“What did liberals do that was so offensive to the Republican Party?
I’ll tell you what they did.
- Liberals got women the right to vote.
- Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote.
- Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty.
- Liberals ended segregation.
- Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
- Liberals created Medicare.
- Liberals passed the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.
What did Conservatives do?
They opposed them on every one of those things, every one.
So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, ‘Liberal,’ as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, because I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.”
- Matthew Santos (candidate from The West Wing). It is a quote from TV, but it is so damn on point it needs to be repeated here.
Jeremy Peters has been a resident of Washtenaw County, MI for the past 11 yrs. & graduated from the Univ. of Michigan with a BA in Political Science & Music in 2004. Jeremy spends his time in the music industry and political realms as the Director of Creative Licensing & Business Affairs for Ghostly International & Ghostly Songs; Partner in Quite Scientific Records; and has spent time as Community Contributor for AnnArbor.com, as a consultant for Natalie Mosher for Congress, Jocelyn Benson for Secretary of State, among others, and has served as a Field Organizer with Obama for America, and as an intern and volunteer on many progressive campaigns.
Jeremy currently serves as the Communications Director of the MDP Youth Caucus, as the Co-Chair of the Licensing/Publishing Committee of the American Association of Independent Music, and the Board of Directors of 826michigan. In his spare time, he sings professionally as a Lay-Clerk at Christ Church, Episcopal in Grosse Pointe, MI and plays trombone when people ask nicely.