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Saturday, November 11, 2017

[mpen-dayton] FW: Apply for 2018 coverage; NYT Today's Headlines; The NRA's Big Lie; Roy Moore could withdraw if this happens; Republican tax plan and more

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  • FW: Apply for 2018 coverage
  • FW: Open Enrollment for 2018 health care plans
  • FW:NYT Today's Headlines
  • FW: FOX NEWS just announced: Senate Special Election in Alabama is TIED!
  • FW: Roy Moore could withdraw if this happens
  • FW: The NRA's Big Lie
  • FW: federal judges; GOP fixated on anti-democracy; never has the gutter flowed so sweetly into the swamp
  • FW: Sign the petition re: Fox News
  • FW: cwmemory.com l "W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee"
  • FW: Republican tax plan

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From: The New York Times
Subject: NYT Today's Headlines:
                (1) Senate Tax Plan Diverges From House Version, Highlighting Political Pressures
                (2) Suburbs Rebel Against Trump, Threatening Republicans in Congress
                (3) A Broke, and Broken, Flood Insurance Program
                (4) Republicans Try to Block Moore's Path as Candidate Denies Sexual Misconduct


Senate Tax Plan Diverges From House Version, Highlighting Political Pressures
By JIM TANKERSLEY, ALAN RAPPEPORT and THOMAS KAPLAN

The Senate Finance Committee unveiled its sweeping tax plan, which would delay the corporate rate cut to 2019 but preserve prized tax breaks like the mortgage interest deduction.

Suburbs Rebel Against Trump, Threatening Republicans in Congress
By ALEXANDER BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN

Suburban areas appear to be in open revolt against President Trump, with a coalition of educated whites and minorities shunning Republican candidates.

A Broke, and Broken, Flood Insurance Program
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH

Now, an unusual coalition of insurers, environmentalists and fiscal conservatives is seeking major changes in the federal plan as a deadline approaches.

Republicans Try to Block Moore's Path as Candidate Denies Sexual Misconduct
By JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS

Republican leaders are searching for a way to block Roy Moore's path to the Senate, but the jurist remains defiant over charges that he made advances on teens.

 

 

From: ⚠ ALERT ON FOX NEWS: EndCitizensUnited.org
Subject: FOX NEWS just announced: Senate Special Election in Alabama is TIED!

Nobody... NOBODY saw this coming:

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From: Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kathy, Susan, Anathea, Audine, Shannon, Emma, Pilar,
                       Natalie, Melody, Pam, Lindsay, and Ryan, the UltraViolet Action team
Subject: Roy Moore could withdraw if this happens

It's been less than 24 hours since news broke that Senate Republican nominee Roy Moore sexually assaulted a 14-year-old.1 Already, at least 8 Republicans have called on him to drop out of the race.2 But of those Republicans have the power to withdraw funding for Moore's campaign--they need to pull the plug NOW.

Both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senator Cory Gardner (who heads fundraising for Republican candidates) called for Moore to drop out of the race, but that's NOT good enough.3 They also need to pull all the funding and support going into Moore's campaign if they are serious about stopping a child sexual predator from reaching the Senate.

McConnell and Gardner are feeling the pressure from other Senate Republicans, and we can make it reach a boiling point. Can you tweet at Senator Cory Gardner and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell?

It's always best to use your own words, but you can also click to auto-tweet these:
   


Thanks for taking action.

Sources:

1. Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual encounter when she was 14, he was 32, Washington Post, November 9, 2017

2. Mitch McConnell calls on Roy Moore to exit Alabama Senate race 'if these allegations are true', Washington Post, November 9, 2017

3. NRSC chair Cory Gardner says GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore should drop out if sex allegations true, Denver Channel, November 9, 2017


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From: The Guns Down team
Subject: The NRA's Big Lie

The NRA is trying to sell you a lie. It's the same kind of lie they've been trying to convince you of for years. They are trying to convince you that a gun stopped the shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

The NRA is wrong.

26 people died in Sutherland Springs on Sunday. 20 more were shot. They died because in our country, there are far too many guns and it is far too easy for anyone to get the kind of military-style assault weapons which have been used in so many mass shootings. A gun didn't save their lives; a gun ended their lives.

Give to Guns Down to spread the truth:
Fewer guns means safer communities!


In the United States, we already have more guns than any other country. If guns were going to solve our problems, they already would have. We wouldn't have more mass shootings than other countries. We wouldn't have a higher gun death rate than other countries. And we wouldn't be, once again, burying children who we gunned down where they should be safe.

Guns are not the solution. Guns are the problem and more guns will never solve gun violence. The facts are indisputable and clear. Here's what the gun lobby doesn't want you to know: in places with more guns, there is more gun violence, and in places with fewer guns, there is less gun violence.


Please join us and help fight the gun lobby's dangerous, misleading agenda.

 

 

From: Andrew Tierman
Subject: federal judges; GOP fixated on anti-democracy; never has the gutter flowed so sweetly into the swamp
    

 

 

From: Tom Steyer
Subject: Sign the petition re: Fox News


Tell Fox News to stop silencing our voices. Sign the petition.


Fox News is trying to silence the movement demanding Congress impeach Trump. Send Fox News a strong message: We will not allow you to silence us.  Sign Tom's petition!


When I launched my "Need to Impeach" effort just a couple of weeks ago, Fox News agreed to run my ad. Our dangerous president even watched it and tweeted a personal attack on me.

But now, Fox News and Donald Trump see the strength of our movement, and they see that more Americans than ever agree: It's time to impeach. Fox News is frantically changing course, refusing to air the ad on the Fox News network.1

Click here to sign my petition and tell Fox News: it's not OK to censor opposing views.

The movement to impeach Trump is growing—and Trump and his allies are frantic.

Click here to sign the petition and tell Fox News: Stop silencing our voices. Run the ad and let viewers make their own decisions.

Source:

1. "Steyer claims breach of contract after Fox News pulls his Trump impeachment ads," Politico, November 6, 2017
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From: Judy Burnette
Subject: cwmemory.com l "W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee"


W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee
cwmemory.com/2017/05/30/w-e-b-dubois-on-robert-e-lee/


Yesterday I shared a brief passage from W.E.B. DuBois on Confederate monuments. Below is an short essay from DuBois on Robert E. Lee's legacy published in 1928. Source: The Crisis, March 1928, v.35, n.3 [found in the "Postscript" section]


Robert E. Lee


Each year on the 19th of January there is renewed effort to canonize Robert E. Lee, the greatest confederate general. His personal comeliness, his aristocratic birth and his military prowess all call for the verdict of greatness and genius. But one thing–one terrible fact–militates against this and that is the inescapable truth that Robert E. Lee led a bloody war to perpetuate slavery. Copperheads like the New York Times may magisterially declare: "of course, he never fought for slavery." Well, for what did he fight? State rights? Nonsense. The South cared only for State Rights as a weapon to defend slavery. If nationalism had been a stronger defense of the slave system than particularism, the South would have been as nationalistic in 1861 as it had been in 1812.

No. People do not go to war for abstract theories of government. They fight for property and privilege and that was what Virginia fought for in the Civil War. And Lee followed Virginia. He followed Virginia not because he particularly loved slavery (although he certainly did not hate it), but because he did not have the moral courage to stand against his family and his clan. Lee hesitated and hung his head in shame because he was asked to lead armies against human progress and Christian decency and did not dare refuse. He surrendered not to Grant, but to Negro Emancipation.

Today we can best perpetuate his memory and his nobler traits not by falsifying his moral debacle, but by explaining it to the young white south. What Lee did in 1861, other Lees are doing in 1928. They lack the moral courage to stand up for justice to the Negro because of the overwhelming public opinion of their social environment. Their fathers in the past have condoned lynching and mob violence, just as today they acquiesce in the disfranchisement of educated and worthy black citizens, provide wretchedly inadequate public schools for Negro children and endorse a public treatment of sickness, poverty and crime which disgraces civilization.

It is the punishment of the South that its Robert Lees and Jefferson Davises will always be tall, handsome and well-born. That their courage will be physical and not moral. That their leadership will be weak compliance with public opinion and never costly and unswerving revolt for justice and right. it is ridiculous to seek to excuse Robert Lee as the most formidable agency this nation ever raised to make 4 million human beings goods instead of men. Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity's God.

 

 

From: Daily Kos
Subject: FW: Republican tax plan

Paul Ryan has backed away from his promise that everyone would get a tax cut in the Republican tax scam. Probably because it wasn't true. Millionaires and billionaires will receive almost half of the House tax bill's net tax cuts—and everyday people will face tax increases in order to finance those tax cuts for the top 1%.

The Republican tax plan is a scam. Call Representative Michael R. Turner at (202) 225-6465. Urge them to vote no on the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act." When you reach an aide or voicemail, here is a sample script to get you started:

Hello, my name is Munsup Seoh. I live in zip code 45431 and I want Representative Michael R. Turner to vote 'NO' on the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act."

Can't get through? Click here to sign and send a petition to Representative Michael R. Turner: Demand they vote "no" on the GOP tax bill.
    

SIGN AND SEND A PETITION


Here are just three ways the Republican House tax plan is a scam from our partners at Americans for Tax Fairness:
    

  • Puts corporations over healthcare. Corporate tax rate is slashed from 35% to 20%, losing $1.5 trillion—equal to the cuts Republicans plan to make to Medicare and Medicaid.
  • Puts Wall Street over seniors. Wealthy business owners—including real estate investors like Donald Trump—get a $448 billion tax cut from the drop (from 39.6% to 25%) in the top tax rate for "pass-through" businesses. Republican budget cuts Medicare by $473 billion.
  • A real jobs killer. By eliminating taxes on some foreign profits and slashing the tax rate on others far below the U.S. rate, the plan encourages multinational corporations to outsource more jobs and shift more profits offshore.


Call your Representative  and urge them to vote no on the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. "When you reach an aide or voicemail, here is a sample script to get you started:

Hello, my name is Munsup Seoh. I live in zip code 45431 and I want Representative Michael R. Turner to vote 'NO' on the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act."

Can't get through? Click here to sign and send a petition to Representative Michael R. Turner: Demand they vote "no" on the GOP tax bill.
    

ADD YOUR NAME


The Trump-Republican tax plan delivers a huge tax cut to the richest 1% and wealthy corporations, funded by raising taxes on middle class families and slashing funding for Medicare, Medicaid, and education. It's wrong to give special breaks to the wealthy and powerful at the expense of average Americans.

Donald Trump and Paul Ryan are determined to have the pass before Thanksgiving. We need all hands on deck over the next few days to help whip "no" votes. Can we count on you to make a call today, Munsup?

Call Your Representatives an d urge them to vote no on the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. "When you reach an aide or voicemail, here is a sample script to get you started:

Hello, my name is John Doe. I live in zip code ##### and I want you to vote 'NO' on the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act."

 

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