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from my email ....
BREAKING: New polling of key congressional budget negotiators from both red states and blue states shows growing momentum for expanding Social Security.
On average, 65% of voters in these key districts support expanding Social Security benefits, and 70% would not vote for a candidate who supported cutting them.
Over the past few months, we've worked with allies to make EXPANDING Social Security a credible part of the debate.
Can you call Representative Tom Petri and Senators Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin and tell them to support expanding, not cutting, Social Security benefits?
Yes -- show me the number!
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Our friends at MoveOn sponsored the poll conducted in states like in Arizona, California, New York, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Kentucky -- home state of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who is more vulnerable than ever.
On Monday, the Washington Post's editorial board attacked our campaign. Elizabeth Warren responded on the Senate floor, which resulted in huge national news.
Senators Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren are the two latest members of Congress to support this bold idea, and we need to keep the pressure on the rest of Congress to join us.
Call Rep. Petri and Sens. Johnson and Baldwin to tell them to expand Social Security benefits!
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Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- Kimberly Fountain, PCCC Campaign Director
Link edited to allow you to access numbers other than my Wisconsin Congresspersons. Please consider calling your Congresscritters and telling them that expanding Social Security is the right thing to do.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)It just seems like too many of our representatives just sit there and absorb all the extreme changes out there Republicans and some conservative Dems are willing to make to the social safety net. We need to get up and start howling and growling back at them that their solutions are counterproductive and we will not let them pass.
Sam
Finally a paradigm change that helps us all.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)It's nothing but theft against public employees.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)... they notice. Especially when lots of those 70% call (likely voters!).
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)Wasn't it about the same number wanting some sort of gun control? And before that weren't the numbers about the same for a public option?
I don't think it matters either, especially when public opinion goes against the ruling class and what they want.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)protecting women's rights as well. I think they are the three big ones.
Maybe the Jobs Bill can be a bi-partisan piecemeal bit of legislation combining immigration reform and corporate tax cuts - along with closing tax loopholes. This way there's a distinct difference in the parties that is clear to all.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
ancianita
(36,095 posts)BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)Well done Scuba!!
ps: screeching headline + positive = REC bomb