across the , down through Mexico and Central America, across the Darien Gap into and across South America. Such a massive project will make the transfer of global trade cheaper, An Open Letter from Kesha Rogers to the People of faster, and more efficient than ever before. The Port of plays a major role in this global th trade. Each year, more than 247 million tons of cargo move through the greater Port of Houston, the 9 Congressional District of : carried by more than 8,200 vessels and 215,000 barges. The port is consistently ranked 1st in the United States in foreign waterborne tonnage; 1st in U.S. imports; 1st in U.S. export tonnage, and 2nd in the U.S. in total tonnage. You Deserve a Better Future than Rep. Al “Impeachment” Green E. With respect to immigration and our relationships South of the Border and with Canada, I am advocating a new policy which I call NABRI, the North America Belt and Road Initiative, in which Would Allow You we base our policies toward one another on shared development projects and initiatives, such as rail corridors, new ports, water transfer from heavy rain areas to those suffering from drought, and Dear Friends and Neighbors, fighting terrorism, money laundering, and drug/human trafficking. F. We need a new foreign policy based, like that advocated by John Quincy Adams and Abraham As I campaign around the 9th Congressional District to become your Lincoln, on relationships developed between sovereign nation states rather than overseen new representative in Congress, I find more and more people are by some imperial global entity. These new sets of relationships require a new Bretton Woods realizing that this election is pivotal for the survival of the entire monetary system based on fixed exchange rates and the ability to issue long term loans for nation. If Al Green, who is leading the fight to impeach Donald development at low interest rates. This would be a system modeled on Franklin Roosevelt’s intent Trump, wins, along with other Democrats who share his views, to end colonialism and promote the full-scale development of all countries. Full development of we’ll be back to a program of endless wars, unlimited bailouts of the countries south of our border and ending the ravages of free trade, and low wage labor, is Wall Street and other speculators, and the economic ruin for the essential for conquering poverty, once and for all. majority of the population, all of which characterized 16 years of 5. In its new foreign policy, the USA would partner with China and Russia, and other major nations, in building Bush-Cheney and then . If the will of the people in the world Belt and Road Initiative, a grand series of projects all over the planet and into space, that is lifting an election is overturned by a bogus impeachment proceeding the world out of poverty and ending the needless wars we have suffered following Franklin Roosevelt’s which Al Green champions, our Constitution will be lost. We will death. Trump has signaled in many ways that he supports this endeavor, which is why the British and the have criminalized political differences, by means similar to the Obama administration’s intelligence agencies cooked up the bogus lies about Russian collusion to snatch British Star Chamber which our founders fought a revolution the 2016 election back from the man the people elected. This witch hunt and impeachment drive must be against. From what I have heard as I have toured the District and permanently derailed and shut down as a treasonous coup against the presidency and the Constitution, listened to you, such violent and partisan recklessness with our thereby freeing Trump, and the American people, to finally join with other sovereign nations in building the futures is not uncharacteristic of Al Green. world up out of poverty. Congressman Al Green likes to claim that he is the advocate of “the last, the least, and the lost.” Yet, he is one of the ten richest A Call to Action Congressmen of Texas, presiding over one of the ten poorest districts in Texas. The well-respected website, OpenSecrets.org, estimates Al Green’s net worth as $5,100,006 as of 2015. The 2016 Census puts the average Al “Impeachment” Green, can and must be defeated in income per household of the district at $58,000. Twenty-five percent of families with at least one child are living November. We must stop the coup against the President below the poverty line. Research published by NeighborhoodScout.com, puts our own Sunnyside district as the 6th now, and bring the United States on board a new paradigm most dangerous neighborhood in the USA, where residents for growth and development. I will champion the solutions to have a 1 in 11 chance of becoming a victim of a crime this the problems that we face together. But, your vote must be year, and there are more single mothers than 97.7% of all a deliberate vote for me. You have to find Kesha Rogers on other neighborhoods in the country. One of the hardest hit th the ballot for the 9 Congressional District and vote for me. areas of foreclosures from the financial collapse of 2008, is Tell those who insult your intelligence by saying “vote straight our own Missouri City, where Countrywide Financial set up an party ticket”, no, not this time. Vote independent. Vote for office and reaped huge profits on secondary mortgages. In the your own independence. Vote Kesha Rogers! last 10 years ATTOM Data Solutions, a real estate research firm, shows the average mortgage price in Missouri City has increased 65%, rental costs have doubled, and foreclosure phone: (713) 999-3716 rates in Missouri City are triple the rate of Texas, and more email: [email protected] than double the national rate. web: www.kesharogers.com social: fb.com/KeshaRogersTX The Houston Police consider Club Creek Drive in our own Sharpstown neighborhood to be the most dangerous in town, leading the city in burglary, robbery, rape and murder from September 2016 through February 2017. Nearby is the “red light district” of the Bissonnet Track, PAID FOR BY KESHA ROGERS 2018 where prostitutes work at all times of day and night, less than a block from Betty Roberts Best Elementary School. The answer to this level of poverty is an economic program which breaks people out of poverty. Congressman most of this speculative paper debt is actually worthless and can never be paid. Instead, what should be Green supports all sorts of programs aimed at “servicing” the poor, including drug legalization, sentencing reform, protected are things which contribute to the real economy and the security of individual citizens in their and other measures which assume that poverty itself will never be conquered, that the job of an elected official homes, in their cities, in the educational system, and in other actually useful human endeavors. serving Wall Street is to make this level of extreme poverty somehow a bit more comfortable. I choose, on the 3. Article I, Section VIII of the Constitution grants Congress the power to coin money, establish its value, other hand, to attack and conquer poverty itself. and incorporate a national bank. Congress must use this power to rebuild the commercial credit of our banking system with Treasury notes backed by gold reserves, issued by a new National bank. This My program both nationally and locally involves major infrastructure projects. It involves creating a modern credit will be issued specifically for employment in great projects all over the country, as we did during manufacturing platform for our economy. It involves, here in Houston, major flood control and water infrastructure the New Deal with the Tennessee Valley Authority. A new National Bank, like that conceived and run by projects. It involves moving to the next level of human economy with fusion power and space exploration. This Alexander Hamilton, allows Congress to issue any amount of credit needed to fund capital improvements must be coupled with an educational program which challenges all children to think creatively, to develop their in infrastructure, as well as critical advancements in new sciences and technologies, without increasing God-given talent to understand the great arc of human history and to find their identity in advancing humanity- taxes or creating unpayable debt. We need about $5 trillion per year for about 25 years, to bring our D+ ”to think big”, as Americans used to do. Donald Trump is attempting to do part of this by forcing manufacturing rated public infrastructure up to A+ rating, and advance our economy into the 21st Century with brand jobs back here to the United States, not allowing American corporations and Wall Street to take jobs overseas in new technologies in space science, nuclear fusion energy, medicine, and quality of life. Congress can set pursuit of cheap labor—the types of policies which have ruined our once great economy. Donald Trump has vowed up a capital budget, outside of fiscal budget revenue, to earmark these trillions into the specific projects to end the role of America as world policeman, and instead concentrate on rebuilding the American economy. they will fund, exactly as we did during the New Deal. Instead of supporting and supplementing the President’s intention, Al Green has made national headlines with 4. These projects will pay for themselves, as they did during the New Deal and Apollo Program, and continue his drive to impeach the President, not because of high crimes or misdemeanors, but because Al Green just to do nearly 100 years later. We must employ Americans in large scale on-the-job training programs doesn’t like Donald Trump. This position has garnered our Congressman national attention and donations, but that generate increasingly productive modes of employment, as was done with the Civilian Conservation does not even start to address the problems in this District and how we change it. Corps. Projects include: A. Advance human space exploration as the fastest way to increase the living standards on Earth, A big part of the reason Congressman Green can’t articulate an actual program for economic growth is because by forcing the creation of entire new technologies, materials, and scientific understanding. Rather he is a creature of Wall Street. He voted for the disastrous bank bailout of 2008. While on the House Financial than privatize and sell off our human space program, Congress should increase NASA’s funding Services Committee (he is now ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee), Green to 5.5% of the budget, as we did at the height of Apollo, with a renewed National mission, and became a significant advocate of the “quantitative easing” policies of the Obama Administration which saw some return to the Moon for full permanent exploration, industrial development, and scientific research, $16 trillion sucked out of the real economy (that could have built more flood control infrastructure, hospitals, and as a platform for further exploration to Mars and other planets and moons. Critical to this is the schools) and given away to Wall Street banks to buy back their stock and pad their books. Green also voted for mining and use of Helium-3 isotope in lunar soil, a powerful fuel source for thermonuclear fusion the disastrous Dodd-Frank Act, which legalized the ability for “too big to fail” banks to seize your pensions when technology; their next bubble bursts. B. Developing nuclear fusion is the next great technological revolution in human civilization, similar to the agricultural and industrial revolutions. Fusion allows us to create terawatts of energy for human My program is aimed at breaking the suffocating hold of Wall Street over our actual economic potential. uses, which will be necessary to power the next generation of infrastructure. Additionally, the very high temperatures of fusion reactions create entire new metallurgy, allowing us to refine materials to their isotopic structures. This means, among other things, that landfills become sources of raw Vote Kesha Rogers, Independent for U.S. Congress, TX-9 materials, ending the doctrine of “scarce resources” and allowing abundance of I am very aware that this District has historically voted straight ticket for Democrats. I grew up in the Democratic all things for human progress; Party tradition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I have spent my adult life studying the American System of political C. Build The North American Water and economy created by Hamilton, fostered by Lincoln, wielded by Roosevelt to lift millions out of destitution in the Power Alliance, a continental water , and fundamentally advanced by the economist Lyndon LaRouche. The Democratic Party has transfer system to move 138 million long since abandoned the Roosevelt program of job creation to focus, instead, on who uses what bathrooms. That acre feet of runoff annually from the is why I am running as an independent. Neither of the two political parties has a program which can meet my northwest coast of North America, over goal—creating the basis for this District to flourish, rather than trapping its inhabitants in endless suffering. Do as the Rocky Mountains, and distributed you will with the rest of the races, but for this one, find me, Kesha Rogers, and break your ticket. to arid regions of the southwest United States and northern Mexico from My platform is the result of examining the big picture, to chart the fewest number of steps to create the best California through Texas. Significant possible future for our nation and the world: hydro and nuclear power stations along 1. We must restore the economic sovereignty of the USA, to plan our own future. The strangulation of the the way will generate new capacity in real economy for purposes of Wall Street speculation must be ended, allowing capital to flow to the real, electricity for many uses; physical economy. This is done by reinstating Franklin Roosevelt’s Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which D. Create The World Landbridge, an separates deposit taking banks from investment firms and denies speculators any access to taxpayer or intercontinental high speed, depositor bailouts, for derivatives, bonds, and other mechanisms which Wall Street has used to rob the magnetically levitated rail system, real economy and build a new, larger bubble following the collapse of 2008. connected to Asia through the Bering 2. The level of debt present in the Wall Street bubble must be sorted out in bankruptcy, recognizing that Strait in Alaska, all the way through and