Hey Polk for Obama -
Anybody out there? Is anyone doing any work to support health care reform? I can't just sit here and let this garbage happen. Let me know if you are involved and maybe I can join you. If your not involved and want to do something, let's get together and get something rolling in Polk County!!! I can't find a darn thing.
If we don't stand up this thing might go down in flames - hijacked once again by corporate interests and the right. We learned last November about strength in numbers... We can't leave him hangin'people.
Peace,
Danette May danjam1@tampabay.rr.com
This Wednesday, October 8th, please join Joe Biden in Tampa, where he will talk about Barack's vision for creating the kind of change we need.
http://fl.barackobama.com/TampaJB
Community Gathering with Joe Biden
Sun Dome University of South Florida East Fowler Avenue and USF Bull Run Drive Tampa, FL
Wednesday, October 8th Gates Open: 8:30 a.m.
The event is free and open to the public. However, space is limited and tickets are required.
For security reasons, do not bring bags and please limit personal items, including umbrellas. No signs or banners permitted.
Sign up for a ticket using the link above, or pick up a ticket at the one of the following locations. Tickets are available:
Tuesday, October 7th from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Tampa Campaign for Change Downtown Office 817 E. Washington Street Tampa, FL (813) 272-2362 USF Campaign for Change Office 14519 North 18th Street Tampa, FL (813) 978-9138 Clearwater Campaign for Change Office 133 N Fort Harrison Avenue (Entrance is on the corner of Drew and Watterson) Clearwater, FL (727) 461-2856
Forest Whitaker Draws Crowd for Political Rally in Lakeland
http://www.theledger.com/article/20080927/NEWS/809270251#
By Shoshana WalterTHE LEDGER
LAKELAND | For about five minutes Saturday afternoon, Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker spoke about the importance of young people rallying around presidential candidate Barack Obama and empowering themselves by taking a more active role in the election,
In the front row, cousins Whitney Lee, 19, and Tiffany Lee, 15, both of Lakeland, giggled. The two recognized themselves in Whitaker’s words. They stood beneath the shade of a campaign sign and watched Whitaker’s every move.
Reaching out to young people is something Obama has proved he does best, Whitney had said before Whitaker took the microphone. He speaks to young voters, embraces them, and that’s one of the reasons she’s been encouraging people to register to vote, she said.
That sentiment was echoed throughout the event at Lakeland’s Lake Bonny Park as Obama supporters registered new voters and practiced campaigners pumped up a crowd of about 300.
That crowd swarmed Whitaker as he arrived, many on their tiptoes to sneak peaks and quick cell-phone snapshots at the round-faced man, who’s much taller than he looks in the movies.
Accompanied by his publicist and his wife, Keisha, a tall actress with oversized sunglasses, Whitaker created excitement when he arrived.
Obama represents us, he told the crowd: Vote. You can make a change by being heard.
“When you have hope, you can make those possibilities into a reality,” he said.
Behind him, Whitaker’s publicist assembled a “protective circle” of campaigners who whisked Whitaker to his car immediately after his speech.
But the crowd wouldn’t leave him alone.
As his publicist hurried him along, Whitaker posed for pictures, signed autographs and answered a reporter’s questions. He obliged a fan for one last photo from behind the rolled-down, tinted windows of his black SUV.
Dylan Parrish, a senior at Rochelle School of the Arts, leaned in as Whitaker smiled from his seat.
Parrish registered to vote Saturday and turns 18 in October.
“I’m very excited,” he had said from the bleachers before Whitaker arrived. “It’s been really hyped up since last year ... I think [Obama] talks in a way that we understand.”
Whitney Lee said she likes Obama’s stances on education, the economy and his support of equal pay for equal work.
At 15 years old, Tiffany Lee can’t vote yet, but she knows other people can. Her father, 41 years old, registered to vote for the first time in this election, she said.
She’ll be able to vote next time around, and if all goes well, she said, she knows who she’ll be supporting.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gs5cw9
