Well actually they called this week to ask my son Jonathan Teeters to be the Director of Organizing for America in the State of Alaska. While I do believe in providence and all it entails, I know that he was very involved in and was planning to start his own business in his field of Conservation.
So what do you tell someone who just months ago was active as a state organizer for the DNC in Alaska; and now has the opportunity to see this completely new concept of political organizing started?
“Don’t let the door knob hit ya!” Well you know the rest.Good Luck and we look forward to the change you both will bring to America!Mom and Dad3/28/2009
Hi again, I'm concerned how the rules and policy cover the people receiving uemployment.
Here are a few questions that some of you could answer for me:
Why do we have to call in every week for unemployment instead of every month?
Our rent, car payments, house payments, etc are due at the beginning of the month we cannot afford to save each week.....by the end of the month we have already been evicted from our homes, our car gone and no food in the house.
I think a person should have the choice in recieving unemployment monthly or the entire paycheck to pay for expenses that is critical to daily living.
We as a people are not cheaters in receving what belongs to us in which we qualify for, If money is owed and you make people pay back the weekly benefit amount or more. We are adult enough to pay the entire paycheck all at once or weekly paycheck all at once if the benefit amount exceeds.
We are people who are in need. We do not sit around waiting for the unemployment checks to run out before we look for jobs. We look for jobs anyway.
please comment
A University, College that only requires 30% of a students income each quarter. A school where the meals are free for students. A school where the teachers are paid well. A school which is accredited. A school where each career field focus on passing bar exams, doctor licensing, engineer license and many others. A school where grades are calculated by the extremely amount of hands on training from the very beginning a person starts in the program towards the completion of the program. A school where it is open entry and open exit. A school large enough to accommodate surgery classes, anesthesiology, coal energy, science, stem cell reseach, computer engineering and many many more.
This is my dream school. There should be at least 1 of these extremely large schools in every large city to accomodate the students who would like to further their education and cant afford loans and not able to get federal student aid.
I'm going back for the Inauguration! Life is good! Many of the Obama and Coordinated Campaign volunteers are going for the Inauguration. :)
Who else is going?
Bev
PS I grew up in Maryland and will be seeing friends from high school for the first time in many years. :) I'm going Jan 16th to Jan 25th.
in the Senate! This should be our new mantra. McCain needs to stay in the Senate and help bring about change. He'll be in a good position to reach across the isle when it comes time to make some of the big sacrifices. He can be the Maverick of his party and help push through legislation that will bring healthcare to everyone who needs it, to help lower taxes on the middle class, and help bring about an end to the war in Iraq.
We need Sarah Palin in Alaska. We need her to keep an eye on Russia for us, to expand on her foreign policy experience by monitoring the foreign air traffic over Alaska, to finish her job as governor, and to resolve the 'Troopergate' controversy.
So let's encourage people to vote to keep John McCain in the Senate and Sarah Palin in Alaska.
At the ripe age of 53, this is the first election that I have felt strong enough about to actually volunteer. Our country is in a mess. Our economy is the worst I've ever seen. I have been laid off twice in the past 4 years, and each job I get pays less, while the cost of everything goes up. I have a BA and was barely making more than those working at fast food places. I am laid off again, and am praying that we can get Obama in office to clean up this mess. I'm also tired of all our countries money going to this war, when we should not have been there in the first place. Palin scares me almost more than McCain, and I don't think our country can survive another 4 years of Bush policies.
I have really enjoyed making phone calls, sign waving, and look forward to working at the polls on Tuesday...and then of course the VICTORY party! I have diabetes and can't walk very far, but am doing what I can.
The only suggestion I would have for the campaign, is that once you donate and are volunteering, it would be nice if every single e-mail that comes wasn't asking for more donations. I'm broke since I don't have a job, but am putting in time instead of money. I feel bad when I keep getting asked for money, and not just acknowledged for being a volunteer. I stopped going to church for the same reason. I know the campaign needs money to be successful, but I don't think it's good asking the same people over and over.
All in all, I think this has been a great experience. I like feeling like I am part of the change that I know will be taking place when Obama gets in office!
When I sit down and seriously conider what kind of change is possible under President Obama, I get kind of shaky and weepy. I feel myself floating into a hazy, dream-like state; a state of hope and excitement; of fearlessness and optimism.
Tonight I watched "When We Were Kings", a documentary on the famous "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match between Goerge Foremen and Muhammed Ali in October of 1974 in Zaire. For those of you who haven't seen it; rent it, borrow it, or buy it: it's spectacular.
The movie highlighted a message that I've been trying to broadcast to everyone I talk to about this election.
This election is not just about the obvious choice between two candidates, or the astronomically poor choices of John McCain, or of the massive problems facing the US today. There is a larger issue that I feel so excited about, I can barely contain myself.
Some people think that Obama's race is a question mark, as if being black somehow makes him less qualified, less acceptable, or less "real". In my eyes, I see his race as an enormous plus; a bonus. And here's why...
I have heard stories fom a number of different sources about how, for the first time in our nation's history, the vast minority population will be able to have a leader who understands who they are and where they've been and the unique (and supremely unjust) struggles that minorities face in this country. This, in and of itself, is one of the most beautiful and poetic things that could happen to us as a nation.
But, more than that (as if that weren't enough), I truly believe (and try to just go with me on this journey) that we are at the precipice of ending our issue with race in the US.
I'm not kidding; and I'm not crazy. We all know someone who has been racist, homophobic, or discriminatory in some way, who has had the very foundations of their beliefs turned 180 degrees by the mere fact of working with, getting to know personally, or otherwise personally relating to the object of their discrimination. This happens everyday on main streets across this country; on factory floors and in offices; in schools and churches and hospitals and communities.
Racism, like any other form of discrimination, cannot stand up to any kind of scrutiny. We all know that. But, when we are presented with an opportunity to hear the stories and share the experiences with people who are different, we realize, on a very personal level, how connected and similar we all are.
This election is the nation's first opportunity to share this experience on a national level in a way that no other President has been able to do with mere "dialogue".
I not only believe that Obama is the best candidate for President right now -or at any time on our history- regardless of race, I welcome the opportunity this country has to grow up and out of it's long history of racism and to embrace the genius and leadership that can only come from equal representation.
For the first time, we are facing the possibility of a leader who can represent the best America has to offer, in a package that makes that representation meaningful to everyone.
So, let's roll up our sleeves a little further, dig deep in our pockets, and do whatever we can to make this dream (and it is a dream come true) a reality.
We've got about 15 days left until we can wake up to a brighter, more just and rational world...
Im so excited!
4 Obama supporters from across the country met each other in Seattle, and consequently created this site just in time for Halloween. Take a look, preferably before you carve your 'punkin' this month!
www.YesWeCarve.com
MoveOn.org is organizing the grassroots movement (that's US!!) to work for Obama/Biden this November 4th. Can you take the day off from work? Will you consider getting a babysitter, or bringing the little ones in tow? Sign up with MoveOn at the below link, and they are planning to notify us before Election Day with how we can help the cause that day (or the weekend prior).
http://pol.moveon.org/obama/electionday/index.htmlJS
Our Marysville neighbor Marvetta Toler has arranged a Women for Obama meeting at our local WineStyles! Stop in for wine tasting (optional), meet other local, motivated Obama women, and learn what you can do to help this historic, important campaign over these last 4 weeks.
Tuesday night 9/30/08 at Marysville WineStyles (near Allen Creek Thriftway). Obama Open House from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. $15 includes wine tasting, and will contribute $5 directly to the Obama campaign!
Original event posting: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/womenforobama/gs73kq
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
* If you want to teach children about sexual predators, you are irresponsible and eroding the fiber of society.
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that hates America and advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now.
Want to just pop in to the campaign office in Everett and help the efforts there, rather than working on the campaign out of your home or door to door in your neighborhood? Here are some things that the campaign field staff needs help with at the office at Everett Labor Temple, 2812 Lombard Avenue.
To help with these tasks, contact: Snohomish County Democrats at (425) 252-2305 contact@snohomishdemocrats.org or Brooke Brod, Campaign for Change Regional Field Director at (646) 418-5092 or brooke@wa-democrats.org
This is an important function of the Snohomish County Democrats. There is a need for legal minds, activists, technical types, writers, and observant people with time during the day to be part of this team over the period of time that the ballots sent to the time the election is certified. Anyone with an interest in elections should consider becoming part of this team. Put your expertise to work for Snohomish County, and the nation!
To get involved, contact Snohomish County Democrats: 425-252-2305
General Members of the Snohomish County Democrats are eligible to vote on endorsements and resolutions. Should there be a request for either, notification will be sent and text will be posted on our website.
Want to know if your precinct already has a PCO? Contact blog administrator, or SnoCoDems at recording@snohomishdemocrats.org. There's no time like the present to stand up and make a difference in this grassroots neighborhood position! Want to join snohomish County Democrats and vote on endorsements and resolutions like these? Contact recording@snohomishdemocrats.org.
