below:
Link
“We strongly urge you to support the Employee Free Choice Act,”
the letter says, “legislation that would begin to reinstate the
right to form unions that Congress protected for America’s
workers more than 65 years ago.”
We need as many signatures as possible to send a strong message
to Congress: Pass the Employee Free Choice Act and help rebuild
America’s middle class.
Thank you for continuing the fight for the Employee Free Choice
Act.
In solidarity,
Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO
P.S. Learn more about the Employee Free Choice Act and see
videos of workers like Ivo Camilo, Nikkia Parish and Bill
Lawhorn at the AFL-CIO’s Employee Free Choice Act website:
Link
Working families are struggling to make ends meet these days,
and our middle class is disappearing. The best opportunity
working people have to get ahead economically is by uniting to
bargain with their employers for better wages and benefits.
Send a critical message to your state legislators today urging
them to support the federal Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041),
a bill that will level the playing field for workers and help
rebuild America’s middle class.
Please contact your state legislator right now…quot;we need their
support for the Employee Free Choice Act. Click on the link
below to take action:
Link
The Employee Free Choice Act would restore workers’ freedom to
form unions and bargain.
Recent research has shown that 60 million workers would join a
union if they could, but the current system for forming unions
and bargaining is broken.
The Employee Free Choice Act would make it easier for our
state’s working families to get a union card…quot;the “straightest
ticket to the middle class.”
Please contact your state legislator now by clicking on the link
below:
Link
Already, more than 1,000 state lawmakers have shown their
support for the Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041) by signing on
to the letter to Congress in support of the bill.
Please ask your state lawmakers to join their colleagues from
around the country in supporting the Employee Free Choice Act by
signing on to the letter to Congress.
Please ask your legislators to sign the letter by clicking on
the link below:
Link
“We strongly urge you to support the Employee Free Choice Act,”
the letter says, “legislation that would begin to reinstate the
right to form unions that Congress protected for America’s
workers more than 65 years ago.”
We need as many signatures as possible to send a strong message
to Congress: Pass the Employee Free Choice Act and help rebuild
America’s middle class.
Thank you for continuing the fight for the Employee Free Choice
Act.
In solidarity,
Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO
P.S. Learn more about the Employee Free Choice Act and see
videos of workers like Ivo Camilo, Nikkia Parish and Bill
Lawhorn at the AFL-CIO’s Employee Free Choice Act website:
Link
if you are supporting Barry Finegold for Marty Meehans soon to be vacant congressional seat please hook me up for sign locations and other good stuff ...my e-mail is Howardpla40@aol.com...
I received this email from my good friend in Scott County. Please vote and spread the word about this poll. Looks like the Republicans are already doing so.
"The Jackson (Tennessee) Sun is running a poll pitting Al Gore against Fred
Thompson. Thompson is currently ahead 2 to 1. Please, take a moment to go
to the link and vote for Al
Gore. Link
Hope and Peace,
Jack Jeffers
Democrat"
"The Jackson (Tennessee) Sun is running a poll pitting Al Gore against Fred
Thompson. Thompson is currently ahead 2 to 1. Please, take a moment to go
to the link and vote for Al
Gore. Link
Hope and Peace,
Jack Jeffers
Democrat"