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I received this email today and think it is important enough to share with the community. I am sure many of you have received this at home but just in case you didn't.
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Right now Americans are coming together with one voice to demand George W. Bush follow the will of the people and not veto the Democratic plan for change in Iraq.
I've spent my entire professional career standing up for our men and women in uniform. I have carefully reviewed and considered the Democrats' plan for change in Iraq. More than any bill passed by the previous Republican Rubber Stamp Congress, it ensures our troops have the training and equipment they need - and our veterans get the services they deserve.
Taking Back Texas Episode 3
Happy Easter from the Texas Kaos Gang!!!!
The show starts out with part of an interview with Boadicea one of the front pager at Texas Kaos blog and she also has her own blog - Boadicea. Read More »
Happy Easter from the Texas Kaos Gang!!!!
The show starts out with part of an interview with Boadicea one of the front pager at Texas Kaos blog and she also has her own blog - Boadicea. Read More »
I received this email from Nations Magazine and wanted to share it the group. I love seeing young people get involved and this seems to be a great thing to me.
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We're pleased to announce the second annual Nation Student Writing Contest and hope you can help us spread the word. Sponsored by the BIL Charitable Trust to recognize and reward the best in student writing and thinking, the contest's deadline is May 31, 2007.
I received this email today and think it is important enough to share.
In January, the House of Representatives passed the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007, once again calling for the repeal of President Bush's ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Now, the Senate is poised to take up the bill, as early as next week.Read More »
Mitt Romney, in an effort to win support from the ultra conservatives, calls for a new try at the Federal Marriage Amendment. This type of Bigotry and hatred has marked the Republican party for so long that it seems it is the only way they know to campaign. Read More »
I received this email today and I am sure a lot of you did also. I am asking everyone to vote in the polls and show your support for Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
We can't thank you enough for your continued dedication. Together, we are taking America in a New Direction.Read More »
As a 52 year old, lifelong Texas Democrat, I am looking forward to the spirited debates and arguments that we are about to begin within our party. For any young Dems or new Dems, you should understand that we are NOT the Repuglican Party. We do not live by any "Dems don't eat their own" ideology.
We fight, scrape, yell, scream, argue, cuss, and yes, at times have actually come to blows....but in the end, we come together behind the nominee. THIS is the way we find the BEST nominee.
When you do it our way, you end up with the likes of a Bill Clinton. When you do it THEIR way, you end up with an illiterate, idiotic, dictatorial.....oh hell, you end up with George W. Bush!
We will know SO MUCH MORE about our nominee than they ever will. They like to goosestep behind whoever the neo-cons and ultra-rightwing, Christian theocrats tell them to.
So enjoy the ride! No incumbent! No VP looking to move up! Potential history making candidates with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Bill Richardson! This is going to be a blast!!
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!
We fight, scrape, yell, scream, argue, cuss, and yes, at times have actually come to blows....but in the end, we come together behind the nominee. THIS is the way we find the BEST nominee.
When you do it our way, you end up with the likes of a Bill Clinton. When you do it THEIR way, you end up with an illiterate, idiotic, dictatorial.....oh hell, you end up with George W. Bush!
We will know SO MUCH MORE about our nominee than they ever will. They like to goosestep behind whoever the neo-cons and ultra-rightwing, Christian theocrats tell them to.
So enjoy the ride! No incumbent! No VP looking to move up! Potential history making candidates with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Bill Richardson! This is going to be a blast!!
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!!
March 30, 2007.
Greetings from Austin, Texas.
This week, I was asked by one of my friends, Ian Davis, to help organize the 2007 "Campaign Academy", a summer camp-like project for high-school kids in central Texas.
Last year, Ian had a hand in Mark Strama's campaign for Texas Statehouse District 50. Rep. Strama was instrumental in building the Campaign Academy, got a lot of his volunteer support from the youth, and helped develop an excellent base of future leadership.
This year, it's going to be bigger and better! We're looking at real office space, a prime commodity in downtown Austin to set up camp. I hope we attract some exciting guest speakers to help make an impression. Plus, it looks like we want to run it through June, July and August. Last year, the program ran for three weeks at most. I plan to make my part as intense an experience as possible.
So here's where you come in. I was asked to develop the curriculum. I developed some Young Democrats training years ago, but I know that times have changed. I have four main categories: 1) History (Democratic Party, Republican Party, third parties, the Constitution); 2) News, Current Events, and Issue ID; 3) Debate; 4) Campaign Mechanics (Voter ID, Persuasion, GOTV).
Do you have some input on what you might like to see that would help grow the next generation of Texas Democrats?
Yours,
S. Read More »
Greetings from Austin, Texas.
This week, I was asked by one of my friends, Ian Davis, to help organize the 2007 "Campaign Academy", a summer camp-like project for high-school kids in central Texas.
Last year, Ian had a hand in Mark Strama's campaign for Texas Statehouse District 50. Rep. Strama was instrumental in building the Campaign Academy, got a lot of his volunteer support from the youth, and helped develop an excellent base of future leadership.
This year, it's going to be bigger and better! We're looking at real office space, a prime commodity in downtown Austin to set up camp. I hope we attract some exciting guest speakers to help make an impression. Plus, it looks like we want to run it through June, July and August. Last year, the program ran for three weeks at most. I plan to make my part as intense an experience as possible.
So here's where you come in. I was asked to develop the curriculum. I developed some Young Democrats training years ago, but I know that times have changed. I have four main categories: 1) History (Democratic Party, Republican Party, third parties, the Constitution); 2) News, Current Events, and Issue ID; 3) Debate; 4) Campaign Mechanics (Voter ID, Persuasion, GOTV).
Do you have some input on what you might like to see that would help grow the next generation of Texas Democrats?
Yours,
S. Read More »
This is my latest LTTE. Let me know if you agree.
I was so sorry to read where Republican Congressman Ralph Hall was "disappointed" with the vote in the House of Representatives that gives President Bush the funds he wants, but also would require the troops be brought home by September of 2008.
He called the deadline "strings attached", but I actually see it as something quite different. I believe the deadline is the first step in Congress catching up on over 6 years of oversight that was ignored by Mr. Hall and the rest of the Republicans that lost their majority last November for just that sort of thing.
President Bush started a war that had nothing to do with the 9/11 tragedy, and couldn't have earned public support without 9/11, and because of a lack of scrutiny by his Republican majority, he has been given a blank check to carry on in a way that has damaged our reputation around the world, even among our allies, cost the lives of over 3200 brave American soldiers, and robbed our treasury of much needed funds. And now that questions are actually being asked, and oversight has finally begun, people like Mr. Hall question the support of those that are attempting to do their job.
He would have us believe that a bill that pays for everything the president asked for, is not one that supports the troops if there is a provision that gives the president a year and a half....nearly 750 more days....to train Iraqis, that have been untrainable for 4 years now, so that they can "stand up" while we "stand down"?? 750 more days? That's not micro-managing. That's leadership where before there was none.
And yet, the president says that he will veto this bill, if it comes to his desk, and deny our troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, the equipment, training and ammunition that they require, because he has doubts that he and his newest handpicked generals can get the job done in 750 more days? Even with, so far, a surge of over 30,000 more troops?
This, my fellow citizens, is what Representative Hall should be disappointed in. But yet, it seems that he doesn't have the confidence that the president, the generals, 30,000 more troops and the financing that has been requested, can "win the war".
Seems to me that Mr. Hall is just another Republican politician that needs to really explain to us, in plain language so that us simple-minded folks that don't know as much about everything as he does, exactly what his definition of winning is! His answer, though, will most likely be whatever talking point on the subject that the White House has sent down the mountain so that all Republican's are on the same page of this poorly written story.
To say that that those who supported this bill don't support the troops, is ludicrous. The ones that seem to truly not support our children still in harms way, and those that are about to go back, are the ones who are willing to throw the baby out with the bath-water, and vote against, or refuse to sign a bill that gives them what is presently needed to continue President Bush's Occupation of Iraq.
If the president can't continue to get his blank check, it almost looks like his concern for the troops is completely "conditional", instead of the "unconditional" support that Mr. Hall speaks of.
The money to support the troops is there. And forcing the hands of all parties involved that have for 4 years only sat on those hands, is an attempt to get our kids out of a civil war, between peoples that have been fighting each other for thousands of years, and gives the president 750 more days to do it!
Cato Meador
I was so sorry to read where Republican Congressman Ralph Hall was "disappointed" with the vote in the House of Representatives that gives President Bush the funds he wants, but also would require the troops be brought home by September of 2008.
He called the deadline "strings attached", but I actually see it as something quite different. I believe the deadline is the first step in Congress catching up on over 6 years of oversight that was ignored by Mr. Hall and the rest of the Republicans that lost their majority last November for just that sort of thing.
President Bush started a war that had nothing to do with the 9/11 tragedy, and couldn't have earned public support without 9/11, and because of a lack of scrutiny by his Republican majority, he has been given a blank check to carry on in a way that has damaged our reputation around the world, even among our allies, cost the lives of over 3200 brave American soldiers, and robbed our treasury of much needed funds. And now that questions are actually being asked, and oversight has finally begun, people like Mr. Hall question the support of those that are attempting to do their job.
He would have us believe that a bill that pays for everything the president asked for, is not one that supports the troops if there is a provision that gives the president a year and a half....nearly 750 more days....to train Iraqis, that have been untrainable for 4 years now, so that they can "stand up" while we "stand down"?? 750 more days? That's not micro-managing. That's leadership where before there was none.
And yet, the president says that he will veto this bill, if it comes to his desk, and deny our troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, the equipment, training and ammunition that they require, because he has doubts that he and his newest handpicked generals can get the job done in 750 more days? Even with, so far, a surge of over 30,000 more troops?
This, my fellow citizens, is what Representative Hall should be disappointed in. But yet, it seems that he doesn't have the confidence that the president, the generals, 30,000 more troops and the financing that has been requested, can "win the war".
Seems to me that Mr. Hall is just another Republican politician that needs to really explain to us, in plain language so that us simple-minded folks that don't know as much about everything as he does, exactly what his definition of winning is! His answer, though, will most likely be whatever talking point on the subject that the White House has sent down the mountain so that all Republican's are on the same page of this poorly written story.
To say that that those who supported this bill don't support the troops, is ludicrous. The ones that seem to truly not support our children still in harms way, and those that are about to go back, are the ones who are willing to throw the baby out with the bath-water, and vote against, or refuse to sign a bill that gives them what is presently needed to continue President Bush's Occupation of Iraq.
If the president can't continue to get his blank check, it almost looks like his concern for the troops is completely "conditional", instead of the "unconditional" support that Mr. Hall speaks of.
The money to support the troops is there. And forcing the hands of all parties involved that have for 4 years only sat on those hands, is an attempt to get our kids out of a civil war, between peoples that have been fighting each other for thousands of years, and gives the president 750 more days to do it!
Cato Meador
Well, I never thought the Republican Party or one of their candidates could surprise me but I guess I was wrong. Mitt Romney is so desperate to get young people involved in his campaign he is now paying them to raise money for him and of course, the young republicans are falling for it hook, line and sinker. Read More »
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