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Emma Berry is endorsing John Lingenfelder, the Democratic Candidate for the

Third US Congressional District of Texas.

First of all I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for signing my petition for ballot. I realize that it takes a lot of faith and a lot of discontent to put your signature and personal information on a sheet of paper that a stranger like me brings around.  Yet over 800 of you did that for me and I’m deeply touched.  Like me you are true Americans who still have at least a little faith in our democratic system and hope that our Democracy can be repaired by those of use who still believe in government.

I’ve done a lot of soul-searching these past few days.  I could go ahead and run as an independent write-in because, thanks to you, this second time around I have enough signatures to qualify.  However, since my name would not appear on ballot beside the Democrat, Republican and Libertarian [Write in would be a selection that would then lead to my name.]  Frankly, this just about assures that I would not be able to win–I am an optimist, but I also understand odds better than when I began in March.

I’ve decided there is too much at stake to “go for it.”  Instead I will support John Lingenfelder to my fullest extent–as an INDEPENDENT, however.  I am NOT joining the Democratic Party.  I remain an Independent who happens to be supporting a Democrat.

In fact, John is not the only Democrat that I support this year.  I support Bill White, David Cozad, Greir Raggio, Rick Koster, Alan Grayson, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Boxer, and Justin Coussoule.

I support the majority of Americans first, not last–those of us who work for a living and who earn less than $166,000 a year.  I support the reality that Social Security is just fine and does not need to be “fixed” by the upper 5%. They have done more than enough fixing which is why we are in the mess we are in today.   I support immediate job creation. I support reallocation of the $19 billion that we currently fork over in farm subsidies to the rich and to Wall Street Agribusinesses.  That money could be used for job creation in the USA and beginning the tedious task of rebuilding our manufacturing base.  As long as there  are human beings we will need goods that were made by other human beings.  Globalization and the shipping of millions of manufacturing jobs overseas so the rich could benefit from cheap/slave labor is an evil that was perpetuated on this nation that needs correction.  The globalization scheme of the rich, by the rich and for the rich has destabilized our economy.

I believe that John Lingenfelder is the man who will work to correct these injustices.  I KNOW that Sam Johnson won’t.  Sam Johnson is part of the problem–not part of the solution.

I URGE, NO, I BEG YOU TO CALL JOHN’S OFFICE TOMORROW  972-468-1127. Tell him what you can do for him and then do it.  It will take votes for John to win, but that is not all it will take.  IT WILL TAKE THE SUPPORT OF HUNDREDS OF CITIZENS WHO CARE ENOUGH TO SUPPORT SOMEONE WITH THE COURAGE TO CHANGE WASHINGTON.

IF YOU DON’T STEP UP TO THE PLATE WITH ME, THEN SAM JOHNSON WILL WIN AND WE WILL ALL LOSE.  I’m counting on you to do more than vote this year.  Bring your friends with  you and tell John that I sent you.

If you live in another state, send money:  Write to info@lingenfelderforcongress.com.

It’s not quite enough to say that one is an Independent when defining one’s political position.  The term “Independent” is generally taken to mean candidate who embraces an extreme right-wing ideology. In walking the Third District for the past two months, and after meeting and engaging in personal conversations with over 1,500 of my constituents (many of whom invited me into their homes), I can better articulate my political position.

In the wide spectrum of political possibility, I would best be classified as a Populist although not entirely.  I am not a Democrat, a Republican, a liberal and certainly not a Tea Party member.

In my opinion the Tea Party members consist of people who are angry and mostly for the right reasons, but who are being taken advantage of and manipulated  by the very Wall Street crooks who created this mess in the first place.  Of course for their scam to work they can’t manipulate the people directly.  They have their side-show Bobs like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and other opportunists who will do anything for money and attention to represent their evil twisted interpretations of the truth.  The Tea Party  members can be compared to many of the German citizens who participated in Hitler’s brown shirts in the days when he was just beginning.  Many of these people were ordinary German citizens who, like many of the Tea Party people in the USA today, were frustrated with the fact that their economy was falling apart.

Populism as John Hightower described it represents my position best:   a just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. The one big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations.

So you can’t say, let’s get rid of government. You need to be saying let’s take over government. Let’s wrestle our government back from Wall Street and its corporations that are literally sucking the breath out of the people of our nation.

THOSE WHO ARE REALLY TIRED OF BEING A FIRE HYDRANT FOR WALL STREET CROOKS WILL NOT VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS, OR DEMOCRATS, OR LIBERALS OR CORPORATE SPONSORED TEA BAGGERS!  All of these people profit from Wall Street robberies of ordinary Americans.

THEY WILL VOTE INDEPENDENT! THEY WILL VOTE FOR CANDIDATES LIKE EMMA BERRY WHO IS RUNNING AGAINST 20 YEAR REPUBLICAN INCUMBENT SAM JOHNSON FOR US REPRESENTATIVE OF THE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF TEXAS.

Emma Berry is a candidate who still has faith in the Democratic system.  She believes that Democracy is about more than money.  She will not take  a dime from any one–not even her constituents.  She does  not own one penny of Wall Street stock.  She is running her winning campaign for a national office on the budget of $2,000 from her own personal savings account–in part to embarrass career special interest politicians in Washington DC by proving that it can be done.  Americans want winners who are absolutely tied to no other interests than those of the majority of their constituents.

Jim Hightower said it all when he said:  “I‘m saying pretty clearly that I see the central issue in politics to be the rise of corporate power. Overwhelming, overweening corporate power that is running roughshod over the workaday people of the country. They think they’re the top dogs, and we’re a bunch of fire hydrants, you know? Out here in the countryside. And they can do what they want to with us. What’s been missing is what can we do about it? And those people in Iowa, by the way, are not alone. There are people in Minnesota doing that, people in Oregon that I know. People in Texas. All across the country.

From  yesterday’s Huffington Post:  ” . . . With millions of homeowners losing their homes to foreclosure during this recession, megabank JPMorgan Chase plans to argue against the Obama administration’s latest weapon in its fight to stem the problem — principal cuts for struggling borrowers — by citing the sanctity of contracts and the borrower’s “promise to repay.”

In testimony to be delivered Tuesday afternoon, David Lowman, chief executive officer for home lending at the “Too Big To Fail” behemoth, will fight back against the program which calls for lenders and investors to decrease the outstanding debt owed on a home mortgage. While his competitors at Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citigroup plan to dance around the issue — judging from their prepared remarks — Lowman cut right to it: borrowers don’t deserve it. . . ”

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If you are interested in where your 20 year Republican incumbent Representative Sam Johnson stands on this issue, look no further than one of his opponents for office this fall, Emma Berry.  She is disgusted with Johnson’s lack of willingness to support home owners while protecting the rich.  Johnson needs some basic lessons in democracy and representation of the majority–not special interest groups and members of his family.

MORE OF SAM JOHNSON’S HYPOCRISY.  HE IS NOT FOR HOMEOWNERS LIKE MANY REPUBLICANS HE REPRESENTS THE RICH AND CALLS IT “BEING CONSERVATIVE”.  CONSERVATIVE ALL RIGHT–CONSERVING THE MONEY FOR THE RICH.

“I don’t have to worry. As long as Sam Johnson is in office, my yacht and vacation homes are protected.

Sam Johnson thinks that people who live on Main Street don’t deserve to have their homes saved.

It would seem so, he voted against H.R. 1106 “Helping Families Save their Homes Act.” This bill authorizes bankruptcy courts to modify the terms of mortgages made on homeowners’ primary residences, a practice which is barred by current law.  However the current Bankruptcy law permits such restructuring for vacation home and yachts.

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VOTE FOR EMMA BERRY

I WILL REPRESENT HOME OWNERS

I will also represent those who own yachts and vacation homes, but not to the exclusion of the majority!

While vacation homes and yachts may be important to the few who own them, one’s homestead is central to any American’s security—far more than a yacht or a vacation home.

Emma Berry is the real thing. If you live in the Third District, the chances are good that you will meet me in person sometime in between now and November as I intend to spend no less than four hours every day, 7 days a week, knocking on doors.  I have no staff, nor do I intend hire one.  I have no campaign funds other than my own contributions which I estimate to be under $1,500 for my entire campaign.  All I have are my voice, my web site, my computer, my personal printer, and my determination to meet as many of my potential constituents as possible over the next few months.  I consider myself as a political Johnny Appleseed.

I am an Independent Candidate for US Representative Third US Congressional District of Texas – a REAL grassroots candidate who is taking no money from anyone to fund my campaign, who is walking my district and meeting one voter at a time. No one is paying me $100,000 to make a fake grassroots speech and if they did, the speech would not be fake and I would give all the money to charity.

How can you recognize a real Grass Roots candidate?

• Unlike Sarah Palin, real grassroots people don’t charge $100,00 for speeches.
• Unlike the Collin County Commissioners, Sam Johnson, and Rick Perry, real grassroots people don’t disdain taxpayer supported health care while they themselves are recipients of it.
• Real grassroots people are for justice and equality for the majority–not just the upper 5%.
• Real grassroots people take the time to learn the facts and all sides to an issue. They don’t fall for fakes and political tricksters like the Collin County Commissioners with their self-serving political posturing over health care while they themselves are recipients and who approve of multibillion dollar no-bid contracts for Sam Johnson’s son; Rick Perry with his Wall Street corporate privatization giveaways of taxpayer money;  Sam Johnson who has an overall grade of F from Middle Class Org.;  Sarah Palin who didn’t even have the integrity to serve out her commitment as governor for the people of Alaska; Michele Bachmann who has taken over $250,000 in farm subsidies and decries “big government”;  Glenn Beck who is such a demented liar that he even contradicts himself; and finally, real grassroots people know and understand the motives of the multibillionaire puppet masters like Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers who fund fake grass movements such as “Americans for Prosperity”
• In spite of it all, real grassroots people have faith that the democratic process can work.  We still believe that it is not always the candidate with the largest campaign chest who wins.
• Real grassroots people are those who are willing to walk the walk and fight back with the only silver bullet we each have–our voices and our vote, not the lead bullet in our six-shooters.

KEEP YOUR SELF-SERVING FAUX  “FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE” PAWS  OFF MY PURSE SAM JOHNSON!
If Sam Johnson, U.S. Representative of the Third Congressional District, and his other Republican pals in Congress are “fiscally responsible” as they pretend, it’s only because they no longer have their hands on the purse strings of our nation.  If voters are smart, they will keep it that way in November.  We can’t afford any more Republican leadership.

Unlike a candidate from either the Democratic or the Republican Party, I am not beholding to the special interests platforms of EITHER party.  If elected, I have only the people from my district to thank—not the leadership of either party and no special interests groups either. I would not be susceptible to the bullies from either corner—John Boehner or Rahm Emanuel.

The current U.S. Representative for your district—Sam Johnson—is a career politician who has been in office for 20 years.  Johnson is an 80 year old Republican opportunist who has lived off the government most of his entire life.  When he first ran for U.S. Representative back in 1991, he came to the area and rented an apartment in order to say that he was from the district.  For the past 20 years he has lived most of his life at an address in Washington DC.   Not only has Sam Johnson not lived on Main Street for 20 years, he NEVER lived as an ordinary citizen on the Main Street of the Third District that he purports to represent. I wonder if he even realizes the third district encompasses more than Collin County.

SPEAKING OF “PARTY LOYALTY” AND WHAT IT DOES NOT DO FOR ORDINARY AMERICANS:
Sam is among those Republicans who have suddenly turned “fiscal conservative” now that the Democrats are in office.  You need to know that Sam Johnson did nothing for 8 long years but contribute to the huge deficit we face as a nation today. During the 8 years of the Bush Administration, Johnson did nothing but rubber-stamp every single one of George Bush’s requests for unfunded legislation.

SAM JOHNSON HELPED TO MAKE OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS HAPPEN  and you want to vote for him?  Why? Because you are a Republican?  Unless you are a member of the upper 5% multimillionaire club, that is a very dumb reason.  It’s time to stop pretending that you belong to their club.  They laugh at you behind their closed doors, even those of you are still doing OK financially and mistakenly think that you are part of their club—but especially those of you who are their Tea Party pawns.

Our net worth as a nation during the last four years of the George Bush Administration declined by $15.5 trillion dollars.  In the last 18 months alone of his administration we lost $12.5 trillion dollars of our net worth. That is $40,000 for every man woman and child in our nation. (From a March 2009 report in the US News and World Report).  Don’t let Sam Johnson or any Republican who voted for George Bush tell you that they are fiscally conservative.  They don’t’ know the meaning of the word.  But that wasn’t enough for Bush and his pals.  As he was packing his carpet bags in the fall of 2008, he sent his Goldman Sachs shill, Hank Paulson, to pull the largest heist ever on the American people with the too big to fail caper. DON’T EVEN START TO TELL ME THAT SAM JOHNSON OR THE REPUBLICANS CURRENTLY IN OFFICE ARE “FISCALLY” CONSERVATIVE.  That bunch has done more to ruin the economy of our nation than any other congressional group in our nation’s history.

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THE THIRD DISTRICT HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ELECT SOMEONE WHO WILL WORK TO CLEAN UP THE MESS—NOT STAND IN THE WAY AS AN OBSTRUCTIONIST TO REPAIRING OUR DEMOCRACY.

FORGET ABOUT PARTY LOYALTY AND START THINKING ABOUR LOYALTY TO YOURSELF AND TO YOUR FAMILY.

VOTE FOR EMMA BERRY

http://emmaberry.org

And no, these solutions do not include continuing to put band-aids on the problems that we face as a nation.

Our leaders, both Republican and Democrat incumbents, have for years addressed symptoms and not the root causes for our problems and that is why we are where we are today–on the brink of economic disaster.  What separates my platform and life experience as a candidate for the U.S House from most of the incumbents in Congress includes the following:  1) I have no ties whatsoever to Wall Street so you can rest assured that I will be representing the majority of ordinary Americans first and Wall Street second  2) I am trained in one of the world’s most effective problem-solving methodologies–TRIZ.  3) I’ve been a self-employed writer all my life so I know what it means to be a very small business owner.  As a woman in business, I know only too well from first-hand experience job discrimination based on gender–although I”m happy to say that conditions in this area have greatly improved over the years.

In setting up this site I plan to have sections that will give my constituents the opportunity to offer their solutions to the serious issues that are facing our nation such as health care, immigration, the war in the Middle East, the crumbling infrastructure of our nation and more. We do have many challenges facing our nation today and anyone who thinks that Congress has been doing a good job for the past 20 years has simply not been paying attention.

In getting out and about in my district (in which I have lived for the past five years), I will be seeking out those 144 Texans in the Third US Congressional District who are slated to unnecessarily die in 2010 because they don’t have health insurance.  I would like to know who you are, if in fact, you do exist, and more importantly, what I might be able to do to assist you in getting the help you need.  No one in the USA should be dying from lack of health care insurance–especially in the Third US Congressional District of Texas which is the second richest district in the state of  Texas.

I look forward to meeting you.  On February 13 I will be at the Women League of Voters Forum at noon in Plano Texas.