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Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 09:12 AM CST
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Mitt Romney one of the top Republicans likely to oppose Obama in 2012 will be in Texas on a book tour March 17-18, in Plano, Dallas and Houston. He'll be claiming that as a successful CEO he knows what's wrong with the U.S. economy and how to fix it. He'll be claiming he is the savior who can create new jobs.
We as Texas Democratic activists need to show up in force at these events which are likely to receive significant media attention and ask hard questions.
How does your experience sending jobs offshore translate into knowing how to create American jobs?
You say you know who to create jobs but after your four years as governor Massachusetts job growth was less than 1% while the national average was 5% making it 47th in the nation. What did you learn from your mistakes in Massachusetts?
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 at 07:09 PM CDT
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Left of College Station will be covering the protest and counter-protest at Texas A&M University during President Barack Obama's speech to the Points of Light Institute.
Stay tuned for a report on the day's events, photographs from around campus and the protests, and video interviews from both the protest and the counter-protests.
To follow live updates from the protest follow Left of College Station on twitter.
Political and Social Thought...
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Mon Aug 03, 2009 at 03:11 PM CDT
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By now many of you have seen the many YouTube videos of right wingers and libertarians "protesting" Democratic members of Congress as they attempt to hold town hall meetings or public forums during the August recess to discuss healthcare reform, among other things.
Be sure of a few things, but most importantly be sure that these are not meant to do anything other than raise hell, create a disruption, shut down discourse and steamroll anyone and everyone in the way.
Certainly it is well within the right of every American to voice their opinions, protest, and, yes, even raise hell...especially with their elected officials. But that isn't really what this is about.
This is about harnessing the frustration and anger of middle class Americans and working folks. The very same folks who were victimized and injured by the policies of the disgraced, former President Bush.
So why are they so mad? Is it really about health care? Does cap and trade really light their britches on fire?
Somewhat, perhaps, but not really.
I try and refrain from lenghty, Unabomber diatribes, but this is a special case.
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Thu Feb 19, 2009 at 11:22 AM CST
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(for the record, I am on contract with the Texas League of Conservation Voters. - promoted by Matt Glazer)
Bright and early yesterday morning, US Representative Lloyd Doggett, State Senator Rodney Ellis, State Representative Mark Strama, and environmental and civil rights advocate Van Jones stood together to tout the Alliance for a Clean Texas' Texas Energy Future: Clean Jobs, Green Power Conference.
Rodney Ellis opened up the press conference, stating that this year's legislative session looks to be a very green session. He also mentioned, as he has before, that the legislature is at a crucial moment in terms of climate change action. If the legislature doesn't act this year, the federal government will likely pass and begin implementing comprehensive global warming legislation before the state legislature will have a chance to meet again. If Texas is not prepared for this kind of drastic policy change, we may not have a chance to address these issues again until 2011.
Senator Ellis then gave the mic over to the group he termed the "Dapper Three" (swoon!).
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Wed Feb 18, 2009 at 10:18 AM CST
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Many of you joined Texans for Obama last month for our incredibly successful National Day of Service food drive benefitting the Capital Area Food Bank. We went door-to-door, and our goal was to collect one ton of food.
 We're excited to announce that thanks to your help and the support of Council Members Martinez and Leffingwell, we've now raised over 3,000 pounds of food!
Thank you for acting upon President Obama's challenge to get involved in community service. In these these difficult times, food donations are even more important as we try to meet the growing hunger challenge. While Obama's bold economic stimulus plan will make a huge difference in turning things around, it's our responsibility to take action on the local level. So if you still have extra food in your cabinet, please continue to support this food drive and help our neighbors in need.
 Going forward, we'd like to harness this collective grassroots Obama energy to tackle additional community service projects. In that spirit, we've connected with a wonderful local environmental group called TreeFolks, and we'll help them plant new trees in our local parks. Over the last 20 years, this group has planted hundreds of thousands of trees in public settings across the area, and we're excited to help with that effort. Council Members Martinez & Leffingwell have generously agreed to buy breakfast tacos for our volunteers, so come out and help improve our local environment. (See below for more information.)
Remember, the 2008 election was not the end of our journey. It was only the beginning. Please join your fellow Texas Obama supporters and let's volunteer to make a difference in our own backyard. Yes we can!
Best regards,
-Texans for Obama
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Mon Feb 02, 2009 at 02:59 PM CST
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Y'all got President Obama elected, now let's keep that momentum going on a local level. Lee Leffingwell is running for mayor of Austin and wants to move that spirit of service forward here. He wants to hear your ideas for how we can be a more active citizenry at the local level.
What: Obama Activist Roundtable with Lee Leffingwell
When: Feb. 2, 2008, 6:30-8pm
Where: Lee for Mayor Campaign HQ, 700 N. Lamar
This will also be a chance to learn more about several of Lee's innovative proposals for the city including AustinCorps, the Mayor's Community Cabinet, Green Jobs Council, how we get our share of federal stimulus money and more.
Come on out, discuss the issues and check out our new campaign office. We hope to see you tonight!
Feel free to RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/event....
- The Lee Team
PS - You can park in the Bookpeople lot or garage across the street from our office.
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Wed Dec 17, 2008 at 10:03 AM CST
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There's more to this story than lazy voters.
The Texas Democratic Party doesn't stand for anything. To win, our candidates must offer a compelling vision of change.
It is not enough to have an excellent field staff, to have a good media campaign, to have a great yard sign campaign, to have attractive/experienced/qualified candidates. It is also necessary to make a strong case for change.
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Mon Nov 03, 2008 at 07:16 AM CST
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( - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
We have been living for nearly eight years now through the national nightmare of the Bush-Cheney presidency, a gang of silk-tied thugs who came into office through an illegitimate seizure of the presidency and have used its powers to trample the Constitution, spit on the Bill of Rights, wreak economic class war on behalf of a rich and powerful oligarchy against everybody else, turn our national treasury and resources over to the oligarchs' private uses, scorn the rule of law, subject the tools of government to the pursuit of permanent despotic one-party rule, destroy the dreams and lives of thousands of young Americans through foreign war based on blatant and deliberate lies to the nation, unleash agony and destruction upon hundreds of thousands of human beings for no crime other than being Iraqi, and tax our children and their children with endless piles of national debt in the illegal pursuit of foreign empire.
As I stood in the voting booth on the first day of early voting, I thought about...
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Sun Nov 02, 2008 at 00:21 AM CDT
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Just saw Saturday Night Live.
Couldn't be more shocked by what I saw.
Especially after the Palin disaster, I was surprised to hear that McCain would go on...but I was certain they would be more judicious about what type of scripts they participated in.
Total disaster for McCain.
Of course it is hard to swim with a 150 lb anchor around your neck.
Case in point: what the hell? Palin bought into a fake call from someone she thought was the president of France.
Then she remarked that she would make a good president in 8 years.
According to AP when she thought she was talking to Sarkozy:
Playing off the governor's much-mocked comment in an early television interview that she had insights into foreign policy because "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska," the caller tells her: "You know we have a lot in common also, because ... from my house I can see Belgium."
She replies: "Well, see, we're right next door to different countries that we all need to be working with, yes."
For the record my old friend Bobby Gibbs had it well in hand:
Obama's campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs, commenting on the prank, said: "I'm glad we check out our calls before we hand the phone to Barack Obama."
The full transcript is totally beyond belief. She sure is pretty.
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