Senate Republicans have given up their fight against consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren.
That's the good news. But the bad news is now they say they’ll oppose any nominee to run the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unless the agency is watered down first.*
Republicans in the House are fighting the new consumer bureau too, with bills to weaken the agency. It’s time to send a clear message that Americans want to end the financial tricks and traps.
Tell your representative: Oppose attempts to weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Warren recently explained to Jon Stewart on the Daily Show that opponents of Wall Street reform in the House are still attempting to “stick a knife in the ribs” of the new agency.
These enemies of Wall Street reform are working to make the bureau into a weak, ineffective agency without the will or ability to curb the kind of financial abuses that caused the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Go to: Learn more about the bills attacking the consumer bureau and take action.
Thanks for all you do,
Rick Claypool
Public Citizen’s Online Action Team
action@citizen.org
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* Read more about the politics surrounding the nomination of Elizabeth Warren to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and why we think we're in a position to win.
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The Infestation of Corporate Lobbyists
The response is extraordinary.
Public Citizen supporters across the country are answering my urgent call for financial support with incredible generosity.
We’re pulling out all the stops to challenge corporate power from the moment the new Congress convenes in early January.
In the next four days—before the clock strikes midnight this Friday, December 31—we must reach our $150,000 goal to have a fighting chance against the infestation of corporate lobbyists in Washington, D.C.!
Please contribute $10, $20, $35 or whatever you can right now.
From winning the fight that created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to mobilizing more than half a million people in support of a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC ruling, we’ve done good and great things this year.
Your online activism has been instrumental to the success we’ve achieved together. Now, as we prepare to take on a Congress more beholden to corporate greed than any in recent memory, I’m asking you to supplement your grassroots advocacy with financial support.
We can’t afford to face the new Congress wishing we had done more to strengthen our defenses. Contribute today!
We can’t do what we do without your grassroots advocacy. But we can’t organize and coordinate that grassroots effort without your generous support.
We need to raise $150,000 by midnight this Friday so that corporate lobbyists don’t get even one day’s head start in the new Congress.
Corporate lobbyists have risen to a new level of influence in Washington. They’re not just raising money for members of Congress, they’re joining congressional staffs and writing the very laws that directly benefit their former, and future, employers.
For example, Speaker of the House-elect John Boehner—who once handed out checks from tobacco company PACs on the House floor—hired the chief lobbyist for the medical device industry as his policy director. This example of the “revolving door” is representative of the pro-corporate mindset that dominates the Republican Party and even many Democrats.
Stand with Public Citizen against this corporate faction by contributing $10, $20, $35 or whatever you can.
There’s no question, we’re going to have to work in a more hostile political environment. But Public Citizen has met challenges like this in the past. We took on Nixon. We took on Reagan. We took on Bush. Both of them. And we consistently won substantive reforms and protections that make life better for ordinary Americans like you and me.
Public Citizen’s strength comes from the grassroots activism and financial generosity of our members. I want to thank you for all you’ve contributed by staying informed and taking action as part of our online community. And I want you to know that I’m counting on your financial support, too.
We will do this.
Together.
Robert Weissman, President
P.S. Contribute $100 or more right now and we’ll send you a DVD from a selection of progressive films like Battle in Seattle, An Unreasonable Man and The Story of Stuff as our thanks for your support.
To get regular e-alerts about opportunities for activism and other ways to help with Public Citizen's work, sign up for the Public Citizen Action Network.
Public Citizen supporters across the country are answering my urgent call for financial support with incredible generosity.
We’re pulling out all the stops to challenge corporate power from the moment the new Congress convenes in early January.
In the next four days—before the clock strikes midnight this Friday, December 31—we must reach our $150,000 goal to have a fighting chance against the infestation of corporate lobbyists in Washington, D.C.!
Please contribute $10, $20, $35 or whatever you can right now.
From winning the fight that created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to mobilizing more than half a million people in support of a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC ruling, we’ve done good and great things this year.
Your online activism has been instrumental to the success we’ve achieved together. Now, as we prepare to take on a Congress more beholden to corporate greed than any in recent memory, I’m asking you to supplement your grassroots advocacy with financial support.
We can’t afford to face the new Congress wishing we had done more to strengthen our defenses. Contribute today!
We can’t do what we do without your grassroots advocacy. But we can’t organize and coordinate that grassroots effort without your generous support.
We need to raise $150,000 by midnight this Friday so that corporate lobbyists don’t get even one day’s head start in the new Congress.
Corporate lobbyists have risen to a new level of influence in Washington. They’re not just raising money for members of Congress, they’re joining congressional staffs and writing the very laws that directly benefit their former, and future, employers.
For example, Speaker of the House-elect John Boehner—who once handed out checks from tobacco company PACs on the House floor—hired the chief lobbyist for the medical device industry as his policy director. This example of the “revolving door” is representative of the pro-corporate mindset that dominates the Republican Party and even many Democrats.
Stand with Public Citizen against this corporate faction by contributing $10, $20, $35 or whatever you can.
There’s no question, we’re going to have to work in a more hostile political environment. But Public Citizen has met challenges like this in the past. We took on Nixon. We took on Reagan. We took on Bush. Both of them. And we consistently won substantive reforms and protections that make life better for ordinary Americans like you and me.
Public Citizen’s strength comes from the grassroots activism and financial generosity of our members. I want to thank you for all you’ve contributed by staying informed and taking action as part of our online community. And I want you to know that I’m counting on your financial support, too.
We will do this.
Together.
Robert Weissman, President
P.S. Contribute $100 or more right now and we’ll send you a DVD from a selection of progressive films like Battle in Seattle, An Unreasonable Man and The Story of Stuff as our thanks for your support.
To get regular e-alerts about opportunities for activism and other ways to help with Public Citizen's work, sign up for the Public Citizen Action Network.
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