UPDATE 2: Just one day and over 500 members! We're starting this from scratch, and have been blown away by the support. This is the beginning of a true grassroots effort. Spread the word!
UPDATE: A great article on today's campaign from Broward New Times.
Hi, this is Evan Miller. I'm part of a team of recent college graduates working to start Jobs Now PAC, a political action committee that will give a voice to the 26 million Americans who are out of work or underemployed. We're different than the big liberal groups that routinely hit you up for money: we're young, have no money, and can only claim a small network.
But we've experienced firsthand the problems that Americans face in finding work: a job market over-saturated with talented, experienced individuals and lacking in new opportunities; an economy still reeling from the Great Recession; a government of disconnected elites who have lost sight of their responsibility to create jobs or, worse, would keep their constituents jobless in order to win elections.
Today, we're launching a campaign to demand that members of Congress return from their undeserved vacation to fulfill their promise to create jobs.
We're hoping to raise funds to run arguably humorous "Help Wanted" ads online - targeting Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Rep. Allen West (R-FL), and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) - as a first step in building a coalition to support candidates and members of Congress who demonstrate commitment to creating jobs and holding accountable those who impede efforts to solve this national crisis.
Like many of you, we were disappointed in the outcome of the unnecessary debate over raising the debt ceiling and appalled that Congress would risk killing 1.8 million jobs in order to satisfy the demands of a small, misinformed minority in the Tea Party.
We subscribe to the view held by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), that "part of the reason that we wound up with a very unsatisfactory bill... is that there was a disproportionate volume of communications from people who take a wholly negative view of virtually all government activity."
In other words, if we want members of Congress to create jobs, we must speak up louder and in greater numbers than the paranoids who receive and act on daily marching orders, as Jon Stewart has put it, from Fox News. Because more tax cuts and spending cuts just won't cut it.
So please sign up and give money today - $2 will do - if you want to help build a grassroots movement that will pressure Congress to create jobs. And please give us your own ideas in the comments or via email as to what you'd like from our PAC or for a "Help Wanted" ad by tweeting at us (@JobsNowPAC) and using #HelpWanted.
