Gary Peters Exposes The Double Standard Working Families Face Compared To The Masters Of The Universe

“ ‘Just say no’ is the right advice to give your teenagers about drugs; it is not an acceptable response to what our economic policies propose by the other party."

-Barack Obama, commenting on the Republican obstructionist tactics that basically are trying to push America off a cliff to destroy just to discredit his presidency.

In November, Blue America donors helped replace hapless Republican rubber stamp Joe Knollenberg with a former Michigan state senator who we identified not just as a solid progressive voter-- but as a progressive leader. In his introduction at the House Financial Services Committee meeting, Gary showed what a leader does. Amid a gaggle of finger-pointing partisan clowns, Gary made powerful and important points that went right to the heart of what a congressional hearing is meant to be. Today all Blue America donors should be very proud-- along with MI-09 voters-- that it was Gary Peters sitting there and not a shill like Knollenberg. Gary:

“In my Congressional district in Michigan, there are thousands of UAW employees who have employment contracts, and they’ve been told they need to renegotiate those contracts and make concessions to justify taxpayer investments. There are thousands of white collar employees with employment contracts who have forgone promised bonuses and benefits and have taken pay cuts in order to save the companies they work for. People are sick of this double standard where working class and middle class workers are treated differently than the financial industry executives.”