August 31, 2004
Shaila Pai's House Party for DFA
Please attend my houseparty on Sept 2, 2004 ( on the day Pres. Bush will accept his nomination at the Republican convention). We want to deny him a second term. Kindly help me reach my fund raising goal and contribute. This amount will go to fund DFA activities and some of it will go to a candidate of our choice in local races.
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place:
Shaila Pai's House
8652, Concord Drive
Jessup, MD 20794
(Mapquest directions come out slightly wrong. So please e-mail or call in to get directions)
Tel: 301-490-3377
E-mail: shailapai(at)comcast.net
kindly contribute and RSVP if you will attend.
You can also access the party information on the following website and contribute:
http://www.webspawner.com/users/bushout
Posted by Jim at 11:42 AM
August 28, 2004
What that "Awful" LA Times Poll Really Means
The Emerging Democratic Majority
"...But the Bush campaign made a profound miscalculation. In the L.A. Times survey, only 18% of the voters had been convinced that "Kerry misrepresented his war record and does not deserve his war medals" while 58% said Kerry "fought honorably and does deserve" them. Independent voters sided with Kerry 5 to 1. Even men and self-described conservatives - groups that are normally quite pro-Bush - strongly supported Kerry, by 59 to 19 for men and 42 to 29 for conservatives. Other polls, such as the Fox/Opinion Dynamics and Annenberg Center for Public Policy survey found similar attitudes. In the Fox poll, even most veterans held, by 50% to 21% that Kerry deserved his purple hearts.
Moreover, Americans did not buy Bush's transparent attempts to pretend his campaign was not involved with the smear. The Gallup poll showed that more Americans think Bush is responsible for the commercials (50%) then do not (44%) and 56% think he should specifically denounce them while only 32% think he should not. An August 26 Annenberg Center survey found very similar attitudes."
Posted by Jim at 10:32 PM
August 26, 2004
As reported in DailyKos
Democratic National Committee:
# July receipts: $27,619,146
# Year-to-date receipts: $109,224,489
# Cash-on-hand, end of July: $62,314,645
# Debts, end of July: $1,140,000
Notable contributions from individuals
# Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com: $25,000
# Shelby Bonnie, chairman and CEO of CNET Networks: $25,000
# Christie Brinkley, model and spokeswoman: $23,500
# Larry Fish, CEO of Citizens Bank: $25,000
# Norman Pattiz, chairman of the board of Westwood One: $8,000
# Nicholas J. Pritzker, chairman and CEO of Hyatt Development Corp.: $25,000
# Leonard Riggio, chairman of Barnes and Noble: $25,000
# Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films Inc.: $25,000
Notable transfers to state party committees
# Arizona Democratic Party: $81,698
# California Democratic Party: $40,801
# Florida Democratic Party: $86,918
# Missouri Democratic Party: $107,106
# Ohio Democratic Party: $74,751
# Virginia Democratic Party: $54,679
# Wisconsin Democratic Party: $46,904
Notable independent expenditures
# In support of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry: $8,000,000
Republican National Committee
# July receipts: $25,910,760
# Year-to-date receipts: $137,487,793
# Cash on hand, end of July: $87,278,258
# Debts: $0
Notable contributions from individuals
# Edward A. Brennan, executive chairman of American Airlines and former president of Sears Roebuck and Co.: $25,000
# Ronald J. Gidwitz, former executive with Helene Curtis and member of the Illinois Board of Education: $25,000
# Charles A. Heimbold Jr., chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb: $25,000
# Andrew McKenna, president of Schwartz Paper Co. and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Senate in Illinois: $25,000
# B.J. "Red" McCombs, owner of the Minnesota Vikings: $25,000
# Sam Wyly, an investor who with his brother Charles financed television advertisements during the 2000 Republican presidential primaries that attacked Arizona Sen. John McCain: $25,000
Notable transfers to other party committees
# Florida Republican Party: $659,720
# Iowa Republican Party: $230,000
# Michigan Republican Party: $112,799
# Missouri Republican Party: $100,000
# Ohio Republican Party: $172,400
# Oregon Republican Party: $148,979
# Pennsylvania Republican Party: $124,590
Posted by Jim at 11:35 AM
August 21, 2004
Kerry Ad.
Posted by Jim at 05:28 PM
August 15, 2004
Today: Outfoxed with conference call
at Melissa's House in Columbia starting at 6:30 p.m.
"Outfoxed will be shown on our big screen . At 8pm there will be a conference call with Cheeli Pingree and Arianna Huffington." - Melissa
RSVP here www.partyhostcenter.com
or email Melissa
Posted by Jim at 12:44 PM
August 11, 2004
Shop at Costco
gleaned from pandagon.net
Costco:
Based: Washington (not the DC one).
Pay: Starts at $10 an hour.
Turnover: 21%
Unionized: 1 in 6 workers.
Executive Donations: $365,750 to Democratic causes.
Walmart (includes Sam's Club)
Based: Arkansas
Pay: Average pay lower than Costco's lowest pay.
Praises Sung By: Dick Cheney
Turnover: 44%
Unionized: Don't make me laugh.
Company donations: $1.658 million, 81% to Republicans
Go here to find your nearest Costco and bring them your business. Good companies should be rewarded.
Posted by Jim at 12:16 PM
August 10, 2004
Howard County Fair
Please stop by the Democratic Party booth at the Howard County Fair if you get a chance. They have plenty of volunteers to staff the booth and they are doing a great job with the fair-goers. They cleaned out 300 Kerry buttons on the first day alone. I worked the booth for two hours on Sunday and you wouldn't believe the enthusiastic support we received from the crowd or how many said they have Republican friends and relatives who are going to vote against Bush.
It was sweet.
Posted by Jim at 11:02 AM
Howard County Democratic Office
The local Democratic office is located at...
7050 Oakland Mills Rd.
Suite 120
Columbia, MD 21046
410-290-9791
Hours: Mon-Th 6:30pm-9pm, Tu-Wed 11am-3pm and Sat 11am-3pm.
As the campaign gears up they are looking for volunteers for a variety of needs. This is a great way to "Take our country back" and to gain experience in the nuts-and-bolts of the political pr0cess.
Please give them a call and find the time to help. We need you now more than ever.
Posted by Jim at 10:48 AM
August 06, 2004
Text of Howard Dean's speech
Delivered to the Democratic Convention, Boston - July 28, 2004
I was hoping for a reception like this. I was just hoping that it would be on Thursday night, instead of on Tuesday night.
I may not be the nominee, but I can tell you this: For the next hundred days, I'll be doing everything I can to make sure that John Kerry and John Edwards take our country back for the people who built it. Because tonight, we're all here to represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.
I'm proud of John Kerry's leadership, and I intend to stand shoulder to shoulder with him as we fight for the things Harry Truman promised in 1948: health insurance for every American, a real jobs plan to create jobs instead of destroy them. Standing up for middle class and working Americans who got a tax increase, not a tax cut. And a foreign policy that relies on telling the truth to the American people before we send our brave American soldiers to fight in foreign lands. I'd like a commander-in-chief who supports our soldiers and our veterans, instead of cutting their hardship pay when they're abroad, and their health benefits when they get home.
I'm Howard Dean. And I'm voting for John Kerry.
I'm voting for John Kerry and John Edwards because I'm tired of seeing hard-working Americans struggling with jobs that pay less than they did four years ago. I'm voting for John Kerry and John Edwards because I want a president and vice president as good and as strong as the American people. And I'm voting for John Kerry and John Edwards because I want to see America restored as the moral leader of the world.
America's greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness. It is in the capacity of our minds, the size of our hearts, and the strength of our democracy.
As I've traveled America, I've seen that strength. I've seen it in the people I've met and their desire to take our country back for the American people. I saw it in a college student in Pennsylvania who sold her bicycle and sent us a check for $100 with a note that said, "I sold my bicycle for democracy." I saw it in a woman from Iowa who handed me $50-all in quarters. She saved it from her monthly disability check, because she wanted to make America well again. And I saw it in the 19-year-old from Alabama who had never been involved in politics before he got in his car and drove up to Vermont, because he didn't feel like he was being heard in Washington.
He was just one of so many. They learned that politics was too important to be left to the politicians. They didn't just pack their bags-they backed their hopes that we can take our country back. And you know what? We will.
We're not going to be afraid to stand up for what we believe. We're not going to let those who disagree with us shout us down under a banner of false patriotism. And we're not going to give up a single voter, or a single state. We're going to be proud to call ourselves Democrats, not just here in Boston. We're going to be proud to call ourselves Democrats in Mississippi, proud to call ourselves Democrats in Utah and Idaho. And we're going to be proud to call ourselves Democrats in Texas.
Never again will we be ashamed to call ourselves Democrats. Never. Never. Never. We're not just going to change presidents, we're going to change this country and reclaim the American dream.
To everyone who supported me -- you've given me so much, and I can't thank you enough. But this was never about me. It was about us. It was about giving new life to our party, new energy to our democracy, and providing hope again for the greatest nation on earth.
And so, today, even though you have already given so much-I want to ask you to give one more thing: Give America President John Kerry. Together, we can take our country back. And only you have the power to make it happen.
Posted by Jim at 11:40 PM