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Subject: Republicans for Obama -Be a Dem for a Day in Tx

Repubs for Obama group urging flooding of the Dem Primary for Barack etc.. democrats for a day.
E-mail to send to Texas Republicans
Sat, 02/16/2008 - 10:49pm -- afnighthawk

http://republicansforobama.org/?q=node/3 59
Attention All Texas Republicans and Independents!!

On March 4th, Texas Republicans and Independents will have an opportunity to end Hillary Clinton's (and Bill's) presidential ambitions once and for all!

Since Texas has on open primary, Republicans and Independents should sign in at their polling place and request a Democratic ballot. They should then vote for Barack Obama. Even James Carville admits that if Hillary loses Texas, "she's done!" Republicans can help make this a reality!!! Just think, no more Clintons in the White House!

Voting Democratic this one time will have NO effect on your ability to vote in the next Republican primary or obviously on your vote in November. Since John McCain has the Republican nomination locked up, voting for McCain or Huckabee at this point will have no effect on the outcome on the Republican side.

After you vote during early voting or on March 4th, you ARE NOT done! Report back to your regular polling place at 7PM on March 4th to sign the Barack Obama list for caucus delegates. In a little known Texas voting quirk, 67 delegates to the Democratic convention will be seated because of these caucuses. This is a full one-third of the total number of Texas delegates. For Hillary to lose, she has to lose the primary votes AND the caucus votes.

I urge you to vote against Hillary Clinton by voting for Barack Obama. Please forward this e-mail to all your Texas Republican and Independent friends so that we can help ensure the Clinton's defeat on March 4th!!!





IN PAINFUL PAST, HUSHED WORRY ABOUT OBAMA

New York Times
February 25, 2008

There is a hushed worry on the minds of many supporters of Senator Barack Obama, echoing in conversations from state to state, rally to rally: Will he be safe? In Colorado, two sisters say they pray daily for his safety. In New Mexico, a daughter says she persuaded her mother to still vote for Mr. Obama, even though the mother feared that winning would put him in danger. And at a rally here, a woman expressed worries that a message of hope and change, in addition to his race, made him more vulnerable to violence. “I’ve got the best protection in the world,” Mr. Obama, of Illinois, said in an interview, reprising a line he tells supporters who raise the issue with him. “So stop worrying.” Yet worry they do, with the spring of 1968 seared into their memories, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated in a span of two months.





Conservative Majority In Play On State Board

Texas voters will decide two seats on the state Board of Education in the March 4 primary, and the results could shape the way evolution is taught in public schools.

Incumbents Mary Helen Berlanga of Corpus Christi and Pat Hardy of Weatherford are seeking new four-year terms but face opponents in the primary.

Berlanga is a Democrat in South Texas, and Hardy is a Republican from North Texas. Both candidates face opponents who favor intelligent design in classroom curriculum.

Hardy, in particular, faces a tough race. A former school teacher, Hardy is considered an outspoken centrist among Republicans on the board and often draws from the ranks of Democratic voters for her support. With the Democratic primary still in play, however, Hardy can't depend on many of those Democratic voters crossing over to support her in her race.

Hardy is opposed by Barney Maddox, a Cleburne urologist. Maddox, who served on the review committee for biology textbooks during an adoption cycle during the late 1990s, criticized the accepted textbooks at the time for failing to outline the scientific weaknesses of evolution, as required under the state's own science standards.

Kathy Miller of the Texas Freedom Network says both Berlanga and Hardy have voted against efforts by conservatives on the SBOE to water down the teaching of evolution in textbooks and the classroom.

http://www.kxan.com/global/story.asp?s=7914652&ClientType=Printable





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