Ok, folks, it’s time to ramp up this group.
For anyone who is traveling to D.C. for the inauguration, please join us, if you live in NV or not. As the group expands, and hopefully within the next week, we will begin posting links, travel news, and more.
I realize everyone is busy with the holidays but to make it work, we all need to contribute to the group.
I am posting this to all the Nevada and California groups to which I belong, as well as a few, select others. The first step is joining the group and here’s the link:
Thank you to everyone who will help us enjoy the privilege of watching PE Obama take the oath of office.
Hello MYBO People,
The very first Grassroots Inaugural Ball 2009 -- originating right here in MYBO -- has a challenge for 40 people in our network of campaign volunteers.
We are trying to secure a venue in Washington that is convenient, on the Metro with space for more than 1000 people, and we are trying to do this for what is regarded as the inauguration that will be the most widely attended in our nation's history. Everybody wants to be there to witness this historic event and celebrate, and maybe nobody more so than those of us here on the MYBO listservs. Obama's Internet Army soldiers.
It's really, really hard to get space in Washington right now, and MYBO has done it. Almost.
So, The Challenge.
We are on the verge of signing a contract for a venue, and to do it we need 40 people to kick in $1,000 so that we can be ready with our check for the down payment before someone else beats us to it.
Your underwriting of the down payment not only assures us the space to hold our very own Grassroots Inaugural Ball 2009, it will cover $40,000 of our total budget. Think of yourselves as part of Barack's tax plan. That top 5% that will help to reduce ticket prices and make our ball more affordable for everyone--most especially for the 95% of MYBO who need a break after all the donating to the campaign!
What else will you get? You will receive:
What else, you ask?
The undying thanks and devotion of everyone who wants this ball to happen. You can also choose one of our sponsor gifts, once we figure out what they will be.
We need this as quickly as possible. Don't think it over. Reply right away to Russell Miller, our treasurer, at Russell@grassrootsballdc2009.com, and we go to contract to have a ball!
You don't have $1,000? That's okay.
If you have $500 to help us underwrite the ball, we can guarantee you:
And If you don't have five hundred dollars to get the ball rolling, don't worry. We'll be rolling out other sponsor levels, and tickets will be available shortly at a range of prices that make sense for every working American. (We revere the Constitution, but we're breaking the law of supply and demand.)
This ball is going to be for EVERYONE—or at least as many as the fire codes allow.
Thank you!
Jacqueline Ashton de Floris, Mary Ritter, Russell Miller
Members, Organizing Committee
PS: Money Where Our Mouth Is Department—All three of us are already in as sponsors. It's lonely out here, but we know it won't be for long. Join us!
PPS for shy folks: You can be anonymous sponsors if you like!
If you can catch this on your TV, it's absolutely frightening. Just listen to the children being indoctrinated into creationism because "it's what the Bible says". There is one young man who wants to win the Nobel prize working in a creationist lab in biology. It boggles the mind!
We must ensure that children are taught real science in our schools. I believe PE Obama, even though he's a professed Christian, will observe the letter of the U.S. Constitution and separate church and state.
If he can't or won't, there will be dire consequences.
Friday night on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, we were able to peer into the vacant, soulless eyes of the right-wing in this country in the person of Michelle Bachmann (R-MN). Here is the link to the video of that broadcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESdA52S4Dbg&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/17/17297/266/761/633857
The final quote sums the interview up accurately enough, but you really do have t watch the whole thing.
This weekend I saw an Obama ad on the Scfi channel. That made me very happy and made my Friday night! Now that is cool, I watch my favorite shows and get to see an Obama add all in the same night! That is a good plan too, the scifi channel is very popular so, Way To Go folks keep up the good work!
Sincerely
John
Hello friends,
We are getting close to election day.
This race should not be close. What awful chord in American culture resonates with the distortions of the McCain ads and doesn’t bother getting the facts? Let’s each do what we can to get the result that will support sustainability now. You can forward this e-mail to friends. From my web page at http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/davidberry folks can sign on to the Obama site and read his detailed proposals themselves.
Considering that Sarah Palin think we should teach creationism alongside evolution in public school, she should be familiar with the half dozen or so Supreme Court Cases striking that idea down. But know, she can only name Roe v. Wade, and fails to come up with a single other Supreme Court case.
Read the full account on my blog: Failin' Palin.
Gamers have always been either ignored or insulted by politicans. This started in the 80s with Patrica Pulling and her anti-D&D crusades. It continued in the 90s where the Nanny-State Clinton Democrats wanted to ban the video games because they allegedly caused school shootings.
All of this of course is complete bullshit. Yet McCain's bloggers resort to making D&D references. Meaning that they are trying to appeal to the 10% of people that actually believe what Jack Chick says about gamers and Catholics and Halloween.
We can't let them win. If anyone votes for McCain and has even rolled a 20-sided die or played an RPG, they are insane and must hate themselves.
Hopefully, we'll see this all over the news next month:
