[Peace-discuss] CT socialist candidate appeal

[David Green]

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From: Todd Vachon <dj_mayday at hotmail.com>
Sent: Mon, November 1, 2010 8:14:05 AM
Subject: [stopthewarpolitics] A Final Appeal: Bring your pens and vote for Jobs 
and Peace


Good Morning Everyone,


Today is the final day before the election and I wanted to reach out one last 
time to make an appeal for your vote. 


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. 


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 andboth 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 more 
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!!!

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 ( www.votevachon.com ) or the CT Voter Guide ( 
www.remindernews.com/voter-guide/2010 ) 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!


Thank You for your time and support!

Sincerely,
Todd Vachon
Socialist for Senate

ps; please pass this on to other friends and family members who are fed up with 
the two business parties.



DJing Socialist Calls for Write-In Wrevolution
From the Bronx County Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/bronx-county-independent-in-new-york/dj-ing-socialist-calls-for-write-revolution



Want to join a write-in revolution?  If you reside in Connecticut, Tuesday will 
be your big chance.  A feisty third party candidate named Todd Vachon 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 Socialist Party USA.  He’s calling it a 
“revolution.”  I’d call it an excellent chance to stick it to the fat-cat 
politicians in Connecticut.


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. 
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.
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. 
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.


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, Healthcare-NOW 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.
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.”
According to the latest Rasmussen Poll, 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.


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.





“Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of 
agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.”-Eugene Debs


"In so far as an economy is so arranged that slumps occur, the problem of 
unemployment becomes incapable of personalsolution."  -C. Wright Mills

“Power concedes nothing with out a demand. It never did and it never will." 
-Frederick Douglas


      
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