<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">"Yep, that's one of the issues we stand for, CJ.” What issue, Mike? Bringing all US troops home? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PDA seems to me to be a sheep-dogging operation, retrieving disaffected Democrats for the Obama-Clinton neocon & neoliberal policies - more war and more inequality. <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m opposed to those policies. Regards, C. G. Estabrook</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 17, 2018, at 8:43 AM, Mike Fox <<a href="mailto:mikefox@pdamerica.org" class="">mikefox@pdamerica.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Yep, that's one of the issues we stand for, CJ.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looks like there isn't a march in Champaign. Would you be willing to support another event with phone calls to fellow PDA members to make sure they're showing up/showing solidarity?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mike Fox</div><div class="">National Staff, Progressive Democrats Of America</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 8:47 AM, C G Estabrook <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:cgestabrook@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">cgestabrook@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Sen. Cardin is a principal fomenter of the ‘Russiagate' nonsense - designed to force the Trump administration back into the Obama-Clinton politics of war and war provocations!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Remember e.g. that Clinton as Secretary of State defended the US killing in Afghanistan by saying it was to secure the rights of women. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We should listen to ‘Progressive Democrats of America’ only when they begin to call for bringing all US troops (and weapons) home.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">—CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""><div class="">On Jan 17, 2018, at 7:31 AM, Donna Smith for Progressive Democrats of America <<a href="mailto:info@pdamerica.org" target="_blank" class="">info@pdamerica.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-1347902693151948656Apple-interchange-newline"></span><div class=""><table border="0" width="100%" height="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#0c71c3" style="color:rgb(21,57,94);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(12,113,195)" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" class=""><span class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="600" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin-top:13px;width:600px" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" class=""><table width="600" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1347902693151948656container" border="0"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><a href="http://pda.nationbuilder.com/?e=a5caa9f2fc2d2e25e0f72b5db2f4214b&utm_source=pda&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1_17_18_era&n=1" target="_blank" class=""><img src="http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/58a554a898876e2025000004/attachments/original/1487230506/national_banner.png?1487230506" alt="Progressive Democrats of America" width="100%" height="auto" border="0" class=""></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></span><table width="600" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-1347902693151948656container" border="0" style="font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);border-top-width:13px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(12,113,195);width:600px;padding:20px!important"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td bgcolor="#ffffff" class="m_-1347902693151948656body-content"><span class=""><h1 style="text-align:center" class=""><a rel="noopener" href="https://pda.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powertothepolls.com%2Ffaq.html&e=a5caa9f2fc2d2e25e0f72b5db2f4214b&utm_source=pda&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1_17_18_era&n=2" target="_blank" class="">Support the Women’s March</a></h1></span><p class="">Dear Cg—</p><div class=""><div class="h5"><p class="">Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) is a feminist organization. We became one of the first national organizations to endorse and work for legislation to lift the arbitrary deadline from the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). We’re helping lead-sponsors Senator Ben Cardin and Representative Jackie Spier gain cosponsors to enshrine equality in the U.S. Constitution. In all honesty, we’ve been critically important to this effort.</p><p class="">PDAers Andrea Miller, Mike Hersh, and Stephen Spitz helped lead organizing efforts on Capitol Hill—arm in arm with the National Organization for Women (NOW), United For Equality, and our friends Maryland State Senators Susan Lee and Rieger Manno, (who is running for the open Maryland 6th District House seat). Together, we helped encourage Sen. Cardin to step up as the lead sponsor of the Senate “3 State” ERA resolution. 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