Out at FDL, Siun is reporting that Blue America PAC has joined grassroots activists to hold “leader” Rahm Emanuel accountable to Democrats. Blue America has launched ads in English, Spanish, Korean, and Polish, telling Emanuel: “Stop being afraid to fight for immigrants, and start acting like a real leader.”
Howie Klein at Blue America:
A few weeks ago Democratic Party insiders under the aegis of the DCCC held a training session in Chicago for a couple dozen of their favored candidates. Afterwards several of the participants, disgusted, let Blue America know that Rahm Emanuel delivered an ominous message demanding that they “move to the right” on immigration.
And yet Emanuel’s own North Side Chicago district is one of the nation’s most immigrant-friendly districts. It always has been. And Emanuel never tires of telling the immigrant communities that he is their best friend. They don’t believe him because his actions– and his inactions– speak far louder than his words.
Starting today, Blue America is teaming up with Illinois’ largest immigrants’ rights coalition, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, to help bring a little accountability into the life of Mr. Emanuel.
It is time to take on all right-wing Democrats who want to use Republican-created wedge issues.
Blue America PAC is a project of four leading progressive blogs: Firedoglake, Down with Tyranny, Crooks and Liars, and Digby. Formed in August 2006, BlueAmerica raised over half a million dollars for progressive candidates in 2006 and is on track to do even more for 2008, supporting “more and better Democrats.”
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