<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 30px; ">Dear OMers,<br><br>Bad feelings over the bailouts and extortionary bank fees have driven millions of Americans into the arms of local credit unions. But instead of luring them back with better customer service, <strong>Big Banks are using their lobbying might to kill off credit unions, attempting to destroy a crucial tax exemption that credit unions need to survive.</strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 30px; ">Big Banks sucked up over a trillion dollars in the bailouts, but now they’re claiming that <em>credit unions</em> are a threat to the national deficit. Banks say that credit unions cost the government $1.5 billion in lost tax revenue, but <strong>if the banks get their way, it will end up costing us over ten billion dollars each year in higher fees and rates.</strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 30px; "><strong>Congress gets back from recess this week, and banks are about to kick off a big lobbying push for the fall.</strong> The banks are trying to kill consumer-friendly credit unions so that they can raise rates with impunity -- but we aren’t going to let them.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 30px; "><strong>Join me in telling Bank of America and its cronies to stop their cruade against credit unions.</strong> <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/bank-of-america-credit-unions/3/2/?sub=taf" style="color: rgb(0, 171, 189); ">http://action.sumofus.org/a/bank-of-america-credit-unions/3/2/?sub=taf</a></p><p style="margin: 1em 0em; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 30px; "><br>Thanks, Mark </p><img alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" style="font-size: 13px; border-width: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; " id="e7ecb9a9-e283-45c5-b804-e404a95fd444" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:CB6D1661-1DAD-4251-814E-990F1B54C071@att.net"></body></html>