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On December 3, 2009 I filed to run for U.S. Congress Fifth District.
The primary is March 2, 2010.
The Election is November 2, 2010.
And now time is short.
I need your help.
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| I am eager to serve you. I need your help and our country needs your help. Our economy is in trouble and that means every citizen faces trouble. We are in the midst of a jobless recovery and the odds are that 20% of working age Americans face a frightening future of being unemployed or underemployed.
I want to change that. I’m running for Congress so that I can put people back to work. It’s my belief that people have the right to earn a living for themselves and their family. I’m committed to work for you to accomplish that goal.
We need to turn this unwholesome situation around.
For this campaign to be a success, it is essential for us to raise funds to get the message out.
With your financial help, we can run an aggressive campaign that will take us to victory in November.
Please donate $2400 (max per election), $1,500, $1,000, $500, $250, $100 or whatever is appropriate for you.
Donate online or send check or money order to:
Citizens for Tom Berry
P.O. Box 180037
Dallas TX 75218-0037
Your support in early 2010 will help us meet and exceed the challenges of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
(DCCC). You can send an early signal that this campaign has strong backing. This will empower us to build a winning 2010 campaign.
Thank you in advance for your consideration and support. I look forward to working with you to Keep Texas in the Union and Put America Back to Work.
Tom Berry
Your Fifth District Congressional Candidate, and Advocate
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"We've Got the Best Congress Money Can
Buy"
said Tom Berry (Jan18,2010), in response to the press
release from
Common Cause and Public Campain(Jan15).[see
below] Tom supports The Fair Elections Now Act (S. 752, H.R. 1826) to end Congress' reliance on big money. And when elected, Tom has advised he will work with others to indroduce and pass legislation to instruct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require the media (which is 80 percent owned by six people) to provide sufficient free air time for all federal candidates to air their views, This will be a mandated public service, recognizing that the airways are
free. The intent is to reduce or eliminate the need to raise money for a federal election, This will have our representatives both more answerable and better able to serve the people who elected them.
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Rep. Hensarling sides with Wall Street after receiving more than $1 million in campaign cash from the
industry.
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IN THE NEWS:
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News Release March 13 Response to Congressman Hensarling’s Remarks Upon Being Appointed to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility
Yesterday Congressman Jeb Hensarling announced his appointment by the Republican Leader John Boehner to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility set up by President Obama by Executive Order on February18th.
Within his remarks, Congressman Hensarling stated: “The President’s own budget increases spending precipitously and triples the national debt in 10 years. Thus the Commission has important work to do. However, I have concerns that the Commission’s design will limit its effectiveness.” And: “…the nation would be better served by a spending commission than a deficit commission. Deficits are the symptom, spending is the disease.”
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News Release March 10
High Speed Rail, Chicago to
Dallas, Dallas to Houston, Dallas to San Antonio
There is no reason why we can't move on High Speed Rail into the Dallas Transportation Hub, Chicago to Dallas, Dallas to San Antonio, Dallas to Houston, connecting all to Love Field and DFW Airport. Frequent service, (even hourly), is viable if high speed trains handle selective high revenue express cargo, where one car load of express cargo will pay for the train and the crew, and the rest is gravy. The ticket can then be priced to fill the train.
We can introduce a combination High Speed Passenger and High Revenue Express Cargo Freight Service to outweigh any lack of density problems, and make Dallas the High Speed Rail Passenger and High Revenue Express Cargo Hub of the South Western United States. |
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News Release
Feb 19
Economic Health Care Commission
Let's face it, our healthcare system is run by large corporations. It's the most expensive in the world, but ranks 37th in quality. Close to 50 million Americans can't afford any care at all. It's a bad system on the whole for citizens, but corporations make enormous profits.
Congress needs to establish an Economic Health Care Commission to protect the public interest from profit gouging by insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, and the for-profit portion of our health care system. These entities need to be regulated to earn a maximum of a reasonable rate of return, which generally should not exceed the cost of capital. This has to be done to protect the public interest. Health Care should not be profit driven! Health Care represents genuine human needs and necessary public service. To continue to allow profit to be squeezed out of people's misery is only to completely hand over our country to the corporations.
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News Release Feb 9 Healthcare For All - Get it Done
Today in America, too many Americans are left in the dust outside the walls of corporations. Millions of Americans have been sold out for jobs overseas for the unrestrained greed of corporations. A huge number of hard working U.S. Citizens have lost their jobs, their homes, and their healthcare. Today in America fear reigns in the hearts of our senior citizens, our poor, our unemployed, and our underemployed, because they cannot afford the high cost of decent healthcare. Today in America, we have the best Congress money can
buy..(read full article)
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Regarding Social Security
benefits, Tom Berry said today
(2/3/10): "My opponent, Jeb Hensarling, is on record to
're-engineer Social Security', which means he wants to
privatize it for future generations. He is selling greed,
betting on the come, rolling dice on the wall, scaring the
voting public, setting a stage for a feeding frenzy in
lockstep with Wall Street, and adding fuel to the next
financial collapse. Social Security is not the problem. The
problem is what my opponent, Jeb Hensarling, wants to do to
tear down Social Security, instead of working to build it
up."
See video clip:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/#35188221 |
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A Six-Hour-Day,
Thirty-Hour-Workweek,
May Solve Our Economic Problems
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full article) |
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