GREETINGS FELLOW DEMOCRATS!





Come Join Us to Watch McCain's Acceptance Speech Tonight

Come gather tonight at Margarita Rocks to hear John McCain deliver his acceptance speech.

Speech will be around 9

Come eat and be merry for tomorrow you will be signed up to volunteer. If you are already volunteering you are among the stars.





Voting Guidelines For Adults with Disabilities

Dustin Rynders
From Advocacy, Incorporated

Be Informed about the Help America Vota Act (HAVA). Mr. Rynders will review accessible voting guidelines including voting assistance, demonstrate with prototypes, and answer questions!

A free workshop sponsored by the Bryan-College Station Mayors' Committee
Thursday, October 15, 2008
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Center for Regional Services Workforce
3991 East 29th Street, Bryan, Texas 77805

Contact the Bryan College Station Mayors' Committee for more information at 979-272-3403





Analysis: GOP contradicts self on Palin family

By TED ANTHONY, AP National Writer
Wed Sep 3, 11:48 PM ET

ST. PAUL, Minn. - People: Make up your minds.

For two days, the chorus from Republicans on TV news and in the halls of the convention has been resounding: Back off and let the Palin family be. "That's out of bounds," said Minnesota's Republican governor, Tim Pawlenty. "There's no need to be intrusive and pry into that."

Yet Wednesday found the following scenes unfolding:

-- Sarah Palin's pregnant, unmarried 17-year-old daughter and probable future son-in-law stood in a nationally televised, politically packaged airport receiving line to meet and greet the Republican candidate for president.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cvn_measure_of_a_nation_palin_family_politics





Top G.O.P. Pundits Fault Palin Selection

By Kate Phillips

Updated ST. PAUL — Two prominent Republicans — one of them a close ally and former aide to Senator John McCain — were caught on a live mic on MSNBC bemoaning the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin and the controversy surrounding her.

Mike Murphy, who worked on Senator McCain’s campaign in 2000 but declined to join this year’s, citing tensions with top campaign staff members, can be heard in near-anguish talking about the fallout from her candidacy. “I come out of the blue, swing-state governor world, Engler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush” he said. But the McCain campaign just decided to run with Palin, he said, adding “it’s not going to work.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/top-gop-pundits-fault-palin-selection/





Dear Gene,

We wanted you to be among the first to know - Barack Obama has just provided detailed answers to the 14 questions. We are still waiting for responses from John McCain and will alert you when we get them. See the below press release.

Shawn

Barack Obama answers 14 top science questions

Answers show plans to tackle some of the toughest challenges facing America

Washington (August 30, 2008) – Barack Obama today answered the 14 top science questions facing America, according to ScienceDebate2008.com, the group leading the effort to make key science issues a larger part of the election.

“Most of America’s major unsolved challenges revolve around these 14 questions. To move America forward, the next president needs a substantive plan for tackling them going in, and voters deserve to know what that plan is,” said Shawn Otto, CEO of the initiative. “We’re pleased that Senator Obama has provided voters with that substantive plan, and we’re hoping for similarly thoughtful responses from Senator McCain.”

Senator Obama’s full responses can be found here.

The top 14 questions address energy policy, national security, economics in a science-driven global economy, climate change, education, health care, ocean health, biosecurity, clean water, space, stem cells, scientific integrity, genetics, and research.

The 14 questions were developed from over 3,400 questions submitted by more than 38,000 signers of the ScienceDebate2008 initiative. The questionnaire is a joint effort led by ScienceDebate2008, with Scientists and Engineers for America, AAAS, the National Academies, the Council on Competitiveness, and several other organizations, together representing over 125 million voters.

“Ensuring that the U.S. continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration,” said Senator Obama. “Our talent for innovation is still the envy of the world, but we face unprecedented challenges that demand new approaches.”

Recent national polls have shown that 85% of voters would like the see the candidates debate these challenges, and the majority of voters are much more likely to vote for a candidate that has a plan for tackling these issues.

“We are grateful for Senator Obama's detailed responses and look forward to receiving the same from Senator McCain,” said Matthew Chapman, president of the initiative. “After that we hope the candidates will want to discuss their differences. Science Debate 2008 and its partners once again extend an invitation to both candidates to attend a televised debate or forum where these vital issues can be discussed in front of a broader audience.”

ScienceDebate2008.com is a citizens initiative started by six individuals whose signers now include nearly every major American science organization, the presidents of nearly every major American university, and dozens of Nobel laureates and top American CEOs. For more information, to see a list of the signers, or to see the results of the national polls, please visit http://www.sciencedebate2008.com






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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