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Obama Endorses Senator Durbin's Fair Elections Now Act!

By One Million MySpace Friends for Obama08 in Indiana - Apr 7th, 2007 at 12:16 pm EDT

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Presidential Hopefuls on Public Financing and FENA
The three front-runners for the Democratic nomination for
President are on the record in support of public financing of
elections. John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama have
all come out strongly in favor of a change to the system. You
can see Edwards' endorsement here
Link and Clinton's here
Link. See this clip
Link of Obama's recent endorsement
of Senator Richard Durbin's Fair Elections Now Act, and
exhortation for public pressure on the issue here. Republican
presidential hopeful, John McCain, meanwhile has been less
supportive of public financing while on the campaign trail this
year, but has supported it strongly in the past
Link at the state level as well as
for the Presidential race. He has joined Obama in promising to
run under public financing in the general election if his
opponent agrees to do the same. It's encouraging to see
discussion of and support for this policy from the presidential
field; nobody knows better than the candidates racing to raise
the millions they'll need to get to the White House that
campaign financing needs an overhaul.

Speaking of the Fair Elections Now Act, it's been popping up in
the news left and right drawing positive editorials and LOTS of
attention on the letters to editor page
Link thanks to efforts of Public
Campaign Action Fund members. You can write your own letter to
the editor using our tool here
Link />
New Mexico Close to Judicial Public Financing
Great news! New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson plans to turn
his endorsement of public financing for judicial races into
action when he signs the bill recently passed out of the state
legislature in special session that would expand the state's
public financing program to include state Supreme and Appellate
court races: Link. He plans to
line-item veto the "poison pill" provision in the bill that
would require voters to amend the state constitution to
eliminate retention elections (making those judges run in
partisan races) before the public financing system could take
effect. New Mexico already has public financing available to
candidates for the state's Public Regulation Commission, and the
city of Albuquerque approved public financing for municipal
elections by ballot initiative in 2005. Many thanks to New
Mexico Common Cause and Public Campaign Board member Richard
Romero, for their efforts in passing this bill!

Maryland Campaign in Final Days
Thousands of emails, hundreds of calls, and a pair of lobby days
later we are in the last week of the Maryland legislative
session: the moment of truth for a Clean Elections win in the
state this year Link. In fact, the
Senate is schedule to vote today on the bill that would bring
full public financing for legislative elections in Maryland --
the state Assembly is already in support. Though Senate
President Mike Miller (D) is notoriously opposed to Clean
Elections, the gossip in Annapolis is that grassroots organizing
(all those emails, all those calls) and the tireless efforts of
Progressive Maryland, Maryland NAACP, Maryland Common Cause,
Maryland Sierra Club, and The Reform Institute, have really
boosted support among previously ambivalent legislators for
passing Clean Elections. It's going to be quite a showdown -- as
soon as we get the results of the vote we'll let you know!

April Showers?
Did Uncle Sam give you a refund on your federal tax return this
year? How about turning a little bit of that around with an
investment in winning Clean Elections through a gift to Public
Campaign Action Fund Link Your tax
dollars fund the policies of the country, what better way to
ensure they are spent responsibly than by establishing Clean
Elections systems that make elected officials accountable to
you?

VOICEing Support
Public Campaign staffers checked their inboxes a few weeks ago
and found an email from National Field Director Jeannette
Galanis: "I think we need to go to Iowa." Why? Because a
dedicated group of legislators and activists from Iowa Citizens
for Community Improvement and the Clean Elections Coalition had
advanced full public financing legislation, the Voter-Owned Iowa
Clean Elections (VOICE) Act, farther than they ever had in the
state: far enough to make a win this year a real possibility.

A pair of bills, HSB 105 championed by Representative Pam Jochum
(D-Dubuque) and SSB 1173 headed up by Senator Mike Connolly
(D-Dubuque) have passed out of their respective State Government
committees and are moving on to Appropriations, where they look
to face formidable opposition. We are gearing up for a full
court press grassroots field effort; getting calls in to
legislators in support of VOICE, getting the word out through
door-to-door canvassing and phone banking, and ramping up
lobbying efforts in Des Moines to win Clean Elections for Iowa!
You can find out more about the campaign here
Link />
Blog/News Roundup
Have you been reading Paid For By?, Public Campaign Action
Fund?s blog? In case you missed this week, check out the stories
we've been following on?

- New Jersey Governor John Corzine signing the bill continuing
his state's Clean Elections Pilot project
Link />- Presidential candidates raising money any way they can --
ethics? What ethics? Link
- Energy for change: watch Senator Durbin's passionate speech
Link introducing the Fair Elections
Now Act on the floor of the Senate here.

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BE SOMEWHERE FOR OBAMA MARCH 31

By FIRST TIME VOTER SUPPORT - Mar 25th, 2007 at 3:58 am EDT

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IT’S ABSOLUTELY NOT TOO EARLYBE SOMEWHERE FOR OBAMA MARCH 31Live webcast at 1 p.m. Pacific, Saturday March 31st via BarackObama.comThe likely Presidential nominees of both parties will be decided by February 5, 2008, (if not earlier), when more than a dozen states, including the largest five, may hold primaries. The frontloading of the primaries suggests that only candidates with a sizable bankroll of $100 million or more accumulated this year will be able to compete in January and February of 2008. On the Democratic side, this means that Chris Dodd and Joe Biden might as well check their oversized ambitions in the Senate cloakroom, and give it up. Bill Richardson, who is undoubtedly a capable and experienced candidate for national office would probably be better off telling the world he will accept the VP slot if offered.

Hillary Clinton has spent 2/3 of her life preparing for this moment, and she has a fundraising machine and a husband who is a very savvy political strategist, both of which will propel her forward despite certain grave inadequacies as a candidate. Barack Obama may be deified before he is elected President, but he is clearly the flavor of the season, and people are seeing in him what ever they choose to see. He has the legs for a long race, despite his inexperience (two years removed from the Illinois State Senate). This is a fundraising contest, and the media is all about Hillary and Obama.

CHOOSE AN EVENT MARCH 31 AND BE THERE

The following states have either already moved their primary date to February 5th or are in the process of doing so:

New Jersey
New York
California
Florida
Texas
Illinois
North Carolina
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
New Mexico
Utah
West Virginia.

Michigan may move up its date even earlier to join South Carolina, which will follow the first three states out of the gate: Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada.While the frontloading of the primaries to February 5th means that some states that typically get little or no attention in the nominating process, such as California and New York, will get more of a say the earliest contests, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina, will likely still be decisive if one candidate runs the table, or wins most of them. If the race is undecided going into February 5th, much of the money raised during 2007 will be spent on media buys in the big states that weekThe real national primary will be the money primary this year, and probably not the February 5th primaries. Early Campaign Communication Priorities (Abridged)The perfect tool for this communication is to send personal emails to your friends. They are many times more effective than broadcast emails from you or any mass communication from the campaign. Your personal email with an address recognized by your friends will never be blocked by a spam filter.1. Inform the Unaware.With all the hype about Senator Obama it may seem like everyone already knows about him but unfortunately this is not the case. You'd be amazed how many people are completely disengaged. For example the receptionist at the Hilton hotel where I attended a grassroots group meeting last week had never heard of Barack Obama. The manager at the Sheraton next door would not let us meet there because she thought we were supporting a "Muslim." This obviously would never happen with HRC or Edwards.2. Spark the Interest of the Disengaged.Most people by now have at least heard of Barack Obama but don't know very much other than he is a candidate for President with a funny name who is black. They may have heard he gave a good speech at the convention that they missed. It's great to have name recognition, but it's our job to help these people get to know what Barack Obama is all about. 4. Persuade the Undecided.While everyone has common interests, each person also has hot button issues. Once we have introduced our friends to Barack, we need to learn what is important to them and help them to understand why Barack Obama is the right person to make the changes they believe in. Here is what I suggest:1. Send the video of Barack on the Daily show to everyone you know. It's so good even your most conservative friends will thank you for it. You can follow it up with or include other fun ones like Barack on Jay leno or the Monday Night Football spoof:Jon Stewart's Best Daily Show Interview ComebackBarack Obama on Jay LenoBarack Obama on Monday Night Football 2. Send a personalized message to introduce your friends to Barack.Another favorite of mine for introducing Barack is this 5 minute Today Show interview:Barack Obama on The Today ShowAnd this 14 min. clip of his CBS 60 Minutes interview is one of the best intros. to Barack but be advised of its length and the fact that it is preceded by a commercial (not everything is free.)Barack Obama on CBS 60 Minutes Beyond these intros. the wealth of Barack video is incredible!22 videos from the campaign on YouTube: Link videos from Barack's Senate site including his 2004 Convention Speech in its entirety:Link even more?Go to youtube.com and search Barack or ObamaAnd the video library grows every day! How about setting yourself a modest goal of sending one email per day. What are you waiting for ? Let's get the word out! LETTERS TO THE EDITORSEE: Link “HOT” site will give you all you need to know about using the media for campaigning. Read it. Then do it.FLYERS & MOREobama-materials-sharing@googlegroups.com PETITIONS & MORECirculate letters to state & local politicos urging their endorsement or asking for their help. Don’t stop with the Congressman or the Senator. Get down to city government and the precinct committee person PCP. I am recruiting, Seniors, Librarians, Teachers and Nurses. They are people with one-on-one clout. KEEP US IN THE LOOP WE CAN HELP!Link

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