Subject: They won't get away with it
From: "Chris Coons" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:40:37 -0400 (EDT)

<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" -->R.Hunter,

Earlier this month, the Senate had a chance to reauthorize an innovative, cost-effective program with a long and proven track record of creating jobs and growing businesses. In years prior, Republicans heartily supported it. This year, they blocked it.

Then after weeks of important top-level negotiations over how to curb our staggering national debt, last week House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl walked away from the table.

I've only been in the Senate for seven months, but I've seen this frustrating pattern play out over and over again: GOP obstructionism that is grinding the Senate to an unproductive and dangerous halt.

Bipartisanship is actually very important to me, but not more so than restoring our economy and getting Americans back to work.

Holding crucial legislation hostage for political gain -- time and time again -- is absolutely wrong, and as long as I'm in the Senate, you can count on me to do everything I can to reject this hypocrisy and get our economy back on track.

To keep fighting for the interests of hard-working Delawareans in the face of Republican obstruction, I need your support -- now more than ever.

Contribute $5 now to my re-election fund before June 30th -- so I can keep fighting for Delaware in the U.S. Senate!

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Creating jobs, responsibly tackling the budget crisis, improving education, drawing down our troops and refocusing our strategy in Afghanistan -- these are our priorities as Democrats.

Unfortunately, our opponents don't share those priorities. Rather than addressing our challenges together in the spirit of common values and shared sacrifice, Republicans in Congress have decided to play partisan politics.

That's why they block job creation legislation while refusing to let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire. That's why they want to keep giving tax breaks to big oil and gas companies rather than investing in the clean energy technologies of tomorrow.

And that's why we can never stop fighting for the values we share.

Contribute $5 now to my re-election fund before the crucial June 30th deadline -- so I can keep fighting for our shared values and priorities in the U.S. Senate.

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June 30th at midnight marks an important deadline for us. After that point, I can no longer accept contributions toward my second quarter Federal Elections Commission report, which political pundits will use to gauge the strength of my re-election prospects.

But a strong fundraising report for the quarter will also have a second, more important advantage:

It will send a clear message to Republicans that their runaway obstructionism and radical agenda is wrong for America, and that we won't let them get away with it.

Contribute $5 now to my re-election fund before the crucial June 30th deadline -- and tell the GOP that we won't let them get away with their radical right-wing agenda.

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I look forward to continuing to serve as a pragmatic progressive voice in Washington for years to come.

Thank you for your support,

Chris Coons
U.S. Senator

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