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Foreclose on Congressman Walden
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      • Rep. Greg Walden (OR-02)
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About this Petition Petition Letter Petition Updates

An Oregon homeowner facing foreclosure traveled to Washington DC to talk to her Members of Congress. All of them met with her, except her own Representative Greg Walden. Walden’s office told her “foreclosure is not an issue we are hearing about in our district.”


There were over 3700 foreclosures in 2010 in just 1 of the 20 counties in his district.

Members of Congress swear an oath to provide for the common welfare of the people of the United States. When they make choices that hurt everyone, then everyone has a right to hold them accountable. No matter where you live – in Oregon’s Congressional District 2, in another district in Oregon or in another state – sign this petition today to hold Walden accountable for his choices.

Representative Walden has continued to ignore the real needs of the American people during this recession. His votes take money out of the pockets of regular people while handing money over to large corporations and to the rich, including:

– Voting to subvert all banking reform to avert another economic meltdown, while also voting to defund federal help for people seeking to avoid home foreclosure.

– Voting to preserve $40 billion of subsidies and tax loopholes for the oil industry, while cutting emergency home heating assistance for low-income people.

It’s time to show Congressman Walden and all Members of Congress who vote against people’s needs that we will not stand for it. It’s time to stop foreclosing on homeowners in need and start foreclosing on politicians that default on their responsibilities to the people of this country. That is why we are issuing Representative Walden our own Notice of Foreclosure.

Sign this petition to send Representative Walden a copy of our own Notice of Foreclosure.

IMPORTANT -- Please sign your petition using your full ZIP code, including the four digits at the end (for example, 97603-4401) to ensure your message reaches Greg Walden. If you don't know your full ZIP code, look it up here: www.usps.com/zip4/

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Rep. Walden's foreclosure notice

Dear Congressman Walden,

Voting to defund needed public programs is a violation of your obligation to serve the public good. You have defaulted on your duties as an elected official and I have therefore signed this petition to issue you a Notice of Foreclosure.

Sincerely,

[Your name]

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To: Rep. Greg Walden
Re: Notice of Default and Foreclosure

<b><u>NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE</u></b>

Reference is made to the elected Representative of Oregon’s 2nd District in the US House of
Representatives, since 1999:

<b>GREG WALDEN</b>

This notice is about Rep. Walden’s failure to execute his duty to look after the financial and social health of his constituents in and the residents of:

<b>THE STATE OF OREGON</b>

Since January 2011, Rep. Greg Walden has been a member of the Republican majority in the US House of Representatives. The US House is charged with producing a budget for the United States of America, and Rep. Walden, as a member of the Republican majority, has particular responsibility to produce a budget that ‘provides for the common welfare’ of the people of the United States. He has failed to execute his duty to look after the financial and social health of all the people of the State of Oregon, and of the United States, having a voting record including the following:

1. Voting to increase the US military budget to over 700 billion dollars, while cutting funds for the Women, Infants, and Children food program.

2. Voting to preserve 40 billion dollars of subsidies and tax loopholes for the oil industry, while cutting emergency home heating assistance for low-income people.

3. Voting to preserve 700 billion dollars of tax cuts to the richest Americans, while voting to end the Medicare program that protects senior citizens from medical bankruptcy.

4. Voting against reforming the unjust immigration laws of the United States, further oppressing America’s undocumented economic refugees, while at the same time voting to defund and neuter the enforcement arm of Security and Exchange commission, which is charged with investigating financial fraud on Wall Street.

5. Voting to water down and subvert all banking reform proposed to avert another economic meltdown, while also voting to defund federal help for people seeking to avoid home foreclosure. Rep. Walden’s office has stated that “foreclosure is not an issue in the 2nd Congressional District” while thousands of homes are in foreclosure today.

6. Voting to defund public safety programs, emergency food assistance, community health and mental health programs, support for reproductive health, environmental protections, public transportation investments, public education funding, the National Cancer Institute, while fighting to preserve public subsidies for corporate agriculture, coal mining, uranium mining, off shore oil drilling, job exporting and tax avoidance.

7. Having proven himself to be a hazard to this community.

Notice is hereby given that the people, by reason for said default, have elected and do hereby elect to foreclose on Rep. Walden, and do hereby claim the following to satisfy the unmet obligations of Rep. Walden to the people:

1. Repossession of the political trust that the people have vested in Rep. Walden.
2. A deficiency judgment.
3. Such other equitable relief as the people may deem necessary.

Dated at Bend, Oregon, this 7th of May, 2011

[Your name]

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