I'm very excited to begin announcing the launch of the ReplaceCongress movement in 2012 races across the country, and my own newly launching US Senate campaign, challenging wealthy corporate Senator Diane Feinstein. The David Levitt for US Senate 2012 Committee filed yesterday.
Although it's short notice, I'm personally inviting you to an event on Monday, January 16th from 2PM to 4PM in Sebastopol at Green Valley Ranch. If you can make it, contact me at 707.515.7828 for directions.
We'll be celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, as well as the ReplaceCongress movement and the launch of the Levitt for US Senate 2012 campaign. Check out the videos and press material below for a glimpse of what we'll discuss and what's happening nationwide. There will be refreshments.
In case you have plans, this won't take all afternoon -- we'll gather at 2PM and I'll begin my remarks on Dr. King and the ReplaceCongress movement at 3.
If you want to fix Congress or support my campaign but can't attend Monday, be sure to contact me anyway -- there'll be plenty of developments and events starting now, thru November.
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ReplaceCongress Movement Launches
Challenger to CA Senator Feinstein Among First 10 Candidates
Amid record disapproval of Congress reaching 95%, a new movement calling itself ReplaceCongress today announced plans to run credible replacement candidates nationwide in the 2012 elections. The new candidates include middle and working class citizens who vow to run on their qualifications, rather than a race for money they way most sitting politicians do. Though common in goals, the candidates range widely, including a Democratic challenging 20 year incumbent Senator Diane Feinstein in California, three working class candidates from South Carolina, and several newly eligible 25 year olds running for House seats. The first ten candidates are announcing this week.
While ReplaceCongress is not a political party, two newly formed parties, the Justice Party and the online based AmericansElect, will participate, and have already created space on ballots for this new breed of candidates. ReplaceCongress candidates may run as Democrat or Republican primary challengers to "safe" seats, Justice, Green, Libertarian or Independent. What they have in common is, they're running on their integrity and their competence, not on how many corporate dollars they collect or how rich they are. The American public, which despises the Congress and embraced economic messages of the Occupy movement, has never been hungrier for this message.
The new candidates' platforms typically feature policies that are popular with most Americans but without leadership in Washington: ending the Afghanistan war and prohibition of marijuana, protection for whistleblowers, freedom to marry, prosecution of financial fraud and torture, and universal health care similar to the other civilized nations.
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California's David Levitt Aims to Replace Senator Diane Feinstein
Computer scientist and engineer Dr. David Levitt of Sebastopol, California is running for the Senate seat held by Diane Feinstein for the past 20 years. Levitt is a founding director of BeYourGovernment.org, which helps ordinary people launch campaigns for US Congress without accepting corporate donations.
Dr. Levitt promises a new kind of campaign. "We won't demonize or distort our opponents unfairly the way politicians usually do. Showing their actual records are plenty bad enough."
Says Levitt, “Diane Feinstein pushed for the unnecessary Iraq War, leads the unwinnable Drug War and modern Prohibition, and even voted for the 1999 law that colleagues warned would lead to a huge financial crash within a decade. These errors have cost America trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. She routinely advocates laws that are immediately declared unconstitutional, like the PATRIOT Act and defunding ACORN. Yet she doesn’t offer so much as a ‘Whoops – my bad’ to her constituents and colleagues. The fact that Diane Feinstein remains in office after 20 years with no accountability is a stark indicator of how broken our political system has been. The fact that until today, millionaire Feinstein has had no serious 2012 Senate challenger confirms that under the old system, only money and party seniority mattered. That’s about to change.”
Rasmussen confirms just 5% approve of Congress:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/congressional_performance
Levitt on The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur
http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/the-young-turks-occupy-wall-street-electing-corporate-donation-free-candidates
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