<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">FYI for Charles Villagers who want to raise their voices in support of health reform -- </span>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As part of the national mobilization to push back against the anti-health reform message that a lot of members of Congress got from last week's election in MA, we're having hundreds of rallies Tuesday around the nation in support of health reform. One of them is downtown at noon on Tuesday. Click the link and put in your zip code to get full details and RSVP. </span></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thanks,</span></div>
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From: Charles Chamberlain, Democracy for America <info@democracyforamerica.com><br>
To: weinsteinm@aol.com<br>
Sent: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 12:21 pm<br>
Subject: Democrats on the verge of full-fledged retreat<br>
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Matthew -
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After one bad Senate election, most Democrats in Washington are on the verge of full-fledged retreat and everything we've fought for together hangs in the balance.
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President Obama has signaled he's open to dramatically scaling back health care reform. The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee says he might gut the financial reform bill to appease Republicans. And on top of all that, the Supreme Court just opened the floodgates of corporate cash on politics!
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Retreat is exactly the wrong message for Democrats to take from recent election losses. The lesson from Massachusetts is that voters want more change -- not less. It's time for Democrats to stand up to corporate interests and fight for working families by passing healthcare reform and taking on Wall Street.
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So Democracy for America members are joining with our friends at MoveOn in organizing emergency rallies nationwide on Tuesday to demand Democrats show backbone and leadership -- starting with passage of real healthcare reform.
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<a target="_blank" href="http://dfa2.convio.net/site/R?i=oruSv_ALKltVqXAZVLTV5w.."><strong>FIND AN EMERGENCY RALLY NEAR YOU
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We need a big turnout to show Democrats we're still waiting on them to deliver the change we voted for on healthcare and everything else.
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Make no mistake; Democrats still have the ability to pass healthcare reform and other progressive legislation. Even after last Tuesday's election loss, Democrats still have larger majorities in Congress than Republicans ever did under George W. Bush.
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All Democrats in Washington need is to show some backbone. It's up to us to demand they use it, because progressives don't retreat -- we lead.
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<a target="_blank" href="http://dfa2.convio.net/site/R?i=rF0gCJmWv_VvOJc1DnAz6Q.."><strong><br>
ATTEND AN EMERGENCY RALLY ON TUESDAY</strong></a>
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Thank you for everything you do,
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Charles Chamberlain, Political Director
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