It's time to get it up. Get motivated...educate and preducate. WE ARE THE ones here in central PA to dispell rumors, to help our good people realise how simple it is to make the best decision, justifiably, for the right reasons. Lets do our best!!!
We have set up a lending library at the shop. Donate your books by Obama....and your stories. We are open every day. Make a contribution to the campaign today. Think about what you can do to make it happen, and bring your ideas to the shop. Four Seasons Florist...1100 Moore St.. Huntingdon PA . Our first meeting will be in July.
More later.. or sooner. waitinbg for your reply and your ideas.
love~n~light Patty
Hi everyone,My name is Sumi, and I am a volunteer supporter of Barack Obama for President. I am helping to spread the word about Senator Obama's policies to help working families in these difficult economic times.This is the first post featuring Senator Obama’s policies. These issues are incredibly important as Pennsylvania gets ready for its big primary on April 22, and there will be many posts to come.But I need your help! Simply, we can't reach every Democrat in Pennsylvania without your help. This is a grass-roots campaign that relies on person-to-person contact for its success, so your involvement is critically important.Please send the attached Raising Wages document to EVERYONE you know in Pennsylvania. Share them with friends, family, co-workers, union brothers and sisters, and anyone else you may know in the state. Then, ask your contacts to pass them along to their contacts in Pennsylvania. Ask them to send them to their email distribution lists, post them on the bulletin board at the union hall, school, place of worship, and workplace, and otherwise distribute them as widely as they can. We want these documents spread as widely across Pennsylvania as possible.We hope you will read this information and put it in the hands of as many people as you can. You can make the difference — you can help Barack Obama win the Democratic nomination for President!Thank you, and please email me with any questions.-Sumi
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BARACK OBAMA’S PLAN TO RAISE WORKERS’ INCOMES Background: America’s Workers and Pennsylvania’s Workers Deserve a Raise Most Americans haven’t gotten a meaningful pay increase since President George W. Bush entered the White House. Since 2000, men’s real wages have increased only about 1 percent. Women’s wages have increased barely 5 percent over the past eight years, but their wages declined slightly during the last four years. In fact, the last four years have been grim for the large majority of workers who live from paycheck to paycheck. Real wages have gone down for middle and low-wage workers, while only the very highest paid workers — the top 5 percent — have seen significant pay raises. As a result, working families’ incomes are falling.1 Working families in Pennsylvania also need a raise. Since 2001, Pennsylvania’s workers at every wage level — except the very highest paid — have seen their real wages go down.2 Workers are doing their share, but they aren’t getting a fair share in return. Workers’ productivity has increased almost 20 percent since 2000 and 5 percent over the last four years. Meanwhile, the economy has been growing until recently, and employers have reported record profits. American workers are getting paid less even though they are producing more. Without a raise, working families have been forced to go deeper into debt by borrowing against their homes and their credit cards. But credit is getting tighter and personal bankruptcies and foreclosures have skyrocketed. It’s not just a personal tragedy for the families that are falling out of the middle class. Consumer spending is two-thirds of the American economy. Without money coming in, working families can’t spend and keep our economy growing. America’s wage stagnation is a serious threat to family economics, but it is an equally serious threat to our nation’s economic well-being. That’s why we need to elect Barack Obama. We need a president who is committed to restoring the American Dream by expanding and securing the middle class. We need Barack Obama’s leadership to enact a plan to raise workers’ incomes.
BARACK OBAMA’S PLAN TO RAISE WORKERS’ INCOME Invest in Creating High-Paying Manufacturing Jobs: Obama will invest in America’s highly-skilled manufacturing workforce and manufacturing centers to ensure that American workers have the skills and tools they need to pioneer the first wave of green technologies that will be in high demand throughout the world. Obama will also provide tax assistance and loan guarantees to the domestic auto industry to ensure that new fuel-efficient cars and trucks are build in the U.S. with American workers. Create More High-Paying Construction and Green Energy Jobs: Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial scale renewable energy, invest in low emissions coal plants, and begin transition to a new digital electricity grid. Obama will also invest in rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure by creating a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank with an infusion of $60 billion in federal funds over 10 years to expand and enhance, not supplant, existing federal transportation investments. Together, these investments will create millions of new jobs and stimulate economic growth. Fight for Fair Trade: Obama’s trade policy will open up foreign markets to support good American jobs and negotiate trade agreements that benefit Americans workers and spread strong and enforceable labor and environmental standards around the world. In particular, Obama will work with the leaders of Mexico and Canada to amend NAFTA. Obama will take trade enforcement seriously by making enforcement the top priority of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Office and increasing resources for USTR to carry out its responsibility to protect American interests. He will also pressure the World Trade Organization to enforce trade agreements and stop countries from continuing unfair government subsidies to foreign exporters and nontariff barriers on U.S. exports. Obama will fight for stronger protections for U.S. intellectual property, and – in the case of China in particular – an end to an artificially devalued currency that puts U.S. companies at a perpetual disadvantage. Change the Tax Code to Create High-Paying American Jobs: Obama will close tax loopholes that give companies billions of dollars in tax deductions for moving their operations overseas. Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 with Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to reward companies that create good jobs with good benefits for American workers. The legislation would provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military. Support Worker Organizing: Unionized workers earn more and are more likely to have pensions and health insurance than non-union workers. Obama supports and, as president will sign, the Employee Free Choice Act, a bipartisan effort to assure that workers can exercise their right to organize and secure initial agreements with their employers. He will also fight to restore collective bargaining rights to nurses and other workers excluded as “supervisors,” and to ban employers’ practice of permanently replacing striking workers. Obama also supports, and as president will sign, the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act to assure public safety workers who put their lives on the line every day their right to bargain collectively. Raise the Minimum Wage: Obama will fight to further increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2011 and index it to inflation. Provide Universal Health Care: Obama is committed to signing universal health legislation by the end of his first term in office that ensures all Americans have high-quality, affordable health care. His plan will save a typical American family up to $2,500 a year on medical expenditures. Expand and Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit: Obama will reward work by increasing the number of working parents eligible for Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) benefits, increasing the benefit available to parents who support their children through child support payments, increasing the benefit for families with three or more children and reducing the EITC marriage penalty. Provide a Tax Cut for Working Families: Barack Obama will restore fairness to the tax code and provide 150 million workers the tax relief they deserve. Obama will create a new “Making Work Pay” tax credit of up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family. The “Making Work Pay” tax credit will completely eliminate income taxes for 10 million Americans. Expand the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit: Obama will reform the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit by making it refundable and allowing low-income families to receive up to a 50 percent credit for their child care expenses. Increase Investments in Job Training: Obama will increase funding for federal workforce training programs and direct these programs to incorporate green technologies training, such as advanced manufacturing and weatherization training, to prepare Americans for the stable, high-paying green energy jobs of the future. Obama will also expand and fund apprenticeship programs to help workers get credentials and skills in crafts with middle-class incomes and benefits. Make College Affordable for All Americans: Obama’s American Opportunity Tax Credit, a fully refundable credit, will ensure that the first $4,000 of a college education is completely free for most Americans and will cover two-thirds of the cost of tuition at the average public college or university. Students claiming this credit will be required to conduct 100 hours of public service a year, either during the school year or over the summer months. Help Dislocated Workers to Stay in the Middle Class: Obama will modernize and expand trade adjustment assistance to include all affected workers — including those in the service sector and those losing jobs going to countries with which we do not have trade agreements such as China and India. Obama also supports unemployment insurance reform that assured benefits for more unemployed workers and provides extended benefits for those who need them. Obama will create flexible education accounts that workers can use to retrain, provide retraining assistance for workers in sectors of the economy vulnerable to dislocation before they lose their jobs, and provide additional assistance for workers to afford health care. As president, he will sign an updated WARN Act that requires large employers to notify employees of a layoff 90 days before a plant closing – an increase of 30 days from today's standard. 1 Jared Bernstein & Lawrence Mishel, Economy’s Gains Fail to Reach Most Workers’ Paychecks, EPI Briefing Paper #195 (Sept. 3, 2007).
2 Keystone Research Center, The State of Working Pennsylvania 2007, www.stateofworkingpa.com.
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Everyone criticizes Obama about the "Bitter" comments because he made it at a fundraisers in San Fransico behind closed doors, people say he got caught because he thought nobody was listening, But what the media doesnt tell you is that he made these very remarks on Charlie Rose during an interview in 2004 !!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHodpyhXFSg
THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
This will not take even a minute of your time, but it will make a large difference to Independents, conservative, and working class viewers of CNN. A poll That will air on Lou Dobbs asking about Barack Obama's apparent elitist comments. Force the mainstream to put his comments into context vote on this poll.
Here is the link: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
The poll is on the right hand side down the page.
This is the question they ask:
Do you believe that Senator Barack Obama's comments reveal his elitist attitude towards every hardworking American?
This will make a difference because it will be the first time in history that Lou dobbs viewers disgree with what he says in such large percentage. Vote and spread the word. I will be posting this over and over again.
Thanks to all who are helping out in Huntingdon county!! We had an awsome time at the rally in Happy Valley. I'll post my pics link as soon as I have em up. Check out today's Rasmussen report to see how Hillary's lead in the polls is closing in. Now less than 5% !!
Obama visited my hometown of Reading after he was here. Check out Mayor McMahon's welcome speech. PA MAYORS COALITION FOR OBAMA... click here for video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbRc7xm-HxI
We are making a difference. Wear your pins, carry a spare, open doors, open a conversation. Breath deep the winds of change. Love to all, Patty
I said for so long... Oh sweet Jesus, I hope it doesn't come down to PA. Now it has. WE have the greatest power to affect this election,. fetch me a Hershey bar...and some pretzels. Spread the word... pass the videos.. As we reside in alabama -pa. according to Chris Matthews. I remain encouraged...hopeful, that reality prevails.. and we have the power to make this happen. YES WE CAN Pennsylvania...get up, and get off of it. !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzSKD0PnVhk
Barack Obama's speech yesterday gave me goosebumps.
Twenty years ago (or so) I remember sitting in Speech Communications class at Penn State University and listening to an audio tape of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech. I was a young, white woman coming of age in the money-hungry eighties. I had grown up in rural Pennsylvania where there was exactly one Black student in my highschool among 1200 Whites. Listening to King's speech was a pivotal moment in my life. I learned the power of rhetoric. I learned that well-spoken words can change history. I felt the power of King's vision and his Dream and it stirred in me a commitment to develop my own vision and my own dream.
The technology of today, allowed me to watch and to listen to Barack Obama hours after the speech on my laptop computer. I couldn't watch the speech live because I was assisting with voter registration efforts at the place where I first experienced the power of words, the Penn State Altoona campus.
I felt the passion of that young woman sitting in speech class return. I had come full circle. Once again, the awesome power of well-spoken words engulfed me. Is this a moment that will change history as King's Dream did?
I can only Hope.
I can only Pray.
I can only Work with this campaign to bring America closer to the perfection that our founding fathers envisioned.
This day I re-commit my energies to this campaign and to the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. and to the Hope of Barack Obama.
J. Swan @ Altoona, PA
Congratulations Barack 4 Mississippi, GO Barack GO ! !
Keep up the good work and let the DNC know it is time to get behind B. Obama, and let the Party work toward Victory in November ! ! !
G-d Bless US, Everyone ! ! ! !
Obama's National Arts Policy Committee will be distributing the campaign's official arts policy platform to the Pennsylvania art community in order to cultivate a base of arts voters before the primary. Obama is committed to the arts, and it's important we, as writers, artists, performers, and musicians, do our part to help win Pennsylvania!
Do you know any arts professionals in Pennsylvania? Write me at obamaarts@gmail.com to get a pdf of the platform and a letter from our committee chairs, Margo Lions and George Stevens, Jr., to send out to your personal contacts. Or send me email and professional affiliations of people you know working in the Pennsylvania art community and we will send those documents out to your contacts. Any emails submitted will be kept private will only be used to send the official letter and policy document.
Do you have time to help us do some online research? I am looking for a few volunteers to help me do some online research for this big project. We need to find all the arts organizations in Pennsylvania and get emails for the staff of those organizations. We will be working on this right away, but since it's just online research, you can do this from home and at any time of day. If you have some time to help out, please reply back via email to obamaarts@gmail.com.
Thanks so much,
Shawnee Barton
Obama for America Arts Policy Committee Member
Barack CALL uopn Americans, Send Message, Elect ONLY Democtrats 2 Congress ! !
Barack call on the American Public to "Elect an ONLY NEW Democratic Congress" , to Have changes to our NEW america, we need in Congress a majority VOTE control beond compare, send a message to Washington we wiill have Change and have it NOW ! ! ! !
Announce a PRESIDENTIAL Decree as other Countrys do arround the world, at the change of political Parties, A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON, and EXPUNGEMENT for all people, ever charged for non-felony charges, A Conditional pardon; all Felons be discharged from prison Immediately, and AFTER THREE YEARS of a non crime period they to will receive a Total Pardon and Expungement of there recordsof after THREE additional years(at the end of my third year of my first Term).
NOT only call for release of Political Prisoners in CUBA but also here in the USA jails.
Immediately ALL AMERICAN VETRANS to be given FREE HEALTH CARE thru the Vertans Hospitals, with out any conditions such as service connected vs non-service connected conditions???? Income or no-income conditions.??? When you served at this war, or at that war????
Can we be as bold to HOPE for the IMPOSSIBLE, to become the POSSIBLE.
Barack wins WI, and Washington
Congratulations Barack Obama,
and to you Michelle and to all the grassroots effort by his Leadership, In WINNING WI, WA, and soon Tonight, will HI be next the next win..
I hope you will be inspired tonight for the step forward America makes Tonight.
Send me your Inspirations, to and from all those who have been Helping.
Write in Ballots - My efforts
As a two Term Democratic Committee-man I have had experience with write-in's.
Write-in's are used by the electors to an effort to fill an empty ballot position. To place a canidate not filed to be on the ballot, because any County filing condition was not complete. A canidate may be registered from the opposition party.
Another use is the "Sneak Attack" and is most effective if only one canidate on the ballot. If any other canidates are already on the ballot, only overwelming support from a grassroots electorate, would be successful, without this type of support the chances of a win would be less than 1%. The chances to win increase for an unpopular incumbant. The chances decrease for a popular incumbant. If a write-in is successful after the Primary Election, then during the General Election, the electors have a so called "Coin toss Choice", the chances are 50 / 50, for unknown canidates. For an elected official, too confident in his position, who may think ' No one would attempt to run against me." the sneak attack can be very effective.
The Paper Ballot:
In the old days there was the paper write-in's. This was a nightmare, most people were un-aware how the process worked. There was a privacy envlope with a write-in sheet inside, to be placed in the ballot box when finished voting. A voter was to write the name, address, the office position title, and number on the write-in sheet, insert into the privacy envlope.
Paper Problems:
Unless an elector asked the proctor for a write-in, and a pencil both were forgotten. How do you spell the write-ins name, are there any others with this name? Who would know the address? Sometimes the name, address, or position title were too long to fit on the paper. The position number were different depending on district, county, or ward.
After voting polling people would say "I got in there and then I forgot his name." Some say I got so nervious I forgot all about doing any write-in's.
Canidates Efforts:
For the canidate attempting a write-in, a handout was the only way. Canidates learned to print a small sticky-label, to place on the paper write-in sheet. At each polling place there was a need for more than one pitch-man, stationed at the door to pass out the sticky-labels. The voters, at times, avoid a pitch-man unknown to them, but if known, most voters will want to talk, and get "the Scoop." Voters accept or say they will use the sticky-label, but most sticky-labels are in the trashcan at the end of the day.
It takes a full team at each poll, sticky tags and pre-notice from the media to produce a successful write-in effort.
I will write more at a later date.
Congressional District Petition Drive: We need volunteers in each district to help circulate the petitions to place Senator Obama on the PA ballot. We would like to identify a Congressional District Petition Drive Leader in each district. The leaders will be responsible for distributing the petitions to each of the volunteers who will circulate Senator Obama’s petition and our delegate candidate petitions in their communities. The leaders will be responsible for collecting the completed petitions and submitting them to the Obama Campaign. If you are interested in serving as the Petition Drive Leader in your Congressional District, please email your name and full contact information to CentralPAforObama@gmail.com. Please include a brief note about your background.
District Maps: http://www.nationalatlas.gov/printable/congress.html#pa
