Subject: Conservatives Buying Votes
From: Denise Cardinal <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 14:00:33 -0500 (CDT)

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Below are a few great examples of how we are preventing conservatives
from buying our votes. This includes keeping media sources unbiased
and sending a message to billionaires about the power of grassroots
support. These are just 2 of our 21 states doing what we do every day
- make progress happen, and happen NOW.

As always, let me know what you think, or even better, contribute to
us here.

http://progressnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=9sT3V2v0uktk0hRv2FtvNw

Best,

Denise Cardinal
Executive Director
ProgressNow
ProgressNow Education

Courage Campaign Rallies to Save the Los Angeles Times

The Koch Brothers, the right wing ideologues who pledged to spend $400
million in the last election cycle, are attempting to buy Tribune
Company newspapers across the country. These include The Baltimore
Sun, the Chicago Tribune and the Hartford Courant.  The plum is
the Los Angeles Times, the nations fourth largest paper. The Koch
brothers have never before owned media assets, so we can only conclude
that they seek these newspapers as means by which to further their
political ends, in this case by rewriting news to fit their radical
agenda.

http://progressnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=1SUFg6FC5LTw3lFGVrMBKA

http://progressnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=qmYfZrVSD-XZeg7n2mnNyQ

http://progressnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=iA0k4CwN-v619hqTjTQWHg

The Courage Campaign began work on this issue in March, spearheading a
national coalition that includes SEIU, Common Cause, Greenpeace, and
the AFL-CIO, among many others, to help ensure that Californians and
others across the nation continue to benefit from unbiased journalism.
Courage ran ads in the online editions of the New York Times and LA
Times and circulated a petition calling on Peter Liguori, President of
the Tribune Company, not to sell the LA Times and other Tribune papers
to the Koch Brothers. The third rally in as many weeks occurred at the
LA Times headquarters in parallel with rallies in every city with a
Tribune paper this past Wednesday May 29th at which over 500,000
signed petitions were delivered to LA Times management.

http://progressnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=zRopyjFMgjOolrQhUZLxGQ
http://progressnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=X8U4QyUAlD_TgZuqdzYL9w

http://progressnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=rXU3cDF28bh30lxJKRC28A

http://progressnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=tMw7v4L2Q1I7CO6RZwEHGw
http://progressnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=Zdkmk4AytO_hg-loL7HNag

Better Georgia Stands Up to Billionaire Sheldon Adelson

It seems that billionaire Sheldon Adelson, Vegas hotel and gambling
magnate, is attempting to buy the 2014 Georgia Senate election.
Reports show that Adelson is transferring money ($40,000 already!) to
organizations in Georgia that were linked to conservative campaigns in
2012. By making these transfers, Adelson is putting in place the
structure for spending millions in independent expenditures in the
2014 election.

http://progressnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=70yignLDGcZ6CZ8T_2R3YQ

Better Georgia, however, is not going to let a billionaire buy the
election though. Big out-of-state corporations don't fund Better
Georgia, instead they gather support in the form of small
contributions from thousands of Georgians across the state.  By
contributing $20.14 today, you can help ensure that progressives have
what we need to fight back against Adelson.
http://progressnow.pnstate.org/site/R?i=vTeRXGjbQ_vT9CGa2bhQgw

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