Organizing for America | SDSU for Obama

Obama community activists, artists, farmers, organizers, educators, doctors, veterans and business leaders wanting to bring hope, change and action to the California Democratic Party, because change brings with us! We are continuing the advocacy of the Obama campaign with a strong and personal commitment to our communities and our issues. With Team Change, You get more than a votes, you get PROVEN & EFFECTIVE WORKER BEES FOR POSITIVE CHANGE!!!

What does Team Change stand for?

¨ Single payer/universal healthcare

¨ Federal & State Funded Stem Cell Research

¨ Fully funding education

¨ Protecting the environment and our natural resources

¨ Equality for all

¨ Taking care of our veterans and their families by honoring our commitments, providing highest level quality programs and services and capacity building to new veterans needs

¨ Greening of business, green energy and products through incentives and regulations

¨ Growing our economy through WPA like programs, small businesses and get Californians back to work with living wages and benefits

¨ Community and national service

¨ Affordable housing, increasing homeowership, government intervention to help individuals and families from foreclosures

¨ Bring more programs and services to our Region

Why come to the Caucuses and vote for Team Change?

To continue the advocacy of the Obama campaign with the leaders who made our movement so successful here locally and nationally. Team Change activists and organizers did not stop on November 4, they continue the fight for positive change everyday in their personal lives, careers, community and philanthropic endeavors. It is important to have these leaders lead the fight for change at the state-level. That’s why we respectfully ask for your vote! This vote is just as important as Nov. 4th, because President Obama will need strong leaders and worker bees for change inside the California Democratic Party to move our Platform foreward!

Where to vote for Team Change?

AD 73 – South Orange County & Oceanside – Saturday, January 10 at 10 am

San Clemente Community Center – Fireside Room

100 N. Calle Seville

San Clemente, 92672

AD 74 – North County San Diego – Sunday, January 11 at Noon

CWA Local 9511

1525 Simpson Way, Escondido, 92029

AD 75 – Central San Diego – Sunday, January 11 at 11 am

SpringHill Suites – Scripps Room

12032 Scripps Highlands Drive

San Diego, 92131 (Scripps Ranch)

AD 76 – Downtown San Diego & Beaches – Saturday, January 10 at 9 am

Belmont Park Community Room

3115 Mission Blvd

San Diego, 92109 (Mission Beach)

How to vote for Team Change?

Pre-register for the Caucus at www.cadems.org on the right side of the page. Come to the Caucus meet Team Change delegate candidates and they will hand you a slate card. Then proceed to the Registration Table to get your ballot.

Team Change Delegate Candidates

AD 73

Erin Gilligan-Morin

Raad Ghantous

Anna-Maria Mannino

AD 74

Benjamin Bates

Martha Sullivan

Rachel Rott

Carla Mays

Charles “Charlie” Imes

Fabio Marchi

Gabriel Mendez

Nanci Oeschle

Rebecca Leo

Rick Hall

AD 75

Michael "Mickey" & Holly Foster

Drs. Robert and Yvonne Frisby

Maurice and Roma Weaver

Gerold Firl

Gerry Senda

AD 76

Dr. Michael McQuarry

Gail Mackler

Mike Russell

Larry and Donna Dawson

Greg Bolian

Brian Polejes

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Post Election Thoughts, Inauguration, Military and Veterans Outreach

By Carla Mays - Dec 18th, 2008 at 1:55 pm EST

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My concerns are that the military families and veterans that have worked so hard, may not be able to participate in the inauguration that they made possible! It upsets me that I have NOT heard back from Brian Bilbray, Senator Feinstein or any other representatives that I have contacted regarding tickets. We have made various request for volunteer opportunities, discounted and free tickets to balls and events, and we are still in a wait and see pattern. It is very costly and bureaucratic, and I fear that the group may not be able to attended this most historic event, that again they made possible. As we wait for information, housing and airfare become more difficult and out of reach. But, I am hopeful that we will find sponsors to sponsor our local military families and veterans to the inauguration. We currently are in need of air miles and lodging sponsors. We currently have a proposal into the Earl Stafford Foundation for inaugural travel assistance for our 32 member OC (Orange County) and San Diego Military and Veterans for Obama, a local group of Blue Star Military Families and Veterans for Obama. Which I serve as lead organizer for, and founded this summer.
We are extremely excited about attending the Obama Inaugural after traveling to 37 states and Puerto Rico, hosting over 180 events and raising over $25,000 collectedly for the campaign and for philanthropic organizations. The group finished the campaign in Florida, where we worked with Obama organizers deliver all 27 electoral college votes for Obama!
I am also very upset that local party organizers are not making inaugural parties affordable to students, seniors, the disabled or military families and veterans! It is very sad to see that even theSan Diego County Democratic Inaugural Party is out of reach for most at $85/$100 per ticket! This is NOT the Obama way! We are a movement of inclusion, not exclusion based on socioeconomic status. I personally have helped get plane tickets and organized travel for over 850 students, veterans, military family members, unemployed folks and those who could not afford to be a part of this movement, but wanted to volunteer. It is the roll of us as organizers to be mindful of the current economic conditions and plan events accordingly. We have to work on getting underwriters and sponsors for underrepresented groups.

As a 33 year old recent graduate school graduate, I understand all to well about the struggles of trying to find a job in this economy and trying to make ends meat. And this campaign trail, has given me much to be thankful for and to work toward. As a young black woman, I often was brought to tears thinking of my mother (who died of pancreatic cancer in 2005) would be saying or the shear enjoy of my grandparents to see this day come to come to pass, when not color but charisma, brilliance, political savvy and philanthropy motivated the Nation to elect the 44th President of the United States of America! And I feel that same way in being elected delegate in my congressional district where blacks make up only about 2% of the population! That is was I felt an obligation to fundraise and take San Diego's Finest with me!
My proudest moment in this campaign was being elected the National Delegate from the 50th Congressional District to the Democratic National Convention and taking a Military Families and Veterans Delegation of 26 with me! The best event of the whole week was working with the group to packing boxes for our troops at Camp Pendleton with Michelle Obama, her daughters, her mother and her brothers! I cried when we (Benjamin Bates, my fiance, managed the Delegation while I was on the floor of the Convention) were able to get all the families and their extended families into the Invesco Field for the ending ceremonies! This is what the Obama campaign and movement is all about philanthropy and service.
The group is focusing our attention on on the California Democratic Party's Assembly District Delegates races, where we are running our Blue Stars and Veterans in the their AD's to represent military families and veterans issues on the state level. We are working to establish military family members and veterans as a strong lobby with the CDP thru the Veterans Caucus and appointments to various committees with in the CDP. Our group has now found a home in the La Jolla Democratic Club. We are very excited to be joining forces with such an active and well established Democratic Club. The new president, Dr. Michael McQuarry has been a great advocate of our work and is helping us develop Democratic Military and Veterans outreach and assist us with our philanthropic work. Here in San Diego we are working with philanthropic organizations by volunteering, hosting events or raising money.
I am very interested in changing Democrats and Progressives feelings and views on the military and veterans. I believe we have much to do on the local level to constituency build among military families and veterans. San Diego County is a military county, and we must work with them, advocate for them and provide them a seat at the policy table. I see this is my new role in the movement. The military families and veterans are our pride and enjoy, and are what makes San Diego "America's Finest City." But thru out the nation it is NOT only our duty to work to end the war, but to support the military families and veterans that were innocently caught up in this conflict also!!! For to long Democrats have been sleeping at the wheel on outreaching to military families, troops and veterans. They overwhelming supported Obama this is our opportunity. It will not be easy because we have been MIA so long, and letting Republicans set the agenda. If you want a real rewarding challenge join us in helping and working with our troops, military families and veterans! Being Democrat, progressive or liberal does NOT mean anti-military, military families or veterans!!! Pro-Obama, Pro-Military!!!!!

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CAN'T MAKE IT TO DENVER?

By KAYLA from San Diego, CA - Aug 21st, 2008 at 1:34 am EDT

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Celebrate in San Diego!

On Thursday, August 28th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm, join other San Diego Democrats to watch Sen. Obama's acceptance speech at:

• San Diego at the Eagles Lodge, 3848 Centre St., San Diego 92103. Info: (858) 277-3367 or e-mail info@sddemocrats.org

-- Kayla Bruneau

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SDSU STUDENTS -- YES, WE CAN

By KAYLA from San Diego, CA - Aug 20th, 2008 at 3:42 pm EDT

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ATTENTION SDSU STUDENTS:

I am currently the President of the Students for Barack Obama/College Democrats at San Diego State University. This is our first semester as an official club on campus and we really want and need the support of more students. Please contact me at kmeechelle@gmail.com or (209) 352-8094. We have an amazing opportunity to make a lasting difference not only on our college campus but also in America. I hope you choose to be part of it! -- Kayla Bruneau

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O = Unity, Progress, Hope

By Geanncarlo Lugo - Aug 7th, 2008 at 8:23 pm EDT

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Here is the link to download the new sign from the "Loyalty Inc". It is pretty cool!

http://theloyaltyinc.com/obama/OBAMA-HANDS-WEB.jpg

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McCain Hypocracy

By Marcus @ SDSU - May 16th, 2008 at 12:59 am EDT

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Turns out Senator John McCain was before meeting with Hamas before he was against it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/15/exclusive-video-mccain-wa_n_102031.html

This should NOT Be allowed...This blatant, dishonest, shameful political posturing and outrageous hypocracy should be called out on by the media, and hammered by the Democrats.

REPOST PEOPLE!!

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Soccer Moms: whats up with them?

By Kristin L - Apr 8th, 2008 at 1:01 am EDT

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Can someone please explain to me why all of these uber conservative soccer moms are so into Hil in the first place?

Also, if the candidate you do support has similar values to the candidate who gets the nomination (BO is definitely winning the nom from the dems), why would you do a complete 180 and vote for some ancient war monger?

These women think they're all empowered and progressive because they support a women for the presidency, but then they threaten the party with a Mick vote in the general!

So, yeah, if anyone out there understands their mentality, please do fill me in :)

Thanks!

KJL

P.S.: I hope this is a good way to start out my blog!

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Confronting the Kitchen Sink

By miKE - Mar 12th, 2008 at 10:34 am EDT

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Barack Obama can’t win wrestling in the mud with Hillary Clinton. That will not put him in the White House.

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Obama Wins Mississippi by 25 Points!

By miKE - Mar 12th, 2008 at 10:21 am EDT

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Mississippi voters spoke loud and clear Tuesday night, letting the entire country know which candidate they think is in first place. Barack Obama took the victory by a nearly 2-1 margin.

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How to win more votes, are we doing Enough

By miKE - Mar 4th, 2008 at 11:44 pm EST

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Recently in a chat with my friends we where talking about the need to seek the vote beyond the rallys and telephone, I believe we have to get near the work place, recently in past elections in Baja California I help out a group of people and it work, thats my opinion whats yours?

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Last Day to Register

By Marcus @ SDSU - Jan 23rd, 2008 at 3:47 am EST

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A great day in San Diego today, guys.

Earlier today (well, technically yesterday), was the deadline to register to vote for the February 5th primary, so the San Diego Registrar of Voters and several Obama volunteers went on the San Diego State University campus to register students...

It was the first day back from Winter break at SDSU and we were there from 1:00pm to 6:00pm registering students, with Me and another fellow supporter Mitch missing some of our classes to volunteer. And even though this was my first time registering voters like this, and I was DEFINITELY out of my comfort zone, we made EXCELLENT progress...

We ended up registering a little over 900 students to vote for the California primary. I'm not sure the exact number, but we were able to get hundreds (again, I'm not sure the exact number) to sign Obama pledge cards. Almost ALL of the voters I talked to were either Obama supporters or at least open to the idea of supporting him.

One older man I talked to, who was a conservative Republican stopped and talked to us about how although he was supporting John McCain, and he is pretty much a staunch conservative, he absolutely has respect for Sen. Obama. He told me about how disturbed and angered he was about the Clintons' lies and distortions of Obama's record, and he took particular offense to their parsing of Obama's acknowledgement of Reagan's tranformation (for better or worse) of this country.

He ended up signing an Obama pledge card even though he didn't change his registration to democrat or declined to state to vote for Obama (I didn't really want to push him to hard to change his registration).

There was one strong Hillary supporter, and the other few Hillary supporters were more undecided than anything.

And there were a few voters who didn't want to say who they were voting for, so they could've very well been Hillary supporters, but what was so encouraging was the excitement for Obama, and just how many of the students, Republican and Democrat were so open and supportive of Obama.

I was surprised to run into so Many Anti-Hillary people, but I must admit, they did entertain me...

All in all, a good day, and don't lose hope on California, people! Pray for us, and Pray for Senator Obama!

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Video Of Senator Obama speaking to those who attended the rally before his Speech at the California Democratic Convention in San Diego

By Michael Mock - Apr 30th, 2007 at 12:29 am EDT

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I have a good video of Senator Obama speaking to those of us who were at rallying at the convention in San Diego on Saturday. Here is the url:

Link can assure that this is not spam of any sort. I am a supporter of the campaign and I just wanted to share this with fellow supporters.

Enjoy! Obama '08

Michael Mock

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