To my dKos friends and supporters---
We won the primary with 70% of the vote! We are making the naysayer "experts" eat their words. And there is more on the menu for them with the next election. Bon appetit!
A feisty, independent-minded, fiscally conservative Democrat is not any run-of-the-mill candidate. I cannot be bought and am a fighter who will give our district the only chance it has to fully recover from the aftermath of Katrina. Scalise is a right-wing extremist Republican who is masquerading as a conservative and funded by big money fat cats. He has little chance of getting legislation passed in a Democratically-controlled House. (Former FEMA director Michael Brown has more chance of being elected LA governor!)
It is not fiscal conservatism to support making permanent Bush's tax cuts for the upper 1%. It is not fiscal conservatism to support the War in Iraq and claim we must stay for as long as it takes even if 100 years. It is not fiscal conservatism to be in obedient lockstep with the administration which has gotten us into bone-crunching debt. This kind of runaway spending is what my Republican-puppet opponents have to offer.
These are some of the issues discussed in a local interview the other day. (Video at link)
I, on the other hand, will defy anyone, including my own party, to fight for the needs of the people in Louisiana's District 1. Funds must be prioritized to put people first again. We must not spend what we do not have and charge the bill to our grandchildren. This is exactly what we are doing by making permanent the Bush tax cuts to the upper 1% and by continuing the War in Iraq. Instead we can use that money to help our senior citizens with crushing prescription costs. We can use that money for better engineered levees. We can use that money to develop alternative, renewable fuels to supplement our oil supply.
This is why my endorsements include the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO , as well as The Ponchatoula Times:
Dr. Gilda Reed for Congress
Passing by the entreaties of career politicians to reward them with high office for lackluster performances in their previous posts, The Ponchatoula Times instead turns to endorse a proven leader in Southeastern Louisiana.
Dr. Gilda Reed Ph.D. is a courageous newcomer to electoral politics who is not afraid to stand up to the fat cats and corporate pirates who have brought our country and our economy to its knees.
Despite her own major losses to Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Reed stayed at her post at the University of New Orleans, counseling students made homeless by the flood and recording her lectures for broadcast on the Internet.
"I am for workers, veterans, senior citizens, and small business. I want government out o our bedrooms, out of our bank accounts, out of our emails," she said in a recent page one interview with The Times.
The Ponchatoula Times endorses Dr. Reed in her quest to represent the citizens of the Louisiana 1st Congressional District in Washington.
Thank You ,
Bryan McMahon
The Ponchatoula Times
A supporter asked me today what the legal maximum donation is. It is $2300 per individual (not family) for each election—primary and special election. So the slate is wiped clean and for the next few weeks the tally can build again for the special election.
Time is of the essence! I need as much as anyone can muster. The May election may turn out to be in April if Burns can cut a deal to withdraw like Scalise did against Vitter and against Jindal.
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Look out, Washington! Here we come!
Always,
Gilda
PS—That majestic eagle that sat in the tree next to my house and stared at me with sunlight hitting its pristine white head is gone. He visited on the day before the primary election for the first time ever in the 40 years we have lived here! I need my feathered friend to return. But this next humdinger of an election might need a few of his buddies, too.