Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Meet Jim Martin

MEET JIM MARTIN AND HELP SEND HIM TO THE SENATE

Georgia Democrats are fortunate to have a man of the stature of Jim Martin to put up against Saxby Chambliss in the race for the US Senate. Chambliss showed his colors in his disgusting campaign Max Cleland, when he stooped to questioning Max’s patriotism. He proved that despicable display was just part of his nature, when, once he got to Washington, voted almost in lock step with Mr. Bush’s dangerous administration.

Now we can replace Chambliss with a man of character, one of the truest gentlemen I have ever met in politics. Honest and accessible, Jim is exactly what we need to return the United States to respectability. Jim will be in Brunswick Wednesday, October 29 as part of his bus tour, and I understand Bill Gillespie, our candidate for Congress, will be with him. Join us as we form a carpool to meet and greet these two great representatives of the Democratic Party. We will meet at the Party headquarters at 500 West King Avenue in Kingsland at 6:00pm. We complain because southeast Georgia doesn’t get enough attention from major candidates, so here’s our chance to show our appreciation for them making the effort to come see us. Let’s turn out in big numbers and help send these guys to Washington!!

Dave Southern
Chairman, Democrats of Camden County

Monday, October 27, 2008

ONLY KINGSTON!



Just when you think Jack Kingston is as low and despicable as he can get, he outdoes himself! First, he cancels out of the debate scheduled for Savannah two weeks ago. Then he calls on Thursday or Friday to announce he has to cancel the Georgia Public TV debate scheduled for last night. But, guess what? When debate time comes, there’s Jack!! What a pleasant surprise! He found a way to break away from the demands of serving the people in his district and show up at the debate after all. What a wonderful public servant we have in Jack Kingston. Right? Well folks, I for one am not buyin’ it. I think the scam was in place the whole time!

Jack made another ass of himself in Brunswick a couple of weeks ago, and he didn’t want to risk another implosion on a state-wide broadcast. But he was getting so much flack about chickening out a second time that he had to show up. So how can we cut our losses, Jack asked himself. Well, we’ll just cut the viewership! We’ll say we’re not coming, people won’t plan on watching, watch parties will be cancelled, and we’ll show up unexpectedly, but the viewership will be a third or less than expected. What a concept! Let’s go with that!!

Spread the word to everyone you know, because that’s about the only way for it to get out, considering the politics of the news outlets in this district. But we can flood them with letters anyway, and see how many might slip through. It’ll be good for your mental health, too.

Dave Southern
Chairman, Democrats of Camden County

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From: christie@billforgeorgia.com [mailto:christie@billforgeorgia.com]
Subject: Atlanta Press Club Debate--Sunday

Please distribute this photograph from the Atlanta Press Club Debate. Bill Gillespie did a fabulous job representing THE PEOPLE against Jack Kingston!

-GETTING TO KINGSTON-

I got a lot of responses from my email asking everyone to write or call Jack Kingston demanding he step up to his responsibility to his constituents and take part in debates with Bill Gillespie. They all tried to email Kingston and were informed his email address has been “updated”. (Now, if we could just get Kingston updated) So you can still get to him via the internet in one of two ways; you can go to his website at http://kingston.house.gov and use the “contact Jack” tab, or, send it directly to http://kingston.house.gov/ContactForm

If he gets covered up in emails and phone calls, I really believe it can make a difference, even to this arrogant guy. It was a flood of protest that caused him to finally return the $17,000 he received from Jack Abramoff, remember? Also, contact all radio stations and newspapers to make sure the word is out on to the entire electorate. We have GOT to get this guy out of there!

Dave Southern
Chairman, Democrats of Camden County

PS: Isn’t it odd that a congressman would have his email address changed in the middle of an election year?

Sunday, October 26, 2008

CAMDEN COUNTY DEMOCRATS - CONTACT JACK KINGSTON

CAMDEN COUNTY DEMOCRATS - CONTACT JACK KINGSTON

Since our embarrassment of a congressman made such a fool of himself in the “debate” at the Brunswick News, he has cancelled out of the rest of the scheduled debates against Bill Gillespie, who so obviously had a broader and more progressive view of the Georgia First Congressional District than the incumbent did. It is important that he not be allowed to just sweep it under the rug as he so often does when his foot fills his mouth. It is up to us and all non-rightwingnuts to inform all the voters in the First District that our village idiot refuses to face Bill, who he knows can whoop him if the word gets out across the District. Below are the key addresses of his offices and his email. Let’s fill up all his inboxes and demand that he account for his refusal to answer to his District’s voters for his actions, his inactions, and his childish behaviors over the past 14 years. Debates should be requirements for incumbents up for re-election and we need to let him know we demand his appearance or know the reason why not.


Kingston’s email:

Jack.kingston@mail.house.gov

Kingston’s addresses:

1 Diamond Causeway
Ste 7
Savannah, Georgia 31406
Phone – 912-352-0101


805 Gloucester St.
Room 304
Brunswick, Georgia 31520
Phone – 912-265-8010
Posted by DoCC at 8:26 PM

Cancelled Debate

Captain Courageous Kingston has again demonstrated his concern about debating Bill Gillespie in front of a large audience. This is the second consecutive debate he has cancelled out on. Every voter in this district should flood him with emails/letters to compel him to stand up like a man. Backing out on debates is the equivalent of simply not showing for a job interview. What a disgrace this clown is!!!!

Dave Southern

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From: Bill Gillespie [mailto:bill@billforgeorgia.com]

Ladies & Gentlemen,

Jack Kingston, Congressman, GA 1st CD -- Cancelled the Sunday, Oct 26th, Atlanta Press Club Debate, which was to air live on Georgia Public Television! This is so unfortunate given our National, State & District Issues. Where is the leadership? Kingston "the 16 year Incumbent" owes his constituents answers. This is totally unacceptable. We will try every major News outlet to rectify this cheapening of our democracy. I am willing to address the issues any time and any place. We need this prior to Nov 4th.

Jack also cancelled for the SSU Debate on Oct 17th. What is he afraid of -- his Destructive Record & Extreme Views, our National Deficit, the Financial Collapse, Lack of Economic Opportunity, a failed Educational System, an Un-popular War, Loss of Respect Internationally as an Nation, Erosion of the Middle-Class, Increased Un-Employment, Increased Poverty, Lack of Job Security, Lower Property Values, Jobs with no Benefits, Out-Sourcing of America etc..., etc....


We deserve better! It is our public duty to vote out this incumbent. You can still help to fund our commercials, advertising, and direct mail.

BILL GILLESPIE

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Help Barack in Florida This Weekend

Dear friends,

In Florida, it's already Election Day.

People are voting by mail and Early Voting began this week.

Florida is a crucial battleground state that could once again decide the outcome of this election.

That's why this weekend, Saturday, October 25th through Sunday, October 26th, Obama supporters from across the country are traveling to Florida to reach out to voters.

Will you Drive for Change and take a short trip to make a big difference?

http://my.barackobama.com/CometoFL

The Florida Campaign for Change is hard at work reaching out to undecided voters.

Polls show an incredibly close race here. But there are still far too many people who don't know enough about Barack -- who he is, where he stands on the issues that matter most, and his plan to fix the economy.

This country can't afford four or eight more years of George Bush's failed policies.

Since face-to-face contact is the most effective way to grow this movement for change, your work could mean the difference between winning and losing Florida -- and that could be the difference between winning and losing this election.

Sign up now to come to the Sunshine State this weekend, and invite your friends and family to come along:

http://my.barackobama.com/CometoFL

With two weeks until November 4th, we can't afford to sit on the sidelines.

We can't do this without you.

Thanks,

Florida Campaign for Change


Paid for by Campaign for Change, a project of the Florida Democratic Party (www.fladems.com), and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Buckley's Son: 'Sorry Dad, I'm Voting for Obama'

Camden Democrats;
Reeney Adams sent the attached article. Seems like the clearer thinkers among conservatives are abandoning the McCain bus, and unlike the rest of the right wingnuts, they can supply good reasons for their decisions.



Buckley's Son: 'Sorry Dad, I'm Voting for Obama'
The son of the late conservative thinker William F. Buckley is endorsing Barack Obama, though he still considers himself a conservative.

In an article entitled, "Sorry Dad, I'm Voting for Obama," on The Daily Beast, Christopher Buckley writes that Republican John McCain has betrayed his principals. McCain has changed positions on important issues, made promises he cannot keep, endorsed unworkable policies, and selected the inexperienced Sarah Palin as his running mate, Buckley writes.

The Arizona senator has lost his bearings, according to Buckley, while Obama has found his. Obama has demonstrated in the campaign that he has a "first-class temperament."

"I've read Obama's books, and they are first-rate," writes Buckley, a novelist and columnist for National Review, the conservative magazine his father founded. "He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books. Imagine.

"He is also a lefty. I am not,'' concedes Buckley. "I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets. On abortion, gay marriage, et al, I'm libertarian.

"But having a first-class temperament and a first-class intellect. Obama has in him, I think - despite his sometimes airy-fairy 'We are the people we have been waiting for' silly rhetoric - the potential to be a good, perhaps even great leader. He is, it seems clear enough, what the historical moment seems to be calling for."

What the moment is not calling for, according to Buckley, is the Alaska governor McCain has chosen as his replacement if he is incapacitated or dies in office. Buckley joins other conservatives - columnists Kathleen Parker and David Brooks - in harshly criticizing Palin over the last week. Brooks, a conservative columnist for The New York Times who was hired for his first job by Buckley's father at the National Review, has called Palin "a cancer on the Republican Party."

Buckley points out that he has written admirably about McCain and has known him since 1982. He has long thought that McCain would be great president. He also points out that McCain bravely supported the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq when Obama and other feckless politicians were "caterwauling."

"But that was - sigh - then. John McCain has changed," Buckley writes. "This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget 'by the end of my first term.' Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?"
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

A Conservative for Obama

ATTENTION CAMDEN COUNTY DEMOCRATS!!!

The next time someone says to you that they’re going to vote for John McCain and Sorry Pallin’ because they’re good conservatives, show them this article by a True conservative leader. Since around the middle of Bush’s first term, I’ve been telling people that his crowd are not conservatives, they’re right wing ideologues, and there’s a huge difference. True conservatives have a positive slant to their beliefs and their messages. Ideologues always, always, bring a message of fear and intolerance. Now, even true conservatives have had enough of the drivel that spills out of the neocons of 2008. Wick Alison is not just any conservative. He is the editor in chief of the National Review, the leading conservative publication for many decades. So please read the editorial below, absorb its points, and carry the message to any friends you may have that claims to be a conservative.
Dave Southern
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Subject: The National Review's Editor Endorses Obama
A Conservative for Obama

My party has slipped its moorings. It's time for a true pragmatist to lead the country.
by Wick Allison, Editor In Chief, The National Review

THE MORE I LISTEN TO AND READ ABOUT "the most liberal member of the U.S.
Senate," the more I like him. Barack Obama strikes a chord with me like no
political figure since Ronald Reagan. To explain why, I need to explain why
I am a conservative and what it means to me.
In 1964, at the age of 16, I organized the Dallas County Youth for
Goldwater. My senior thesis at the University of Texas was on the
conservative intellectual revival in America. Twenty years later, I was
invited by William F. Buckley Jr. to join the board of National Review. I
later became its publisher.

Conservatism to me is less a political philosophy than a stance, a
recognition of the fallibility of man and of man's institutions.
Conservatives respect the past not for its antiquity but because it
represents, as G.K. Chesterton said, the democracy of the dead; it gives the
benefit of the doubt to customs and laws tried and tested in the crucible of
time. Conservatives are skeptical of abstract theories and utopian schemes,
doubtful that government is wiser than its citizens, and always ready to
test any political program against actual results.

Liberalism always seemed to me to be a system of "oughts." We ought to do
this or that because it's the right thing to do, regardless of whether it
works or not. It is a doctrine based on intentions, not results, on feeling
good rather than doing good.

But today it is so-called conservatives who are cemented to political
programs when they clearly don't work. The Bush tax cuts-a solution for
which there was no real problem and which he refused to end even when the
nation went to war-led to huge deficit spending and a $3 trillion growth in
the federal debt. Facing this, John McCain pumps his "conservative"
credentials by proposing even bigger tax cuts. Meanwhile, a movement that
once fought for limited government has presided over the greatest growth of
government in our history. That is not conservatism; it is profligacy using
conservatism as a mask.

Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity
about making the world "safe for democracy." It is John McCain who says
America's job is to "defeat evil," a theological expansion of the nation's
mission that would make George Washington cough out his wooden teeth.

This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced
financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral
authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make
worse.

Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the
maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still
hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the
ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on
many issues. But those don't matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a
deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama's books (which,
it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without
realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me
comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have
a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers.

Most important, Obama will be a realist. I doubt he will taunt Russia, as
McCain has, at the very moment when our national interest requires it as an
ally. The crucial distinction in my mind is that, unlike John McCain, I am
convinced he will not impulsively take us into another war unless American
national interests are directly threatened.

"Every great cause," Eric Hoffer wrote, "begins as a movement, becomes a
business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." As a cause,
conservatism may be dead. But as a stance, as a way of making judgments in a
complex and difficult world, I believe it is very much alive in the
instincts and predispositions of a liberal named Barack Obama.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Breakdown of Early Voters by Ethnicity and Gender

Camden Democrats,
We’ve been telling people to vote early, and these first returns from the past week gives us some big reasons why we should continue stressing this. Prior to the next early voting week of October 27, you can still request absentee ballots, and we need to encourage people to do that. In addition, and this is VERY important, we have done an incredible job of registering new voters, but many may not know all the rules about voting protocol. First, it is important they know where their voting precinct is located, and second, it is extremely important that they know NOT to show ANY campaign shirts, buttons, or other paraphernalia. If they have bumper stickers on their cars, they must park at least 150 feet from the polling place. If they violate any of these rules they will be turned away until they correct the violations. We know what will happen if they are turned away; they simply will not return to vote, and that is not what we want to happen. Things are looking very bright at the moment, so let’s do everything we can to ensure all our hard work to this point bears lots of fruit.

Dave Southern
Chairman, Democrats of Camden County

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Breakdown of Early Voters by ethnicity and gender
Wednesday, October 1, 2008From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Political InsiderBy Jim Galloway

Has the Obama surge begun? Nearly 40 percent of early votes cast by African-Americans
As of Monday, 135,412 ballots had been cast in Georgia for the Nov. 4 general election, whether by absentee or early in-person voting.

Nearly 40 percent of those voters — 53,160 — have been African-American, according to the office of Secretary of State Karen Handel.

It is this kind of intensity, driven by the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, that has worried Georgia Republicans and stirred the hopes of Democrats in the state.
As of Aug. 31, African-Americans, the most reliable demographic in the Democratic base, made up 29 percent of those registered to vote. However, their participation rate in elections traditionally is several points lower.

After a full week of early voting statewide, the highest performing counties are: DeKalb, with 14,560 votes cast; Fulton, 10,599; Gwinnett, 7,952; Cobb, 7,021; Chatham, 4,771. All have significant minority populations.

Matt Carrothers, spokesman for Handel, said in addition to the 135,412 ballots already cast, another 105,526 have been mailed out but not returned.

Handel wants at least 1 million Georgia voters to cast early ballots, and it’s easy to see why. If, as expected, 85 percent of the state’s 5.5 million voters head to the polls on Nov. 4, Georgia’s 3,000 polling stations could be overwhelmed.

Granted, the math says that each station would only have to handle a little more than 1,500 over a 12-hour period, but people aren’t spread out like that.

Because Georgia is a state covered by the Voting Rights Act, with a history of racial discrimination, officials are required to take into account whether their actions affect the ballot rights of minorities.

To do that, the race and sex of all voters is requested upon registration, but giving it is not mandatory, according to Handel’s web site. This is the only demographic information obtained and, since voters aren’t required to register by party, the only clue that analysts have about who is voting.

Here’s the complete breakdown of advance voters offered by Handel’s office:
— Black female: 32,865;
— Black male: 20,295;
— White female: 40,860;
— White male: 36,958;
— Female Asian-Pacific island: 239;
— Male Asian-Pacific island: 188;
— Female Hispanic-Latino: 304;
— Male Hispanic-Latino: 253;
— Female Native American: 12;
— and Male Native American: 10.