I wish Lloyd Doggett was president.

However, he's far too free-thinking and has too much integrity to be accepted into the D.C. dungeon of thieves and posers. Plus we desperately need him in Texas where he is so loved. He's currently fighting for his life, to re-establish himself after the reshuffling of the districts by the repugs. He is the real deal with a long track record of taking his position as a true representative of the people and the planet to heart. If you've lost faith in your own representatives, consider supporting Lloyd instead. I promise you it will be money WELL spent.


A note from Lloyd,



Dear Friends,

Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh took offense to some comments I recently made regarding the Tea Party and its hijacking of the debt ceiling negotiations in order to promote hazardous ideas that would threaten America’s most financially-vulnerable citizens.

Well, if Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like my position, I must be doing something right.

Conservative talking heads like Rush Limbaugh and the politicians they support—like our very own Governor Rick Perry, who once referred to me as “vicious” for my attempts to ensure federal education dollars actually made their way to our vital neighborhood schools — have been calling for my head for years. I need your help to fight the Limbaugh-Perry Republicans who want to take my voice and your voice out of Congress. Please consider donating $5, $10 or $25 to my campaign and stand up to Tea Party Republicans.


They don’t appreciate my efforts to support a strong progressive agenda that protects and empowers financially struggling Texas families, historically disenfranchised minority groups and at-risk youth. They don’t like my views that the environmental landscape of Texas and the United States is often more valuable left untouched than stripped and harvested by the machinery of Big Oil and the mining industry. They certainly don’t care for my stance that multinational corporations who store their profits in tax havens and folks in the top tax brackets have moral and economic obligations to support and protect working families.

So if Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like me, if Governor Perry doesn’t like me, I’ll take that as a compliment.

Y’all probably know that, yet again Governor Perry’s minions in the Texas legislature are after my Congressional seat. The GOP’s redistricting plan is a craven effort to further disenfranchise minority voters in Texas. It disrespects two of Texas’ most important cities, San Antonio and Austin, by lumping them together in one bewilderingly skinny U.S. Congressional district. The redistricting map that Republicans shoved through the Texas House and Senate and Gov. Rick Perry signed is a truly political map. Better put, it is a dirty political map.

With your support, I will continue to fight for hard working Texas families and represent progressive values in the U.S. Congress. Please consider supporting me with a small donation of $5 or $10 or even $25. No denomination is too small (or great). I am humbled by and grateful for your support.

Since my early days as a young Texas State Senator, I have made my life’s passion my life’s work. It is an incredible privilege to serve Texans like yourself at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Day in, day out, I will continue to fight for policies that take care of our elderly, veterans and children. I will continue to work tirelessly to see that children are given access to early education programs and institutions of higher education.

I can’t do this without your support, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Take two minutes and make a contribution today.

Never give up. Never give in.

Sincerely,
Lloyd

http://doggett.house.gov/

About Lloyd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alton_Doggett_II

Contribute: https://www.votedoggett.com/contribute/

Always on the side of the working class.

Dog (gett) finally gets their much deserved respect.....;)

Gotta love it!

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He is a good one. For being one of the good ones, he is in the republican/neocon/koch crosshairs. They like to beat up on people like this so that the more cowardly and craven Democrats will be careful not to be too good. Works on most of them.

If you have been wondering how to support progressive members of Congress without having your money thrown away on republican-lite candidates, this is one that is safe. Send money here that will be really used well. I don't live in his district, and you may not even live in his state. But, though I do help, my district is stone cold greed/stupid and keeps electing people that don't serve them. So I send money to people like Lloyd so that progressivism doesn't die forever in Washington. So should you.

And like all endangered species, right now we need to preserve his habitat (district) to ensure his survival.

Maybe we should bottle his dna for future generations who have forgotten their humanity.

Obsessing over the Presidency alone rather than getting a D Congress back.

waaaaah! :nopity: :cry:


I'm not such a simpleton as to believe such a fairytale. In fact I'm usually on YOUR side of that argument (particularly when everyone was swooning over Obama). I've become pretty non-political in general as I know things will only change significantly from the bottom up....which I've said here ad naseum.

But the truth is I and so many others adore and respect this man so much that if he was running for bus driver of the year we'd honk our horns until we were all deaf just because of the person he is. He has earned the support and love he has received and I don't think anyone wants to see him or his voice go away. And certainly not as a result of those whom he has stood behind failing to
return the favor. He's not a savior. He's a compassionate warrior simply following his heart,
someone who walks his talk, someone worthy of emulating perhaps, but not a savior. He is all about self-empowerment, but wants to do his part to help level the playing field.

Adore and love and respecting a man and therefore thinking he should have any office is.

loved, respected and supported for his effective representation as a politician.

I can't think of a politician more deserving of support...a vanishing breed.

no matter the reason.

And I think he's doing a great job and he needs all our support and recognition for it

Having said that, I do agree that Lloyd Doggett would have made a great President in the past. If he had only won his 1984 senate race against Phil Gramm, he would probably have been a presidential contender in 1992 and would probably have had a good chance of winning the Democratic nomination and indeed the presidency. Or if, as a Senator he had run against Bush in 2000, he would have won

I also wish he would have considered running for higher office again -perhaps in 1998 for Governor against GWB or 2002 against Rick Perry. Texas might have been prevented from going down the direction it has done if he had

I hope they don't get rid of Doggett next year. We need more like him