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it's simply go back to uh... this the special election in illinois of filling
the seat vacated by jesse jackson junior because along uh... at the time there
was a lot made uh...
uh... the wants two million dollars that uh... uh... the
uh... fighting for some type of sensible gun regulation played in this uh...
election but this
is far as i could tell one of the untold stories was the work of
of organizations like credo action and and others ah... the folks daily closing
and others who were mobilizing
on the ground tell us about what what uh... credo is role
all in the in that special election
now what one at one of the we're apartment so i got it
them off for the president creat super patently only factory out of consumer
packet the and the twenty eleven
to fight back against all of the corporate money in politics
undergoing the groups like the n_r_a_ i'm better deciding elections all across
the country and taking uh... and taking over the decision of who literally ran
away from the voters in putting at the hands of corporate interests or just
willing to flow
uh... abs
seen amount of money into the greatest
and uh... and one of the things that are the first thing that we get after it
went well election where we helped defeat five republican incumbents in the
house
now must take a look at the special election it was happening
uh... and illinois second congressional district which is the
uh... on chicago's south suburbs and towns outside of chicago
and i was a democratic primary shaping up in it as a democratic congressional
districts or whoever won the primary was going to be in congress and probably in
congress for a very long time
compared it to be considered a state farm seat an incumbent enjoy a a
tremendous
intentions races anecdote is open seats and and we saw panipat
uh... there were three a leading candidate in the primary appeal the
seventeen not to hunt down had any ratings from the n_r_a_ and one of them
have been f rating from the n_r_a_ and uh... at the rate was getting to
national attention in part because the bloomberg either super pack and he was
pinning uh... a lot of money running negative ads to try and defeat the
front-runner a woman named debbie halvorson who'd been in congress before
it was very proud of her a hearing from the n_r_a_
uh... inci one starting to go down in the polls as a result of this magnitude
uh... airworks affronted by the bloomberg smoke out the week also
noticed that
she was coming down there with the other aerated candidates
uh... point hutchinson would actually coming up in the polls
uh... and public policy look at the dynamics of the racially said you know
that they're doing a lot of negative ads but if it's gonna be totalcomputer next
election or not a lot of people are gonna turn out its ad or a chicago to
really cold
there's nothing else on the ballot it's a special election maybe twenty percent
of all orders are gonna turn out
now maybe that's a very good at
suppressing the vote getting people not to vote
uh... but they were took a very good job of actually turning out the vote them so
weak that bloomberg spending a million bucks
uh... but we can't just used bigger than the fact that we spend a hundred
thousand votes only actually have people
going door-to-door
so we can set up you can let since
uh... and we had um... and we had people go door-to-door and we knocked on uh...
we knocked on twenty thousand doors with a very strong message to women white cli
primary voters
with a message to vote against
both of the uh...
eight rated n_r_a_ candidate
uh... ended up in the daily calls who'd been involved in this before we work
uh... they manage to find reagan campaign point x_-rayed candidate
uh... robin kelly
dealt give her the money to be trying out on that race
and so was this really amazing combination of progressive groups
getting involved on the ground where we know our money can make a huge
difference were always looking for whenever you have as much money the
other guys
whenever and i have as much money they were willing to pour into the politics
whether it's a michael bloomberg all-weather sheldon adelson but what we
do have is we have
we have a return to me at people
and we have the ability to do the
a symmetrical campaigns that have a much higher impact or lower dollar spent when
you combine it with a kind of
person to person contact that we know when the elections and that also
treatment our democracy through when they're set these cannisters at the end
of the day of the crushed uh... both at the
n_r_a_ aerated candidates and with the landslide for the effort you can live
from the n_r_a_
uh... uh... arriving kellyanne that setup
the national fight over legislation
uh... for uh... for approving gun violence republican span
the um... the background checks making arms trafficking a federal crime for
that we can send a message washington d_c_ that
it right now were before the election if your congressman and if you think about
michael get the n_r_a_ they're gonna cry come after my prime minister and
expensive i don't want to do it and is going well on this
but now the message is if you go with the n_r_a_ anti-cancer constituents
then not only have michael bloomberg happy that you're going to have an array
of progressive groups on the ground like real action
but here democrat or the republican and then it comes to you wait until we want
to make sure we can send a message before federal legislation came up that
there will be an accountability moment no matter what party you are here
and if you go with the n_r_a_ on god's and and and david you-know-who
the one of the side benefits i think you know that it is a and know that uh...
this is something that's just the beginning
of uh...
of of these type of
of interventions i guess it's
um... of going forward one of the side benefits is is that you you also uh...
the i'm sure that there is some
measure of
of
uh... association with getting in a from the n_r_a_ uh... verses progressive
alcee so there's is there's a sort of the two full
benefit here if you're getting that from the n_r_a_ i would say that i have no
data to back this up but just by my senses is that you're a
also pretty progressive on a lot of other issues
i think i think i think that's right i think you know i think that
the people that are not
willing to bend to the corporate influence
and to support guns at any cost
buckeye people to put the concerns of the voters over the concerns of that if
the gun manufacturers but also of wall street near the corporate interests that
are ruining our democracy so anyone can amp rating from the n_r_a_
if at any rate in my book so now when you guys are are contemplating you
twenty fourteen and
you cases
i mean if you guys in the in the uh... the credo packed now
are you starting to target races
that or r_t_c_ ring to develop lists of races where you think that you can
leverage the assets that you guys have which is a a dedicated that
uh... group of activists and enough money to give them the tools that they
need in certain districts have you guys are t has started to formulate uh...
those lists of those uh... districts
we're not only talking to people we're hearing from our members were looking at
it we haven't made any decision gak
we're going to hear uh... would love to hear what you think credo silver pack
dot to go uh... n and twenty fourteen enact imagine
between you and you were in your listeners hear probably have some really
good ideas
uh... for a family will be great for us the irving for us
uh... you know what what what what we need to go in and make a giver
generation is really a lock of local progressives
who wanna work to win
so that we can go along with um... uh... and in fact something up in and help
make them being more powerful so so we'd love to hear from the air
would love to hear from the air for military unit that you could send me an
email id becky appeal mol dot com to listening to this
and you have a congressional races coming up in you know
that there's a group of local progresses who not only
you wanna see different education in your district but you know that there's
a quarter of the people
that are willing to do the hard work it takes
uh... to uh... to uh... to could be picky party republican banana i'd love
to hear your suggestion becky credo mobile dot com