We Need a People's Candidate

MAY 21, 2007 :: We Need a People's Candidate

Have you heard any of the rumors going around about potential Democratic candidates to challenge John Cornyn for the U.S. Senate in 2008? Well I have, and I don't like what I'm hearing. The Washington Beltway Insiders are trying to pick a candidate to run against Cornyn on the basis of their ideas about what the people of Texas need and want, and -- surprise, surprise -- on the basis of who has or can raise the most big money.

John Cornyn is a supporter of Bushite tyranny who needs to be taken out for the good of the people of this state, for the good of the whole country, and for the good of the Constitution that he has so repeatedly dishonored by being a lapdog for the Bushites' attempts to stuff our rights and our heritage into the trash. But I'll be damned if I want a private club of wealthy Beltway-centered elite deciding who the Texas Democratic nominee will be to carry the people's banner against Cornyn. And I'll be double damned if I want the choices for the people of Texas to be decided by the power of money rather than the power of the people. It appears nothing has changed with the Insiders. But we are supposed to live in a system of democracy, not aristocracy! The people are supposed to govern themselves, not be governed by money and those who have large amounts of it.

We cannot allow the blooming populist movement of the last few years go die on the vine in relation to the Cornyn seat. We need a people's candidate.

David Van Os

Wanna Be Blue Says:

David is right you know we need a progressive U.S. Senator. We say the Texas Democratic Party should draft David Van Os as our candidate for U. S. Senator. Send David an email urging him to run in the Democratic primary for the Senate. vanos@chezsnarko.com We need a change from the cookie cutter candidates offered by the Republicans. We need a man of the people! We need David Van Os.

David Van Os has been a civil rights/labor lawyer for over 29 years. A dedicated Democrat, he a is co-founder of the Texas Progressive Populist Caucus, and receiver of the 2005 Backbone Campaign's "Spine Award". David has proven day-in, day-out, that he stands for the PEOPLE of this great state, not its corporations. For more information contact Rachel Barrios-Van Os 210-332-7080 or visit http://vanosfortexasag.com