Would you like to have a say in the economic recovery?
The Obama Organizing for America initiative is beginning with a major volunteer involvement with the Economic Recovery Plan. Economic Recovery House Meetings will be held during the weekend of February 6th.
If you'd like to get involved, here's the details for action:
Hello, I'm Jeremy Bird, Deputy Director of Organizing for America.This is a special message for neighborhood team leaders and volunteers who showed tremendous dedication during the campaign.I want to give you a heads up about a major initiative Organizing for America is planning to get people involved in President Obama's economic recovery plan. It's our first official effort, so I want to make sure you are part of it.We'll be reaching out to our full list soon to encourage everyone to host or attend an Economic Recovery House Meeting during the weekend of February 6th. As a community leader, you can play a crucial role in helping folks understand how the recovery plan will affect their lives.The first step is to learn more by joining a special conference call at 9:30 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, February 3rd. I'll be on the call along with David Plouffe, Obama for America Campaign Manager, and Mitch Stewart, Executive Director of Organizing for America.Sign up now and please provide a phone number where you can be reached when the conference call begins on Tuesday night.You'll receive an automated call at 9:30 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday inviting you to join us.We'll talk about the economic recovery plan, how to organize a successful house meeting, and what you can do to connect folks in your community with this extremely important effort.As Organizing for America moves forward, I will always give dedicated leaders like you a preview of our new initiatives.It's going to take all of us working together to organize and overcome the challenges we face as a country.Take the first step by joining us for a conference call this Tuesday, February 3rd:http://my.barackobama.com/TeleTownhallThanks for your support. I'm looking forward to working with you in the weeks and months ahead,JeremyJeremy BirdDeputy DirectorOrganizing for America
Barack Obama's Inauguration was an emotional and inspirational moment in our history. Here's a bunch of happy volunteers that helped make it possible.
The Obama Inaugural celebration at Mi Mexico in New Smyrna Beach, Florida: http://s410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/rsarcher-ucnsb-net
It's just hard to believe that tomorrow is both the culmination of the tremendous work you volunteers did during the campaign and at the same time, the beginning of such difficult and effort laden times ahead to make our dream for this country come to be.
I congratulate you volunteers! Many of you have been on-line and in New Smyrna for Obama since 2007. The friendship and feeling of family with this group has been the exact parallel to the hope we all had for this country to assure Barack Obama became the next POTUS.
We have our 'casual' get together tomorrow to celebrate the Inaugration of Barack Obama as President and i am looking forward to seeing many of you there that were so involved in this election struggle last fall.
The TV viewing isn't the greatest at Mi Mexico but the friendship and inspiration we'll have with each other (and don't forget the reasonalby priced food and Margaritas) will overcome all shortcomings.
Just a reminder, our event is copied below. If you havent' done so, you can still sign up there or call me at the number given:
There was an excellent Health Care Discussion held in New Smyrna Beach on January 30th, 2008 that was activly attended and produced an exceptional report detailing the difficulties and opportunities for health care policy in our country.
The event was hosted by Pat Wilson and the report was written and edited by Diana Barden, Trudy Duffy, Donatella Young, and Mary Lou Schropp.
The full text of the summary report is below:
Hello Obama Volunteers and Blogosphere,
Hope you all are doing well and isn’t it amazing to see the intense intellect and capabilities of Barack Obama working during the transition period!?We now have hope of working our way through this morass the country is in with an Obama administration!
I was emailing with Pat Wilson a few weeks ago and she suggested a fun idea; how about getting together about ½ hour before the inauguration of our new President on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at Mi Mexico for a mini-celebration? The food and Margaritas were great there (all food and drink at your own expense of course) and I’m sure we’ll have some fun Obama memorabilia everyone can bring.
Here’s how you can sign up on-line: Go to http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptmvj and follow the directions.
At the same time, you can also join our NewSmyrnaforObama on-line group if you haven't done so yet. Just put in 32169 in the search group Zip code area, on return, scroll down to New Smyrna for Obama and click on 'Join'.
It's been 2 days now since the election and finally, a feeling of elation has set in after the adrenalin days leading up to the election.
What a night, what super volunteers, what emotion, what a new beginning for our country.
Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States of America.
You made it happen! A special thanks goes out to all you New Smyrna for Obama team members and all who have read and contributed to these postings.
We went into election day here in New Smyrna Beach, Florida with over 500 local volunteers hitting the streets, phone calling any and all in the area, providing Courtesy Stations at polling locations, dispatching and driving voters to the polls, and providing food and drink for all the above. Thanks to all, what a group, what a day, what an inspirational start to the next administration.
There were NO dry eyes at the celebration on election night now let's put that ground swell of inspiration and volunteers to the tough tasks ahead for President Elect Barack Obama .
Keep active, keep support flowing, and remember when we started this online group about 18 months ago, YES WE CAN, YES WE WILL, YES WE DID!!!
THE BIGGEST OBAMA EVENT YET! NEIGHBORHOOD WALK FOR BARACK
We have a GOTV event scheduled for this coming Saturday, October 25th, 2008 that can’t be missed by all you great volunteers out there!Here's the general idea:
If you'd like to support our Neighborhood Walk for Barack, come on down to our HQ at 505 Canal St. in New Smyrna Beach and we'll sign you up for your area and let you know where you can help.
Time is short so see us soon!
YES WE WILL!!
This is a message sent to me from WonderlandPR and I thought you might like to see it:
Barack Obama, beyond the rare repertoire of roaring rhetoric and retort, beyond the sweeping scope of policy and polemics, there is a man, who, once upon a time was a boy, raised by Toot and her husband, Barack's maternal grandparents.
Now, Toot, Mrs. Dunham, is in need of the man we all have entrusted to guide our American family into its precarious future, as she lies in precarious health.
From his departure from the critical campaign, we who have worked for and with Barack for all these months, know that very little can stop Barack.
Do you remember him being sick and off the trail? No. Do you remember the times he had to leave the campaign to tend to a daughters' crisis? No. Did you ever see him explode in anger or breakdown in frustration? No.
Now this.
So we know that Barack's humanity, his very humannessm is being called by the call to return to Hawaii and Toot.
I must admit I have prayed for an intervention to give Barack some respite from the slings and arrows of the last weeks of the nasty campaign by McCain en company, but I did not pray for this.
God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps this is an answered prayer.
I hope you might join me in wishing Barack Godspeed to Toot's side and that he is restored in his pending sorrow by the loving supporters that so many of us have become.
We ARE all in this together. Never have those words been more true.
Please let's make an effort to fill the crater of space that Barack leaves as he leaves to be with Toot before they must leave each other for all times.
And, if anyone sees or hears Palin or McCain grinding Barack down while Obama tends to the call that comes to us all, PLEASE FIGHT THE SMEARS AND MAKE THEM WISH THEY HAD NEVER OPENED THEIR MOUTHS AT A TIME LIKE THIS.
We all owe Toot our honoring prayers, as she vitally helped shape the man who, if we work our butts off, will be our next President. As Barack has said, she poured everything she had into him, and now we pour our hearts out for them both.
COME ON OUT AND BARACK THE VOTE!!!
Come join us in New Smyrna Beach for a Barack the Vote party in Pettis Park on Sunday Oct. 5th!
Live Music, Softball Game, Fun, and Refreshments!
Take US1 in NSB to Mary Ave. Go west on Mary 6 blocks to 800 Mary Ave.
This may be your last chance to get registered to vote before the October 6th deadline so come on in and register!
All right NewSmyrnaforObama, I have 2 of the 'original' plastic yard signs left.
Since we can't get these originals anymore, it's time for a Barack auction!
Here's the plan:
1. Go to our New Smyrna for Obama group donation page: http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/maingroup/newsmyrnaforobama and make a donation. Be sure to use the 'Donation' button below the 'Thermometer' or I won't get a notice from the Obama campaign of your donation.
2. When i get confirmation from the Obama campaign of the donation, the 2 highest 'donators' will get the signs.
3. The 'donation' period will end after the Friday Watch Party at Pat and Grey's: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gsxrzq#rsvp (they have a computer so you can do it there at the last minute if you must).
4. I'll notify the winners on Saturday, 9-27-08.
5. The 'winners' will have to pick up the signs at the Canal street HQ on or after Saturday, 9-27-08.
Let's do it for Barack!
YES WE CAN!!
All New Smyrna'ians, come on out and show your support for Barack!
We have a Debate watch party scheduled for this friday to enjoy the debate and meet a bunch of great Obama people and hosted by some super Barack fans.
Here's the link to the event signup: http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/newsmyrnaforobama
Kurt and the army of Obama Volunteers got it done last weekend! Here's Kurt's note:
Wasn't that moving and special, what a speech! This is going to be a great week. Get ready for day 2 and i suggest watching it on PBS. Much less agravation as opposed to watching the convention on MSM.
Oh yes:
All right New Smyrna for Obama, let's give Barack a 'start to the convention' boost!
Our group page fundraising 'Thermometer' needs a boost as well so let's dig it up for Barack and show our support for those at the convention from those of us that can't be there.
Please go to our group fundraising page, http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/maingroup/newsmyrnaforobama and add some $$ for Barack.
Remember to click on the 'Donate' button in the 'Thermometer' box and not the top one so the group gets the thermometer moving upward!
Michelle will be great tonight as the keynote speaker for the convention,, I'm watching. If you can't get it on MSM, PBS will be carrying it.
Also, we will be at the Art Walk tomorrow, etc...
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From the Obama Action Wire:
Yesterday, you learned about the right-wing's latest attack: extremist Jerome Corsi and his book of the same old smears and lies.Today, you can take the next step.Tackle this smear campaign head on. The Obama research team released a 41-page rebuttal called "Unfit for Publication," refuting Corsi's rehashed distortions point-by-point, leaving no smear unanswered.Arm yourself with the facts and write a letter to your local newspapers telling them to do their job by debunking this kind of garbage. The media are not playing their role as watchdogs. In fact, they are fanning the flames of controversy and legitimizing a discredited political bottom-feeder.Take action now and tell the media to report the truth, not debunked lies and smears that are unfit for publication:http://my.barackobama.com/unfit4publicationThe right-wing smear machine is in full force -- blasting out Corsi's stale fabrications far and wide to a media that's so far been eager to pick them up. In just three days, Corsi's made front page news in both the New York Times and Washington Post.We've posted the full truth online so you have the tools to fight back in your community and local papers.Can you write a letter to the editor exposing Jerome Corsi and his book for what they really are -- another hack job by a desperate right-wing fabricator?In 2004, Corsi helped launch the Swift Boat smear campaign with a book of distortions and lies he wrote about John Kerry. This time we won't be Swift Boated.Keep up the good fight,
HERE'S HOW YOU DO IT, IT'S EASY!!
Choose your candidate for VP by selecting the pennies amount, listed below, associated with your candidate.
Go to our donation page: http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/maingroup/newsmyrnaforobama and make your donation in the correct pennies amount (the dollar amount is to be selected by you but please, not less than $1.xx , e.g. McCaskill = $5.06 donation)
BE SURE TO SCROLL DOWN TO OUR GROUP'S 'DONATION THERMOMETER' to donate (do not use the top of page donation button since i won't get a copy 'thank you' note from the Obama Campaign to know who you voted for).
The candidates for VP are listed in the order they were suggested in the 'Let's Start Thinking VP' and 'VP SELECTION BLOG' posts.
The candidates current 'vote' tally as of 5:00 8-6-08 is at the right.
Pennies Name 'votes'
$ .01 Gov. Richardson............5
$ .02 John Edwards
$ .03 Hillary Clinton
$ .04 Gov. Sebelius................4
$ .05 Jim Webb.......................2
$ .06 McCaskill........................1
$ .07 Wes Clark.......................1
$ .08
$ .09 Robert Reich
$ .10 Tim Kaine........................1
$ .11 Chuck Hagel....................2
$ .12 Michael Bloomberg.........2
$ .13 Bob Casey
$ .14 John Kerry
$ .15 Chris Dodd
$ .16 Barbara Boxer
$ .17 Sherred Brown
$ .18 Gov. Schweitzer...............1
$ .19 Joe Biden.......................THE WINNER!
$ .20 Janet Napolitano
$ .21 Anthony Zinn
$ .22
$ .23 Gov. Rendell
$ .24 Gov. Strickland
$ .25 Colin Powell....................1
$ .26 Sam Nunn
$ .27 Ted Kennedy...................2
$ .28 Ray Mabus
$ .29 Evan Bayh
$ .30 Tom Daschle
$ .31 Mark Warner...................1
$ .32
$ .33 Al Gore
$ .34 Robert Wexler.................1
$ .35 Dennis Kucinich
Remember, the idea is to raise some $$ for Barack so let's have some fun!
For some difinative pros and cons of the various candidates, see the extended post text below:
