Organizing for America | East Enders for Obama

By Compassion - Jan 17th, 2009 at 11:30 am EST

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This morning I read the world blog post by an NBC producer and was brought to tears. We must demand in America a new direction in our policy towards the Middle East. We are not a nation that condones the shelling of schools and shelters where children are hiding from the ravages of war. Our tax dollars paid for the bullets which have ended up in the bodies of hundreds of young innocent children. We can no longer subscribe to this carnage. A new direction in American policy must be set. Here is the link to the NBC blog:

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/01/16/1747060.aspx

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Last Day for Change

By Benjamin from New York, NY - Nov 4th, 2008 at 6:02 pm EST

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Here's what you can do:

VOTE

GET OUT THE VOTE
Phonebanks are open tonight until 9pm to call battleground states. Come down and be a part of New York making history in this campaign.

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The Scene at HQ-The Scene for the Final Two Days

By Benjamin from New York, NY - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 12:49 am EST

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HQ has been so busy co-ordinating all of our wonderful volunteers, the blog has taken a back seat. Here's a taste of what's been going on.

The volunteers and staff at Obama HQ New York are fired up. The excitement created by occasional special visitors (Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul and Mary in the last few days) is but a brief spike before the volunteers are back to work calling voters in battleground states:

The street team is out there inspiring you to phonebank to help Get Out the Vote on Tuesday:

Back in quieter times we had a party for the HQ volunteers:

Come down and join the excitement here at HQ or at a phonebank near you, Monday and Tuesday; all day, both days.

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Last Call for Change - Final Four Days

By Benjamin from New York, NY - Nov 1st, 2008 at 12:22 am EDT

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This is it!

We're coming down to the final stretch and Barack Obama needs your help now, more than ever before!

Please bring your cell phone, a charger and a few fun friends who care about change and join with thousands of your neighbors in the largest ever-attempted phone bank effort in New York state history. The Obama campaign is hosting several of these "mega call centers" all over New York, so invite your friends and family to make calls to voters in key battleground states and change America for years to come.

Visit http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/nylastcall to find a location near you.

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Where are our campaign material that were paid for

By Malry - Oct 28th, 2008 at 6:17 pm EDT

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I am a loyal Obama supporter, but can come to the conclusion that many supporters, including myself have donated many times and were promised car magnets etc. Signs were ordered many weeks ago, hats and apparel was ordered months ago. To date not one item was delivered as promised. Winning the Presidential campaign is the goal, But the people who run Obamas ground swell are agrivating many voters with lack of production of goods ordered. I love Obama but hate this part of his campaign. I want to show my position in my community.

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The real winner is you.

By Malry - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 pm EDT

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As a loyal and dedicated supporter of Senator Obama. i am most proud ,of all of the many people on this website and to the volenteers that work so hard. As a over 50 year old minority man, I and many minorities, often wondered in our personal reflections of our lives ,whether or not a minority person would ever be able to acheive the ability to become president of the United States of our great country. That person would have to be smart, dedicated, inclusive,inspiring like JFK,and to speak softly and carry a really big stick, and be able to transcend religious,color and age barriers. And that candidate would unite People with these many differences with one voice. i BELEIVE with all my heart that Senator Obama has met these challeges. I beleive he will provide our country with economic recovery, world wide security and provide my children and grandchildren and your family with affordable healthcare. And all of you Obama supporters are strong ,smart and very committed to make sure that every stone is turned to get Obama, to become our next president. You are thw winners in this campaign and no matter what happens on election day. I personally wish to let you all know my family thanks you for working so hard for our next president of our great country senator Obama. We will all be winners in this election. Thank you all, young and old for being you.

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JOIN LAST CALL FOR CHANGE Saturday and Sunday in NYC

By Benjamin from New York, NY - Oct 10th, 2008 at 5:12 pm EDT

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This weekend we're holding phonebanks at campaign offices and other locations across New York so that Obama supporters can reach out to voters in swing states. No experience is needed to participate -- staff will give you all the resources you need to succeed. All you need to do is bring your cell phone. Nothing is more powerful than having undecided voters hear from ordinary folks about Barack and this campaign for change.

http://ny.barackobama.com/NYlastcall

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Hit Hard, Hit Often

By Beth - Sep 21st, 2008 at 11:50 pm EDT

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Howdy, Obama Camp,

If in fact Ms. Palin's 15 minutes are almost up, we can get back to the business of winning this election. The Obama I want to see in the next couple of days is the one that hits McCain over and over for his work on the senate commerce committee, his role in the Keating Five Scandel and reminds voters that even the Wall Street Journal has turned its back on the Mac and thinks he doesn't get the economy:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178318884054675.html?mod=todays_us_opinion

After we make that all clear and, presumptively, our candidate comes out of Thursday's debate glowing again (hit 'em hard, Barack. He'll blow up!), we can get back to this hope and change stuff.

Keep knocking down the doors, y'all. See ya on the Mall in January.

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A New One--

By Michelle - Sep 18th, 2008 at 1:25 pm EDT

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Hey,

Heres a new one---Why don't we just call Palen the "pistol-packin' mama."

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Overcome Your Inhibitions and Get Out the Vote

By PhoenixRising - Sep 4th, 2008 at 1:44 am EDT

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What are others running into as far as reasons people are not voting? Read More »

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No Change in my vote to Change

By Janelle - Aug 30th, 2008 at 10:20 pm EDT

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The republicans picked a woman as a vise-presidential candidate...hummm...I'm insulted!

Do they truely believe because they chose a human with ovaries they will somehow get some votes from other humans with ovaries? This election is a no-brainer! Do they really think that is going to happen? They are so insulting to mankind! What a contrast in canpaigning! Somewhere there's a village missing an idiot!

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Why is the media bored?

By Beth - Aug 28th, 2008 at 8:58 pm EDT

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It keeps coming up again and again, every time I'm near a television set the commentators are talking about how they're bored by the convention. They're sitting on their dais in the middle of the convention floor and doing their normal armchair quarterback schtick, which, frankly, is pretty boring of them.

If you look around the room at the folks in the stands, what you see is a bunch of normal-looking people, who don't look like Washington insiders, and maybe they look a little bored, or confused about what they're doing there, but I don't know what they're thinking because the reporters down on the floor aren't asking them what they think. It doesn't lend itself well to intrigue, but when you think about it, it's pretty heartening for our democracy.

I think these are some great highlights.

Charles Barkley talking about racism and his plan to run for governor of Alabama, a real gem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXQ5LJkE7lU

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer really brought the house down--he warms up slowly, but five minutes into this thing becomes a wildfire. Crazy workingman charisma--the shots of President Clinton obviously seeing a bit of himself in Schweiter's style are priceless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNHysr_IluI

"Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage." ---Lucille Ball

"I am not a member of any organized party -- I am a Democrat" -- Will Rogers

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Catharsis at the convention??????

By Beth - Aug 14th, 2008 at 9:55 pm EDT

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What on earth were Obama's folks thinking when they agreed to put Hillary's name up in a roll-call vote??

This can't help but be another terrible shenanagan and an attempt on the Clintons' part to mire Obama in their endless drama. There's a link to Maureen Dowd's August 13 commentary on this at the bottom of this post, comparing the Clintons' move to Hamlet's staging of a play within a play designed to force his guilty uncle to confess to the murder of his father. Regardless of the reasoning, this whole convention is coming off as a very sick family feud.

What I find even more surprising is the number of commenters on this post that think this is a good thing. What happened to party unity?

I'm sorry for not posting the direct link, but you can read the whole thing at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

The New York Times "The Caucus" blog post

August 14, 2008, 10:50 am

Clinton’s Name Will Be Put in Nomination By Jeff Zeleny

Updated |12:25: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s name will be placed into nomination at the Democratic National Convention, a symbolic move approved by the Obama campaign in an effort to soothe a lingering rift with Clinton supporters.

“I am convinced that honoring Senator Clinton’s historic campaign in this way will help us celebrate this defining moment in our history and bring the party together in a strong united fashion,” Senator Barack Obama said in a statement.

The decision was announced on Thursday afternoon in a joint statement from the senators.

It comes after long negotiations on both sides, with many backers of Mrs. Clinton vigorously pushing for her candidacy to be validated by giving her delegates the chance to support her through a roll call vote.

“With every voice heard and the Party strongly united, we will elect Senator Obama President of the United States and put our nation on the path to peace and prosperity once again,” Mrs. Clinton said in a statement.

For Democrats inside the convention center in Denver, as well as the television audience at home, it could create some interesting moments. After the state-by-state roll is tallied, Mrs. Clinton is expected to turn over her cache of delegates to Senator Barack Obama.

So how will Mrs. Clinton, who is a superdelegate herself, vote? Associates say she will throw her lot behind Mr. Obama and ask her supporters to follow suit. To see if it unfolds as the Obama campaign hopes – free of acrimony – tune in on Wednesday, Aug. 27

Here's the link to Dowd's column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/opinion/13dowd.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin

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Big Money and a Democratic congress

By Beth - Aug 4th, 2008 at 1:44 am EDT

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One undercurrent of this election season that I think is not getting enough attention is the manner in which Sen. Obama's grassroots fundraising techniques are not trickling down to congressional candidates. Here are some of the consequences of this problem, according to the Center for Responsive Politics:

• Commercial banking interests now give half of their money to Democrats. From 1999 through 2006, big banking interests consistently gave nearly two-thirds of their donations to Republicans in each election cycle.

• From the 2000 to the 2006 elections, Big Pharma gave 70 percent of its donations to Republicans. But now, during this election cycle, they're giving more than half to Democrats.

• The insurance industry gave more than two of every three dollars to Republicans in the first four elections this decade. In 2008 the split is virtually dead even.
Part of the problem, I guess, is that if you haven't given money to a political campaign before, it's easy to just give $10 or whatever you can afford to the guy who's running for president, but the myriad number of other political offices don't seem to matter too much, unless you live in that district.
I think I hyped Sen. Barbara Boxer's PAC for a Change as a good group to donate to earlier this season...they tend to support very progressive candidates.

Chris Van Hollen, a very open-minded congressman from Montgomary County, Md., is the Democratic Congressional Campaign Commitee chairman this year, and he seems much less machiavellian than his predecessor, Rahm Emanuel (sorry, Shana, I know you think the story about how ole Rahm lost his finger in the cheese slicer at Arby's when he was a kid is cute, but Van Hollen recently agreed to live on a food budget of $25 a week so that he could remind himself what it was like to live on a minimum wage paycheck.)...Is that a digression? Sorry. My point being, I like Van Hollen's style, but I don't think he's been as effective as his predecessor. He could use a little boost.

Give to Howard Dean before he starts to scream. Bake cookies if you need to and hire a cute kid to sell them on the street. We could all give $20 or $30. It feels nice to own your own democracy.

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Zogby's 50-state breakdown

By Beth - Aug 4th, 2008 at 1:00 am EDT

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Here's the latest electoral college poll from the folks over at Zogby:

http://www.zogby.com/50state/

There are a few interesting things about this poll, which is a basic one that only covers what really matters on election day: who gets the most electoral votes.

As you can see, it looks like Obama has sewn up 273 electoral votes and at least 119 are too close to call, McCain having only sewn up 146.

There are a few things I find quite striking about this poll, most importantly being the fact that a couple of the big red states listed here are showing Obama doing remarkably well--McCain is only ahead by three points in texas with 7 percent undecided, while Obama is actually ahead 42 to 39 in McCain's home state of Arizona, despite the fact that the state is still red on the map. In two of the three purple mid-Atlantic states (South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia) he also has a significant advantage.

While this is a heartening poll, I think it's also an excellent road map to where our energies are best expended in the next few months, not just in places like Ohio and Florida, where voters are used to being plastered with annoying attention from campaign volunteers in the days before the election, but also in the states mentioned above, which have a substantial number of electoral votes between them and could give the democrats a significant inroad into portions of the country where the party hasn't had a presence in decades.

Folks, I think it's time we all bought new pairs of shoes and start planning for the long, hard push to November. We can win this in a big, decisive way.

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whatever we can do to make 'this' happen

By Ann from Cutchogue, NY - Jul 9th, 2008 at 11:28 pm EDT

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Live in Cutchogue,am available to help.Just don't exactly know where to begin and what to do.If any others are already ,please llet me help.

Ann

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NY Superdelegate list

By Beth - Apr 24th, 2008 at 3:25 pm EDT

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Shana,

I'm sorry this took so long, but here is the info on Hillary's NY delegation:

She's pretty much tied up the whole state's superdelegates at this point. I think it's pretty safe to assume Spitzer should be off this list, the rest is pretty accurate.

With home phone numbers!

Get to bugging them...I'm crawling back under my rock.

Love,

Sis

Gary Ackerman of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-2601 F: 202-225-1589

Michael A. Arcuri of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-3665 F: 202-225-1891

Tim Bishop of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-3826 F: 202-225-3143

Yvette D. Clarke of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-6231

F: 202-226-0112

Bill Clinton of New York

FORMER PRESIDENT

W: 212-348-8882 F: 212-348-5147

Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York

DEMOCRATIC SENATOR

W: 703-469-2008F: 703-962-8600

Vivian Cook of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER

cookv@assembly.state.ny.us

W: 718-322-3975 F: 718 322-4085 H: 718-322-5456

Joseph Crowley of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-3965 F: 202-225-1909

Eliot Engel of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-2464 F: 202-225-5513

Herman “Denny” Farrell Jr. of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER

nydems@nysdems.org

W: 212-725-8825 F: 212-725-8867

H: 212-927-5927 or 518-462-5968

Kirsten E. Gillibrand of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-5614

F: 202-225-1168

Emily Giske of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER

egiske@tmo.blackberry.net or egiske54@hotmail.com

W: 212-431-4748 F: 212-226-7554 or 518-426-1631

H: 212-243-3218

John J. Hall of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-5441 F: 202-225-3289

Brian Higgins of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-3306 F: 202-226-0347

Maurice Hinchey of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-6335 F: 202-226-0774

Judith H. Hope of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER
judith@eleanorslegacy.comW: 212-725-8825 F: 212-725-8867

H: 212-861-9525

Steve Israel of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-3335 F: 202-225-4669

Nita Lowey of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-6506 F: 202-225-0546

Maria Luna of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER

info@audobondems.org or LASLUNA@MSN.COM

W: 212-305-6262 F: 212-305-6279 H: 212-923-8818

Carolyn Maloney of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-7944 F: 202-225-4709

Carolyn McCarthy of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-5516 F: 202-225-5758

Michael McNulty of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-5076 F: 202-225-5077

Gregory Meeks of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-3461 F: 202-226-4169

Dennis Mehiel of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER

acotter@fourminvestments.com

W: 212-779-7448 F: 212-779-9562

Jerrold Nadler of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-5635 F: 202-225-6923

June O’Neil of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER

W: 212-725-8825 F: 212-725-8867

David Paterson of New York

DNC MEMBER-AT-LARGE

Ltgovernor.correspondence@chamber.state.ny.us

W: 518-474-4623 F: 518-473-2444

David Pollak of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER
david.pollak@ubs.com

W: 212-725-8825 ext. 235 F: 212-725-8867

H; 212-713-4406

C: 917-863-2274

Roberto Ramirez of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER

rramirez@mirramgroup.com or rrbxny@aol.com

W: 212-505-6633 F: 212-505-0845

Charles Rangel of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-4365 F: 202-226-0816

Rich Schaffer of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER

rich@suffolkdemocrats.com

W: 631-439-0400 F: 631-439-0404

Charles E. Schumer of New York

DEMOCRATIC SENATOR

W: 202-224-6542 F: 202-228-3027

Jose Serrano of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-4361 F: 202-225-6001

Sheldon Silver of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER

speaker@assembly.state.ny.us

W: 212-312-1420 or 518-455-3791

F: 212-312-1425 or 212-385-6719

H: 718-671-8230

Louise Slaughter of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-3615 F: 202-225-7822

Elliot Spitzer of New York

GOVERNOR

W: 518-474-8390 F: 518-474-1513

Sylvia Tokasz of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER

tokaszp@assembly.state.ny.us

W: 716-887-8709 F: 716-852-2794

H: 716-651-0527

Edolphus Towns of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-5936 F: 202-225-1018

Nydia Velazquez of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-2361 F: 202-226-0327

Anthony Weiner of New York

DEMOCRATIC MEMBER OF CONGRESS

W: 202-225-6616 F: 202-226-7243

Randi Weingarten of New York

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE

randiweingarte@aol.com or uftpres@uft.org or rweingarte@aol.com

W: 212-598-9215 F: 212-260-6393

Robert Zimmerman of New York

NEW YORK DNC MEMBER

zimmed@aol.com or zimmrob@aol.com

W: 516-829-8374 F: 516-829-1561

H: 516-487-6248

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Anyone angry about Wednesday's debate?

By Beth - Apr 18th, 2008 at 2:40 pm EDT

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I have never seen a more inane waste of two hours of television time. All of us who participate in this toxic media environment should be ashamed....

and that's not even touching on the apparent conflict of interest of having Stephanopolous host the damn thing, regardless of whether the Clintons like him anymore.

go here:

http://pol.moveon.org/enoughdistractions/?id=12458-2247306-rKQWEW&t=4

let'em know you're mad.

then do anything else with your time other than watch the news.

Really. I gave it up a few weeks ago and now wish I hadn't waded in again. The media's treatment of this campaign has become a joke.

I think Obama's best point of the evening was his insistance that his campaign was built on betting that the American people are tired of this climate and the petty nature of media reports in his closing comments.

Are we really tired enough to give it up?

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