canvassing tomorrow Sat. 26th at 10am
217 Turnstone Rd.Stockbridge GA 30281(Flippin Woods Subdivision)
770 312 6736
Please come out this Saturday and help us win in November. We will be registering voters and passing out literature in a door to door canvass. Please come out and please pass on the invite to a friend. we need as many people as possible!!!
for more info email me at Jim.Nichols@gmail.com or 770 312 6736
It was the 4th Tuesday of the month... so the Henry County Democrats were meeting today at 7:30pm at the Government annex building.
If you didn't attend you missed a great turnout... please check the website soon for an update on what went on.
Please, Please, Please come out and bring a friend to our canvass this saturday at 10am. We will start at my house and go out in teams to knock on doors and register voters.
for more info call me at 770 312 6736
I will be hosting a canvass effort for the Obama campaign...
I posted the event on this site... please rsvp and tell your friends to come out as well. We need to locate voters... get voters registered... and work on letting people know that GA is play this year and we need them!!!
Invite a friend to go get a coffee and talk about the upcoming election. Give them a chance to talk about their feelings and concerns. Listen to them. Appreciate the fact that they know what they are going through. If they ask for your opinion, feel free to give it. But at the end as you wrap up... say it was wonderful to talk and that you hope they seriously give Obama a good look because you believe he will best represent that persons interets and conerns.
No pushy politics... just concern, interest, and a friendly nudge to consider one of the candidates.
If everyone does that today we are one vote closer to victory in november.
Hi all,
I just recently found out about a Obama house party coming up on Saturday. They've asked if we can help make phone calls. I need anyone who can make phone calls this afternoon/evening to give me a call at 770-312-6736 and I'll send you the contact... 10 is great, 5 would be wonderful, 1 would be fantastic.
As we get linked in with the Obama campaign we won't need to rush around at the last minute--although politics is often an on the fly process.Thanks so much!
Great meeting this week, some good questions from you guys--its getting us going in a more productive and effective manner. I will be trying to follow up on some of those questions more in-depth since our meetings need to move quickly and I don't feel we get time to appropriately address them due to time restraint.
Any follow up questions or comments are also welcome in the next few weeks if you think of them.Thanks! Every phone call counts... every conversation is vital! Only hard dedicated work will change anything...
Jim 770 312 6736
Via Dean Baker
In a discussion of Senator McCain's support for NAFTA, the Post told its readers that readers that:
"The disagreement on trade is emblematic of disputes the two candidates have on other economic issues, with McCain offering a pro-growth, anti-regulation vision and Obama proposing a variety of measures to help Americans deal with immediate pocketbook issues."
This quote implies that, in contrast to Senator McCain, Senator Obama does not support policies that foster growth. This is not true. The track record of Democratic presidents in promoting growth over the post-World War II period has on average been better than that of Republicans. (Here's the story for the Bush business cycle.) While this is undoubtedly in part luck, it is unfair for the Post to imply that McCain's tax cutting will produce growth while Obama's plans for rebuilding the infrastructure and fixing the health care system will not.
For Immediate Release: June 24, 2008Contact: Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x 115WASHINGTON, DC - Former GAO Comptroller General David Walker testified today before the House Budget Committee about a proposed commission to cut Social Security and Medicare for future retirees. However, as Congress debates this issue, they must take into account the financial situation of near retirees. A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows that, due to the collapse of the housing bubble, the vast majority of near retirees have accumulated little or no wealth. This means that they will be almost completely reliant on Social Security and Medicare to support them in their retirement years.The study, " The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers," analyzed the wealth holdings of families headed by people between the ages of 45 and 54 in 2004 and projected the wealth of these families in 2009. The findings are presented by income quintile under three scenarios- real house prices remain at current levels, real house prices fall by 10 percent, or real house prices fall by 20 percent. In all three scenarios, the vast majority of these families will have little or no housing wealth in 2009."This extraordinary destruction of wealth will have tremendous implications for millions of families as they enter retirement," said report co-author Dean Baker. "Coupled with a very low personal savings rate, this means that many people will only have Social Security and Medicare to rely on in their retirement.
We have to bring in more volunteers! Please invite a friend to come to our meeting tonight... offer to carpool with them...
We need to grow... we need to knock on doors... we need to make phone calls... we need to work!
www.henrydems.org
reason #2345 My congressman Lynn Westmoreland
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act - Vote Passed (278-146, 10 Not Voting)
The House voted to provide four weeks of paid parental leave to federal employees who adopt or give birth to a child.
Sat down with the Obama staff who is doing Henry. I need some volunteers to hold house parties. I told him I'd get 3 people to open up their doors to 15-30 people by next week. But my goal is to go back to him with 5 people who will be holding house parties in the next month. Our county party will assit you with making invite phone calls and provding materials. The Obama campaign has the agenda. All we need is you!
Please consider holding a house party. If you'd just like to invite friends, family, neighbors and co-workers and not invite strangers into your house that is okay. Whatever you are comfortable doing is perfectly fine. But the most imporatant thing you can bring to the campaign this year is your energy, comittment, and time.
So if you can hold a house party call me at 770 312 6736 and lets get this party started!
Jim
p.s. If you can't host a house party yourself. Please take a second and call two people you think might consider hosting one. Let them know they can contact me if they have any questions or concerns.
The Army general who first investigated the abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes. Retired Major General Antonio Taguba made the comment in a new report about US torture practices. Taguba wrote, “The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture.” Taguba went on to say, “The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”
The New York Times reports four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations on contracts that will return them to Iraq for the first time in thirty-six years. Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP—the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company—are among the corporations in talks with Iraq’s Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq’s largest oil fields. The Times reports it is not clear what role the United States played in awarding the contracts. Americans continue to serve as advisers to Iraq’s Oil Ministry.
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip went into effect earlier this morning. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Hamas today that the ceasefire was the group’s last chance to avoid a major Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip. The Egyptian-proposed ceasefire is expected to ease the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Under the agreement, Israel has pledged not to engage in offensive action in Gaza, and Hamas has pledged to stop all Palestinian militant groups in Gaza from attacking Israel. Residents of Gaza expressed hope that living conditions would improve during the ceasefire.
Salma Abu Hassan: “We hope that it will continue and for them not to betray us, like every time they say OK to a truce, and then they hit us, and the assassinations and shelling and the killing of the people follow. Isn’t it a shame for the young and old and the women? Isn’t it unfair?”
Israeli government spokesperson Mark Regev said Israel supports the ceasefire in order to stop rocket attacks on southern Israel.
Mark Regev: “Israel has decided to accept the Egyptian proposals, and it is our sincere hope that from tomorrow our civilian population in the south will no longer be the victim of these continued barrages of rockets and mortar shells from terrorists in the Gaza Strip, and we’ll have a new period of peace and quiet.”
In Afghanistan, NATO forces are leading a large-scale offensive against the Taliban outside of Kandahar. At least twenty Taliban fighters were killed earlier today. Earlier in the week, the Taliban seized seven towns near Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second largest city.
Meanwhile, a new report from the Government Accountability Office has concluded the US has no comprehensive plan to build Afghanistan’s army and police, which remain poorly equipped and significantly unprepared to operate without help. The GAO said only two of 105 Afghan army units are considered fully capable.
Federal officials are predicting as many as thirty levees could overflow this week as flooding continues along the Mississippi River in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. The Army Corps of Engineers says twenty levees have already been topped by floodwaters. President Bush is scheduled to visit Iowa today.
On Wednesday, President Bush urged Congress to lift a federal ban on offshore oil drilling and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
President Bush: “So this morning I asked Democratic congressional leaders to move forward with four steps to expand American oil and gasoline production. First, we should expand American oil production by increasing access to the outer continental shelf, or OCS. Experts believe that the OCS could produce about 18 billion barrels of oil. That would be enough to match America’s current oil production for almost ten years.”
Bush’s comments came just days after Republican presidential candidate John McCain said the lifting of the ban on offshore oil drilling is needed to combat rising gas prices. Since McCain’s original statement, his own advisers have begun acknowledging that lifting the ban would have no immediate effect on supplies or prices. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has opposed offshore oil drilling. On Wednesday, Congressman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois says the Democratic leadership will fight efforts to lift the ban.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel: “We will not scare the American people into doing something that they should not do at this point, given the oil industry holds leases today, fourteen years worth of energy supply that would—ability of us to literally wean off of foreign dependence. And so, we would have a very sensible, commonsense, but strategically thought through approach that includes both supply and demand as it relates to conservation and efficiency.”
Meanwhile, as the price of gas continues to rise, several Wall Street investment banks are lobbying Congress to hold off on passing new bills to regulate energy trading. The Washington Post reports representatives of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are trying to convince lawmakers that no new regulation on oil speculation is needed.
In other energy news, John McCain has called for the United States to build forty-five new nuclear reactors by 2030. McCain said his ultimate goal is 100 new nuclear plants. No nuclear plant has been built in the United States since the meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979. Barack Obama also supports the expanded use of nuclear power but has not laid out a detailed plan on building new plants.
In other campaign news, Barack Obama has announced the formation of his Senior Working Group on National Security. The group features several former cabinet officials from the Clinton administration, including former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Warren Christopher, former National Security Adviser Tony Lake, and Clinton’s Defense Secretary William Perry. Other members of Obama’s advisory board include two members of the 9/11 Commission: Lee Hamilton and Tim Roemer.
Barack Obama’s campaign has apologized to two Muslim women who were barred from sitting behind Obama during his rally on Monday in Detroit. Obama campaign volunteers prevented Hebba Aref and Shimaa Abdelfadeel from sitting behind the podium because they were wearing traditional Muslim headscarves. A campaign volunteer told one of the women that because of the political climate it was not good for her to be seen on television or associated with Obama.
The Bush administration’s prosecution of undocumented immigrants has reached a new high. Over 9,000 immigrants were prosecuted in the month of March. Immigration cases now account for more than half of all federal criminal prosecutions.
Meanwhile, European Union lawmakers have agreed that undocumented immigrants can be detained for up to eighteen months and face a re-entry ban of up to five years. Amnesty International’s Nicolas Beger said human rights groups had serious concerns over the rules.
Nicolas Beger: “This is a particularly grave concern that Amnesty International has. I mean, Amnesty International principally is against the detention of minors, but this direction, while not prohibiting detention, doesn’t even specify that minors cannot be detained in prisons. We might be seeing twelve-year-olds being detained in adult male prisons without any protection in terms of their status.”
Our picnic was a huge success.
I'd love it if people brainstormed on our next big event that we work to promote as we go about the work of getting voters informed about Obama.
Here is my idea... please use the discussion board to come up with any of your own ideas as well.
