I'm putting this post out there just in case any one gets interested.
Joplin, MO is where it's at!
I need someone who can help me recruit volunteers, help organize voter reg drives, and help with data.
Every little bit goes miles.
Also, just so you know. The South West part of Missouri is where Dems have always given up. But this year is different, and if you're on this site, you already know this. If we can win this area for Obama we win Missouri. Period. We win the Election. Period. We want to make John McCain work in areas like this. There are over 30,000 registered voters in just Newton County alone.
If you live in the top corner of Oklahoma, just come on over the border and help out for a couple of weekends. If you live in a far away (blue or red) state, come on over. Contact me and we can figure out a way to get you here.
We have only 86 days to the Election.
So contact me at
(417) 496-2726
epetrov@mocampaignforchange.org
Thanks guys.
Also, if anyone wants to work with me from home, making calls into Newton County that's great too.
Let's start organizing!
The platform we developed from Newton County, GA, is the following:
In 2016, after two terms of the Obama Presidency, many things have been achieved:
Voters are Registered:
Youth in high schools between 17.5 and 18 years old are registered to vote each year;
Representatives visit senior centers to register voters;
Volunteers go door to door in subdivisions to registe4r those who have moved in;
People from Correction Departments are aware of their right to vote once they no longer have case workers.
Our energy is green:
The USA in energy self-sufficient, producing green energy for electricity and automobiles from solar, wind, geothermal and other sustainable sources; global warming has been reversed and pollution is minimal; with future innovations, environmental plans prevent new sources of pollution.
Everyone has health care:
Everyone has access to acute and chronic care; the health system works with exercise, nutrition, mental health, birth and parenting education to optimize our health; Mental health facilities are open and place those in need in constant care, decreasing the homeless population; our veterans receive superior care and social support; communities are planned for healthy living.
Education and education standards are age and aptitude appropriate;
We educate the children to achieve their best work, not the minimum standards of No Child left Behind; excellence is achieved in the arts, math, sciences and technology; the child is assessed according to his/her potential and education is tailored to him/her; each student serves in a national service corps after completion of high school, whether military, national, or international service to improve our environment and services; our students learn international languages and cultures including Spanish, French, and Chinese.
The USA has excellent international relations and assists poor nations’ development:
Other nations will value, respect, and appreciate our collaboration with them and their citizenry in achieving their hopes and visions for themselves; we are a collaborator, appreciating their cultures and histories; we consider war as the last and worst option for relations, only turning to it when all alternatives have been exhausted and the international community sanctions a nation for atrocities again its own or other populations.
Democracy occurs locally, regionally and nationally:
All communities gather, develop local agenda, plans, and act for ourselves and our children, redressing everything we can before turning to the next level for over-arching plans.
Social security and Medicare are revitalized and functioning.
Balanced Budget and Full Employment Achieved!: Our population is employed and excelling, contributing our talents and dedication and earning livable incomes and paying taxes for a budget surplus.
The primary election is in 3 days; where does it stand now? The race is too close to call. Obama leads nationally and insurmountably, but Clinton presses on, dividing the party and the state of Indiana. Meanwhile John McCain has opened an edge against both Democrats—Old Man McCain of "100 more years in Iraq" fame!
Ryan Nees of the must-read Howey Politics Indiana reported May 1 on Evan Bayh's squeeze job on Democratic county chairs and district chairs to fall in line with Hillary Clinton, or else. It's fascinating reading, and one conclusion I get is that Evan Bayh is no Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, whose party apparatus delivered the Keystone State to Mrs. Clinton.
Since Bayh the Colorless wisely dropped his own presidential bid before it got off the ground, and then jumped on Clinton's turnip truck, he's been pressuring statewide Democrats to endorse her so he can get the veep slot. Heaven knows he needs a mammoth booster shot if he's ever going to become a national figure. (You know that's what he wants; just like George W. Bush, Evan has a need to prove Daddy wrong.)
But what Hoosier Democrat would want Evan Bayh anywhere near the White House? He's the man for whom the "Republicrat" tag was invented.
Turns out, according to the Howey report, that Bayh's Buddies are now threatening to withhold support from on-again, off-again Rep. Baron Hil's re-election campaign for having the audacity to endorse Sen. Obama. Here's the quote from HPI:
The ninth district has become especially volatile. District Chairman Mike Jones sought permission to endorse Clinton from his district’s county chairs at three organizational meetings in a row, getting rebuffed each time, according to Jefferson County Chair Jim Melton. Finally Jones endorsed yesterday anyway, departing on the same day from Baron Hill, the congressman whose interests Jones is primarily tasked with looking after, but who bucked Bayh to announce his endorsement of Obama.Bayh fundraiser Dean Boerste immediately began the retribution against Hill, distributing a mass e-mail to party insiders that angrily accused Hill of "defying all political logic" and threatening "damage to Congressman Hill’s re-election efforts." The message encouraged recipients to call Hill’s office and express their "concerns of [Hill] making any endorsements," advising the congressman to "stay focused on his re-election."
The ninth district has become especially volatile. District Chairman Mike Jones sought permission to endorse Clinton from his district’s county chairs at three organizational meetings in a row, getting rebuffed each time, according to Jefferson County Chair Jim Melton. Finally Jones endorsed yesterday anyway, departing on the same day from Baron Hill, the congressman whose interests Jones is primarily tasked with looking after, but who bucked Bayh to announce his endorsement of Obama.
Bayh fundraiser Dean Boerste immediately began the retribution against Hill, distributing a mass e-mail to party insiders that angrily accused Hill of "defying all political logic" and threatening "damage to Congressman Hill’s re-election efforts." The message encouraged recipients to call Hill’s office and express their "concerns of [Hill] making any endorsements," advising the congressman to "stay focused on his re-election."
Retribution. It's not just Clinton, it's suck-up Evan Bayh too.
But even that wasn't enough to sway Congressman Hill, and it may not be enough for Hoosier Democrats either. This weekend's polls say the presidential primary is tied, and the momentum has swung back to Obama. What could you buy with Hillary's "quarter and a nickel" gas tax pander?
If she loses, so does Bayh. Which reminds me of a post on my personal blog two months ago, warning that he would pull these shenanigans, America be damned.
Face it, Evan, your Daddy (Sen. Birch Bayh) lost in 1976 not because he was too liberal, but because he got beat by a better candidate who understood the post-Watergate times, who said "I will never lie to you." His name was President Jimmy Carter.
This year, it's Barack Obama who understands the times, the people, what's wrong and what can be made right with America again. While Clinton promises four years of bitter partisanship, Obama offers four years of hope, cooperation and problem-solving.
Maybe Hillary will still manage to pull off Indiana; if so it will likely be by the slimmest of margins, no big victory. If she loses here and in North Carolina, she's done.
And Evan Bayh will have his own re-election to worry about.
Three days, folks. Let's end this race in Indiana with some Hoosier common sense.
