PEORIA -- Here's an event worth attending, given the crazy situation in Washington. Several groups will rally today, Tuesday, July 26, at noon at Cong. Aaron Schock's office in the Federal Building at Main and Monroe, to rail against GOP stubbornness on the debt ceiling. Schock, R, Peoria, always votes the GOP line.
Here are comments from one of the sponsors, Progressive Democrats of America:
Last weekend, it became 100% clear that Republicans would rather see America default, Social Security payments stopped, and unemployment soar ever higher than give an inch on their position: The very richest people and most profitable corporations shouldn't pay one penny more in taxes.
House Leader John Boehner walked out of another meeting, and President Obama appears ready to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits to appease the Republican base. Now is not the time for political theater, or further undermining the social safety net that so many Americans depend upon.
Rallies large and small in all 435 Congressional districts will be held at noon Tuesday—today—at local Congressional offices. (Find your local office here.) This is an "All Hands On Deck" effort with no one "coordinating" it.
Last week, PDAers and our allies were in front of Congressional offices at Brown Bag Lunch Vigils with the message "Hands off Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid." Now, the American Dream movement is urgently calling for every patriotic American to show up outside every congressional office to deliver a crucial message: "Don't destroy the American Dream."
Find your representative's office here. Download signs here, here, and here. Better yet, make your own!
We need to bring together—now—the vast majority of Americans who find the Republicans' position immoral and the Democrats' reticence unconscionable. Let's get out there today and let our Republican and Democratic representatives know how important it is to stand up to Republican threats and Democratic capitulation—for the American people.
Find your representative's office here.
And make the call Wednesday for the National Call-in Day.
In solidarity and urgency,
Tim Carpenter, national director
P.S. Read Van Jones's appeal, and please spread the word!
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If and it's likely he has, Mr. Schock, he can't be called Congressman, has signed a pledge, any pledge; he is not working for America or the people who voted for him in the 18th. The fact is he's working for some else like Grover Norquist who makes every Republican sign his anti-raising taxes pledge. Let Grover pay Schocks salary, his medical benefits, Schocks travel expenses.
Posted by: Steve Waterworth | July 26, 2011 at 07:35 PM