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For Immediate Release: June 15, 2010 Contact: CREDICO2010
www.randycredico2010.org
For more info: 212 924 6980
Schumer Attacks Battered Women with New Bill
New York — “Another shameless and hollow gimmick by Wall Street Chuck”
Schumer’s cell phone sign up bill is little more than a shameless and hollow gesture giving the appearance that Schumer is tough on terrorism, but yet again, at the expense of poor people.
Requiring that identification be produced at the point of sale, transmitted to the cell phone company and then maintained by the cell phone company will not only dramatically increase the price of prepaid cell phones, it will have a chilling effect on the number of vendors willing to put up with the hassle of the paperwork. Fewer stores will offer prepaid phones for sale, and those that do will increase the price.
Who uses prepaid cell phones, aside from terrorists? Children across the state, whose parents are wisely proactive when it comes to limiting the amount of time and expense of their children’s phone usage, but who know that in the times we live in, cell phones for children, are a necessity. Poor people, who may not have the necessary documentation and credit to qualify for a cell phone plan. People who are out of work, but desperately seeking employment -it is next to impossible to secure a job without providing a contact phone number. And battered women living in a shelter who can not provide proof of address, for whom access to a phone could mean the difference between life and death.
What will requiring proof of identity at the point of sale, and maintaining a record of that identity, accomplish for the war against terrorism, virtually nothing. Fake identification cards are a dime a dozen. Those who plan on using a prepaid cell phone for nefarious purposes will be the most adept at providing false documentation – and the most able to absorb the additional cost. And what information will be available to law enforcement? Just a name and not an address to which a bill is regularly delivered, not a place of employment, not a bank account or credit card number. Chuck needs to ask himself – what is that name worth? Not a lot to law enforcement, but a big expense that poor people can ill afford.
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Like many of you, we are dispirited by the ever-rightward lurch of the once promising Obama administration. As a result we view electoral politics more skeptically and wearily than ever. Nevertheless, we are challenging Charles Schumer for his United States Senate seat from New York for the very best of reasons.
If Mr. Schumer is unchallenged in the Democratic Primary there will be no opportunity for progressives to register disdain for his brazen work as a shameless apologist for multiple wars, state usurpation of our civil liberties, and further engorgement of the racist police/prison/military industrial state. Without a challenge from the left, Schumer will be permitted to whistle past the audacious bailouts of Wall Street and gargantuan banks — bailouts that are covered with Charles Schumer’s greasy fingerprints. If Schumer stands unchallenged in the September 14th primary, there will be no one to even suggest that New York’s disappearing middle class, and escalating numbers of poor face oppression and plunder that confronts them on behalf of Charlie’s rich but morally bankrupt cronies.
No one else is standing for truly progressive values against Schumer – except Credico2010. We are doing this duty because we feel we must confront New York’s senior Senator for his egregious neglect of the views and needs of so many of his constituents. We must see this through or he will be returned to Washington possessed of not even an iota of accountability to New York’s legions of true progressives. Worse, when he gets there, the corporate media will continue to inform us that the likes of Charlie Schumer represent progressive values.
With the help of a few dedicated and selfless individuals, we have managed to jump through every hoop and meet every requirement old school pols have placed in my way. To say we have run this campaign on a shoestring would be to seriously underestimate the cost of shoestrings. Nonetheless, to campaign in a state the size of New York is expensive– at least to a working class candidate such as myself. We are willing to continue to hold Chuck Schumer’s Guccis to the fire. But without an infusion of operating funds, we will be unable to continue to apply the heat. We know that times are tough and money is scarce. Were that not the case we wouldn’t be running a campaign meant to remind Senator Schumer that he had better start thinking in terms of the people who have been impoverished and victimized by his policies and the crooked cronies he services.
We continue to be taken seriously by not only alternative but the mainstream press. And on Monday May 24th, a new Sienna poll will be released featuring a one on one matchup of Credico2010 vs. Sen. Schumer.
On June 8 the hard part begins. It is the moment that tries peoples’ souls. It is the kickoff of the petioning drive to get on the primary ballot. This is a costly, labor intensive project. We will get the signatures but we will get challenged by team Schumer, who will spend millions to avoid a primary and a debate. THAT IS WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP. We need donations. Any kind of donation: Money, petitioning or organizing.
Here is a link to a recent interview on Capitol Tonight with award winning journalist Elizabeth Benjamin: http://capitaltonight.com/2010/05/randy-credico-hopes-to-unseat-schumer/
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For Immediate Release Contact: Credico 2010: 212-924-6980
May 10, 2010 www.randycredico2010.org
New Ad Slams Schumer for Voting to Support
Odious, Xenophobic Arizona/Mexico Border Wall
and the Schumer/Graham National ID Card
New York – U.S. Senatorial candidate, Randy Credico today blast’s Senator Chuck Schumer in a full page ad published in todays El Diaro La Prensa New York City’s largest Spanish speaking paper. “I can’t believe that Sen. Schumer has teamed up once again with a Southern Republican to introduce legislation that is racist, discriminatory and intrusive,” said Credico,
Credico went on to say, “The big wall they are building is symbol of intolerance and insult to our neighbors to south especially becauset Mexico will be celebrating
200 years of independence this September 16. We can’t afford it monetarily or morally. As Reagan said to Gorbachev ‘Tear down that wall.’ It’s time to tear down the Mexican/Arizona wall!” “I believe the only solution is to give total amnesty to all. We are all god’s children and we are our brother’s keeper.” said Credico.
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January 8, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Randy Credico Credico2010@gmail.com 212 924 6980
CREDICO BLASTS SCHUMER FOR BOSSISM
New York – U.S. Senatorial candidate, Randy Credico today blasted Senator Chuck Schumer’s efforts to convince former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. not to challenge Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
“Why is Schumer opposed to open Democratic primaries,” said Credico. “Why should Schumer dictate who the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate is?”
“This smacks of old time Tammany style bossism,” said Credico. “Why shouldn’t Democratic Primary voters decide who to nominate?”
“Is Schumer afraid that Ford will suck-up the special interest campaign contributions that Schumer thinks belong to him?,” said Credico. “I urge Harold Ford to make the race and ignore pressure from boss Schumer not to offer New York Democrats a choice.”
“By contrast the venerated late Senator from Wisconsin, Robert LaFollette, broke up rather than built up his state’s trust-dominated political system and fought for a primary election campaign in Wisconsin which effectively destroyed the political machine there that Schumer, in this instance, is so eager to preserve. The result is that today’s Wisconsin enjoys the public service of two independent, unbought Senators while we are forced to endure a political system in our state which is characterized by mediocrity and an allegiance to corporate interests. Schumer apparently believes that the United States Senate is some sort of stateside House of Lords which is best known for the lifetime tenure of its members.”
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