Blue America Saturday — chat with Marcy Winograd
by digby
Howie’s hosting Blue America endorsee Marcy Winograd today over at Crooks and Liars at 11am pdt 2pm edt.
Howie Klein writes:
Last week Marcy asked Jane Harman, the Blue Dog who currently holds the seat, to join her in calling on businesses and residents of the 36th District to boycott Arizona convention facilities and hotels in an effort to reverse anti-immigrant legislation. Harman ignored her and Marcy pressed on on her own.
“If Arizona is allowed to enact laws that promote racial profiling, other states may pass discriminatory laws, as well. That would be a travesty of justice, not only for immigrants summarily stopped and searched for citizenship papers, but for all of us who value civil rights and equality under the law… Rather than passing discriminatory state laws that scapegoat immigrants, we should support federal legislation for comprehensive immigration reform.”
That video up top is the one minute version of what will be a 30 second spot Blue America plans to run. When you donate to the Blue America PAC it will help us get it on television. If you donate to the Winograd campaign, it will help them run their grassroots-oriented campaign, like the phone-banking Marcy talks about below. You can do either– or both– at the Blue America ’10 page.
If you have more time than money to spare, the campaign could use that too. Winograd is asking for help with phone banking to get the people in her district to start voting on Monday by mail. As Howie notes:
More and more frequently, elections are being won and lost based on absentee and early voting. In CA-36 approximately a third of the voters will vote by mail. And among older voters that number skyrockets to close to 40%.
Watch the following for instructions on how you can help in these crucial days leading up to the primary:
And be sure to join the gang over at C&L at 11 to chat with Marcy online.
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