It's All About Me, Man: [ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: Will your leaders sign the Contract?

Friday, September 23, 2011

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: Will your leaders sign the Contract?

Can somebody explain to me what this is all about? If politicians sign this thing, then what? So what? Are we supposed to vote for them? I think what we need to do is find a way to not get suckered in by facile liars like Obama, don't you?

It would appear that what this is about is saying "hey, facile liars, just affix your name to this meaningless pledge, and I'll support you, and you're free do screw me!" Why should we do their work for them? Their job is to fool us, and our job is to try to not get fooled, you see what I'm saying?

I've asked for clarification from you before about some of your goofy mailings... I said if you couldn't answer my questions, remove me from your mailing list. Well, maybe it's time to remove me, you don't seem to be responsive.

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Daniel Mintz, MoveOn.org Political Action <moveon-help@list.moveon.org> wrote:

Now is the time to start building a wave of support for the Contract for the American Dream among elected officials and candidates as we head into an election year. Can you help by asking your local leaders to sign the Contract?

Ask your leaders to sign

Dear MoveOn member,
Over the past several months, the new American Dream movement did something that has eluded our elected leaders for far too long: we made a plan to fix our broken economy.

More than 100,000 of us helped write the plan—the Contract for the American Dream—and we're about to hit 300,000 signers nationwide.

Now people all over the country are starting to get their elected leaders and candidates for office to step forward and endorse the Contract. Just this week in Arizona one local organizer got four state representatives, a state senator, two school board members and a city council member to sign the Contract.¹

That's just one example—but from school boards to state legislatures to Congress, now is the time to start building a wave of support among elected officials and candidates as we head into an election year.

Can you help by asking your local leaders to sign the Contract for the American Dream? Click here for the Contract endorsement page:

http://pol.moveon.org/contractendorsement/index.html?id=31338-19284091-tEZmlyx&t=2

On the endorsement page you'll find a signable version of the Contract you can download and present to elected officials and candidates in your area, sample talking points about why we need the Contract, and an online form where your leaders can add their endorsement and contribute a personal statement of support.

Over the past several weeks, tens of thousands of people submitted and rated ideas for how to put the Contract to work. Getting candidates and elected leaders to sign it was one of the most popular and highest-rated ideas. That's because the payoff for getting enough endorsements will be enormous: not only will we have an increasingly powerful story to tell the media and the country as a whole about just how much support the American Dream movement can generate, we'll also have political leaders at every level of government ready to take action.

Ultimately our goal is to get thousands of endorsements from elected officials and candidates for office who are ready to help get our economy back on track. It won't happen overnight and it's going to take as many of us as possible getting in touch with our local leaders and asking them to sign the Contract.

Are you ready to be a part of building that kind of support? Click here if you can help by asking your local leaders to sign the Contract:

http://pol.moveon.org/contractendorsement/index.html?id=31338-19284091-tEZmlyx&t=3

Thanks for all you do.

–Daniel, Elena, Robin, Peter, and the rest of the team

Source:

1. "Arizona Democrats tout plan to stimulate state, federal economy," Cronkite News, September 21, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=264346&id=31338-19284091-tEZmlyx&t=4

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