Round The Clock Gilda Reed Fundraiser Part 3

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(This is the third diary in a 24-hour fundraiser for Gilda Reed, Democratic Candidate for Katrina-Burdened LA-01.)

GILDA REED WILL NOT ABANDON US

Livingston.  Vitter.  Jindal.   When it comes to Louisiana’s First District, none of them stuck it out.  There’s no stability to be had when an entire community of American citizens is used as a political stepping stone.  Gilda Reed will not abandon anyone, ever.  Imagine that.

As for the Republicans running for LA-01 today, we can see from the Times-Picayune, the new crop of candidates are just as interested in “seat-hopping” as the old:

As Bobby Jindal drops his title of U.S. representative in favor of Louisiana governor today, voters will begin posing a number of questions to the candidates who hope to succeed him in Congress. Among them:

— What qualifications do you have to be my voice in Washington?

— What is your position on the war in Afghanistan and Iraq?

— How can you bring home the bacon?

For three of the candidates, however, voters might consider a special question: Will you stick around to do the work?

In this era of term limits on most local offices, politicians are always looking for ways to stay on the public payroll. But Tim Burns, Steve Scalise and John Young have taken seat-hopping to a new level. Before they even set sail in the jobs they won last year, they began sizing up the 1st Congressional District seat. If any one of the three wins, he will be jumping ship while it’s still pulling away from the dock.

Gilda Reed won’t jump ship.  Gilda Reed won’t abandon her district while it is undergoing its most difficult recovery, as our federal government continues to plunder the communities in the Gulf Coast Region.  If we want the hard work of recovery to continue, Gilda Reed is the right person, for the right job, at the right time.

I’ve written often about New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.  And I’ve often said this is a national issue.  That’s why this New Yorker is writing about Gilda Reed and asking folks both here at Docudharma and over at Daily Kos to support her in her bid for Congress in Louisiana’s First District.

George W. Bush and his rubberstamp Republicants have abandoned the people of the United States.  I don’t need to provide a link to show this — everyone knows it.

We need folks in Congress who will not abandon us and who will not capitulate to the fearmongers and bribers and corporations — and make no mistake, every person in Congress is inundated with these forces the moment they take office.  We all know this.

Gilda Reed is a Democrat.  She believes in people, regular people.  She is a fighter.  She won’t abandon us and she won’t abandon her constituents.

Gilda’s Republican opponents would bring us more of the same, more disaster capitalism, more flicking aside the needs of regular Americans like it was lint on their well pressed suits.  They wouldn’t support affirmatively dealing with the problems of the wetlands in the Gulf Coast, a disaster in the making that will affect this entire nation.

So even though I live in New York City, I know that what happens in Louisiana will affect me.  From Detroit to Chicago, from Los Angeles to Tucson to St. Louis, the disaster capitalists are rubbing their hands together, getting ready to swoop down and profit from the suffering of American citizens.

We must all start bringing more of our awareness to the fact that this is the United States of America.  For seven years that precious awareness has been battered and bludgeoned and distracted so that the disaster capitalists, like unnatural vultures, could plunder our communities and profit from our suffering.

Gilda Reed will not abandon Louisiana.  She will not abandon the commitment to community, to helping people, to making sure we stay the United States of America.

I hope you will help Gilda in her battle.  She will not abandon us.  We’ve all been abandoned far too long.  It’s time to change that.

Rebuilding Louisiana: Gilda Reed 24-Hour Online Fundraiser

Help us support Kossack Candidate Gilda Reed for Congress in Louisiana’s 1st District! She’s running in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Bobby Jindal. Diaries will be posted at Daily Kos about Gilda for the next 24 hours to raise support and bring attention to her candidacy. Please join us and learn more about this great Democratic candidate!