| Dear, Corporate Democrat Jim Costa voted with Donald Trump 47 percent of the time in 2017–2018. He's one of the most anti-environment Democrats in Congress. And now he's facing the toughest challenge of his political career from progressive champion Esmeralda Soria.(1) Courage California helped turn 7 seats blue in the 2018 wave election, and now we're taking aim at one of Donald Trump's favorite Democrats. Rep. Costa represents a solidly blue district, but he's the definition of a corporate Democrat. In fact, his biggest campaign contributors are Big Oil and corporate agribusiness.(2) He's one of the most anti-environment Democrats in Congress, voting against the environment more than half the time.(3) He opposes the Green New Deal and voted against allowing the EPA to crack down on global-warming pollution.(4) Costa even voted for the Keystone XL Pipeline and to weaken limits on smog pollution!(5) He's one of the only Democrats who voted to fund Saudi Arabia's horrific war in Yemen, a vote that his own hometown newspaper called "unconscionable."(6) This is a race we can win. Donald Trump got only 36% of the vote in this district, which is heavily Latino, one in which Costa's opponent, Esmeralda Soria, has deep support.(7) We used some of the most cutting-edge grassroots-organizing strategies to get out the vote and power the blue wave of 2018. Now we're turning those same tools against corporate Democrat Jim Costa. Will you make a donation today? Esmeralda Soria was elected to the Fresno City Council in 2014 and became the first Latina to be elected to that City Council's presidency in 2018. During her tenure, she helped create thousands of jobs, expanded Fresno City College campuses into the city's two lowest-income neighborhoods, and brought the first universally accessible park to the Central California region. Esmeralda Soria has been a notable progressive influence in housing and homelessness, where she has worked with community members and developers to bring in hundreds of new housing units to Fresno. In the age of Trump, we simply can no longer tolerate Democrats who vote with him and who put their corporate donors over their constituents. Yours in the fight for our democracy, Eddie, along with Angela, Anne, Brian, Deepthi, Caitlin, Gabby, Jay, Lindsay, Mary, Molly, Raquel, Scottie, and Tai (the Courage team) Footnotes:  |
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