Keep the special interests out!

The fight for Health Care Reform has been won. The battle for its implementation has begun. In the closing hours of the national debate, reports arose alleging that opposition protestors hurled racial and homophobic epithets at various members of Congress. Opposition elected officials, desperate to delay or derail health care reform, did their best to ensure that the insurance industry maintained its dominance in the lives of working families. Their resistance was strong, it was focused, and it was determined. Moving forward, we must be stronger and we must be more focused. We must meet and defeat every challenger, every doubter, every obstacle, and every distraction.

The fight for Michigan’s 2^nd District Congressional seat won’t be easy, but it can be won. And it must be won for a simple reason: there are those who would rather fight for the profits of powerful special interests instead of the needs and concerns of working families. I have been, and I will continue, fighting to ensure that working families don’t have their voices shouted down and their concerns shoved aside by the moneyed special interests.