<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>----- Forwarded Message ----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Todd Vachon <dj_mayday@hotmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, November 1, 2010 8:14:05 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [stopthewarpolitics] A Final Appeal: Bring your pens and vote for Jobs and Peace<BR></FONT><BR>
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Good Morning Everyone,<BR><BR><BR>Today is the final day before the election and I wanted to reach out one last time to make an appeal for your vote. <BR><BR>Albert Einstein once defined "insanity" as engaging in a similar action repeatedly and expecting a different outcome. Expecting the Democratic Party to ever create real change is a quintessential example of practicing insanity. Not only will they fail to deliver the kind of progressive change that voters call for again and again, but they will not even fight to hold on to what little we have left. The election of Barack Obama with a Democratic Majority in both the Congress and the Seante has seen not only a continuation, but an expansion of much of the Bush era policies. The war in Afghanistan has been escalated, the military is cemented into Iraq with a permanent occupation force of 50,000 troops, private health insurance is now compulsory, the privitization of education which began under No Child
Left Behind has been accelerated under Race to the Top (or should I say bottom?), the annual military budget has exceeded $800 billion per year for the first time in history (not including the cost of wars or VA health). These are all destructive and wasteful policies, and they were all ushered in not by some neoconservatives, but by the current Democratic Administration. Insanity? Yes, and it is time to stop acting so crazy and start creating real paths for change. <BR><BR>The destruction of the middle class has been happening since the middle of the 1970s and it has continued at a steady pace with both Democrats and Republicans at the helm. The problem is not the Republicans, it is unfettered "free market" capitalism and<I> both</I> major parties are firm believers in it. The average real wage of American workers is the same today as it was in 1979 despite the nearly three-fold expansion of worker productivity and similar growth in wealth of the
capitalist class. The average CEO earns 300-500 times more than their average employee in America. The official unemployment rate is 10% and the real unemployment rate is approximately 20% when discouraged, part-time and contingent workers are considered. Tax rates for the wealthiest individuals and corporations have been steadily reduced since the 1950s. The social safety net has had so many holes cut into it that it's now about as useful as a DVD rewinder. The Democratic Party will never make any sweeping changes to fix these problems for fear that they become labelled "Socialists,"at which point they begin their pro-capital knee-jerk reactions to demonstrate that they are <I>more</I> pro-busienss than the Republicans. If fighting for real universal healthcare is Socialist, if ending the wars a broad is socialist, if guaranteeing retirement is socialist, and if fixing unemployment is socialist, then shit, it's high time we all started voting
socialist!!!<BR><BR>The Socialist Party offers clear alternatives to just appeasing the billionaire class in hopes that they might be so kind as to "give" us some jobs. Every vote for a socialist is a vote for peace, a vote for living wages, and a vote for the environment. Every vote for a Democrat or a Republican is a vote for capitalism, which daily destroys each of these things. I invite you to visit my campaign page (
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<A href="http://www.votevachon.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>www.votevachon.com</A> ) or the CT Voter Guide (
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<CITE><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'"><A href="http://www.remindernews.com/voter-guide/2010" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">www.</SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">remindernews</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">.com/</SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">voter</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">-</SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">guide</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: normal">/2010</SPAN></A></SPAN></CITE> <SPAN class=ecxf><CITE>) </CITE></SPAN>to learn about my stance on the major issues, and if you are so compelled, to bring a pen with you to the polls tomorrow and tell the ruling class that we are ready to start governing ourselves despite their millions of dollars of personal and private campaign spending. Take a Stand and draw a line in the sand; write in "Todd Vachon" for U.S. Senate tomorrow!<BR><BR><BR>Thank You for your time and support!<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR>Todd
Vachon<BR>Socialist for Senate<BR><BR>ps; please pass this on to other friends and family members who are fed up with the two business parties.<BR><BR><BR><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" size=3><B>DJing Socialist Calls for Write-In Wrevolution</B></FONT><BR>From the Bronx County Examiner<BR><A rel=nofollow>http://www.examiner.com/bronx-county-independent-in-new-york/dj-ing-socialist-calls-for-write-revolution</A><BR><BR><BR>Want to join a write-in revolution? If you reside in Connecticut, Tuesday will be your big chance. A feisty third party candidate named <A href="http://www.votevachon.com/index.php" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Todd Vachon</A> is squeezed in between a well-heeled Democrat and a professional wrestling magnate Republican . He’s a DJ, a former union carpenter and a graduate assistant at the University of Connecticut. But, most importantly, he is a socialist running a write in campaign for the <A
href="http://www.socialistparty-usa.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Socialist Party USA</A>. He’s calling it a “revolution.” I’d call it an excellent chance to stick it to the fat-cat politicians in Connecticut.<BR><BR><BR>This Senate seat belonged to Christopher Dodd for years. After screwing the American public by helping to push through a pro-business healthcare reform, instead of a single-payer plan, Dodd is preparing to ride off into the private sector. <BR>A feud then broke out among the major parties as Democrat Richard Blumenthal, the state’s long-time Attorney General, attempted to move up the political food chain. The Queen of Professional Wrestling Linda McMahon also saw this as good opportunity to cash in on her steroid enhanced reputation. Simultaneously, the self-described “Lieberman-ite” John Mertens also wiggled onto the ballot.<BR>However, the three mainstreamers could not anticipate the
appearance of DJ Mista Mayday. That’s the stage name of Vachon who is presenting a candidacy that offers everything the mainstreamers seek to avoid. <BR>He begins with unemployment. Job creation is not a “trickle-down” problem or an issue for the private sector to sort out. Instead, Vachon presents a plan for a federally funded jobs program that would employ the unemployed and is connected to plans for worked-owned and operated cooperative enterprises.<BR><BR><BR>On healthcare, Vachon similarly pulls no punches by giving outright support to a single-payer system. Heck, he even offered the website to the main single-payer group, <A href="http://www.healthcare-now.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Healthcare-NOW</A> on his state questionnaire. This is quite a bit different from Blumenthal who wishes to tinker with Obama’s reform, McMahon, who sees placing limits on patient’s ability to sue as “healthcare
reform,” and Mertens who proposed a frankly bizarre “Bismarck” system of healthcare.<BR>And, on the issue of war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, his message is unwavering. Get out. Not with a vague roadmap for the future or by removing ten soldiers a month or with the “fight terrorists to ends of the earth” pledges of the mainstream candidates. For Vachon, it is “get out now.” The Socialist candidate also calls for drastic cuts in the military budget and new policy on war – “My war policy is simple: no war.”<BR>According to the latest <A href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/connecticut/election_2010_connecticut_senate" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Rasmussen Poll,</A> Blumenthal will cruise to a double-digit win. This, despite the more than $46 million in personal money McMahon has spent. Mertens is entirely off
the map. However, writing in Todd Vachon for Senate could give radicals, independents and progressives a new motivation to head to the election booth.<BR><BR><BR>Join the write-in revolution on Tuesday and shake up the candidates of the political establishment. Let them know that a DJ’ing socialist has done more to capture your attention than the big spenders have. Write-in Todd Vachon.<BR><BR><BR><FONT style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,0)" class=ecxEC_EC_EC_EC_EC_sqq size=3><BR><BR><BR>“Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.”</FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,153)"> -</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Eugene Debs</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN style="COLOR:
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT color=#00b050>"<FONT face=Verdana>In so far as an economy is so arranged that slumps occur, the problem of unemployment becomes incapable of </FONT><FONT face=Verdana><I>personal</I></FONT><FONT face=Verdana> solution.</FONT><FONT face=Verdana>"</FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" color=#00b050 size=4 face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana>-C. Wright Mills</FONT><BR></P><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"><SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,153)"><BR>“Power concedes nothing with out a demand. It never did and it never will."</SPAN></SPAN> -<SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial,
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