Why Would A Woman Vote Republican?

Check these links out:

http://adaysencounter.com/wordpress/?p=1465

http://adaysencounter.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/republican-candidates-on-the-issue-of-rape-and-violence-towards-women/

Romney's Bain Capital Against Minority Voters

Apparently, media giant Clear Channel thinks its a-okay to use its billboards to intimidate voters in an effort to keep people of color from voting.

Last week, an anonymous group started plastering Black and Latino neighborhoods in Ohio and Wisconsin with billboards implying that people can be prosecuted for trying to vote. Despite widespread protests, Clear Channel has refused to take the billboards down, claiming that they aren’t responsible for the content.

Of course, Clear Channel has refused to put up political billboards before -- in fact, just a few months ago, they refused to let us put up a billboard denouncing the climate change-denying Heartland Institute, with the reasoning “you can’t criticize a corporation.”

Tell Clear Channel to stop profiting from voter intimidation -- take the billboards down NOW!.

We’ve seen unprecedented attempts to suppress voting in communities of color over the last year. State governments have tried to purge voter rolls, made registering to vote more difficult, and curbed early and absentee voting -- often at the behest of corporate-friendly lobbying groups like ALEC. Rightwing politicians say that these measures are meant to curb voter fraud, but so far, no one has found a single instance of voter fraud that these policies would have stopped. The real point of these laws is to make voting harder for poor people, students, and people of color.

Now Clear Channel -- which, surprise, surprise, is owned by Bain Capital -- is getting in on the action. We might not have much influence over the state governments of Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Wisconin, but Clear Channel, which is also the U.S.’s largest radio company, had better listen to us.

If Clear Channel is going to stop SumOfUs.org members from denounce big corporations for financing climate deniers, you can bet we’re not going to let them tell people not to vote.

Tell Clear Channel to take down these intimidating billboards.

Thanks

Kaytee, Rob, and the team at SumOfUs.org

Keeping Another Promise

By Mary Bruce


The President said:

“After losing about 800,000 jobs a month when I took office, our businesses have now added 5.2 million new jobs over the past two and a half years, and on Friday, we learned that the unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since I took office. More Americans are entering the work force. More Americans are getting jobs.

“Too many of our friends and neighbors are still looking for work or struggling to pay the bills – many of them since long before this crisis hit. We owe it to them to keep moving forward. We’ve come too far to turn back now. And we’ve made too much progress to return to the policies that got us into this mess in the first place.

“But for some reason, some Republicans in Congress are still waging an all-out battle to delay, defund and dismantle these common-sense new rules. Why? Do they think undoing rules that protect families from the worst practices of credit card companies and mortgage lenders will make the middle class stronger? Do they think getting rid of rules to prevent another crisis on Wall Street will make Main Street any safer?

“Republicans in Congress need to stop trying to refight the battles of the past few years, and finally start doing something to actually help the middle class get ahead.

“If we’re going to keep this economy moving forward, there’s no time for political games. Even in a political season. Everyone needs to do their part.”