Lucas —
If you thought the amount of money spent in the 2014 elections was obscene,
fasten your seatbelts because we’re in for a rough ride:
Last week, the oil billionaire Koch Brothers pledged to spend $889 million
for Republicans in the 2016 elections.
Forget for just a moment all the schools we could build, or the crumbling
roads and bridges we could start to repair, or the medical research on
Alzheimer’s or autism that we could invest in with that ginormous
amount of money.
The deep-down point is that if we thought the playing field was tilted
against us last year, it’s only going to be worse in the next election.
So here we are. We can whimper, we can whine, or we can fight back.
Me? I’m fighting back—and I’m getting started right now.
I want to show the Koch Brothers that we’re ready to fight. So I’m
asking you to sign my petition now to commit to restoring the Democratic
Majority.
The Koch Brothers aren’t the only ones we have to worry about. Last
week, Republican political operatives linked to Mitch McConnell and Karl
Rove launched a new SuperPAC with one goal (and I quote):
“To protect and expand the Republican Senate Majority when Harry
Reid, Elizabeth Warren and their army of left-wing activists try to take
it back in 2016.”
The Republicans are right: That’s exactly what we’re going
to do. We’ll never be able to outspend the Koch Brothers or Karl
Rove on the airwaves, but we can build a grassroots team that’s
ready to fight for what we believe in. We can fight, and we can win.
We didn’t build this country so that it would work only for the
millionaires and billionaires and giant corporations. We will not abandon
this country to a bunch of Republicans who say, “I’ve got
mine, the rest of you are on your own.”
We’re a country that believes we make the investments together so
the next kid can get ahead, and the kid after that. And we’re going
to take on Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers so that every kid gets a fighting chance.
Please help us get started. Names—thousands of names and millions
of names—matter. Sign my petition to show Karl Rove and the Koch
Brothers that you’re committed to taking back the Senate in 2016
and standing up to the powerful interests trying to buy our elections.
We need you to be a part of this.
Thank you,
Elizabeth Warren