Norman Solomon Is Still Working Hard To Help Elect Progressives To Congress

This week Norman sent an e-mail to his supporters asking them to contribute to two steadfast, independent-minded progressive candidates who the DCCC is-- at best-- ignoring, Rob Zerban and Lee Rogers, the challengers, local Democrats have nominated to take on, respectively, Paul Ryan and Buck McKeon. Each is a powerful committee chairmen who does far more damage than any Republican the DCCC is spending tens of millions of dollars to defeat. But Steve "Reptilian" Israel-- unlike his GOP counterpart, Pete Sessions at the NRCC-- doesn't believe in challenging GOP leaders or committee chairs. He isn't going after a single one-- despite the fact that both Ryan and McKeon are very vulnerable and each is in a district Obama won in 2008 and is likely to win again in 2010. This was Norman's original letter:

It’s hard to think of two more odious members of Congress than safety-net slasher Paul Ryan and pork-barrel militarist Buck McKeon.

I’m urging supporters of my campaign to help defeat two of the worst Republicans in the House.

You can click here to help defeat Ryan.

Or click here to help beat McKeon.

In his Wisconsin home district this fall, Ryan’s name will appear on the ballot twice. Ryan doesn't seem very confident about prospects for the Romney-Ryan ticket; he's anxious to hold onto his congressional seat.

You can help progressive Democrat Rob Zerban defeat Paul Ryan so he can lose twice in the same election!

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party national leadership continues to give a pass to Buck McKeon-- the GOP’s chair of the House Armed Services Committee who keeps exercising huge power to enrich multibillion-dollar military contractors.

McKeon is one of the Pentagon’s most generous (with our tax money) friends on Capitol Hill. In the LA area, the campaign by progressive Democrat Lee Rogers to unseat McKeon is uphill-- and deserves our support.

Rob and Lee will appreciate whatever you can do to help them rid Congress of firebrands for top-down class war and perpetual war.

So, if you want to add Paul Ryan to the ranks of the unemployed, click here.

And if you want to do the same for Buck McKeon, click here.

This fall, I’m glad to endorse candidates in congressional races with uncertain outcomes-- and with the potential to change Congress and our country for the better!

Yesterday Norman was in Wisconsin-- in fact, in Paul Ryan's district. He sent me this:

Waking up this morning in Janesville-- the Wisconsin city that Paul Ryan calls home-- I thought about people, near and far, whose lives are threatened by the policies that Ryan and the entire Republican Party are pushing with a vengeance.

Lives are on the line. Here in Janesville, for instance, a 45-year-old man named Paul Mines lives in transition housing after being homeless. He knows what's at stake-- and that's why he's so opposed to Paul Ryan's political message.

Mines told a reporter that the attack on the social safety net is "messing with my survival." His health problems include back pain, high blood pressure and a serious heart ailment. Government programs give him access to more than a dozen prescription drugs each day.

Norman, Rob and Lee are all adamantly opposed to the failed Austerity agenda Ryan and his right-wing cronies are pushing. That's why Rob and Lee are among the 16 candidates on our Prosperity Economics ActBlue page. Please consider contributing to both of them, either of them-- or any of the candidates on the page.