- TOMORROW: Gov. Howard Dean to Campaign in Nevada
Tomorrow Gov. Howard Dean will campaign for Dina Titus for Congress and the Obama-Biden Campaign in Las Vegas, NV where Dean will attend a campaign meet and greet with Titus campaign volunteers. Gov. Dean is campaigning across the country on behalf of the Obama-Biden campaign and down ballot candidates encouraging voters to participate in early voting programs, and to vote Democratic from now through Election Day.
Through the summer and early fall, Gov. Dean and his "Register for Change" tour campaigned in dozens of states, registering thousands of voters and recruiting hundreds of volunteers. Gov. Dean's tour continues to build on the overwhelming enthusiasm and voter turnout seen during the primaries as Democrats mobilize and organize voters to turn out and vote on November 4th.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22
WHO:
Gov. Howard Dean
WHAT:
Dina Titus for Congress Volunteer Meet & Greet
WHERE:
3711 East Sunset Road, Suites C4- C8
Las Vegas, NV 89120
WHEN:
TOMORROW - Thursday, October 23rd at 11:00 AM PST
* For more information, please contact Michael Czin at CzinM@dnc.org or (202) 863-8148.
- McCain Employing GOP Operative Accused of Voter Registration Fraud
John McCain's hyperbolic claims about "the fabric of democracy" ring incredibly hollow when, at the same time, he pays dirty tricksters like Nathan Sproul almost $200,000 to "register voters."
John McCain's campaign has directed $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states.
According to campaign finance records, a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June for purposes of "registering voters." The managing partner of that firm is Nathan Sproul, a renowned GOP operative who has been investigated on multiple occasions for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and even, once, spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots so as to hinder the Democratic ticket.
More from the Sproul file:
Indeed, Sproul's history is filled with allegations of political misdeeds. During the 2004 election, Sproul & Associates (the former name of Lincoln Strategy) was accused of attempting to destroy forms collected by Democratic voters in Nevada. That same year in Oregon, Sproul & Associates allegedly instructed canvassers to only accept Republican registration forms in addition to destroying those turned in by Democrats.
In Minnesota, meanwhile, Sproul's firm was accused of actually firing workers who brought back Democratic registration forms, while other canvassers were allegedly paid "$13 an hour, with the $3 bonus for every Bush, undecided or Ralph Nader voter registration." Similar problems related to Sproul & Associates popped up in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
- McCain's Nevada Operation Mocked by Activists as ''A Joke''
Things aren't going so well for John McCain in Nevada. Local Republican activists fear the GOP nominee "lacks the ground operation and commitment to win Nevada" and one GOP operative called their campaign "a joke."
Conservative activists, operatives and officeholders are anxious about John McCain’s Nevada campaign, fearing the Arizona senator lacks the ground operation and commitment to win Nevada.
Concern grew last week after McCain canceled a Nevada visit. A new Reno Gazette-Journal poll showed McCain trailing by 7 percentage points, with Democratic challenger Sen. Barack Obama competing in traditional Republican strongholds here.
“People I talk to wonder where the campaign is,” said Chuck Muth, a conservative activist who regularly speaks to dozens of other conservatives — north and south — through his newsletter. [...]
A few Republican operatives, who declined to be named, offered blunt criticism.
The McCain campaign is “a joke,” one said. “There’s not a campaign in Nevada. A couple of guys, running around, being incompetent. Or even worse, arrogantly incompetent.”
The consultant said there was no discernible McCain ground game, which is political jargon for the massive effort needed to find likely supporters and get them to the polls.
Don't they wish they had a 50-State Strategy right about now?
- Xiomara Rodriguez
My name is Xiomara Rodriguez, and I am a proud delegate for Senator Barack Obama from the city of Reno and the great state of Nevada. But my story, and why I support Barack Obama, begins where I was born and raised—in Puerto Rico. Hola, Puerto Rico.
I could not vote in the United States, but for 20 years as a member of the U.S. Coast Guard, I served the United States. Like others who have worn the uniform, I know what it is like to serve in harm’s way—you need the right leadership, the right equipment. And I know that after eight years of George Bush, our military cannot afford being overstretched and underequipped. And John McCain is more of the same.
Our military cannot afford more of the same. They need a Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama who had the judgment to oppose the Iraq war from the start and is determined to end the war and bring our troops home and win the fight against the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11.
I know how hard it is to serve your country while raising your family, in my case, a daughter and stepdaughter. At times, duty took me away. Other times, I stayed at home when my husband, David, also in the Coast Guard, deployed overseas. And I know that after eight years of George Bush, our military families cannot afford the long, repeat deployments and short visits home. And John McCain is more of the same.
Our military families need a change. They need a Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama who will ease the burdens on their families, support spouses back home and ensure that military paychecks can support military families.
Barack Obama is the change we need. Now that both my husband and I are retired, we know it is not enough for a president to simply be a veteran; we need a president who truly serves veterans.
We cannot afford John McCain. He thought a new GI Bill for today’s veterans was too generous. He wants to limit health care at the VA to only combat injuries.
We need a commander-in-chief Barack Obama committed to a world-class education and affordable health care for every veteran. As a veteran, I know something else—true patriots, like Barack Obama, never challenge the patriotism of others for political gain.
For America, the stakes are high. For us veterans, the choice is clear. We need Barack Obama as the next commander-in-chief, the next President of the United States of America.
Thank you, gracias.
- Sen. Harry Reid
The history of the last hundred years has been a toxic mix of oil and war.
Wars were funded by, impossible without, and usually fought over oil. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the Nazi invasion of Russia, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, and countless other conflicts have been based in whole or in part on the world’s addiction to oil. Even today, dictators and authoritarians from Venezuela to Russia, from Sudan to North Korea, base their actions—and their power to oppress their citizens and threaten their neighbors—solely on access to or sale of oil on the world market.
Since the turn of the new century, those hard facts have come home to America in the most vicious way. Attacked at home by oil-funded terrorists, at war abroad with oil-funded insurgents, threatened in global markets and faced with acquisition of our industrial base by oil-funded multinationals, we must defend America or face her utter destruction.
If we continue to follow this slippery, oil-slicked, downward-winding path, our citizens will shiver in darkness as our resources hemorrhage to Third World thugs whose only virtue is their control of petroleum-based energy.
These threats are real, they are immediate, and they are potentially overwhelming. And the saddest part, the most terrible irony, is that we finance them every time we pump gas or pay utility bills.
The threats are not new, nor is their solution. President Carter warned us about it in the 1970s when he proposed real solutions—conservation, fuel efficiency, and alternative fuels—to what he correctly named the “moral equivalent of war.” His proposals were ridiculed by Republicans who forgot that both Presidents Nixon and Ford had joined him in calling
