Dear Ted,
After eight years of disastrous policies of the Bush Administration, we need a New Direction for America. It's time for a new type of President and it's time for a new type of politics. It's time for Barack Obama.
Barack Obama shows us a new way forward. He has a real plan for protecting and promoting working families, reforming health care and getting our economy back on track. But more than that, he has called us to rise above to a better type of politics that reaffirms our responsibility to ourselves and to others.
Here in California, please join me in opposing Propositions 4 and 8. Proposition 4 is an ill-conceived measure that would put the health of our teens in danger. Proposition 8 would write discrimination into our State Constitution and take away the existing rights of same sex couples to marry. Both of these propositions are opposed by Barack Obama as they are rooted in the old politics of division, and they must be defeated.
I urge you to vote Democratic from the top of the ticket on down, because an Obama Administration will need Democratic allies at all levels of government to enact the changes we need. Whether it's a vote for Congressional candidates to re-elect Jerry McNerney and elect Charlie Brown and our strong challengers; a vote for State Assembly candidates like Joan Buchanan, Marty Block, Manuel Perez, or State Senate candidate Hannah-Beth Jackson; or a vote for a Democratic supervisor or city council member; a vote for a Democrat is a vote for Team Obama.
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John McCain represents four more years of the Bush Administration. In nominating John McCain, the Republican Party shows they have no new ideas to address the challenges that we face as a nation.
That is why, rather than running on the issues, we have seen little more from John McCain and the Republican Party than attacks and distortions.
Team Obama offers real change and a new way forward.
Onward to Victory!
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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