THEY'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER

Lucas,

A meager $293? That's the average weekly unemployment check collected by the 15 million Americans looking for work right now. Or $293 million? That's what outside groups funded primarily by corporations and the very wealthy spent on the 2010 elections.

$75 billion? That's the windfall coming to people who are already rich if the Bush tax cuts are extended. $145 billion? That's the record amount Wall Street is paying in bonuses this year.

Trillions? In the wake of the financial crisis, that's what We, the People provided in bailouts, loans and other supports to save Big Business from its own greed and irresponsibility.

At Public Citizen, our mission is to counteract the policies that cause numbers like these. We can defeat corporate power. But we need your help.

Please contribute $10, $20, $35 or whatever you can today.

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Corporations just elected their dream Congress. It's going to take all of us doing everything we can, together, to prevent Congress from rolling back our health and safety protections and showering gifts on their corporate patrons--and to win new public interest initiatives.

Public Citizen will be leading the fight against corporate power in the new Congress, a Congress that will be less critical of corporate America's agenda than any we've ever seen.

The critical first step is making sure we can hit the ground running when Congress returns to Washington in January. That's why I'm writing now to ask for your help to raise $150,000 by the end of 2010.

Your contribution of $10, $20, $35 or whatever you can afford will be put to work immediately building on our important achievements in 2010 and growing our movement against runaway corporate power.

For four decades, Public Citizen members have stood together to face down corporate power.

I need you to stand with me today.

With the new Congress getting ready to take office, lobbyists are already busy cutting deals for their corporate clients. The newly elected lawmakers have already started collecting corporate lobbyist cash--even before taking the oath of office. We must mobilize right now to take on the special interests that are coming to collect on their investment in the 2010 campaign.

So much is at stake right now. Please join the tens of thousands of your fellow Public Citizen members who are helping us stand up to corporate power and continue our work in the regulatory agencies, in Congress, in the courts, at global trade negotiations and in the streets.

Together, we can change the sobering numbers from this past year and make America a better and more just country for everyone.

Thank you.

Robert Weissman, President

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