An open letter to Robert Borosage

Hello Mr. Borosage

I once got to speak to you on the phone briefly about 2 years ago. As just a regular citizen I liked that I could speak to someone as you who leads Campaign for America's Future. As a person with a disability I cannot easily go to a conference such as yours.

When I spoke to you 2 years ago the war in Iraq continued, the So called Prescription drug benefit that would not help the middle class of which I appear a member, began and others who need HR 676 did not have it and still don't have single payer universal health care, and millions of adult people earned a measly $5.15 an hour.

I told you that we need to take the political fight to some prominent Republican party contibutors in the form of a telephone campaign pressuring their CEOs to get an end to the war and also to get us the progressive legislation we need in America or we will refuse to buy their products.

I sincerely believe that we need to do this in 2008 more than ever. Why? Because the Senate has blocked an end to the war. Noone has introduced legislation to increase the minimum wage to $10 an hour. Noone has introduced much less passed a repeal of the ineffective Medicare Part D and placed the prescription drug benefit in Part B where it should have gone and not associated a monthly premium and yearly deductibe and a means test and a coverage gap with such benefit that covers 80 percent of any medication. Noone has gotten HR 676 passed.

The Republican party has insulated itself from the public but companies like General Electric, Rite Aid Pharmacies, and Wendy's Restaurants, which each of these 3 have given money to the Republican party and their candidates for years and profit on the war, the broken health care system and a minimum wage that leaves a lot of people with poor buying power in a $10 an hour Bu$h economy. These companies do not appear insulated from the public and can capitulate to an organized telephone campaign from angry but peaceful indignant progressives, demanding the progressive action and legislation or these companies lose a lot of money.

2 years later since I have called you, I hope as a private citizen, you will put out the word that we need to take the political fight to companies like the above mentioned. People like me and people less fortunate than myself cannot wait and hope that we will elect a Democratic President and also get a Democratic majority in the Senate with Democrats having 60 votes. Look at who former Democrat Joe Lieberman will support this year. John McCain. Of course we should push for a Democratic President and a filibuster proof Democratic congress but if we don't then we sit in a similar position that we had 2 years ago and today.

2 years later since I spoke to you on the phone, we still have similar conditions in America with respect to the war, broken health care and the minimum wage.

We need a 21st century version of the peaceful Gandhi revolution

Gandhi helped throw the British out of power in India by having the Indian people boycott British goods.

Nelson Mandela helped bring down the National Party of South Africa by having the world boycott South African goods.

We need to bring down the Republican party in America by having the progressive citizens boycott those goods that contributors to the Republican party sell. No CEO wants 30 to 50 percent of his customer base to disappear.

Go to http://liberal2.democratz.org [1] and you can find out how to bring down the Republican party.

Thank you very much.

Dennis Baer

dennis.baer@verizon.net [2]

Have you had enough of petitions, rallies, and protests that have not worked to end the war or pass progressive legislation? The Republican party and their conservative members appears insulated from the public and unresponsive to the public. However their contributors do not appear insulated from the public and can collapse under pressure to a withering telephone campaign threatening mass boycotts of their products until they get their friends at the GOP to do what we want.

Would you consider joining these telephone campaigns and spreading the word? I have created these campaigns to peacefully take back America. After you have made these phone calls please send me email to info@democratz.org [3] with the subject CALLED.

I plan to bring this message to as many Democratic Clubs around the United States of America as I can.

Thank you.

http://www.democratz.org [4]

Get as many people to make these phone calls.

Call Republican contributor and war contractor General Electric Corporation at 800 386 1215 or 203 373 2211 and tell the person who answers, that you want the GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to get Bush to end the war in Iraq and then Bush resign with Cheney and until that happens you will not buy any GE products and that you will tell your friends about this. Then call a local appliance store that sells GE appliances and tell the person you will not buy any GE products from their store until they can convince the GE CEO to convince George W Bush to end the war and then resign with Cheney.

Call Republican contributor Rite Aid Pharmacies at 800 325 3737 and tell the person that you want the Rite Aid CEO to get the congress and the President to enact HR 676 single payer universal health care and repeal Medicare Part D and place the drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80% of the cost of drugs with no extra premiums, no extra deductibles, no means tests, no coverage gaps, and remove the means test for Medicare Part B and until that happens, you won't buy ANYTHING from Rite Aid.

Call Republican contributor Wendy's restaurants at 614 764 3553 and tell the person in that you want their CEO to get the congress and the President to enact a $10/HR MIN. WAGE into law and until this happens you will not go to a Wendy's Restaurant.

Call your local Exxon/Mobil gas station and tell the manager that you will not get your car repaired there, nor will you buy gasoline there until their parent company sets their price so that they can sell you gasoline for $1.75 a gallon. Then only do business with other gas stations. We will no longer stand for $3 a gallon gasoline.

Kentucky Residents:

Call General Electric Appliances Corporation in Louisville at 502 452 4311 and other appliance stores that sell GE products and demand that they get Senator Mitch McConnell to get an end to the Iraq war and for Bush and Cheney to resign and until that happens you will not buy any GE refrigerators, stoves, televisions, dishwashers, ovens, lightbulbs, etc. Get as many Kentucky residents to make these phone calls.

After you make these calls you can also call Mitch McConnell's office and tell his office that you have called GE in Lousiville and won't buy their products until Mitch McConnell gets an end to the war and gets Bush and Cheney to resign.

General Electric Appliances
9500 Williamsburg Office Plaza
Louisville, KY 40222
USA

tel: 800 626 2000
tel: 502 452 4311
502 452 4313