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Old 06-23-2012, 09:28 PM   #1
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George Martinez is now neck and neck with his corporate-funded democratic rival. She is a 20-year incumbent with $800,000 of corporate money, George is an OWS activist and State Department Ambassador of Hip Hop/ Cultural Envoy to Latin America with just over $3,000.

http://www.examiner.com/article/arti...eorge-martinez

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There’s a difference between petitioning our government for a redress of grievances—essentially begging for help from people who aren’t from where we’re from and don’t get our interest—and straight-up replacing them. The problem is, how do you go about replacing them in such a way that you don’t have the same problem of failed leadership that we’re experiencing now, in twenty years’ time? How do you keep people honest and keep them engaged in the community they represent? The ones who are eating the corporate money are always moving further and further away from the real needs of the community they’re supposed to represent. When the biggest democrats and progressives also have Goldman Sachs as their number one campaign contributor, and also vote for bailouts, and also vote for things like H.R. 347, then we have an obligation to take them out of office. But it’s the way in which we do it that matters. Building an open-source, do-it-yourself model that brings the power of issue-literacy and direct action to bear against the corporate machine as part of a grassroots movement is what we’re all about.
Oh yeah, and he's also a freaking awesome underground hip hop artist
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