On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:55 PM, andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Tom's a great guy, a great lawyer, a good writer -- he has a number of books, some on con law that I think are as good as Dan Lazare's, some on labor law -- and and all around asset to Illinois and its working people. I'm going to call his office and.or campaign HQ and ask what I can do to help. Other Chicagoian LBOsters, do the same if you can. Everyone else send him money. I will check whether his campaign takes paypal.
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> --- On Wed, 1/21/09, Jenny Brown <jbrown72073 at cs.com> wrote:
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>> From: Jenny Brown <jbrown72073 at cs.com>
>> Subject: [lbo-talk] Tom Geoghegan running for Rahm Emanuel's seat
>> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 8:34 PM
>> It's an open primary in March with 5 people running.
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>> http://www.geogheganforcongress.com/
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>> I'm running for Congress in the Fifth District of
>> Illinois. As a Chicago lawyer for thirty years I have fought
>> for working people in this District and throughout the city.
>> I have represented unions as well as people with no unions
>> to protect them. In plant closings I have helped them
>> recover health and pension benefits. I obtained health care
>> for the uninsured. I've been pressing the State of
>> Illinois to crack down on payday lenders.
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>> In my life as a lawyer I have lived out a commitment to one
>> cause above all – to bring economic security to working
>> Americans, in our District, in our country. That's the
>> same commitment I will bring to Congress. We're deep in an
>> economic crisis unlike any other we've known. It may last
>> years. We need new and creative ways to protect working
>> Americans, especially our older working people who have no
>> real pensions to live on.
>>
>> For years we've heard the doomsayers: "We can't
>> afford Social Security." "We can't afford 'single
>> payer' national health." One thing we all learned from
>> the $700 billion bailout: We've got the money to do all of
>> this and more. At the moment, the Federal Reserve is
>> literally printing money, to give not billions but trillions
>> to banks and financial firms. To the people of this
>> District, the banks and others have gotten their money. Now
>> it's your turn. Here's the bailout I will go to Congress
>> to get:
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>> First, I want to expand Social Security, our public pension
>> system, to replace, not overnight but in stages, the private
>> pension system which has collapsed. Social Security now pays
>> about 38 to 39 percent of your working income. In other
>> developed countries, it averages 65 percent. That's where
>> our fiscal stimulus should be: a commitment to reach this
>> goal, a public pension that ordinary working people can live
>> on.
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>> Second we have to move to single payer health care program,
>> at least in phases: we might begin with extending Medicare
>> to children, but the government should ultimately be the
>> single payer for all. That's not because single payer is
>> the only ethical and efficient way to protect us all. No,
>> it's also because it is crucial to making us competitive
>> globally. Through single payer and expanded Social Security,
>> the goal is to pick up the "non-wage" labor costs that
>> employers now have to pay. That's already how other
>> countries out-compete us: they have the government and not
>> the private employer pick up these non-wage health and
>> pension costs.
>>
>> Etc.
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>> Jenny Brown
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