i know you people need advance notice to volunteer so here it is! :-Dfrom sept 15th- oct 6 we are in voter registration overdrive! we need people who are committed and can provide at least 2 hours. sept 15th after 6pm sept 17th after 7 pm and sept 24- oct 3. we will have tables on the 24th-27th and the 29- oct 3rd. if you can make it out, send me your contact information as all the volunteers need to meet with my boss nikhar for a quick session before going out.
it is of dire importance that anyone who goes to cscc and wants obama elected volunteer. we need to register over half of the campus. they are unregistered. our goal is 550. we are at 81. we need as many vols to step up to the plate as possible by the 15th of september, or else he will likely lose ohio. if you can volunteer PLEASE EMAIL ME
jflunder@gmail.com or jbflunder@yahoo.com or jflunder@student.cscc.edu
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/17/13537/8069?new=true
I wrote about how my editoral to the Cleveland PD was changed and totally left out Obama.
Thanks
Democratic National Committee Chairman and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and his Voter Registration Express will arrive in Columbus on Thursday morning at the Columbus State Community College. Joined by special guests Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar and actor Kal Penn, Governor Dean will speak to the importance of registering to vote and work to register voters on the CSCC campus. Come ready to register voters, meet your local organizer, and get involved with Barack Obama's Campaign for Change in Franklin County. Join us in front of the welcome center on campus.
there will be a rally at columbus state community college aug 14th at 830 am. The keynote speaker will be howard dean. former vermont govenor and chairman of the DNC. we at columbus state could use a lot of help spreading the word and doing voter registration that day and up until sept 30th. voting begins on oct 4th! time is passing quickly. need to register massive amounts of voters to win this state. please let me know if you can help us out at columbus state. You can call me the student co-ordinator at columbus state 6143168821 or email me at jflunder@cscc.edu or jflunder@gmail.com every tuesday we do voter registration. right now i am the only person doing the registration. if you want to help use that number and those emails to contact me. voter registration is tuesdays at 12-3pm at columbus state nestor hall... thanks for all your help
Intern Positions with the Nancy Garland for State Representative CampaignNancy Garland is the Democratic candidate for the 20th House District representing the communities of Bexley, Gahanna, New Albany, and Whitehall (Eastern Franklin County). Interns will have a unique opportunity to work in an important targeted race. An Ohio native, Nancy has spent her life shaping healthcare policy as an advocate on Capitol Hill before returning to head the Ohio Physical Therapy Association and teach Health Policy at The Ohio State University.Interns will be responsible for specific and relevant tasks associated with the campaign, which may include:• Assembling and completing mail projects• Attending public appearances with the candidate in coordination with the Campaign Manager• Participating and actively managing voter contact activities• Coordinating field activities• Assisting in preparation of position papers, statements, press releases, and all other campaign communicationsPlease contact Zach Roberts by email at roberts.736@osu.edu or by calling 614-266-0832 for more information and to discuss your specific role in shaping an important election this fall.
The letter-writing group that I have been working to organize is now up and running at http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/OhioLetterWriters! If you are interested in helping get Sen. Obama's message out to Ohio's op/ed pages, please sign up.
Wondering why you should join? Read below...
i know many of you are probably not even dreaming about going to school during the summer. however, ohio is one of 9 key swing states. it is up to us to bring out the youth vote like it hasn't been done in years. i am here to be with everyone else in canvassing, phonebanking, holding rallys and whatever else it takes to get the senator elected. we should be bouncing ideas off of one another to try to make a push during the summer going into the convention.
if u have any questions email me here or at
jflunder@cscc.edu
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/23/richard-clarke-mccain-sho_n_108812.html
Thank you Mr. Clarke
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/23/mccain-adviser-another-91_n_108671.html
McCain fire him NOW and MEDIA talk about this how you would talk about it if this was Obama'a person. Media stop protecting McCain
interesting article i found in newsweek...
check it out
http://www.newsweek.com/id/138611
Hello Everyone,
So I made a simple 60 second video that responds to the recent rain of brouhaha that has been coming down on our heads.
All I hope (Obama in 60 Seconds)
The purpose of the video is to focus on what is best about Barack Obama's campaign: the joy of possibility, the power of optimism and the excitement of hope. I hope you enjoy it. And please share it with your friends.
I found this amazing story in my e-mail it is so inspirational I thought it might be worth everyone's attention as it brings out the truth of what Barack really meant:
Maybe there aren't Bubbas driving around in pickup trucks with the classic bumpersticker "God, Guns and Guts Made America Free" where Obama's detractors live, but here in rural Pennsylvania that line may as well replace "e pluribus unum" as the motto on the national currency. I live in western Pennsylvania, and I can tell you, people here are bitter and angry. Poverty is prevalent. People hunt squirrels and eat them, along with racoon stew. People also hunt deer here, not for sport, but so they can put meat in their freezer so they can feed their families. They cut wood in the forests and heat their homes with wood stoves because they can't afford to pay the gas bill. I know a guy who goes to old landfills to dig up old milk and beer bottles to sell on eBay. He uses the proceeds to buy clothes for his family at the Salvation Army (and to pay for his dial-up connection). Racism and prejudice are ever-present here. A friend of mine is part-owner of bar in a small rural town south of where I live. I meet up with him there occasionally and watch as down-and-out people come in with their disability and welfare check money and drink it away. It's a pretty depressing place, but it does serve as the social center for a town that has seen its few industries shut down and the local people's jobs eliminated or shipped off elsewhere. I hear the usual rants there, that it's all the fault of gays and minorities and immigrants (although those aren't the terms used, but rather the usual, virulent slurs). A black man walked in the last time I was there, and a guy near me at the bar muttered in a not-so-quiet way, "What's he think he's doing in here?" When I brought up the presidential race and Obama with another man at the bar, his response was, "there ain't no way America is ever going to vote for a black guy." Later on my bar-owner friend told me about his experience talking about Obama with another woman at the bar, and her angry response was that "it's because of half-breed n*****s like him that America is in such bad shape today."Prejudice, racism and fear do run rampant in areas like this. People are poor. They are in bad health, overweight from a deep-fried diet, and toothless from the lack of dental care. They are unemployed. They are uneducated. They do cling to their hunting rifles and to their religious beliefs. For many, it is about all that they have. The towns around here are full of decaying, boarded up buildings. People live in rundown old trailers with abandoned cars in the front yard. I have seen people using an old car as a stable, with their goat tied to and living in it. I could drive you by a least three old houses that have Conderate flags in the windows.So go ahead and discount Obama's talk of how bitter and angry that some of the people of rural Pennsylvania are. Call him elitist for taking the time to pass through areas such as this to listen to what the people have to say, and to then relate what he has heard to people in more prosperous parts of the country when he is asked about it. I have lived in San Francisco, and let me tell you, there is a marked difference between the general attitude there and the attitude here in the "rust belt". Go ahead and dismiss everything that Obama said as political posturing. Let Hillary and McCain "pick him apart" and parse his words. But please keep in mind that when Obama said:"it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."that he is 100% accurate in his assessment. I know, because I live here, my family and my friends' families have lived here for generations, and we see it every day, all around this region. There is a very fine line between poverty and prosperity here, where making above $20,000 a year puts you in the realm of the "haves", but also knowing that you're one contract termination away from joining the ranks of the "have-nots". I come from a family of dairy farmers. I know what it's like to spend up to 12-16 hours a day sitting on a tractor for three dollars an hour, which I did through high school and every summer until I was fortunate enough to head off to college. Many of my friends were also fortunate and went to school, and then relocated to other parts of the country. Some of us were able to come back under better circumstances, but the large majority of people here are not as fortunate. Thirty years worth of the right wing dismantling our public education system has taken its toll. Thirty years worth of mismanagement of the economy, of shutting down factories and shipping jobs out of the country, of subsidizing corporate farms and taxing family farms out of business, has taken its toll. Yes, people are angry, and bitter, but Obama never said that they aren't resilient, opitmistic or hard-working. Those are Hillary and McCain's twisted words, and for them to stand up and suggest that rural Pennsylvanians aren't fed up with the way things are, only reveals how out of touch they really are with at least this part of the country. Of course, all McCain has to do is suggest to poor rural folk that the party of gun-control, gay marriage, and NAFTA is going to take away what little they have left, and rural conservatives will vote for him, just as they did for Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. As for Hillary, the more she "takes apart" Obama's message, the more she does the GOP's work for free. If Hillary can't see that the people of rural Pennsylvania are bitter, and angry, and mad as hell about the way things are, then she needs to step down from that one hundred million dollar platform of hers and take a real look around. In western Pennsylvania I hear two things: the "God, Guns and Guts" crowd see John McCain as the heir-apparent to the mantle of rural conservative values; and the people who hope for some kind of change see Barack Obama as the person who understands the situation that we are in, and maybe is the one who can lead us in a new direction. What I don't hear is anyone talking about whatever and whomever it is that Hillary claims to stand for. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
