Last year, I wrote a quick post about Martin Heinrich, and alluded to something big his campaign was working on regarding FISA. At the time, I thought it would be breaking pretty soon, but it looks like it popped up earlier this year. It hasn’t seen a lot of play time (though hopefully that will change now that Matt Stoller highlighted the video over at OpenLeft):
Top-tier New Mexico Congressional candidate Martin Heinrich in this video, though, makes a real argument about why FISA happened, and it’s not your standard ‘both parties need to stop bickering’ but a real observation that both parties keep voting for legislation that abrogates our freedoms in very dangerous ways.
Here’s the video:
Why not reward good behavior, and make a donation to the Heinrich campaign, and work to make a True Blue New Mexico.
Martin Heinrich on FISA
Last year, I wrote a quick post about Martin Heinrich, and alluded to something big his campaign was working on regarding FISA. At the time, I thought it would be breaking pretty soon, but it looks like it popped up earlier this year. It hasn’t seen a lot of play time (though hopefully that will change now that Matt Stoller highlighted the video over at OpenLeft):
Here’s the video:
Why not reward good behavior, and make a donation to the Heinrich campaign, and work to make a True Blue New Mexico.
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