Rare and beautiful bird very near extinction.

[Dover]

Greedy repugs have been encroaching on progressive habitat in Central Texas, devouring precious resources for their own gain, turning a blind eye to the needs and desires of the people they are meant to represent, and putting their border fences this time right through the heart of the state, disenfranchising those who need representation the most.
Please help to restore Lloyd Doggett's district through your support and contributions.
We cannot afford to let this rare bird disappear or go unrewarded for so many years
of loyal & compassionate representation of both people and planet. He is like the canary in the
coalmine...his extinction represents our own. May he instead rise like a Phoenix from the ashes.

Doggett is currently fighting for his life, to re-establish himself after the reshuffling of the districts by the repugs. He is the real deal with a long track record of taking his position as a true representative of the people and the planet to heart. If you've lost faith in your own representatives, consider supporting Lloyd instead. I promise you it will be money WELL spent.


A note from Lloyd:




Dear Friends,

Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh took offense to some comments I recently made regarding the Tea Party and its hijacking of the debt ceiling negotiations in order to promote hazardous ideas that would threaten America’s most financially-vulnerable citizens.

Well, if Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like my position, I must be doing something right.

Conservative talking heads like Rush Limbaugh and the politicians they support—like our very own Governor Rick Perry, who once referred to me as “vicious” for my attempts to ensure federal education dollars actually made their way to our vital neighborhood schools — have been calling for my head for years. I need your help to fight the Limbaugh-Perry Republicans who want to take my voice and your voice out of Congress. Please consider donating $5, $10 or $25 to my campaign and stand up to Tea Party Republicans.


They don’t appreciate my efforts to support a strong progressive agenda that protects and empowers financially struggling Texas families, historically disenfranchised minority groups and at-risk youth. They don’t like my views that the environmental landscape of Texas and the United States is often more valuable left untouched than stripped and harvested by the machinery of Big Oil and the mining industry. They certainly don’t care for my stance that multinational corporations who store their profits in tax havens and folks in the top tax brackets have moral and economic obligations to support and protect working families.

So if Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like me, if Governor Perry doesn’t like me, I’ll take that as a compliment.

Y’all probably know that, yet again Governor Perry’s minions in the Texas legislature are after my Congressional seat. The GOP’s redistricting plan is a craven effort to further disenfranchise minority voters in Texas. It disrespects two of Texas’ most important cities, San Antonio and Austin, by lumping them together in one bewilderingly skinny U.S. Congressional district. The redistricting map that Republicans shoved through the Texas House and Senate and Gov. Rick Perry signed is a truly political map. Better put, it is a dirty political map.

With your support, I will continue to fight for hard working Texas families and represent progressive values in the U.S. Congress. Please consider supporting me with a small donation of $5 or $10 or even $25. No denomination is too small (or great). I am humbled by and grateful for your support.

Since my early days as a young Texas State Senator, I have made my life’s passion my life’s work. It is an incredible privilege to serve Texans like yourself at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Day in, day out, I will continue to fight for policies that take care of our elderly, veterans and children. I will continue to work tirelessly to see that children are given access to early education programs and institutions of higher education.

I can’t do this without your support, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Take two minutes and make a contribution today.

Never give up. Never give in.

Sincerely,
Lloyd

http://doggett.house.gov /

About Lloyd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alton_Doggett_II

Contribute: https://www.votedoggett.com/contribute /

[Snoutport]

1. I like your style so I'll kick this up to the top

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. In some cultures it is considered inappropriate to surpass the greed limit, here however

it seems to be a virtue. Pity that.

[Marnie]

3. This is at least the third time the nazi have redistricted Lloyd.

I lived in Austin for 20 years. Doggett is one of only two politicians that I have wanted to vote for.

He is worth everybody's effort to keep in office.

[Dover]

4. amen....n/t