Progressive Support for Patty Murray

MoveOn recently announced that it was supporting Senator Patty Murry (D-WA) for re-election, in part because she signed the MoveOn pledge to fight corporate corruption. Sen. Murray said, "I am proud to support MoveOn's five million members in your fight to stop the corporate corruption of Washington.... I believe the Supreme Court decision [Citizens United] was wrong, and as a member of the Senate Rules Committee, I am an original cosponsor of the DISCLOSE Act, which would overturn egregious issues created by the Citizens United ruling."

Sen. Murray is a strong progressive on a number of issues:

• Civil Rights: "We can never give up on full equality for all Americans, no matter how hard the fight or how difficult the path.
• Education: She helped raise funding for education, allowing the U.S. to compete more easily with Europe and China, where education is heavily subsidized.
• Energy Independence and Climate Change: She cares about our future. "We owe it to our children and future generations to get this issue under control".
• Healthcare: She supported the public option, and she has introduced legislation to increase Washington's Medicare reimbursement rate up to the national average, as well as a trauma care bill to help hospitals cope.
• Veterans & Military Families: She is committed to providing the benefits and care troops and their families deserve.

If you would like to support good progressives by making calls on their behalf, you can do so through MoveOn. Join your local MoveOn council and sign up for a call party. The MoveOn website will deliver you phone numbers in blocks of twenty that you can call to support progressive candidates in tight races.

Go to the MoveOn website and look for the "MOVEON COUNCILS" link (on the right side of the page). In the "Join a MoveOn Council Near You" area you can search for a council in your area by providing your zip code.

Once you have joined the council, you can become a more active member by joining the "core group" for that area. The core group is the team that coordinates activities at the local level. Joining the core group increases your reach in progressive politics.