GREETINGS FELLOW DEMOCRATS!





Screening: For The Bible Tells Me So

January 31, 2008
6:30 PM
Friends Congregational Church (UCC)
2200 Southwood Dr
College Station, TX 77845
(Corner of Harvey Mitchell and Southwood Drive in College Station)

The screening features the Dick Gephardt family whose daughter Chrissy is a lesbian.

Event: For The Bible Tells Me So Screening
What: Workshop
Host: United Campus Ministry In Aggieland

To see more details and RSVP, go to: http://tamu.facebook.com/p.php?i=8322822&k=43FX6V5R3WTAWFBASKW5





Super Tuesday gathering

Margarita Rocks
Culpepper Plaza

Come and watch election returns
February 5, 2008





TDW Meeting a Success!

You missed a huge crowd at the Texas Democratic Women’s meeting on Saturday if you slept in. Hope to see you all at the next one. KBTX showed up to film. The clip was on the website but is gone today. Dr. Rich DeVaul and Mary DeVaul gave an excellent presentation on the health care issue in America.





A President Like My Father

By CAROLINE KENNEDY
Op-Ed Contributor
January 27, 2008

OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama.

My reasons are patriotic, political and personal, and the three are intertwined. All my life, people have told me that my father changed their lives, that they got involved in public service or politics because he asked them to. And the generation he inspired has passed that spirit on to its children. I meet young people who were born long after John F. Kennedy was president, yet who ask me how to live out his ideals.

Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

We have that kind of opportunity with Senator Obama. It isn’t that the other candidates are not experienced or knowledgeable. But this year, that may not be enough. We need a change in the leadership of this country — just as we did in 1960.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27kennedy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print





VOTER ID HEARING AIRS VOTING PROBLEMS

Unclear how many problems would be solved with photo ID

At least 150,000 and as many as 400,000 registered voters in Texas lack a government issued ID and thus could face added burdens to vote under a photo ID law, according to testimony given to the House Elections Committee today.

North Carolina-based researcher Toby Moore told the committee that a significant number of citizens who are eligible but not registered to vote also lack the documentation that would allow them to vote under a photo ID law.

Moore and other voter advocates told the panel that adding a requirement to present a government ID disproportionately affects the poor, minorities and women who are more likely to lack ID.

That testimony was balanced against testimony from state and county officials that various aspects of voter fraud are a reality in Texas. Harris County Tax Assessor Paul Bettencourt brought documentation of 381 cases of people alleged to be illegally registered to vote in his county.

Deputy Attorney General Eric Nichols presented 108 fraud referrals made to the AG’s office, which led to 22 prosecutions.





Kennedy poised to endorse Obama

Key Democratic nod a setback for Clinton

By Susan Milligan
Globe Staff
January 28, 2008

WASHINGTON - Senator Barack Obama will collect the endorsement of Senator Edward M. Kennedy today, winning the support of a powerful icon of the liberal Democratic establishment as Obama challenges Senator Hillary Clinton before the crucial Super Tuesday showdown on Feb. 5.

Kennedy confidants said Massachusetts' senior senator will appear this morning with Obama and Kennedy's niece, Caroline Kennedy, at a rally at American University in Washington to announce his support. Their joint appearance will suggest Obama's claim to the mantle of generations of Kennedys, including Caroline's father, the late President Kennedy.

Kennedy said the senator from Illinois can "transcend race" and unite the country, a Kennedy associate told the Globe. Kennedy was also impressed by Obama's deep involvement last year in the bipartisan effort to craft legislation on immigration reform, a politically touchy subject the other presidential candidates avoided, the associate said.

The coveted endorsement is a huge blow to Clinton, who is both a senatorial colleague and a friend of the Kennedy family. In a campaign where Clinton has trumpeted her experience over Obama's call for hope and change, the endorsement by one of the most experienced and respected Democrats in the Senate is a particularly dramatic coup for Obama.

"The America of Jack and Bobby Kennedy touched all of us. Through all of these decades, the one who kept that flame alive was Ted Kennedy," said Representative William D. Delahunt, a Quincy Democrat who is also supporting Oba ma. "So having him pass on the torch [to Obama] is of incredible significance. It's historic."

Obama's landslide win in South Carolina on Saturday gives Obama and Clinton two wins each, and puts the two senators in a fierce battle for delegates on Feb. 5, when 22 states will hold Democratic primaries and caucuses.

While polls show Clinton ahead in some large states, including her home state of New York and delegate-rich California

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/28/kennedy_poised_to_endorse_obama?mode=PF





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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman, Democrat, President of the United States of America