For Our Friends in California: Vote “NO” on Prop 8

Obama’s 30-Minute “Closing Argument” is a Winner!!

Bob Fertig: NY: Vote for Obama on Row E – Working Families Party

Dear Activist, 

When you vote for Barack Obama on Tuesday November 4, I hope you’ll join me in voting for Obama on Row E – the Working Families Party.

http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/obama/

Voting for Obama on Row E is exactly like voting for him on the Democratic Party line, only it lets you make a statement that you’re a PROGRESSIVE Democrat who supports economic, social, and environmental justice. That’s a message the politicians in Albany and Washington DC will hear and act upon.

Below is a letter from a few of New York’s netroots leaders that I’m proud to endorse. I welcome your thoughts here:

http://democrats.com/ny-vote-for-obama-on-row-e-working-families-party

Thanks for all you do!

Bob Fertik

Democrats are on the ascent, nationally and in states like ours, where the decades-old Republican stranglehold on Albany may finally be broken in less than one week. 

If the Democrats are victorious, then the real battle will begin: how do we hold them accountable to progressive values against the enormous pressure they will face to play it safe? 

It’s going to be a big challenge, so we’ll cut to chase: we need your help. New York needs your help. The single biggest thing we can do right now to boost progressive power in the Empire State is to strengthen our very own progressive third party – the Working Families Party. 

http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/obama

As you may well know, they’ve led many of the big battles over the last ten years, from raising the minimum wage to putting paid family leave on the map, to fighting for affordable healthcare for all, public transportation, and most recently taking on Mayor Bloomberg’s extremely undemocratic plan to extend term limits without a public vote.

http://www.itsourdecision.org/

The term limits fight deserves a close look.  The WFP, with the help of bloggers and parts of the city’s labor movement, was able to turn what would have been an overnight power grab into a very real – and only narrowly lost – fight.  They did it by quickly assembling a grassroots coalition, online and in the streets, to put pressure on a City Council that had expected none. 

The term limits battle is another reminder that voter anger is not enough – winning means having progressive institutions with the resources to respond when push comes to shove. 

The fights of the future will be no different. The more strength the WFP has, the better our chances are of keeping Democrats from drifting rightward in 2009. 

To do it, we need to get every progressive we can reach to vote for Barack Obama – and the Democratic candidates for Congress and the state legislature – on the Working Families ballot line.   

http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/obama

That’s where you come in. Thousands of Netroots activists in New York already vote on the Working Families line, but need a reminder.  Many thousands more would find their happy home on “Row E” – if we let them know (repeatedly) about the opportunity.   

They’ve set up a great website to do just that:  Vote Change Like You Mean It.   

Our task is to make sure enough people read what’s there. Tell your friends, family, all your fellow New York progressives. Blog, Twitter – whatever your thing is, do it. 

It’s simple. Working Families votes not only let us “vote our progressive values,” they carry an important implicit threat.  The WFP and its allies online and off have a track record defeating incumbent Democrats through primary challenges when those Democrats let us down. 

The more Working Families votes there are this November, the greater that threat becomes, and the more likely we are to win the big votes for affordable housing, campaign finance reform, a fair budget, and everything else next January and beyond. 

On November 4th we have a chance not just to kick Republicans out of the White House and Albany, but to start making Democrats better from day one. 

We hope you’ll join us. Go to: www.workingfamilies.org/Obama — tell your friends, fellow activists, and every New Yorker you know. The more votes, the more progressive power. 

To contact the WFP about helping directly, email Dan Levitan at dlevitan@workingfamiliesparty.org 

Sincerely, 

Phil Anderson and Robert Harding, The Albany Project 

Michael Bouldin, Daily Gotham 

Justin Krebs, Political Organizer

Bob Fertik, Democrats.com

 

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Palin Counting on Her “Prayer Warriors”

If this doesn’t put the fear of Palin in you, nothing will:

“It is that intercession that is so needed and so greatly appreciated,” Palin told Dobson. “And I can feel it too, Dr. Dobson. I can feel the power of prayer, and that strength that is provided through our prayer warriors across this nation.”

She continued: “When we hear along the rope lines that people are interceding for us and praying for us, it’s our reminder to do the same, to put this all in God’s hands, to seek his perfect will for this nation, and to of course seek his wisdom and guidance in putting this nation back on the right track.”

The rest of this report is even more so.

RIP Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops

Obama Rally-Delhi, NY Nov. 1

Change can’t happen without you!

Got questions? We’ll help with answers. Delaware County Democratic Committee 

invites you to join local supporters for an 

Obama Rally!

DELHI TOWN SQUARE

November 1, 2008 • Noon – 2 p.m.

 

For More Information, contact: 

Cynthia.lockrow@delawarecountydems.org

 607-287-2198

Term Limits for NYC

“Its 10:00PM, Do You Know Who Your Parents are Voting For?”

Palin Stonewalled Inquiry on Barbaric “Denning” of Wolf Pups

I don’t want anyone who could be involved in approving this type of behaviour anywhere near authority of any kind–God Forbid she should be elected VP:

First, Palin pushed hard, along with sport hunting and guiding interests, to help defeat a ballot initiative that would have stopped the state’s current aerial wolf control program, which had been criticized by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council for flawed science. Now her administration has pointedly refused to respond to repeated public information requests (I’m one of the petitioners, and a potential litigant), regarding the apparently illegal killing of 14 wolf pups at their dens on the Alaska Peninsula this spring by state personnel, including two high-level Department of Fish and Game administrators. A biologist at the scene admitted to an independent wolf scientist that the 6-week-old pups were held down and shot in the head, one by one. This inhumane practice, known as “denning,” has been illegal for 40 years. But a simple request for information on the details of this operation, including to what extent the governor was involved in the decision, has resulted in a typical Palinesque roadblock and a string of untruths.

Read the entire article on how Alaskan Nick Jans, views Palin.

Three cheers for old socialism (A Canadian Perspective)

I suppose Stéphane Dion thought he was delivering a knockout blow when he hit out at Jack Layton for championing “old socialism.” Funnily enough, the raging crisis in world finance is revealing the merits of public ownership, the distinguishing socialist characteristic. Eminent authorities, no socialists, are suggesting than rather than give over $700 billion to American banks in need of liquidity, in exchange for bad mortgage debt, the U.S. government should be taking ownership positions in the banks. The best guess is that the U.S. banking bailout will not restore normal lending. After all why should the U.S. government expect that a crisis aided and abetted by easy money could be solved by adding yet more easy money?

 

Read the entire article by Duncan Cameron, who even quotes Karl Marx!!