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| Dear Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer, Majority Whip Clyburn, Democratic Caucus Chair
Larsen, Assistant to the Speaker Van Hollen and Chairman Miller:
The undersigned organizations write to express our strong support for the Local Jobs for
America Act (HR 4812), which would create a million public and private jobs in local
communities. We applaud Congressman Miller for the introduction of this critical legislation. |
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| Progressive Future joined over 180 progressive and public interest groups in signing on to Health Care For America Now's No Amendments letter, asking every member of the U.S. Senate to vote no on amendments to the recent historic health care bill. |
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| Washington, DC/Denver, CO: For more than sixty years federal law has banned corporations from spending their treasury funds directly on elections. With today’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the Roberts Court turned back the clock. Campaign reform advocates say this sets the stage for a deluge of corporate money in politics, and threatens to upend the role of citizens as the central force in our democracy. |
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| President Obama’s 100th day in office is a time for the progressive community to celebrate shared success, but turn quickly to activate citizens on critical issues, according to Progressive Future. |
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| With the U.S. House of Representatives scheduled to vote Wednesday on President Barack Obama’s ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan,’ the Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery said the time has come for U.S. Reps. Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11), Leonard Lance (NJ-7), Frank LoBiondo (NJ-2) and Chris Smith (NJ-2) take and a stand on the Obama plan that will create or save three to four million jobs, strengthen our middle class, and improve the economy in the near and long term by making sound investments in state fiscal relief, health care, energy efficiency, transportation and schools. |
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| With just days left before the election, Progressive Future launched on national news outlets an ad focused on the recent economic challenges facing middle America. The ad weds images of ordinary Americans struggling through troubled times to singer Paul Simon's empathetic lyrics of "American Tune": "I don't know a soul who's not been battered/I don't have a friend who feels at ease/I don't know a dream that's not been shattered/or driven to its knees." The ad concludes with an image of Senator McCain, his arm draped around President Bush, as viewers hear the lyrics, "Still, when I think of the road we're traveling on/I can’t help it/I wonder what’s gone wrong." |
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| Washington, DC – Following the 28th anniversary of the historic debate performance that many believe won Ronald Reagan the 1980 election, a new advertisement evokes Reagan’s famous words:
“Are you better off than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was? If you don’t think that this course that we’ve been on for the last four years is what you would like to see us follow for the next four, then I could suggest another choice that you have.”
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| Denver, CO – A new national survey of the 153 initiatives on statewide ballots this fall touted seven as moving America forward “toward fulfilling the promise of democratic progress” and slammed 11 as examples of regressing “at our peril.” |
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| Progressive Future Program Director Adam Lioz said of the expanding bailout, “With the bailout broadening across many sectors of our economy, government must act carefully to protect the interests of everyday Americans, not just corporate bosses." |
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| Washington, D.C. – Progressive Future co-released today a guide to aid young voters nationwide in ballot-measure voting on Tuesday, November 4. The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center authored the report; the groups Campus Progress and Choice USA joined Progressive Future in releasing the guide. |
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| Denver, CO – Progressive Future announced it has distributed more than 15,000 pieces of health care campaign literature today in neighborhoods across the country, urging individuals to participate in National Health Care Day of Action, a joint project with Health Care for America Now (HCAN) held nationwide today. |
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| Denver, CO – The New York Times reported today that investment in alternative energy industries has slowed measurably in the past month due to frozen credit markets and tumbling natural gas and oil prices. |
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| Progressive Future is calling on Secretary Coffman to step up and do the right thing. Our elected officials should be working to make voting as easy as possible for everyone, not keep eligible citizens off the rolls. |
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| Progressive Future volunteers dressed as Governor Palin and Senator McCain greeted vice presidential debate attendees with a "taxpayer tab" of $27,000 for expenses such as the impending bailout, fossil fuel subsidies, and the Iraq war. |
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| An average American's tax bill bought only 0.04 seconds of the war in Iraq in 2007, according to Progressive Future's Invest in US Calculator. This same tax tab could have funded 25 days of health coverage for an uninsured American, or powered a home with renewable energy for 89 days. |
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| On Wednesday, August 27th, Progressive Future threw a Denver dance party during the Democratic Convention to honor the next generation of progressive activists. |
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