{"id":2780,"date":"2009-12-30T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T21:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2009-12-31T19:50:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:50:41","slug":"re-elect-harry-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/12\/30\/re-elect-harry-reid\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-elect Harry Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We cannot afford to lose a single Democratic Senator.<\/p>\n<p><head><br \/>\n<title>Senator Harry Reid &#8211; A Powerful Voice for Nevada<\/title><br \/>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"><br \/>\n<\/meta><\/head><\/p>\n<p><body><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" width=\"625\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" style=\"border:1px solid #666; font-family:Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif; font-size:11pt;line-height:15pt;\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.giveemhellharry.com\/page\/-\/email\/reid_email_header_new.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"136\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:15px;\">\n<p>Dear Steven,<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have been busy this year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve accomplished much, and have fought the Republican&#8217;s obstructionist tactics every step of the way. <b>They&#8217;ve made defeating President Obama&#8217;s agenda their top legislative priority, and they&#8217;ve made defeating me their top political priority.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a few short hours, I will close the fundraising books for the year. <b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.giveemhellharry.com\/page\/contribute\/webEM-2009\/\">Will you stand with me today and help beat back the Republican&#8217;s attacks?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>We have done so much this year to put our country back on the right track:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>With our economy teetering on the brink of collapse, Democrats passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which is putting Nevadans to work as we speak.<\/b><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Lilly Ledbetter Act made fair pay for women and minorities the law of the land.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>We expanded SCHIP so 37,000 kids in Nevada can see a doctor and be treated when they get sick.<\/b><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>We passed sweeping changes to our nation&#8217;s hate crimes laws, ensuring violent denials of civil rights will not go unpunished.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>We protected more than 2 million acres of wilderness, and thousands miles of scenic rivers and trails. And we stopped progress on the nuclear dump at Yucca Mountain in its tracks.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>We made the largest investment ever in clean energy, creating thousands of jobs in Nevada and putting our country on a path to energy independence.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>We stood up to the credit card companies, forcing them to treat their customers fairly.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>And of course, we are well on our way to truly historic reform of our nation&#8217;s health care delivery system.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last month, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent a fundraising letter to the extreme wing of his party, claiming I&#8217;m pushing a &#8220;radical liberal agenda&#8221; on our country. <b>I guess he considers tax cuts for working families and putting more cops on the street &#8220;radical&#8221; and &#8220;liberal.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.giveemhellharry.com\/page\/contribute\/webEM-2009\">Will you consider making a donation of $50, $30 or $15 today?<\/a> <b>With the right-wing fringe running the Republican Party these days, you know they will pull out the Karl Rove playbook next year. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Years from now, pundits will look back on 2009 and proclaim it the most productive legislative year since the first year of FDR&#8217;s administration &#8211; despite the economic turmoil and the non-stop obstruction of the GOP. There is still so much to do. With your help, we can continue to bring about the change America deserves.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harryreid.com\/page\/-\/email\/signature_reid_fonly.jpg\" alt=\"Harry\" width=\"90\" height=\"54\" \/><br \/>Harry<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; As we move forward into the next legislative session, I&#8217;m eager to know what issue is most important to you in 2010. Send me a text message at 42779 (HARRY).<br \/>\nText <b>E<\/b> to <b>42779<\/b> for Climate Change.<br \/>\nText <b>F<\/b> to <b>42779<\/b> for Jobs Package.<br \/>\nText <b>G<\/b> to <b>42779<\/b> for Financial Regulation Reform.<br \/>\nText <b>H<\/b> to <b>42779<\/b> for Immigration Reform.<br \/>\nThank you!\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" style=\" padding:15px;border-top:1px solid #666; font-family:Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif; font-size:10pt;line-height:13pt;\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We cannot afford to lose a single Democratic Senator. Senator Harry Reid &#8211; A Powerful Voice for Nevada Dear Steven, Democrats have been busy this year. We&#8217;ve accomplished much, and have fought the Republican&#8217;s obstructionist tactics every step of the way. They&#8217;ve made defeating President Obama&#8217;s agenda their top legislative priority, and they&#8217;ve made defeating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}