Dennis Kucinich, Why All Americans Should Care What Happens in North Carolina

[G_j]

Dear Friend,

In this important year of mid-term elections, I want you to know how much we appreciate your support for our progressive movement.

Right now, we need to work together to help progressive candidates in North Carolina.

The outcome of this crucial election year in North Carolina will determine the course of the progressive movement through the next two election cycles.

There can be no doubt that North Carolina is the most embattled of the battleground states. In 2008, North Carolina gave Barack Obama his narrowest margin of victory. In 2012 North Carolina gave Mitt Romney his narrowest victory margin. North Carolina is the fulcrum of the national political balance of power.

The North Carolina Democratic Party is one of the most progressive in America. It is led by progressive activists working hand-in-hand with tens of thousands of stalwarts in civil rights, women's rights, marriage rights, environmentalists and supporters of animal rights.

In contrast, the North Carolina Republican Party has taken a blowtorch to the budgets for public instruction, higher education and community colleges. National Republicans have slashed more than $3.5 billion in federal unemployment payments to unemployed workers in North Carolina.The Republicans also curtailed medicaid coverage for nearly one half of medicaid patients costing North Carolina hospitals $61-billion over the next decade.

Republicans have legalized voter suppression in North Carolina by passing Voter ID laws. They are even shortening the amount of time middle-class working people will have to cast their ballots in early voting, in order to skew election results toward the GOP.

North Carolina is the key battleground for the future of the progressive movement. In North Carolina, the progressive movement has strong roots from the 1950s and 1960s when Terry Sanford introduced many positive changes in education and launched the war on poverty, programs that became models for the federal government during the presidencies of JFK and LBJ. We must not let this legacy be lost.

Please, help 'Progressive Voters for North Carolina' in their epic struggle.

Thank you for your commitment to our progressive movement.

Sincerely,
Dennis Kucinich

[FarPoint]

1. Dennis is still with Fox Entertainment News...

So....his progressive message has been greatly diminished as a result of his media choice.

[PeaceNikki]

3. And also on the board at the Ron Paul Institute

[G_j]

6. as a North Carolinian under the GOP wrecking ball

let me personally thank you for your support.

[PeaceNikki]

12. you're confusing my lack of support for dk with

My support for you and/or Democrats in general.

Silly.

[armed_and_liberal]

5. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer

I haven't ever watched Fox News so I don't know what Kucinich does for them. But if he is the only progressive voice on Fox I guess that is the best we can hope for.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

11. So is a DUer.

Funny how the vocal minority doesn't consider his "progressive message" to be diminished.

As someone also living under the GOP wrecking ball G-j refers to above, I'll take all the help I can get. If DUers could get past their Greenwald/Snowden obsession, they just *might* understand how fucking bad it is in this state. Even though Dems outvoted Rs in 2010 and 2012, so don't anyone pull the "crybaby leftists sat out" crap. It doesn't fly.

[No Vested Interest]

2. Thank you, Dennis Kucinich, for stepping up to aid

Progressive voting in North Carolina.
More help needed.

[MineralMan]

4. Kucinich is right. North Carolina is one of the states

that is teetering on the edge of making a change toward progressive election results. It needs all the help it can get, from people willing to help with GOTV efforts in elections that can result in a Democratic win in November to campaign contributions placed where they can do the most good. In its own way, North Carolina reflects a change that is building nationwide. Republicans are engaged in a last-ditch effort to try to hold onto their control of the House and state legislatures. 2014 will be a very important election. If we can flip state and federal legislative elections to the Democrats, the signal will be sent clearly that the GOP's time is over.

It will also enable President Obama to get and sign good legislation in many areas that affect not only people in North Carolina, but nationwide. 2014 is a clear call to put an end to the commonly-held belief that Democrats don't turn out in mid-term elections. Lets show the Republicans that that's old thinking by turning out a record number of Democrats in North Carolina and everywhere in the USA. Let's take back control from the Republicans and begin the new progressive movement the right way.

GOTV 2014 and Beyond!

[G_j]

9. Moral Monday returning this Moday in Raleigh

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http://www.mountainmoralmonday.org/

[WorseBeforeBetter]

14. Date saved! (n/t)

[KoKo]

7. Don't know if you know this but Kucinich won a county in NC in 2004 election.

I went to see him at a rally and he was a very impressive speaker. Lots of Kucinich activists at the time were working with Howard Dean supporters to get involved with a Progressive NC Movement.

That's why it's so sad to see the McCrory takeover. We had so much promise.

Thanks for posting this.

[G_j]

10. proud to say

that was Buncombe County, and one of those votes was mine. That was a hopeful time, but Moral Mondays and the grass roots movement behind it, is bringing back hope. The next election is literally a life and death affair.

[KoKo]

13. Nice...couldn't remember the county...so thanks for this...

agree....life and death. I'm hopeful. It can't get much worse.

[KoKo]

8. Dupe