Say NO To Lawrence Summers

The Washington Post has stated that Obama has tapped Lawrence Summers as the frontrunner for the Secretary of the Treasury, but he is definitely NOT the right person for the job. When President of Harvard, Summers dismissed women's "innate ability" to handle math and science compared to men, saying that was why so few women held elite science positions. He also supported deregulation when he was the Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration.

This petition below, which I signed, is available for those who want to protest his consideration for the Treasury slot. It's time to let Obama know that Summers is not the right person for the job.

Dear Friend,

I just signed this petition asking that Obama appoint a Treasury Secretary who can clean up Wall Street, not one who helped deregulate it. Right now, the leading candidate for the post is Clinton administration official Larry Summers, who had a hand in reducing regulations on banks in 1999.

We can't fix this mess by handing control to the people who made it.

Read the petition and sign up here:

http://action.openleft.com/page/petition/nosummers

Thanks!