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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSanders Endorses and Fundraises for Russ Feingold!
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Dear x:
There are few people who have done more to address the obscene proliferation of money in politics than Russ Feingold.
There is also no one the Koch brothers want to keep out of the U.S. Senate more than Russ Feingold.
Russ is running to win a seat in the Senate from Republican Ron Johnson, someone who was called the Koch brothers "model legislator."
Russ Feingold is someone we need in the Senate, and I'm proud to endorse his campaign. Can you join me in helping elect Russ Feingold?
Make a contribution to Russ Feingold to show that we can elect senators who don't need big money in politics.
Let me tell you a little about what made Russ so effective when he was in the Senate. Russ was the sole vote in the Senate against the USA Patriot Act in 2001. He opposed the war in Iraq, he fought disastrous trade deals and worked to reform our health care system. Russ was also an author of the McCain-Feingold Act to reform our corrupt campaign finance system.
Meanwhile, his Republican opponent credits a Koch brothers organization with inspiring him to run for Senate in the first place. Ron Johnson wants to privatize veterans' health care and even said he supports Donald Trump as the Republican nominee.
Russ has already faced a huge influx of big money trying to keep him out of the Senate. In fact, the Koch brothers had their ads from a $2 million campaign against Russ taken off the air by TV stations when they were noted to be "false, misleading, and deceptive."
That won't be the last time the Koch brothers try to take out Russ. We need to make sure that Russ can fight back and win.
Please make a contribution to Russ Feingold to show the billionaire class that they can't buy our elections.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
There are few people who have done more to address the obscene proliferation of money in politics than Russ Feingold.
There is also no one the Koch brothers want to keep out of the U.S. Senate more than Russ Feingold.
Russ is running to win a seat in the Senate from Republican Ron Johnson, someone who was called the Koch brothers "model legislator."
Russ Feingold is someone we need in the Senate, and I'm proud to endorse his campaign. Can you join me in helping elect Russ Feingold?
Make a contribution to Russ Feingold to show that we can elect senators who don't need big money in politics.
Let me tell you a little about what made Russ so effective when he was in the Senate. Russ was the sole vote in the Senate against the USA Patriot Act in 2001. He opposed the war in Iraq, he fought disastrous trade deals and worked to reform our health care system. Russ was also an author of the McCain-Feingold Act to reform our corrupt campaign finance system.
Meanwhile, his Republican opponent credits a Koch brothers organization with inspiring him to run for Senate in the first place. Ron Johnson wants to privatize veterans' health care and even said he supports Donald Trump as the Republican nominee.
Russ has already faced a huge influx of big money trying to keep him out of the Senate. In fact, the Koch brothers had their ads from a $2 million campaign against Russ taken off the air by TV stations when they were noted to be "false, misleading, and deceptive."
That won't be the last time the Koch brothers try to take out Russ. We need to make sure that Russ can fight back and win.
Please make a contribution to Russ Feingold to show the billionaire class that they can't buy our elections.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
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Sanders Endorses and Fundraises for Russ Feingold! (Original Post)
Triana
May 2016
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still_one
(92,215 posts)1. good for Bernie, and good for Russ
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)2. K&R. So much for "scorched-earth policy"!
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)4. moms always been pro Bernie this will only help
We've voted for him before. Can't now but still fans
HillareeeHillaraah
(685 posts)5. Excellent. No snark intended. nt
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)6. Everyone here should back Russ..
He is a true progressive and liberal Democrat. If he and a few others get elected, we can take back the senate. Russ is one of our best shots at this. Contribute if you can. Taking back the senate is very important as we all know.
madokie
(51,076 posts)7. Awesome news
beemer27
(460 posts)8. Great News !!!
Hearing this has just loosened another $27 from my scrawny wallet. Just thinking about the possibility of people like Feingold and Bernie in power is intoxicating. If Bernie can coat tail a few good men like Russ there is still hope for this country.I would prefer to see Feingold as Bernie's VP, but would settle for him back in the senate.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)9. Feingold? What has be been up to anyway?
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/03/russ-feingold-congo-104535.html#.UyBKVD9dWBR
Did Russ Feingold Just End a War?
The unlikely story of how the former Wisconsin senator made peace in Congo.
Did Russ Feingold Just End a War?
The unlikely story of how the former Wisconsin senator made peace in Congo.
On a Saturday morning in late January, Russ Feingold descended a tight path in the hilly forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congos Kahuzi-Biega National Park to look for gorillas. The former Democratic senator from Wisconsin wore a long-sleeved safari shirt over a blue polo, a coiled bracelet to repel mosquitos, a surgical mask to protect the gorillas from human germs and two pairs of socks, with his zip-off cargo pants tucked into the outer pair to keep out ants. Aside from the cool touch of Ray-Ban aviators, it was the sort of outfit Chevy Chase might have sported if Hollywood had ever gotten around to making National Lampoons African Vacation.
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Feingold is 61 now, and his hair has grayed a touch since 2010, when, after 18 years in the Senate, he was beaten in his reelection campaign by Ron Johnson, a millionaire Tea Partier. Feingold had lost some weight on this trip, his seventh to the region since last June, when Secretary of State John Kerry named him U.S. special envoy to the Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congoor SEGL as his staff call him, pronouncing it like Siegel. (Its perfecta Jewish name, Feingold said.) His mission: to end the civil war that has long engulfed the region.
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And in taking on eastern Congo, one of the most violent places on Earth, Feingold could hardly have chosen a more dead-end assignment. The conflict there dates back to 1994, when Hutu génocidaires fleeing Rwanda set up camps across the border in what was then Zaire. Rwanda then led an invasion that ended Congolese President Mobutu Sese Sekos 31 years of dictatorial rule but also turned the newly renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo into a nightmarish battleground of foreign armies and militant groups. Although Congos civil war formally ended in 2003, armed rebellion has continued ever since, especially in the two eastern provinces of North and South Kivu. The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country is the U.N.s largest and most expensive, employing 20,000 troops at a cost of $1.5 billion a year.One 2010 study estimated that 48 women were raped in Congo every hour, and a U.N. official called it the rape capital of the world. Estimates of the conflicts death toll range in the millions.
Feingolds assignment came just as a new group of rebels, trained and equipped by Rwanda, was gaining strength in the east and even threatening to take Kinshasa, the Congolese capital. Since last summer, Feingold has undertaken a dizzying round of talks in at least eight different African capitals, cajoling leaders face to face, negotiating with skittish rebels late into the night and strategizing with fellow diplomats, all in a very uphill effort to stop a long-running conflict in a region littered with failed peace deals. Without a doubt, he said over coffee a few hours after the gorilla trek, this is one of the favorite things Ive ever done in my life.
...
Feingold is 61 now, and his hair has grayed a touch since 2010, when, after 18 years in the Senate, he was beaten in his reelection campaign by Ron Johnson, a millionaire Tea Partier. Feingold had lost some weight on this trip, his seventh to the region since last June, when Secretary of State John Kerry named him U.S. special envoy to the Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congoor SEGL as his staff call him, pronouncing it like Siegel. (Its perfecta Jewish name, Feingold said.) His mission: to end the civil war that has long engulfed the region.
...
And in taking on eastern Congo, one of the most violent places on Earth, Feingold could hardly have chosen a more dead-end assignment. The conflict there dates back to 1994, when Hutu génocidaires fleeing Rwanda set up camps across the border in what was then Zaire. Rwanda then led an invasion that ended Congolese President Mobutu Sese Sekos 31 years of dictatorial rule but also turned the newly renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo into a nightmarish battleground of foreign armies and militant groups. Although Congos civil war formally ended in 2003, armed rebellion has continued ever since, especially in the two eastern provinces of North and South Kivu. The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country is the U.N.s largest and most expensive, employing 20,000 troops at a cost of $1.5 billion a year.One 2010 study estimated that 48 women were raped in Congo every hour, and a U.N. official called it the rape capital of the world. Estimates of the conflicts death toll range in the millions.
Feingolds assignment came just as a new group of rebels, trained and equipped by Rwanda, was gaining strength in the east and even threatening to take Kinshasa, the Congolese capital. Since last summer, Feingold has undertaken a dizzying round of talks in at least eight different African capitals, cajoling leaders face to face, negotiating with skittish rebels late into the night and strategizing with fellow diplomats, all in a very uphill effort to stop a long-running conflict in a region littered with failed peace deals. Without a doubt, he said over coffee a few hours after the gorilla trek, this is one of the favorite things Ive ever done in my life.