Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Jim Powell

Make sure you tell all your friends to get out and vote on December 2nd, and support Jim Powell so Democrats will have at least one seat on the Public Service Commission. Otherwise, we will have only Republicans determining how much our utility bills will be. Can’t be a good thing.

Dave Southern

Democrats of Camden County

From: jim@list.jimpowellforgapsc.com [mailto:jim@list.jimpowellforgapsc.com] On
Subject: Watch Jim's Debate for Public Service Commission

Dear Friends,

Jim's debate will air on Georgia Public Broadcasting tonight at 7:00 pm.

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Thanks,
George

George Preston Birchby
Campaign Manager
Jim Powell for Public Service Commission

172 Stonebrook Drive
Demorest, Georgia 30535
678.644.8355

Visit us at www.JimPowellforGAPSC.com

JUST VOTE JIM ON DECEMBER 2, 2008!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

FOLLOW-UP ARTICLE RE: SENATE RACE

Think maybe the NeoCons might be running scared?

Please check out the article I read at NewsMax.com:
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/chambliss_obama_georgia/2008/11/09/149440.html?s=al&promo_code=70D7-1

ELECT JIM MARTIN

The NeoCons just don’t get it that Americans are sick and tired of the slimy politics of the Bush administration, specifically, as laid out by Carl Rove and his henchmen. But then, since Saxby Chambliss was so tied to the administration, what could we expect except that he would follow their lead. Please read and watch the attached and get good and mad! Mad enough to go out and do whatever you can to get rid of Saxby and his ilk. They’re on the run, so let’s not let them regroup. Defeating Chambliss will go a long way toward giving President Obama the filibuster-proof Senate he needs to carry out the things that America has indicated it wants done. I am send along an article about how the other side sees the Georgia Senate race and how it scares them that Saxby is close to losing. Look for it.

Dave Southern
Chairman, Democrats of Camden County



Ps; Thanks to Reeney Adams for sending these articles along.
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An interesting article in case you missed it:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/10/111652/51/486/658532

Hope you and Rick have a great Veteran's Day!
Best regards, Mike.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

DEMOCRACY FULFILLED!

Look at President-Elect Barack Obama and you see what democracy SHOULD look like. He is our next president because he came to us, the citizens of the United States and inspired us. He challenged us to confront the future and change this wonderful country for the better. He didn’t fill us with a puffed-up pride that translates to the big lie that says we’re better than anyone else simply because God gave us the gift of being born in the United States. He told us the truth about ourselves and our country; we are a great nation, but we have the potential to be even greater; we have warts, but we have the capacity to correct and overcome them; we have a divided nation, and we cannot unite until we learn how to love each other as ourselves.

I have been waiting for decades for a great leader to emerge and carry forward the dreams of all the great leaders of the past. HE IS HERE!

I have never been as emotionally spent as I was last night at our headquarters when the headline flashed on the CNN screen, BARACK OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES! The feeling is still hard to describe. But I think part of the feeling was because of the company I was keeping at the time. I looked around the room at all the people I have come to know over the past four years, many of whom I now consider some of my closest friends and confidants. But as emotional as it was for me, I knew full well I could not comprehend how it must have felt for my African-American friends. I only read about the struggles they went through over the years, while they lived it, and in many ways, are still living it. I think last night must have felt like a second emancipation experience to these dear friends. I looked around and I saw many tears, and I cried , too. The funny thing is, I felt like I was being freed as well, and I haven’t been able to quite figure that out yet. Maybe it has to do with being shackled with an administration that I felt couldn’t care less who I was or what I thought. Being ignored is kind of like being oppressed, isn’t it? Whatever the dynamics, I am now free of that bunch who would turn this country into a kind of dictatorship if they could. But they were stopped, at least for now, by the perceptiveness and the wisdom of the American people. The people said “ We see through your lies and deception, and we’re bringing this to a stop right now!”

But if there’s one thing we should have learned about the right wing of the Republican Party over the past 30 or 40 years, it is that they are persistent; they will regroup and they will reorganize, and they will return with new ways to try to undermine and alter our government. Today, I noticed FoxNews was on in the clubhouse at Osprey Cove, and the entire time I was there, the only people talking were Sarah Palin and Carl Rove. The day after the most historic election in history, and FoxNews devoted their air time to Palin and Rove. Unbelievable! So count on it – they are not about to change or quit.

And what about Georgia - Georgia, and especially Southeast Georgia, still doesn’t get it, and I’m not sure if the current generation here will ever get it! Like the sand gnats, Jack Kingston is still with us. But at least sand gnats are simply annoying. Jack Kingston is really annoying, but he’s also embarrassing and a hindrance to progress in the district he’s sworn to serve. For at least two more years, he will be one of the biggest impediments to the Obama administration.

So in the midst of our joy, we must come to realize that the election is really just a small first step. We have a monstrous amount of work to do. But the good news is, we’ve shown it can be done! I took today off, because I was just emotionally and physically drained. I would like to take the next week off, too, but there’s simply too much that HAS to happen:

- First, there’s a runoff between Jim Martin and Saxby Chambliss. We must recall all the troops and mobilize them to take advantage of this second chance to rid the Senate of one of George Bush’s biggest hacks.

- We need to take advantage of the momentum the Democratic Party gained over the past year or so. If we don’t capitalize on that right away, the momentum will dissipate and all those new, excited voters will disappear on us.

- We need to reorganize the party and bring in a new batch of leadership, so we are not starting from scratch every election cycle.

- We need to identify and cultivate candidates for every spot at every level.

- We need to elevate the status of the Democratic Party in Camden County, to prove that we are the party for the PEOPLE, not the people in power.

So tomorrow (Thursday) morning, I will be at the headquarters in Kingsland at 9:30am to meet with anyone who cares to show up, to begin planning for the runoff. That’s job one. We can also begin planning how we’re going to tackle the other issues I named above. I know we’re tired. I know we’ve done a great job on the election and we’d like to savor that for awhile, but reality just won’t allow it for now. Come on over and help us sustain the momentum.

Thank you all for all you have done and all you will do.

Dave Southern
Chairman, Democrats of Camden County

Thanks from Bill Gillespie

Bill Gillespie asked me to pass this along to all of you who helped in his campaign. Bill is an excellent candidate who I hope we can convince to take on Kingston one more time. There are so many things that need to be done in this district and it is so obvious that Bill has such a better grasp of what those are than does Kingston. There were also many conservatives who, when you spent time talking about it with them, agreed that Kingston really had not done that much for his constituents. We must continue to expose the sham that is the Kingston record, and Bill Gillespie is the best candidate we’ve yet seen to show the people what is really possible in coastal Georgia. This is a campaign that needs to continue non-stop.

Dave Southern
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From: Bill Gillespie [mailto:bill@billforgeorgia.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:15 PM
To: Dave Southern
Subject: Many thanks!
Importance: High

Please thank the Camden Co. Democratic Party for me for all the help! And to both of you -- many thanks again for all the support and encouragement! I have no regrets. I think we ran the best small campaign we could. The experiences, causes advanced and friends made were well worth it. We helped the Democratic Party in the 1st Congressional District continue its positive growth! It is now time to come together as Americans to fix these tough obstacles.

Thanks again for being a big part of our success! Hope to see you soon!

Sincerely,

BILL

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Bill Gillespie

Bill For Georgia

P.O. Box 820

Tybee Island, GA 31328

www.BillForGeorgia.com

(912) 507-8278

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Run Through the Tape

We’re on the brink of an historic election, and most of you have been an integral part of making it happen. Just think of the history-making components of this election:

- Bobbie Kennedy prophesied in 1968 that we might see a black man as president in 40 years. Who really thought that could happen?

- A woman is on the ticket of the Republican Party. Not much of a candidate, but a woman nonetheless.

- A woman came within a whisper of being at the very top of the Democratic ticket.

- George Bush, after 8 years of neo-conservative recklessness, brought the country to economic ruin, destroyed the image of America abroad, tried to turn the country into a virtual dictatorship, trying to rule the United States instead of leading it, created the greatest divide between the super-rich and all others in the nation’s history, sold out our natural resources to the highest bidders or those to whom he owed the biggest political debts, and left almost 20% of homeowners with a mortgage higher than the value of the home itself. After all this, this very morning I read that the Bush administration is pushing to rush through a glut (over 90) of additional deregulation mandates and legislation that will take years to undo. And still, over 20% of Americans believe he’s doing a good job. The historical part of this is that Americans are again proving that, even if it takes them a while, they’ve seen through the screaming and railing of the neo-conservative hysteria, and are ready to take back the reins of government from a very dangerous political threat.

- The U.S. stands on the verge of becoming a three-party system; Democrats, True Republicans, and the Neo-conservatives.

- Bill Smith went down in flames, a remarkable achievement for Camdenn County, GA.

- Georgia is actually still very much in play for the presidency.

- Saxby Chambliss stands on the verge of defeat.

As little as one year ago, how many of these things would have been thinkable? If even one of them were so it would have been historic. Yet, here we are, one weekend away from the election, and all of these things have come to be, and there’s even more, too numerous to mention here.

But so what? Well, the job is still not finished. The black man still has to actually be elected, Georgia hasn’t yet actually turned blue, and Saxby Chambliss and Jack Kingston stand ready to obstruct anything Barack Obama proposes to rebuild the country. Many votes have been cast, but none have been counted yet. We can’t exhale for five more days, and then hopefully, we can sigh a breath of relief and get to work making it all happen with a Democratic administration and legislative branch to support it. There are still thousands of votes here in Camden County that have not yet been cast. There even some minds that have yet to change. And we only have five short day with which to work. These are probably the five most important days of the campaign, and then we can relax. So let’s not let down our guard; let’s, as they say in running track, run through the tape. Otherwise, we could get caught in the last two yards of the race.

We will be calling and walking right into Tuesday, and we need every body we can get on the phone or on the streets between now and then. If you still haven’t worked in the campaign, this is your chance to make that right. If you have, you’re especially important since you have the experience, and can help those who haven’t. But the bottom line is, we need you to step up NOW! This is the final stretch, your last chance to get our country back on track, and you can then say you helped make it happen!

One last thing - something I try to avoid bringing into the mix; go to church on Sunday and pray for your country.

Dave Southern
Chairman, Democrats of Camden County