Organizing for America | Donna and Eric Mansfield's Blog

By Fayetteville4Obama - Mar 17th, 2009 at 9:51 pm EDT

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Greetings everyone,

We are once again calling on Grassroots support to help our president implement his change agenda. Organizing for America (OFA) has launched it's first major action, the Pledge Project Canvass that we're asking our volunteers to participate in on March 21 & 22. For all that you built, help us kick this off right! There is true grassroots activism that YOU stirred up - we still need your help to harness it.

Top Issues OFA is Focusing On:
Reviving the economy and creating jobs by focusing on three key areas:
          •Energy independence
          •Rising cost of health care
          •Ensuring a 21st century education for everyoneThese were the top issues that President Obama covered in his budget proposal to Congress, and what we will be focusing on for our Pledge Project Canvass. Talking points for each are available on the website. Information About the Pledge Project Canvass:
Go to www.my.barackobama.com/pledgeprojectcanvassHere you will find:
          •Training video
          •Step by step goals of the pledge project canvass
          •Downloadable pledge cards
          •Talking points for each topic
          •Sign-up sheets for hosts
          •     The link for hosts to post MyBO events (do this ASAP!)
If you need any support or assistance with these events please e-mail me as soon as possible, many of you are veterans to these types of events and your support and guidance is just as vital to me! Hope to hear from you soon, Donna Mansfield

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President Obama needs you again!

By Fayetteville4Obama - Mar 17th, 2009 at 9:43 pm EDT

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To Team Obama in NC, President Obama needs our help. The national campaign effort to elect Barack Obama has shifted to a new organization called Organizing for America (OFA). OFA's mission is to mobilize our grassroots movement in support of President Obama's policies for change and to build on and strengthen the grassroots organizations we built here in North Carolina . There will be OFA offices in all fifty states designed to help the President bring about the change that he promised and that the nation demanded from the 2008 election. I am an unpaid volunteer who has been asked to help coordinate our efforts with OFA's national office. My job is to reconnect with all of the people who made change possible here in North Carolina , to mobilize North Carolina to assist the President with his agenda of change, and to link all of you with the professional staffers who should begin to arrive later this month. You were crucial to the President's win in North Carolina --let's take his policies of change all the way. Please send me back a note saying that you are still in this fight and that you too look forward to helping the President win the change that we need for a better America . Thanks

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Women for Obama

By Fayetteville4Obama - Sep 13th, 2008 at 12:46 am EDT

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Dear Fellow Democrats, Obamacans and Independents,

My name is Donna Mansfield and I have been asked to be the Regional Coordinator for Women for Obama. Some of you know me and some do not, so allow me to take a minute to introduce myself. I am a resident of Fayetteville, a wife and a mother to a wonderful 6 year old. I came to Fayetteville via the US Army and have been actively involved in our community, currently as Board Chair for the Partnership for Children of Cumberland County ;. I was very active in the Primaries on behalf of the Obama campaign and was a Alternate-Delegate to the Democratic National Convention this year in Denver.
I am writing to invite you and any other women you may know to join our Women for Obama team here in Fayetteville. Barack Obama’s Campaign for Change will rely on Women for Obama participants like you across the state to make a difference in this historic election. I know that as women we wear many hats and have many different responsibilities but I urge you to become involved and voice your support for Barack Obama. Below I have listed an overview of what we will be doing to help Barack Obama's campaign succeed here in North Carolina.

Please consider joining the team and pass this e-mail along to any other Women who may be interested, there is a lot at stake with this election and as Women we need to arm ourselves and reach out to other Women with accurate information and policies to make clear decisions about our future!

If you are interested e-mail me back with your name phone number and e-mail address! You can email me at fay4obama@aol.com
I look forward to working with you!!

Donna Mansfield

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Women for Obama Organizational meeting

By Fayetteville4Obama - Apr 9th, 2008 at 11:09 pm EDT

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Join us

For our official Women for Obama Kick-Off

Thursday, April 10

6:00-9:00 pm

Fayetteville Regional Office

214 Hay Street

(Entrance in Rear of Building on Old Street)

Please RSVP to Tori Scarborough

tscarborough@barackobama.com

No babysitter? No worries -- we will have arts and crafts for the kids!

See you tomorrow!

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Obama blog on Fayetteville Observer

By Fayetteville4Obama - Apr 4th, 2008 at 8:17 pm EDT

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The Fayetteville Observer has been gracious enough to invite all of the campaigns to have a blog on thier website, and I will be the Administrator of the Obama blog! So please copy this link, put it into your favorites and be sure to come check it out and show your support for the campaign here in Fayetteville!

http://blogs.fayobserver.com/obama/

Thank all of you for all the great work that you are doing!

Donna Mansfield

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Bragg for Obama Kickoff event

By Fayetteville4Obama - Apr 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm EDT

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For all of you with ties to the military, this one's for you:

You are cordially invited to attend Obama for America’s: Bragg for Obama Kickoff meeting this Thursday, April 3 at 6:30pm in the Fayetteville Obama office. Our office is located at:

214 Hay St, 2nd Floor (Entrance in rear off Old St; across from downtown First Baptist Church)
Fayetteville, NC 28301
(910) 323 – 0957

Bragg for Obama is an outreach group for active duty military personnel, veterans, military families, and civilians who are affiliated with Fort Bragg, Pope AFB, who are interested in volunteering through those networks for the Obama campaign. We will introduce our veterans’ affairs staff and work together to develop specific projects for voter registration this week, as well as “Get Out The Vote” efforts in the coming weeks.

All are welcome!

Please email me or call (910) 323–0957 if you have any questions. We hope to see you Thursday!

Best,
C’Reda Weeden

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Volunteer Photo with Barack

By Fayetteville4Obama - Apr 1st, 2008 at 1:39 pm EDT

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If you volunteered at the event when Barack visited I have the picture you have been waiting for! Please send me an e-mail fay4obama@aol.com and I will send the photo back to you!

Donna Mansfield

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Housing for Staffers- Fayetteville

By Fayetteville4Obama - Mar 31st, 2008 at 2:02 pm EDT

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I wanted to inform all of you that our Fayetteville Area staff is going to get bigger! They are sending 7-10 more staff members here within the next few days. We are asking you to open your homes to house staffers if possible. I know that it is a lot to ask, but it is a non traditional way to support the Obama campaign, and one that is extremely important. You can e-mail me at Fay4obama@aol.com or even call me (910) 485-4582 (home) and please fell free to pass along this information to others that you may know want to help out!

Thank you for all that you are doing!!!

Donna and Eric

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Fayetteville Campaign Headquarters information

By Fayetteville4Obama - Mar 31st, 2008 at 1:28 pm EDT

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Hello Everyone,

As many of you already know that Fayetteville Headquarters is up and running, Here is some general information that I have to share with you:

The office hours are: Mon-Fri 9am-9pm, Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 1pm-8pm

The phone number to the office is: (910) 323-0957 we are currently woking on the voicemail system, so please bear with us if you do not get an answer

Thank you to all of you who are participating in the campaign, from doing voter registration drives to sending up prayers, no gesture goes unappreciated.

Donna and Eric Mansfield

“It’s Amazing What Can Be Accomplished When Nobody Cares Who Gets the Credit.”

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THANK YOU!!!!

By Fayetteville4Obama - Mar 28th, 2008 at 11:44 am EDT

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I want to the Thank every one of you for attending the Organizational Meeting last night. We were overwhelmed by the attendance and are very proud of the support that Fayetteville is showing to the Obama campaign and his staffers. We are looking foward to seeing your faces at upcoming events throughout Fayetteville! Please note there a few non-traditional volunteer opportunites:

There is a "Feed the Family" board at the office, this allows you to feed the staffers either for lunch or dinner, you can sign up at the office

There is a "WIsh List" at the office, these are supplies needed for the office staff to continue to run properly

We thank you again in advance for all that you have done and all I know you will do!

Donna and Eric Mansfield

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Campaign meeting

By Fayetteville4Obama - Mar 23rd, 2008 at 8:43 pm EDT

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Hello,

There will be a campaign meeting hosted by the Obama campaign staffers Thursday 6pm @ the downtown building (214/216 Hay Street). Remember to enter from the rear. In it they will give out their plans for North Carolina and introduce staffers that will be working in the Sandhills area. We are inviting all grassroots organizations to be represented. As you know we will need everyones help so please get the word out so that we can win NC for OBAMA!!!! If you have questions pls give us a call at 910 286-0733/257-8754 or email FAY4OBAMA@aol.com.

We look forward to seeng everyone. The phones will probably be turned on at the campaign headqaurters NLT Tuesday so hopefully we will have a number for you soon. Thanks again for your help!!!!

Eric and Donna Mansfield

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We need some help furnishing our Fayetteville headquarters

By Fayetteville4Obama - Mar 20th, 2008 at 12:54 pm EDT

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Hello everyone,

I hope that everyone is ready to work and get the word out here in Fayetteville! Our campaign headquarters will be located at 214 Hay Street, we are currently making sure the phone lines are up and everything is in order, but we do need some help.

The campaign is looking for people to donate any extra office furniture such as tables, chairs, mini appliances (coffee makers, mini fridges, toasters) and common office supplies.

All supplies donated will be returned or donated to a local charity, that is at the owner's discretion.

Please e-mail me at fay4obama@aol.com let me know what you have available please include what you can supply, your name and a good contact phone number. I or a staffer from the campaign will contact you.

Thank you for your help and interest in this campaign.

God Bless

Donna Mansfield

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Meeting Synopsis

By Fayetteville4Obama - Mar 8th, 2008 at 5:44 pm EST

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Thank each and every one of you that attended the meeting today, it was a great success. We had roughly 50 people attend and sign up to volunteer and get involved in the campaign. For those of you that could not attend, there will be more upcoming meetings and following the jump is the agenda of what was discussed! I also would like to inform all of you that on Friday I spoke to someone in the campaign and they have informed me that paid staffers will be in the city in 1 - 2 weeks!!! This is very exciting news, the campaign is asking that anyone that is willing to house paid staffers please identify yourself by e-mailing me and I will pass your name along. Eric and I have also offered our building downtown to house the campaign headquarters and they are very, very interested. I will keep everyone informed and keep in mind the deadline for registering for the primary is April 11th, we need to get a good voter registration drive up and going. E-mail ideas and anything else that comes to mind. Click on Read More to read the agenda!

Thank you again

Donna and Eric

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Time to get to work NC

By Fayetteville4Obama - Mar 5th, 2008 at 10:33 pm EST

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As I sit here, having read through every blog and news report I could find, I realized one thing: It's Time to Get to Work!!

I have to admit, I wanted to scream at the thought of the upcoming weeks, more mud being thrown, the negative adds and the ultimate damage to our Democtratic Party as a whole. But as my husband reminded me, this is an election, there are ups and downs, get over it and get to work! I felt like the girl in the Tom Hanks movie, when he declared "There's no crying in baseball".

So with all that said, It's time the get to work NC. Here in Fayetteville, I am planning a meeting on Saturday to get some volunteers organized and get some grassroots in motion. I have never done this before, and am proud to have over 60 Obama supporters signed up and I am expecting more than that!

So if this democratic nomination is going all the way to the convention, NC WILL play a role in this nomination. If Clinton is looking for a 3AM phone call let's give it to her, let's let her know that Fear Mongering does not equal credentials! But in Fayetteville specifically, we know what 3AM calls are all about, they are call green ramp to deploy to wherever in the world the proud Special Forces, 82nd Airborne and 18th Airborne Corps are needed. So we, in this city of History and Heroes, know that a call at 3AM will affect our families and friends more than most. This is a city where the national security experience of those that have served is not centered on theories or books, but on training and bullets. Let's make sure that the person that answers that call has judgement and integrity. Judgement to make the best decision and the integrity to stand by it. Her past history tells us she does have the judgement and her fear mongering tells us she does not have the integrity to stand by it.

If you feel the same fire in your politics, I invite you to join us on Saturday, let's get organized and Fayetteville NC Let's Get to Work!

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Upcoming Event in Fayetteville!!!

By Fayetteville4Obama - Feb 29th, 2008 at 4:59 pm EST

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Greetings to all in Fayetteville and Outlying counties,

I am pleased to announce an upcoming event here in Fayetteville! You can go to the Events section in your Dashboard for all the details and please sign up under the event so that we can have a proper attendee count! I will post an agenda over the weekend and final details later next week. I am so excited with the initial response and look foward to meeting all of you that have signed up. Have a great weekend and I encourage all of you to Phonebank over the weekend, we have four days until the next primary, let's do all we can.

Fired Up and Ready to Go in Fayetteville, NC!

Donna Mansfield

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Barack Hussein Obama

By Fayetteville4Obama - Feb 28th, 2008 at 12:06 am EST

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I recommend everyone read this article by Juan Cole, he is the President of the Global American Institute. It is a wonderful explanation of Barack's name and the history behind his and many other revered American names. Read it and school those that use the name Hussein to invoke images of racial and religious bigotry. Beautiful article a must read!

The article is listed below or go to: http://www.juancole.com/2008/02/barack-hussein-obama-omar-bradley.html