Rush Holt for Senate!

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Rush Holt in the New Jersey Democratic Primary (special election) August 13, 2013.

We probably should have more progressives in the US Senate. Probably would be a good idea. I like Rush Holt.


Rush Holt is great on the issues.

Here's a chance to put a real Democrat and a great guy in the US Senate. And a chance to flex some progressive muscles in the Democratic Party. There's a Donate button on his website. Don't let the DINO's walk to this nomination without a contest.

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1. Rep. Holt to Introduce Bill to Repeal Patriot Act & 2008 FISA Act

While the rest of the country was celebrating our independence, House Dem. Rush Holt (NJ-12) was doing something about it — drafting legislation to repeal both the Patriot Act of 2001 and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

If you click, be sure to check the legislative history. This was Obama’s first major betrayal of an important campaign promise, and he was just a candidate at the time — a foretaste of many betrayals to come.

Rush Holt, writing in the Asbury Park Press in his native New Jersey, says this (my emphasis and some paragraphing):

Once again, our nation is grappling with a false choice being presented to us by the media and intelligence officials: In order to be safe, we must be willing — in President Barack Obama’s words — to accept “modest encroachments” on our civil liberties. These claims are being advanced in the wake of the most sensational revelations about intrusive, and potentially illegal, government surveillance activities at home since the Watergate era. …

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http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/17633-rep-holt-to-introduce-bill-to-repeal-patriot-act-2008-fisa-act