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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=210 height=150 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D02CA8.D99CBC80" alt="Description: Wall_st_street_sign"></span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Signatures <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>81468 of 100000 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Petitioning <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>35 Congressional Democrats <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Created By <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Daily Kos <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sign the petition denouncing the 35 House Democrats that joined Republicans in trying to gut Dodd-Frank.</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br>On their second day in session, the House <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/07/1356223/-Which-35-House-Democrats-Just-Joined-the-GOP-to-Try-to-Gut-Dodd-Frank"><span style='color:blue'>voted</span></a> on a bill designed to weaken the most important protections of Dodd-Frank. <br><br>Fortunately, the bill didn’t meet the necessary two-thirds vote threshold but 35 Democrats voted with Republicans and almost allowed the bill to pass.<br><br>Dodd-Frank was passed in an attempt to prevent another 2008 financial crisis by lowering risk in various parts of the U.S. financial system. Since it’s passage, Republicans and Democrats in league with Wall St. have done their best to eliminate its most important protections—and leave the U.S. vulnerable to another economic crisis.<br><br>Votes like this are calculated moves on the part of corporate Democrats to please donors and distance themselves from the Democratic Party. This isn’t the first offense for many of these bad actors and we’ll likely see more votes like this over the next two years. <br><br><b>Every time a Democrat abandons the Party to shill for corporations at the expense of their constituents, we must let them know we are watching and won’t forget when it comes time for re-election. </b></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br></span><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>P.S. Here are the 35 House Democrats:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ILLINOIS House Democrats<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span></i><i><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cheri Bustos (IL-17),<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Bill Foster (IL-11</span></i><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>),<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dan Lipinski (IL-03)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Mike Quigley (IL-05),<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Bobby Rush (IL-01),</span></i><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Brad Ashford (NE-02), Ami Bera (CA-07), Don Beyer (VA-08), Sanford Bishop (GA-02), Julia Brownley (CA-26), </span></i><i><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cheri Bustos (IL-17),</span></i><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> John Carney (DE-AL), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), John Delaney (MD-06), Suzan DelBene (WA-01), Elizabeth Esty (CT-05), </span></i><i><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Bill Foster (IL-11</span></i><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>), John Garamendi (CA-03), Gwen Graham (FL-02), Jim Himes (CT-04), Hank Johnson (GA-04), Derek Kilmer (WA-06), Ron Kind (WI-03), Rick Larsen (WA-02), </span></i><i><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dan Lipinski (IL-03),</span></i><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> David Loebsack (IA-02), Sean Maloney (NY-18), Patrick Murphy (FL-18), Scott Peters (CA-52), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Jared Polis (CO-02), </span></i><i><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Mike Quigley (IL-05),</span></i><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Raul Ruiz (CA-36), </span></i><i><span style='font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Bobby Rush (IL-01),</span></i><i><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Kurt Schrader (OR-05), David Scott (GA-13), Terri Sewell (AL-07), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09), Albio Sires (NJ-08).</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Petition Text <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=576 height=7 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01D02CA8.D99CBC80" alt="Description: Ruler_short"></span><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Our Message to 35 Congressional Democrats <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Working class Americans across the country are hurting. I am disgusted that at a time when we need more and better jobs for working people, you’d vote to deregulate Wall Street. The so-called “Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens Act” is Wall Street handout and you should be ashamed of voting for it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>