• With your vote we will help lower gas prices and achieve energy independence, crack down on price gouging, eliminate billions in subsidies for oil and gas companies and use the savings to provide consumer relief and develop American alternatives, including renewable energy such as wind and solar energy, and biofuels, all to promote energy efficient technology.

• With your vote we will fight to help working families by raising the minimum wage, and repealing tax giveaways that encourage companies to move jobs overseas. 

• With your vote we will cut college costs, make college tuition deductible from taxes, expand Pell grants and cut student loan costs.

• With your vote we will ensure a dignified retirement for our seniors by preventing the privatization of Social Security, but instead expanding savings incentives and ensuring pension fairness.

• With your vote we will get our fiscal house in order.  Under the Bush Administration, we have gone from record surpluses to record deficits and it is time for fiscal priorities that do not include mortgaging our nation's financial future on the backs of future generations.

• Can you sign the "Fight Washington Corruption" pledge and then pass this on to other people in your area?

Move On Pledge

• Can you sign the pledge to show my opponent that his constituaents want politics that put people over corporations?  Then ask everyone you know to sign too.

•With your vote we will make stem cell research a priority so that we can give a fighting chance to millions of Americans looking for hope.  We will overcome limitations on progress and push for necessary research for cures of debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

• With your vote we will stop selling our natural resources to the highest special interest bidder and work to reverse the dangerous effects of global warming.  We will seek immediate release of our Strategic Petroleum Reserves and promote alternative energy so that our future is in our own hands and so we can continue to lead the world in innovation and preservation.

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