We don't have to wait until 2006 to start the mission to take back Congress.
DEC 6th DEC 6th DEC 6th DEC 6th
The date for the California 48th District election to fill the seat vacated by Christopher Cox.
Steve Young is a candidate with great policies and fantastic name recognition even if he's not the 49'er legend.
ACTION - Contact the DCCC and make some noise to support Steve.
Call 202-863-1500 or
Send an email dccc@dccc.org
ACTION - Join TOP 200 ADOPT A PRECINCT.
Go to Steve's web site
Call: 1-949-640-4400
ACTION - Get the word out to Democrats in the district that their vote with the others who voted for Kerry in 2004 will win this race. Kerry got 94,000 votes. 45,000 will win this election. Let's make it a landslide.
ACTION - Please recommend this diary.
I don't care about mojo. This is about Steve Young, taking back Congress and taking back our country. I don't think we should give them a single race without a fight.
More below.
The start to the fall of the Republican blight will be the California 48th District which is a heavily Republican District and has been for a very long time. When we win this one we'll
know that we can win everywhere.
Here's an example from Steve's site to show the fighter in him.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH...
* We've had ENOUGH of our federal government spending money we don't have -- only to watch our sons and daughters come home from Iraq in body bags while the plight of our neighbors on the Gulf Coast remains largely ignored.
* We've had ENOUGH of the American dream being sold to the lowest bidder as the heart of our country is outsourced to a foreign land and hard-working Americans lose their jobs, healthcare, and ability to protect their families.
* We've had ENOUGH of special interests running our government so that the wallets of Tom DeLay's friends, Enron, Halliburton, and other get fatter at our expense -- of our safety to terrorists, our economic opportunities to illegal immigration and foreign entities, and our families' prosperity to billion dollar corporations.
Steve Young is the man we need to go to Washington to send a clear and undeniable message to President Bush.
We really have a chance to win this district. Steve and Democrats were being written off in the primary but he came though better than expected.
Steve Young, a candidate in California's 48th District, led all Democrats in today's special election and will advance to the general election scheduled for December 6th. In a race marked by low turnout and conservative predictions, Young captured the Democratic vote in spite of heavy competition from more than a dozen candidates inside and out of the party.
This race is important and the Kerry democrats would vote but because this is a special election people don't know about it. When I did some phone banking for the primary many people said they weren't aware there was an election and that after finding out there was one they wanted to vote.
Part of the effort is to get Democrats to vote absentee. Those adopting precincts will make calls and be part of the absentee vote process.
We can be agents for change.
Money's great but time making phone calls and sending emails can be highly leverage actions that you can take.
I'm sure Steve will be posting here in the near future so let's make the effort to show him that we're not going to abandon him to fend off the Republicans without a fight of the community.
Finally, after seeing the front page post for the very worthy Eric Massa I'm going to ask for a front page promotion from someone out there who has the credentials to do it.