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TX-Sen: No, Vote For Rick Noriega! |
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I’ll be honest. Andrew Rice down in Oklahoma is a great candidate. But you should vote for Rick Noriega in the Russ Feingold-chaired Progressive Patriots Fund competition.
Why? Because Rick’s a veteran, a patriot, a progressive, and he’s running in Texas. How great would it be to take back Texas, the land where George Bush came from?
I won’t push the case too hard. I’ll let Rick do it for me. In his own words, this is his stance on FISA and retroactive immunity:
“On Christmas morning 2004, outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, my buddies and I drove to our base camp to use the computers. We wanted to be with our kids when they woke up that Christmas. To get there we drove through a near ambush–anytime we drove on the Jalalabad Road, it was risky, and we had an incident on our way.
That Christmas morning, I suspect the government listened to our conversations. They occurred between two countries; Afghanistan and the US. They probably didn’t realize the difference in tone in my voice as I spoke to my wife and children that morning as my heart raced still from our encounter on the road. My wife did.
I fought to defend our country and our constitution in Afghanistan. I fought for the right to privacy for every Texan. Mr. Cornyn must now stand up for the privacy of every Texan and American too. We as a nation cannot grant anyone sweeping amnesty if they violated the law.
Americans understand the need for safety and the need for intelligence gathering. What they will not accept is an abuse of power, of crossing the line on American’s privacy.
I would join Sen. Dodd in opposition to any retroactive provisions that allow a “get out of jail card†for violating the Constitution. If Mr. Cornyn had ever had the opportunity to have his Christmas conversation listened to by the government, on a day that he feared for his life in a convoy on Jalalabad Road, he would do the same.â€Â
That is the kind of leadership we need. So go vote!
(oh…and a little bird tells me you can vote more than once. So if you must, go vote for both Andrew Rice AND Rick Noriega!)
Absolutely. Getting Noriega elected and removing Cornyn needs to be a top priority.
http://acropolisreview.com/2008/03/dscc-video-rick-noriega-vs-john-cor nyn.html