I'm one of the hard-working thousands who helped turn North Carolina blue in November. Many of us are furious that Sen. Kay Hagan, whom we helped elect as part of the coordinated campaign, has changed her flag and joined the ConservaDems.
We want her to know that as hard as we worked to get her into office, we'll work even harder to get her out if she stands in the way of the changes we need to get this country on the right track.
Several of us from the Cary/Apex area of North Carolina are setting up phone banks to get this message to Sen. Hagan:
Hello. My name is [MsSpentyouth], and I was a change-crew volunteer with the Obama campaign in 2008. I'm calling to ask Senator Hagan to support President Obama's efforts to bring this country out of economic turmoil and to change the policies and politics that have failed us.
As you know, our coordinated campaign was a major component of Senator Hagan's victory in North Carolina. Working in tandem with her own campaign infrastructure, I and my fellow volunteers canvassed in Wake County for months in the heat and rain and whatever else came along. We stood up to threats of arrest for registering voters in public places. We made hundreds of thousands of calls throughout central North Carolina on behalf of Senator Hagan as well as President Obama. As Election Day neared, we even sent crews to outlying counties to rally for Senator Hagan to help her win in some areas that might well have been abandoned to her opponent, Elizabeth Dole.
I'm calling today because I'm disappointed in Senator Hagan's decision to join Evan Bayh's group of conservative Democrats. I'm concerned that she is not being a good steward of the support and hard work she received from me throughout 2008. I and my community of volunteers made enormous personal sacrifices to support her every step of the way, every week and every day of a grueling campaign, specifically because we believed that Kay Hagan was going to represent a change from the business-as-usual gridlock politics in Washington.
Our communities, our state, and our nation deserve better than we've received the past few years. We cannot get through these very difficult times without a clear departure from the policies that brought us to this point.
I definitely didn't work so hard and give up so much of my time and energy to help Kay Hagan become my senator just to see her oppose the very plans that I firmly believe will help my family and my community.
I'm calling on Senator Hagan to support President Obama's plans to improve our nation.
Can I count on her vote of support for the president's budget proposal?
If Sen. Hagan has any idea how much we gave of ourselves and our families to get her elected, she will not underestimate the hurricane-force gales of our wrath. Hell hath no fury like a family that's gone without day-to-day parenting, meals, and household administration for eight months, only to be betrayed into having to crank up the phone banks less than three months later.