The People’s House, The House of Representatives. Emphasis on……Represent. Conceived as the most basic building block of our democracy, elegantly simple. The People living in an area choose someone, one of their neighbors, to go to Washington and sit in The Peoples House and represent their interests, their concerns and their identity within our national government. But all too often this most simple of mechanisms of democracy has been corrupted, and those who are chosen to Represent The People…. instead represent the moneyed and powerful interests who would use our democracy for far less noble ends.
Especially those darn Republicans!
So when there is a chance to elect one of those “better Democrats” that we all wish to see in the halls of The People’s House, it is incumbent on us to do so. When we can take a seat that has been held by those aforementioned Republicans, it is URGENT that we do so.
And today, and for the next 24 hours, you have a chance to help!
I give you Gilda Reed, Candidate for Louisiana’s First Congressional district.
This will be posted at Daily Kos in one hour, to kick off the Round-The-Clock Fundraiser, please head over there then…and do what you can to help. As usual, you Dharmaniacs are ahead of the curve!