Margaret Chin, a newly elected councilwoman from Manhattan, said it was time for elected officials to adopt the tactics of the groups that lobby for change.
"It is time for elected officials to see the writing on the wall and abandon efforts to lock Americans out of the ballot box".
"It's about time that we start demanding that the clubs open the door; it's about time that we start running Hispanic people for elected officials; it's about time for elected officials to pay attention to us".
That vow, which cooled the crisis fever of late summer, bought time for elected officials to begin creating the superstructure needed to make the euro more credible, including a permanent fund for rescuing stricken member countries and a unified system for overseeing banks.
The 2.5 million veterans who served our nation in Iraq and Afghanistan have done their part, and now it's time for elected officials to do theirs.
Now it is time for elected officials in this country and across the world to wake up to the realization that trade deals like the TPP, TTIP and TISA hold similar harms for the middle class across the globe.
