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Urgent! May 16 is Last Chance to Help Insure A Santorum Defeat and elect a progressive US Senator from PA. YOU can Help

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Let's be clear. Santorum wants Casey as his opponent. he knows he can beat him. If that were not the case he could have done things to raise the visibility of Casey's opponents. Sandals, the other progressive in the race is clearly not a realistic candidate. He's a good man, with good issue positions, but he didn't do his job, building a real campaign organization. He ran some ads, paid a few staffers, but never built a grassroots base. His website alexa rankings show that even with the biggest media budget of the race, his penetration has been negligible. Santorum could have made life rough for Casey by engaging in dialogue that would have elevated Pennacchio's visibility, possibly forcing Casey to expend more resources. The Santorum campaign chose not to. I think it was because they saw that Pennacchio would be a more formidable challenger.

Here's more information on why Pennacchio is THE candidate who can best beat Santorum. Call or email everyone you know in PA. Tell them to vote for Chuck. They won't regret it. They can't lose.

Pennacchio for PA's US Senator www.chuck2006.com
Unhappy with Democratic Leadership. Like 91% of Democrats statewide? Send the Democratic leaders (who have picked losing candidates in the last 40+years of regular senate elections) a message. Reject their pick""Bob Casey-- and vote for Chuck Pennacchio

Best Chance to Beat Santorum; Chuck is PAC-free, while Casey took money from 120 PACs that also gave to Santorum. He will go to congress representing you, not special interests.

-Chuck is a real democrat. Casey looks more like a republican on issue after issue
-Chuck is Pro women's rights, while Casey isn't
-Chuck has a plan to get us out of Iraq soon and Chuck opposed the war.
-Casey supported the Alito nomination, even though Alito has a horrible record dealing with UNIONS. Chuck was anti-alito

Chuck will make a GREAT senator-- one we will be proud to call our own, one who will be a real leader in congress, the next Paul Wellstone. Casey avoids taking positions on the tough issues and is terribly boring. Chuck is charismatic, dynamic, passionate, like Howard Dean.

You Can't Lose Voting for Chuck. Chuck is the underdog. Casey was annointed by Rendell and a bunch of out-of-state senators who he will owe bigtime. Chuck will only owe the voters who elect him.

When he wins, he will be the most famous man in America, on the cover of every newsweekly, on all the prime time news, and he will be famous as a little guy who beat the system.
He will be the David who slew Goliath and millions in contributions will roll in within days of his win. When Chuck Wins, Every Power Democrat in the Senate who supported Casey will roll over and support him and money will come in ever bigger than for Casey. He will springboard far beyond Casey and have a strong grassroots base already in place.
If Chuck loses, you'll probably hold your nose and vote for Casey.

Santorum WANTS to Run Against Casey; He will destroy Casey with Swiftboat ads.
Polls (www.opednews.com) have shown that once people find out about Casey he totally loses his lead, and Santorum will make sure they find out about him. Casey lost to Rendell after having a 17% lead. He has never run against a tough candidate and won. No-one even remembers who he beat in the Treasurer election. Chuck has been a leader in three US senate campaigns that produced Democratic Wins. Casey was chosen by Democratic leaders who have picked losers in regular elections for 40 years straight. Zogby polls have repeatedly shown that Chuck pulls better against Santorum than Casey.

A Casey win against Santorum, will be devastating to women's rights. The Democratic party will hold Casey up as a poster boy of how Democrats can win, and they will advocate supporting candidates who oppose abortion rights. Opposing abortion rights is a slippery slope. Many of the national organizations that oppose abortion also oppose contraception. That's why it's easier to get health coverage for an abortion than for birth control pills. The anti-abortion lobby has blocked coverage for birth control pills by insurers.

Bottom line""Vote for Chuck Pennacchio. He's a long shot you will be proud to have voted for. If he wins, he will have gone up against a well funded campaign that spent millions of dollars, while Chuck, because he didn't take PAC money spent under $125,000. Chuck will have won because of his grass roots base of 6,000+, his stand on issues, his message and his dynamism as a candidate who crisscrossed the state over and over, making more than 350 appearances.

Imagine how Fantastic he'll do when he takes his PAC-free message to TV, when he has millions of dollars to promote his candidacy and further build his grassroots network. He will be invincible.

Use the tell a friend function on this page to forward this article and phone everyone you know in Pennsylvania

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