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Steppers in Chicago that support Obama and will be willing to meet and have steppers sets to raise funds for the campaign.

Obama happenings around Chitown!

By Molly K - Sep 23rd, 2008 at 2:01 pm EDT

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Hi all. Hope everyone is as fired up for Friday's debate as I am!!! Barack will rock!!

There are so many great events (and several debate events) coming up and I hope you can attend!! In an attempt to make it easier for you to find some events, I'll post some links and info here.

Here is one at one of my fav local spots-

1. 9/26 - Debate watching event at Cody's:

Come join us at Cody's Public House (1658 W Barry Ave - just south of Belmont on the corner of Paulina and Barry) as we watch Obama duke it out with McCain in the first presidential debate of the year. Obama and Biden need our financial support to be able to campaign in the ever-so-important battleground states. We are asking for a $10 donation at the door . . . all proceeds will go directly to the Obama-Biden campaign. We will be providing some hors d'œuvres and will be firing up the barbecue (meats and veggies will not be provided but you are welcome to bring anything that you would like to throw on the grill). Cody's has a pool table, lots of dart boards, a great jukebox, and cheap beer (it's a cash bar). Come on out and bring your friends to support the good guys (there's plenty of parking available). We'll be getting started at 7:00. The debates start at 8. Hope to see you there. http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gs77y9

2. Join us at Ginger's Ale House to watch the debate on their Big Screen TV. Cash bar and full menu available. GINGER'S ALE HOUSE (CHICAGO, IL) 3801 N. ASHLAND CHICAGO, IL 60613

http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gsxr7w

3. A fundraising event that is going to be awesome is this Thurs at Blu Coral on Milwaukee--

Check it out---- BE SEEN...BE HEARD...BE POWERFUL!!! Thursday on September 25th at 6pm Chicago's Young & Powerful for Obama will host The Final Countdown at Blu Coral located at 1265 N. Milwaukee Avenue. The historic event is a networking social featuring a silent auction of an original Obama painting, a event program, testimonies from distinguished speakers and a mixer with smooth music. Obama campaign materials and T-Shirts will be ON SALE at the event.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/fundraising/4wzlg

Time:Thursday, September 25 at 6:00 PMDuration:3 hoursHost:Young and Powerful ChicagoLocation:BLU CORAL VOTED "EDITORIAL BEST SUSHI RESTAURANT 2007" BY CITYSEARCH (CHICAGO, IL)1265 N. MILWAUKEE AVE.
CHICAGO, IL 60606

4. Phone Banking is fun and quite helpful!!! Come----

I know you want to help Obama win and wish you could do something to help during some of your free time... So, come to Illinois Headquarters to get the word out about what we in Illinois can do to help Barack win. Walk In Anytime Mon-Sat- 9am-9pm and Sun 12-7pm: ILLINOIS HEADQUARTERS (CHICAGO, IL) 566 W. LAKE STREET CHICAGO, IL 60661

I hope to see you at some of these great events. I will continue to post more and more... Check my blog daily for updates!!!

Go Obama!!

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STEPPING FOR OBAMA 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISERS!

By Michele Brock - Sep 9th, 2008 at 8:33 pm EDT

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STEPPING FOR OBAMA

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The Dorchester Banquet Hall
1515 E. 154th St. (154th & Dante), Dolton, IL 60419

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
&
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2008

4:00 PM—9:00 PM

With DJ Lil Mike
Steppers, Jazz and Dusties Music Extraordinaire

ATTEND ONE OR BOTH DATES
TO MAKE THIS FUNDRAISER FOR OBAMA
A SUCCESS AND PLEASE…
SPREAD THE WORD!!!

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Contact Fundraising Organizer, Michele Brock at 773.396.7555 or
WebofHonor_biz@yahoo.com for more information!

$15.00 PER PERSON
ONLINE, PER PAYPAL,
BY 12:00 NOON OF THE DAY OF THE EVENT
http://www.paypal.com
You will receive email confirmation of your purchase and the purchaser’s name will be on a list at the door! There will also be the option to list the FULL NAMES of your guests, if you’re purchasing tickets in bulk or for other people!

$20.00 PER PERSON
(AT THE DOOR)

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Michele Brock, Independent Associate Director
Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.
http://www.prepaidlegal.com/hub/webofhonor

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Chicago, IL - Pending Organization of Fundraisers

By Michele Brock - May 8th, 2008 at 9:30 am EDT

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Greetings, everyone! This is Michele Brock!

I am reaching out to everyone several weeks early to advise you that I will be amongst the many other supporters, nationwide, of the Senators Presidential Campaign to spearhead fundraising efforts. We will need your support in one or several ways.

1. Help with organizing the fundraisers.
2. Support the fundraisers financially once they have been organized.
3. Support the fundraisers as a volunteer once they have been organized.
4. Both 1 and 2
5. Both 1 and 3
6. Both 2 and 3
7. All of the above

First of all, I'm thinking about a Monday night STEPPERS SET for the mature adults, closer to being like an AFTER WORK SET. Will do one and see how it goes and if it goes well, do it every Monday until Obama wins the Presidential Election!

I am also thinking about doing a WALK-FOR-OBAMA-THON where all of the participants wear OBAMA gear...purchased from this site preferrably...and walk the Chicago Lakefront for a definite number of miles and would have had to get sponsors to sponsor them so much per mile that they actually walk! Trying to come up with a few other ideas including things like "BOWLING", "SKATING", "PLEDGES PER POUND LOST" for those on a mission of health and losing weight already and so forth and so on. Would like to know what you think?

I am hoping to build a team of pro-active supporters as we see Obama through the last few months of campaigning. As I send out information to you, please, forward to your email list.

Will be in touch! In school full-time and trying to get through finals!

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Michele Brock

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Campaign Update, Talking Points and Schedule for this Week

By Kobi Little - Sep 25th, 2007 at 9:38 am EDT

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This week's blog is packed with new information from the campaign. Special thanks to my friend Teal Baker for her contributions to this post. Take it all in and then share it with others. If you like this blog or if you find this information useful please send me a friend request and join my group, Kobi Little's National Network for Obama.

Breaking news from the conference call with Campaign Manager David Plouffe: A new online fundraising contest is being launched that will grant the members of the My.BarackObama.com groups that have the most donors at the end of the day on September 30th, the opportunity to participate in a personal conference call with Senator Barack Obama and Campaign Manager David Plouffe. Click here for more information on the Group Fundraising Challenge.

State of the Campaign

When we got into this race as a largely unknown candidate new to the national political stage, we never expected that nine months later at this stage of the race, we would be in a tight three way race in Iowa; leading in the money race; have the largest grassroots organization in modern political history; and have an organizational advantage in the early states and February 5 over a quasi-incumbent from the most powerful political machine in modern political history.

Barack is the candidate with the message and biography that is most in synch with the electorate – according to a Gallup poll in September Democratic voters prefer change to experience by a margin of 73 percent to 26 percent.

The Obama campaign has: the largest organizations with the most experienced staff and enthusiastic volunteers in the 4 early states;

An unexpected financial advantage that allows the campaign to compete in multiple contests at the same time;

The most donors by far in the race, who as the election draws nearer will get even more active on our behalf, giving us financial sustainability;

A significant organizational advantage in February 5th states.

Barack Obama's Schedule: On Monday, Barack Obama received the endorsement of the New York City Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association. Tuesday, he’s speaking at Change to Win in Chicago. Wednesday, he can be seen live on the NBC/NECN/New Hampshire Public Radio/New Hampshire Democratic Party debate, which will be broadcast live on MSNBC at 9pm EST. Following the debate he’ll head to New York, where he’ll participate in a live interview on ABC’s The View at 11am EST on Thursday before leading a major rally in Washington Square Park. On Friday, he speaks at Howard University’s Convocation and participates in the CBC Issues Forum in Washington, DC.

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Selection of MidWest Large Minded or Million Goal Groups including a Midwest Top 150! Join One Million MySpace Friends for Obama'08 here and on MySpace. See URLs below. Thanks!

By One Million MySpace Friends for Obama'08 in Illinois! - Apr 9th, 2007 at 11:19 am EDT

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1.) My.BarackObama.com: Link (PLACE HOLDER)

2.) Official MySpace profile: Link (under construction)

3.) Official Group profile on MySpace: Link (PLACE HOLDER)

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Obama Endorses Senator Durbin's Fair Elections Now Act!

By One Million MySpace Friends for Obama'08 in Illinois! - Apr 7th, 2007 at 12:00 pm EDT

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Presidential Hopefuls on Public Financing and FENA
The three front-runners for the Democratic nomination for
President are on the record in support of public financing of
elections. John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama have
all come out strongly in favor of a change to the system. You
can see Edwards' endorsement here
Link and Clinton's here
Link. See this clip
Link of Obama's recent endorsement
of Senator Richard Durbin's Fair Elections Now Act, and
exhortation for public pressure on the issue here. Republican
presidential hopeful, John McCain, meanwhile has been less
supportive of public financing while on the campaign trail this
year, but has supported it strongly in the past
Link at the state level as well as
for the Presidential race. He has joined Obama in promising to
run under public financing in the general election if his
opponent agrees to do the same. It's encouraging to see
discussion of and support for this policy from the presidential
field; nobody knows better than the candidates racing to raise
the millions they'll need to get to the White House that
campaign financing needs an overhaul.

Speaking of the Fair Elections Now Act, it's been popping up in
the news left and right drawing positive editorials and LOTS of
attention on the letters to editor page
Link thanks to efforts of Public
Campaign Action Fund members. You can write your own letter to
the editor using our tool here
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New Mexico Close to Judicial Public Financing
Great news! New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson plans to turn
his endorsement of public financing for judicial races into
action when he signs the bill recently passed out of the state
legislature in special session that would expand the state's
public financing program to include state Supreme and Appellate
court races: Link. He plans to
line-item veto the "poison pill" provision in the bill that
would require voters to amend the state constitution to
eliminate retention elections (making those judges run in
partisan races) before the public financing system could take
effect. New Mexico already has public financing available to
candidates for the state's Public Regulation Commission, and the
city of Albuquerque approved public financing for municipal
elections by ballot initiative in 2005. Many thanks to New
Mexico Common Cause and Public Campaign Board member Richard
Romero, for their efforts in passing this bill!

Maryland Campaign in Final Days
Thousands of emails, hundreds of calls, and a pair of lobby days
later we are in the last week of the Maryland legislative
session: the moment of truth for a Clean Elections win in the
state this year Link. In fact, the
Senate is schedule to vote today on the bill that would bring
full public financing for legislative elections in Maryland --
the state Assembly is already in support. Though Senate
President Mike Miller (D) is notoriously opposed to Clean
Elections, the gossip in Annapolis is that grassroots organizing
(all those emails, all those calls) and the tireless efforts of
Progressive Maryland, Maryland NAACP, Maryland Common Cause,
Maryland Sierra Club, and The Reform Institute, have really
boosted support among previously ambivalent legislators for
passing Clean Elections. It's going to be quite a showdown -- as
soon as we get the results of the vote we'll let you know!

April Showers?
Did Uncle Sam give you a refund on your federal tax return this
year? How about turning a little bit of that around with an
investment in winning Clean Elections through a gift to Public
Campaign Action Fund Link Your tax
dollars fund the policies of the country, what better way to
ensure they are spent responsibly than by establishing Clean
Elections systems that make elected officials accountable to
you?

VOICEing Support
Public Campaign staffers checked their inboxes a few weeks ago
and found an email from National Field Director Jeannette
Galanis: "I think we need to go to Iowa." Why? Because a
dedicated group of legislators and activists from Iowa Citizens
for Community Improvement and the Clean Elections Coalition had
advanced full public financing legislation, the Voter-Owned Iowa
Clean Elections (VOICE) Act, farther than they ever had in the
state: far enough to make a win this year a real possibility.

A pair of bills, HSB 105 championed by Representative Pam Jochum
(D-Dubuque) and SSB 1173 headed up by Senator Mike Connolly
(D-Dubuque) have passed out of their respective State Government
committees and are moving on to Appropriations, where they look
to face formidable opposition. We are gearing up for a full
court press grassroots field effort; getting calls in to
legislators in support of VOICE, getting the word out through
door-to-door canvassing and phone banking, and ramping up
lobbying efforts in Des Moines to win Clean Elections for Iowa!
You can find out more about the campaign here
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Blog/News Roundup
Have you been reading Paid For By?, Public Campaign Action
Fund?s blog? In case you missed this week, check out the stories
we've been following on?

- New Jersey Governor John Corzine signing the bill continuing
his state's Clean Elections Pilot project
Link />- Presidential candidates raising money any way they can --
ethics? What ethics? Link
- Energy for change: watch Senator Durbin's passionate speech
Link introducing the Fair Elections
Now Act on the floor of the Senate here.

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Fox News Horrible Record Attacking Black People Ban The Presidential Debates Deal Sign Letter

By blueball2 - Mar 30th, 2007 at 6:54 pm EDT

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Dear Friends,

Fox News has a horrible record of attacking Black people, politicians,
and cultural institutions. But, at this very moment, the Congressional
Black Caucus has agreed to partner with Fox News to host presidential
debates prior to the 2008 elections.

For the CBC Institute to partner with an organization like Fox
News--given its hostility to Black political interests--is
shameful.  I've signed on with ColorOfChange.org to help prevent them
from making this serious mistake.  Will you join us in calling on the
Institute to drop its talks with Fox?

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