Alan Grayson, Unbossed and Unbought!

To Whom is Halliburton Giving Money?‏

 

 

Unbought, and Unbossed. Not me. Here's how Congress works for most of the Members: they sit in their offices, they cross the street to the Floor of the House to vote every once in a while, and, while in their offices, corporate lobbyist after corporate lobbyist comes to kiss their rings. They kiss that ring with their lips, and, with their hands, they hand over the language that they want inserted into a bill that will help their cause. Then, after the Members of Congress do the bidding of their corporate masters, they walk across the street to the party HQ, pick up the phone, and ask those same corporations to raise tens of thousands of dollars for their campaigns. These corporations aren't bankrolling my campaign, because I don't do their bidding. I rely on you. If you want me to keep fighting and keep legislating in the public interest, I need your support before the important June 30th deadline. I need you to pitch in $5, $25, $50 or more now. Together, over the last few months, we built a populist coalition, and mobilized nearly three million Americans against dangerous cuts to Social Security and Medicare. We won. We mobilized tens of thousands more against unconstitutional NSA spying and against trade deals that hurt American workers. Reporter Glenn Greenwald “tweeted” about it. So did actor/activist John Cusack. Tens of thousands shared our petitions on Facebook and Twitter. This is how we do this job. It's not about bowing before the corporate interests. It's about representing you. I don't carry water for corporate interests, and I'm proud of that. But without your support, those same corporate interests will stop at nothing to silence me and therefore, you. They did it after 2010. We fought back in 2012. Let's make sure that they don't win in 2014.