The Democratic Reunion: Tallahassee, Florida

I got this report in from Rick Minor, Chair of the Leon County Democratic Party.

Scores of Democratic volunteers braved the sweltering heat to walk Tallahassee's neighborhoods and reach out to voters. In addition to the neighborhood canvassing, many other volunteers called Leon County voters from the DEC headquarters. Local candidates and their campaign volunteers also participated.

About 80 local Democrats arrived Saturday morning for breakfast and outreach training before heading out into the community or making calls from the county party office. To encourage volunteer recruitment, we held a friendly competition amongst our local Democratic candidate campaigns. The three campaigns that brought the most volunteers are recognized on the Leon DECs website. Many other candidate campaigns both statewide and local participated as well, and were very thankful for their help.

Rep. Curtis Richardson, who seeking his fourth term in the Florida House of Representatives, attended the event and marked the occasion with a $1,000 contribution from his campaign fund. Were extremely grateful for his donation, which will help the party elect other Democratic candidates this fall.

Despite the extreme heat and humidity, our canvassers were intent on pounding the pavement! We paired up and drove to our precincts around 10:15am. Most of us forged on for hours, knocking on hundreds of doors and on occasion dodging a few raindrops! The majority of canvassers returned to the county party office after 2pm, with the last die-hard volunteer checking in at 4:30pm.

The local press coverage of our effort has been phenomenal! A TV reporter and cameraman followed a pair of our canvassers as they spoke with voters, and the Leon Democratic Party's Voter Outreach Day became the lead story our local ABC News affliate. Thats two full minutes of airtime at both 6pm and 11pm! We also have a segment currently playing on Florida News Radio/NPR. With such great press exposure, voters from all across North Florida are hearing about the hard work were doing to GET OUT THE VOTE and TAKE FLORIDA BACK!

Make no mistake about it the Democratic Party is alive and well in Leon County, Florida and we are dedicated to WINNING IN 2006!

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I am a lifelong liberal Democrat but don't count on me to re-elect Democrats...I am beginning to see the wisdom of Ralph Nader...

Sadly, it appears to me that there will be no Democratic "renaissance" this Fall unless the Party can deal with its own policy schizophrenia. The Liebermann thing is incomprehenisible, but yet there it is, with prominent Democrats supporting Liebermann.

Then there is the taboo topic of Israel, which Howard Dean was painfully forced to learn in the last election....Condoleeza Rice negotiates a 48 hour truce which the Israeli's immediately violate... Who is going to stop the Israeli's?

We look like complete Quislings and fools to the rest of the World. Shame on us and the Democratic Party...

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MAYO615 on July 31, 2006 at 06:02 PM

The Liebermann thing is incomprehenisible, but yet there it is, with prominent Democrats supporting Liebermann.

May,

No body is working harder than I am to get rid of Joe Lieberman here in Ct. But let me explain that the Democratic leadership here in the State and the Nation,

#1- Are so afraid to lose the seat when they are trying to pick up more.

#2- Don't want to lose the Seniority of that seat on the Armed Service Committee

#3= Joe won the most delegate votes at the Convention which means they HAVE to support him.

Believe me, I am not joining in with any State Reunions or other events or donations.

Once this primary is over on 8-8th, should Ned Lamont win, then we will see who are the Real Democrats around the country. Both Salazar and Inouye have said they will stand with Joe even if he turns Independent! How's that for Democrats?

So hang in there. The Lieberman ouster is Phase I of the Revolution. The message it sends to the rest of the Dems should be loud and clear.

btw, if you have not donated to Ned, they need it badly. $100,000 is rolling into Lieberman every day.

http://www.nedlamont.com

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PamB on July 31, 2006 at 08:40 PM

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