Attorney John Morgan

‘For the People’ sounds just fine to attorney John Morgan

said he’s happy that congressional Democrats are using “For the People” as their slogan for the 2018 election.

Congressional Democrats’ new slogan for the 2018 elections has a familiar ring for Central Floridians: “For the People.”

Of course, that phrase is also the longtime slogan for Orlando attorney John Morgan’s law firm, Morgan & Morgan, and has graced billboards in Florida and around the U.S., often with Morgan photoshopped to be wearing a superhero’s cape or as Santa Claus. The firm also owns the website forthepeople.com.

Morgan, a longtime Democratic fundraiser who considered a run for governor himself before leaving the party to become an independent, said he has no problem with Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic candidates using the phrase.

“I stole it from Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence,” he said, although that particular three-word phrase doesn’t appear in the 1776 document verbatim, despite coming close several times.

It was later used by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address, stressing that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“Seems like free advertising for me,” Morgan said. “Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Every time it is said people will think of us. I like free.

“Aunt Nancy has my blessings,” he said of Pelosi.

Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, cochair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, told CNN about the new slogan, “What we’re saying to them is that Democrats hear you, we agree with you and we are fighting for the people each and every day.”

“President Trump and Washington Republicans promised they’d fix these problems,” she told CNN. “Instead, the lobby of the Trump hotel in Washington is filled with lobbyists and special interests who are writing the rules to enrich themselves. We think it’s time for a real change, so we can get government to work for the people once again.”