[Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: Stop the Bailout in the House]

[Gerry Gras]

My purpose in forwarding this is for the info about the bailout.
It is not my purpose to encourage or discourage voting for Nader.

Gerry


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Stop the Bailout in the House
Date: 02 Oct 2008 11:38:38 -0700
From: "The Nader Team " <team at votenader.org>
Reply-To: "The Nader Team" <team at votenader.org>
To: gerrygras at earthlink.net



[Ralph Nader for President 2008]

October 2, 2008
www.votenader.org



Woah Nellie!

You guys blew the roof off our $150,000 Three Way Race fundraising goal.

And you blew the roof off of our $3 million goal for the end of September.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

We'll be launching our October drive tomorrow.

With a special premium offer.

So, stay tuned.

But for now, we're back at it, trying to derail the $700 billion Mother
of All Bailouts.

The bill will be voted on by the House of Representatives tomorrow.

So, here's what we need you to do now.

Call Congress' main switchboard number at 202.224.3121.

Ask for your member of Congress.

(If the main switchboard number is jammed, you can Google your member's
name and find a direct dial phone number. If your member of Congress
voted against the first bailout bill, you can find their direct dial
phone number on this spreadsheet
our staff just cobbled together.)

Tell the person who answers the phone to please take a message for your
elected representative.

The message for your member of Congress is this:

Please vote against the bailout bill.

Call 202.224.3121.

Tell your member of Congress:

Please vote no on the bailout.

Let's crank it up.

And get it done.


Onward to November

The Nader Team


PS: We're not sure what will be in the bill that the House will vote
for, but we are pretty sure that it will be similar to the Senate bill.
Which is the MOB bill -- the Mother of All Bailouts, supported by McCain
Obama and Bush. That is -- big relief for the big banks. Little relief
for homeowners facing foreclosure. That's one. Two, Warren Buffett
recently invested in Goldman Sachs. What did Warren Buffett get in
return? Ownership. So, if the American taxpayers are going to inject
money into the big banks, why don't we get ownership in return? Three,
there is no provision in the bill for cracking down on the corporate
criminals that brought us to this point. Why not? Four, the federal
government can take action now to prevent foreclosures, to keep
homeowners in their homes. Why is the first move to bail out those who
engaged in "a sustained orgy of excess and reckless behavior?" (As
Dallas Federal Reserve chairman Richard Fisher put it last week.) In
sum, it's a bailout bill for Wall Street crooks. Reach for your phone.
Dial that there number -- 202.224.3121. Leave a message for your member
of Congress. Vote no on the bailout.





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