I'm just hoping we can get the gumption up to start looking into some of the inconsistancies in the official 911 report. Like why Bldg. 7 wasn't even mentioned.

Everybody down here in St. Petersburg Florida is dying to find our who told Guiliani that Bldg. 7 was going to fall down.

We want subpeonas and testimony under oath. We have a thousand questions.

We want to save the Republic from the usurpers.

The energy and excitement in the lobby is better than the OU Texas game and we're just getting started. I'll be blogging on behalf of the Oklahoma delegation from our OK Blue Notes blog throughout the weekend. Check us out now and then at www.okbluenotes.blogspot.com. In the meantime, wish you were here!!! History is being made this weekend.

Please brainstorm ways we can keep the 50 state agenda going full time not just in election cycles. We need ideas to keep volunteers together and working on projects that help us reach out to our neighbors in meaningful ways.

You also need to set up a more formal relationship with other progressive organizations like MoveOn. I thought they came up with some great get-out-the vote activities and probably made a huge difference in getting our candidates elected.

I hope your energy continues to feed off one another and this meeting produces some good goals and strategy.

I was very disappointed in the the outcome of the Rules and Bylaws committee today, in regards to enforcing their committment to the Youth Demographic in the Democratic Party.

You would think that since the youth Demographic has been the only demo, constituency to solidly vote for democrats we have would receive more than platitudes and empty praises!

It is disappointing to see that among older democrats the "future" of the party is still seen as nothing more than a volunteer gold mine. I expected more. We expected more certainly the last two elections results concerning youth demanded more.

Older democrats had a chance to back up their rhetoric about the youth being the future of the party.

They missed the mark by a long mile!

ONE PERSON ONE VOTE

Now that several politicians have already announced their interest in becoming the next US President, it is a shame that the primary elections for choosing party candidates will not honor the political slogan, “one person one vote.” Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, black citizens, especially in the Southern States, were deprived of the opportunity to vote. Today many citizens are restricted in voting their choice among the candidates.

Many States have come to adopt popular voting in primary elections for choosing party candidates. Is it fair that the list of candidates in the Iowa caucuses and in the New Hampshire primary is longer than the lists in some other States? Only the top two or three vote getters in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries will likely survive to participate in succeeding primaries of other states because the other candidates will have trouble sustaining their campaigns. Since voters in the other State primaries will have a smaller list of candidates from which to choose, many voters will be deprived of voting their choice.

Primary elections should be established to afford that all voters in the respective States have the same opportunity to cast votes for their choice of party candidates. A fairer procedure would be to have all the States participate simultaneously on a given day in a primary election in which all the candidates are listed on all ballots.

We should also consider that allowing each voter to make a first and second choice would facilitate in choosing party candidates in cases where no candidate receives a majority vote.

All presidential candidates should have an equal opportunity in broadcasting a basic presentation to all the voters so that these voters have a chance to be aware of various positions on the issues of the day. Appropriate funding is required to enable a candidate to campaign for political office. Candidates who adopt positions on issues that wealthy contributors support can broadcast these positions to the electorate. Alternative positions that lack resources for adequate broadcasting are often neglected. Many candidates use 30-second sound bites on television, a major campaign expense. These brief advertisements are often very shallow by their very nature and have distorted issues in past elections. The public funding of presidential campaigns could be used for letting each candidate make an appropriate presentation that is broadcast on television several times throughout all the States; moreover, public funding could be used to let all the candidates participate in the traditional question and answer forums.

The “one person one vote” principle should also be honored in the general election for the US President. Presently, The Electoral College allows voters in States with smaller populations to have more weight in choosing the President than voters in more populated States, and this is made worst when the winner takes all. The Electoral College should be abolished, and the election for the US President should be based on the popular vote over the whole nation.