Emma Berry

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From left to right we have Ariel Morgan, Catherine Morgan and Frank Morgan of Allen, Texas.

Catherine told me that the other two signs are going to friends in Allen who have requested one of John Lingenfelder’s yard signs.

I guess they must have heard that John represents families.  Unlike Sam Johnson, John Lingenfelder thinks that the sky should not be the limit for interest rates that Credit Card Companies can charge families.  John would like to introduce the term “usury” back into the American vocabulary.  Unlike Sam Johnson, John Lingenfelder believes in equal pay for equal work.  Unlike Sam Johnson, John Lingenfelder believes in helping families to stay in their homes.  Sam Johnson voted against H.R. 1106 “Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009.  This bill authorized bankruptcy courts to modify the terms of mortgages made on home owners’ primary residence.  This bill doesn’t “raise taxes” or “increase the deficit”–it simply helps ordinary American families in the Third District to stay in their homes.

What folks might not know is that bankruptcy courts allowed owners of yachts and vacation homes to  renegotiate those loans–just not the roof over your families heads.  Now, thanks to a lot of good Democrats and few good Republicans, ordinary Americans have the same rights as the wealthy to renegotiate terms of their home loans in a bankruptcy court.  If it were up to Sam Johnson, families like Catherine’s would be out of luck–unless they had a yacht or a vacation home.

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Ariel is learning political campaigning early.  For a school assignment last week she and her classmates had to make a home out of a paper bag.  Each child was given a paper bag from which to construct their home.  As you can see from the photo below, Ariel made sure that her home had a campaign sign for John Lingenfelder–Democratic Candidate for US Congressional District Three.

Another plus about yard signs for people like me:  They force us to take a good look at our front yard.  My Word!  Next week I’ll have to get out and trim my shrubs.

TO GET YOUR LINGENFELDER YARD SIGN:

Go down to the Lingenfelder Campaign Headquarters at 1108 West Parker, Ste 108
(Southwest corner of Parker and Alma)

**Peachis Gray**
Executive Assistant
Lingenfelder for Congress
TX 3rd Congressional District

1108 W. Parker, Ste 108

Plano, Tx 75075

Ph: (972) 468-1127

Scheduling & Special Events: Peachis@LingenfelderForCongress.com

Sam Johnson thinks that working people can go longer than 10 years without a raise, and to prove it, he voted against raising the minimum wage in 2007 even though it had been 10 years since Congress had voted to raise minimum wage.

IF YOU EARN LESS THAN $200,000 AND LIVE IN THE THIRD US CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF TEXAS, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO VOTE FOR SAM JOHNSON!

IF YOU RELY ON SOCIAL SECURITY, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO VOTE FOR SAM JOHNSON EITHER!  SAM JOHNSON HAS TOLD THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS THAT HE THINKS IT IS “SENSIBLE” TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY.

Go to John’s ACT BLUE portal and give all you can afford to give!  Consider it a wise investment in your future!

http://www.john.lingenfelderforcongress.com/index.html

Fellow Texan,

Who pulls the strings in Rick Perry’s Texas?

It will be obvious later tonight at his big “Lobbyist Ball” fundraiser in Austin — 29 out of 30 members of the steering committee are registered lobbyists. Many of those lobbyists are former Perry staff members who then cashed in for millions after working for Perry.

Please help us send a clear message that Texans from all backgrounds are tired of the “politics as usual” that has brought us rising tuition, insurance, and utility rates.

Click here to contribute $5 to make sure ordinary Texans — not lobbyists — pull the strings in Austin.

All contributions in response to this email will be counted toward our “Say No to the Lobbyist Ball” goal of surpassing 20,000 individual donors to our campaign — we are now at 19,523.

Our campaign is building momentum, as you can see from the crowds and energy growing statewide.

If you are ready for a new governor, please contribute today and help us move Texas forward.

Respectfully,

Bill White

Here is an interesting link with an unusual and very human perspective of people who survived a nuclear attack.  Maybe if more people read this we would have few people voted for someone like Sam Johnson who suggested that we “nuke” Syria off the face of the earth.

Ground Zero 1945: Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors

Beginning in 1974 — over a quarter century after the bombs were dropped — an entirely new window on the atomic-bomb experience was opened. This took the form of drawings and paintings by survivors.

The Bottom Feeders are Gurgling Again

I hope that Americans are really listening to some of the nonsense that John Boehner is putting forth in the form of suggestions to the President.  Remember also that this is the same guy who spent 119 days on the golf course in 2009–one third of the year.  Boehner forgets that he might not even win his own re-election in Ohio, much less the leader of the House.

I hope America wakes up in time before Republicans like Boehner who have no higher thought than to entirely bankrupt our government  gain control of Washington.

The thing about Boehner’s suggestions is that I like many Americans agree with some of his suggestions, but for different reasons.  However, overall Boehner’s ideas would further bankrupt our nation.

Here are how a few of Boehner’s  brainstorms would work out according to a few think tanks and the Congressional Budget Office:

1. Fully Extend the Bush Tax Cuts.

Increase deficits and debt by $3.8 trillion over ten years.

2. Have the president veto the Employee Free Choice Act, a carbon tax or cap and trade, and “any other tax increases on families and small businesses” if passed during a lame-duck session of Congress.

Unable to assess impact of hypotheticals, but the provision impairs ability to address deficits and debt, including the potential loss of $624 billion in revenue over ten years from a carbon regime.  What Boehner is doing here is attempting to reduce further any power or effectiveness that Democrats may have.  Vetoing the Employee Free Choice Act would impair further the ability for workers to organize to achieve  livable wages and safe working conditions–a Wall Street favorite.  Vetoing  a carbon tax or cap and trade would give Wall Street Corporation the right to continue to pollute with the same impunity they have today. [How are you enjoying all the Orange alerts these days in the Dallas area?  You  need to ask yourself that because this kind of nonsense directly affects the quality of your life.] Then he pairs these two with taxes associated with families and small businesses.  First of all Boehner ignores the fact that there is a huge range of difference in quality of life live by a family whose bread-winner earns $40,000 a year and the one who earn $166,000 or more a year.  But to lump “family” in one category implies they are all in the same financial position which is a morally corrupt lie on Boehner’s part.  Small businesses?  Well that is where I agree with Boehner–as long as you use my definition of “small” and not Washington’s.  Currently Washington defines “small as any business having fewer than 500 employees.  This must be changed to “fewer than 50 employees which is reflective of the 29 million small businesses in the USA today.

3. Call on Congress to repeal the provision in healthcare reform mandating that small businesses file IRS 1099 forms on purchases of over $600.

This suggestion from Boehner would increase the deficits and debt by $17 billion over ten years per Congressional Budget Office estimate. The provision was included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to close the business tax gap.
I disagree with this one.  Again Congress should redefine small business but we would reap a much better return for Americans if, for example, the carried interest scam that private equity firms currently enjoy were eliminated. Private equity funds typically invest on a longer horizon, with the result that income earned by the funds is long-term capital gain, taxable to individuals at a maximum 15% rate.  This means that people like Kravitz who make a million dollars a day are taxed at a rate lower than what ordinary Americans earning less than $50,000 a year pay.  This is wrong and needs to be changed now.  If it were, we would have billions of tax revenue that the rich should be paying now but are not.

4. Reduce non-defense discretionary spending to 2008 levels. Of course here the key to Boehner’s suggestions is “non-defense”.  This is part of the over-all Republican plan–eliminate all government spending except for defense spending and bankrupt the government.

5. Resignations of the President’s economic team, starting with Secretary of the Treasury Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers.

I agree with Boehner on this one, even though in the literal sense such resignations, according to most think tanks these resignations amount to a fiscal impact of $30,000 – $32,000 of deficit reduction over the next two months.  The pro-Wall Street, Main Street bashing approaches  of Geithner and Summers should be retired.  How much credibility should a man like Summers who was paid $5.2 million from hedge funds in 2009 have?  And Geithner–please!  He should have been kicked out long ago.

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THE POINT IS THAT AMERICANS MUST LOOK AT THE OVERALL IMPACT OF SUGGESTIONS THAT ARE PUT FORTH BY PEOPLE LIKE BOEHNER AND NOT FOCUS ON ONE OR TWO PARTS THAT YOU AGREE WITH.

Overall, Boehner’s suggestions, like those from most Republicans, would just drive our nation further into the ditch and that is exactly the point!  Republicans do not believe in government.  They have no business governing!  Inviting them to Washington is like putting feathers on a fox and sticking it in the henhouse.

Justin Coussoule
(pronounced kuh-soo-lee)
• West Point Graduate and former Army Captain
• Attorney
• Small business owner
• Corporate purchasing manager at Procter & Gamble
• Husband and father of two
Justin brings a wealth of experience and a passion for public service to his
fight to take Ohio’s 8th Congressional District back from the grip of
Washington’s ultimate insider and champion of corporate special interests,
John Boehner, and return forward progress to the district.

CONTRIBUTE NOW   https://secure.blueutopia.com/justincoussoule/contribute/

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Yes, Justin Cousoule stands a very good chance of beating John Boehner and here are a few reasons why:

• The people in John’s district know that he can’t be working that hard at representing them because in 2009 he was on the golf course 119 days out of the 365–just shy of 1/3 of the entire year. That’s more vacation time than most Americans get in 8 years–those of us who are still lucky enough to have a job.
  
• The people in John’s district know that John is not much of a family man because he didn’t even know for sure if two of his brothers were still unemployed. [Yet that didn't stop Boehner from trying to use it as a sympathy ploy.]   Like he couldn’t pick up the telephone?  How about that a representative who doesn’t even care about the employment status if his brothers–what makes you think he gives a hoot about yours? Regarding John Boehner’s empathy for the unemployed.
• The people in John’s district know that he is a liar because they caught him in one in the fall of 2009.  Like all the other Republicans, John came back to his district telling his constituents lies about the health care insurance bill. On October 1, House Minority Leader John Boehner said in a press availability, “I’m still trying to find the first American to talk to who’s in favor of the public option, other than a member of Congress or the administration… I’ve not talked to one, and I get to a lot of places and I’ve not had anyone come up to me — I know I’m inviting it — and lobby for the public option.”

  Well, some of Mr. Boehner’s constituents decided to take him up on his offer and rally outside his district office in West Chester, Ohio, delivering over 1,800 signatures of people in his district who support a public option. VIDEO

• FOR FURTHER ANALYSIS:  Yes, Mr. Boehner is in a Red District in Ohio and yes he won his primary this spring with 85% of the Republican vote.  BUT:  1) Primaries in Ohio are closed primaries meaning that only Republicans could vote for him and his two challengers garnered 15% of the vote.  2) First of all that Boehner would have not one but two challengers is indicative that folks are not very happy with him.  Neither opponent did much more than announce their candidacy for the primary. This means that at least 15% of the Republicans in John Boehner’s district want someone other than him.

Here are the ones I’m watching:

1. ARIZONA–Will John McCain, the maverick who claims now that he is no maverick, win against his Republican opponent?  Sen. McCain has become the clear front-runner in Tuesday’s GOP Senate primary in Arizona after a summer in which he was often tagged as a vulnerable incumbent.  I’m betting that he will squeak by.

2. FLORIDA AND ALAN GRAYSON’S COMPETITION- Which one of the insane conservatives who have been in Republican shark feeding frenzy against Alan Grayson win?   I’m guessing it will be the Dan Webster, the man who would impose his no divorce marriage notion on the citizens of Florida if he had a chance.  The reason?  First of all because he has the blessing of Jeb Bush.  Second of all, he is the most sane [not saying much] of all the other anarchist nuts who are running.

3. FLORIDA AND KENDRICK MEEK - another Florida race.  Meek is facing multibillionaire Jeff Greene.  Green claims to be a Democrat, although I have my serious doubts.  He is the guy whose multimillion dollar yacht damaged coral reefs near Belize and who refuses to pay the fine. I guess the people of Belize don’t have the same standards that we in the USA do–the rich get a free ride.

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) issued a harsh reprimand of detractors of the Park51 project last week, calling the outspoken and commonplace opposition of the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero “all about hate and Islamaphobia.”

By expressing his disapproval of what he characterizes as “grandstanding politicians” picking and choosing when and where to abide by the guarantees of the 1st Amendment, Ron Paul has driven a clear divide between what he and his son, Republican Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul, see as the appropriate action to take at the vacant property in an emotionally-charged section of New York City.

Hats off to you Ron and a Pie in the face for your son!

MEET PATRICIA SULLIVAN WHO IS QUOTED  AS SAYING THAT  “Sarah Palin is my model.”

Well I guess that means she is a member of Palin and Bachmann’s club of “hot” Republican woman. [For more on that idiocy, click here:  If you thought that Republicans could not possibly get cheesier and more Jerry Springer. . .Well they just did!]

It’s a good thing that Ms. Sullivan has warned the voters of Florida’s 8th District that Sarah Palin is her role model because they know now what they can expect:

• a candidate who will leave office before she has even served half of her first term as their public servant and why?  Because she will realize that she can make more money on the Side-Show Bob circus sponsored by Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, Dick Armey and the Koch Brothers.