GREETINGS FELLOW DEMOCRATS!





Election Help Needed!!!

We need Central Count/Early Ballot Board people. Central Count is at the Brazos Center on Election night. The Early Ballot Board will sort thru the mail in ballots and ok or nix them. The Central Count folks will sort thru election boxes as poll workers bring them back after the polls close. Even if you have a day job you can do this. Get back to us ASAP!! We just got this from the County Clerk.

We could use about 5-6 people. They would need to be there around 5:30. There will be plenty of food and snacks at Central Count. Best of all it pays $8 an hour.

You can Call Maggie at 779-5600, respond to this email or call:

Jaime M. Hines
Elections Coordinator
979-361-4121 – Phone





Thank You...

Thank you to Priscilla Benjamin, Bridget Bassett, Gene and Maggie Charleton, Sonya Allbritton and Jonathan Coopersmith and Caroline and Alex for doing Habitat lunches on Saturday. We found 2 new possible Democrats.

Thank you to Phyllis Fahlquist and Diane Jones-Meier for putting together our Naturalization bags yesterday. They look so pretty all tied up with bows and full of Democrat stuff for newly naturalized U. S. citizens. The bags will be passed out on Thursday at the Courthouse.





Watch this video...

Scary stuff.A must watch.

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/short-film





Subject: Urgent: Kucinich Forcing Impeachment Vote
More Volunteers Needed to Put Up Impeachment Posters, and More You Can Do to Help

Last week we told you we were printing at least 10,000 Impeach Cheney posters to put up on college campuses all over the country.

Because of the tremendous initial response from you, our participants, we had already made the commitment to bump the initial four color glossy print run up to 25,000. And then we got confirmation that Dennis Kucinich was determined to force the impeachment issue, by bringing it as a privileged resolution before Thanksgiving.

We need hundreds of additional volunteers right now to help get these posters up, to really give the impeachment movement maximum visibility. We'll be picking up the full 25,000 11x17 posters this Tuesday, and start shipping priority mail the same day. So please, if you are anywhere near a college campus email us and we'll put you in contact with other volunteers in your area. If you've already volunteered, start organizing some other activist friends to join the Impeach Team.

The reason why we are specifically targeting college students with this outreach initiative is that while we the people would all lose if Cheney bombs Iran and starts a full blown World War in the Middle East, they are the ones who would be conscripted first. The posters dramatically make that point in bold red letters "If They Bomb Iran You Get Drafted" and then give the two easiest ways for them to speak out, 1) a "text to" short code function for cell phones (send the work "Impeach" to 30644), since they are always on their cell phones, and 2) a fully enabled message to Congress system as an application ("Voices") on the Facebook platform, which they are all engaged in already. See the poster here.

Impeach Cheney Poster:
http://www.usalone.com/impeach_cheney_poster.php

If you can't help with the postering, but still want to do something to help, please consider making a contribution at the page above, and we'll also send you a free Impeach Cheney? cap (the default). If you have one already give one to an activist friend. And remember, you don't have to make a donation to get a cap, just email us back your mailing address and we'll send you one for no charge, not even shipping.

We want to distribute upwards of 50-100,000 of these posters in the next couple weeks. Just as fast as you can put them up we'll print more. We already know that the first thing Pelosi will do when Kucinich forces the issue is tell him to get lost by embracing a motion to table (it's parlimentary equivalent). Well, we're not going to get lost. And we need every possible impeachment supporter we can muster to send them that message before the vote.

We believe there will be other tomorrows, but few as critical and important as mobilizing in every possible way to compel Congress by our numbers to listen to the voices of their constituents now. The conventional polling companies are afraid to ask the question, because the last time they did, more than 60 percent of the American people thought Cheney should be impeached. But since we kicked off the National Cheney Impeachment Poll, and out of more than 113,000 free and fair votes, 99 percent say impeach Cheney.

If you have ever put up a poster for anything in your life . . . if you would ever consider helping. . . . Now is the time to stand up for the Constitution. Because after all they had to go through, our founders left us with that Constitution, so if we would just speak out we could make impeachment happen, so that we could peacefully oust a criminal government at any time . . . if you really want it. We're not waiting for them to steal another presidential election.

The American revolution was fueled by local pamphleteers, who got the word out with the only media they had available to them, to rally the citizenry to action. We have so much more, the internet, the most powerful grass roots media ever, and in a couple days we will have 25,000 full color glossy posters. Be the modern day pamphleteers. It worked then and it's going to work now.

And don't worry about George Bush, either. He's in the on deck circle. And once the consensus on Cheney can no longer be resisted, he'll be right on Cheney's heels.

If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at http://www.usalone.com/in.htm





Fearing Fear in the US Presidential Campaign
Many of the men who hope to be the next president have made unreasoning, unjustified terror the centerpiece of their campaigns.

PAUL KRUGMAN
SPIEGEL ONLINE - October 29, 2007, 11:25 AM

In America's darkest hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged the nation not to succumb to "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror." But that was then.

Today, many of the men who hope to be the next president -- including all of the candidates with a significant chance of receiving the Republican nomination -- have made unreasoning, unjustified terror the centerpiece of their campaigns.

Consider, for a moment, the implications of the fact that Rudy Giuliani is taking foreign policy advice from Norman Podhoretz, who wants us to start bombing Iran "as soon as it is logistically possible."

Mr. Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary and a founding neoconservative, tells us that Iran is the "main center of the Islamofascist ideology against which we have been fighting since 9/11." The Islamofascists, he tells us, are well on their way toward creating a world "shaped by their will and tailored to their wishes." Indeed, "Already, some observers are warning that by the end of the 21st century the whole of Europe will be transformed into a place to which they give the name Eurabia."

Do I have to point out that none of this makes a bit of sense?

URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,514097,00.html





DEMOCRAT TRUST JOINS SUPPORTERS TO EMPOWER PARTY AT LOCAL, STATE LEVEL

Dallas Morning News - October 30, 2007

As her first term in office neared its end, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez was suffering what many in her party considered a form of political paralysis. She was dogged by the continuing crisis at the county jail and faced internal and external grumbling about some of her management decisions. Even more disturbing, Republican candidates were lining up to challenge her in 2008, and there were rumblings in her own party that she would get big-name opposition in the March Democratic primary. That's when she got a call from a largely unknown political action committee called the Texas Democratic Trust, whose operatives have been quietly rebuilding the Texas Democratic Party since 2004.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/DN-demtrust_30met.ART.State.Edition2.4214475.html#





On SCHIP, Children Have the Most to Lose

By Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson
Mon, 10/29/2007 - 5:00pm

Perhaps the most bitter and significant fight in Congress this year has to do with the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). SCHIP is designed to provide health insurance to children whose parents make “too much money” to qualify for Medicaid and who have no other health insurance options. In Texas, thousands of children of the working poor qualify for SCHIP but remain without any kind of health insurance.

Right now, Democrats, Republicans and the President can not agree on how much money to spend, how to fund the program, and on how to restrict states so that they insure children, rather than adults, as some states have chosen to do.

On October 2, Congress voted for the first time on SCHIP; the bill, H.R. 976, passed in the House by a vote of 265 to 159. It was designed to provide 10 million American children with health care and would have ensured that:

1. the focus would be enrolling low-income children in SCHIP first;

2. SCHIP would not cover illegal immigrants;

3. SCHIP coverage of adults would be phased out; and

4. children leaving private insurance for SCHIP should be minimized.

http://www.thetexasblue.com/schip-children-have-most-lose





Brazos County Democratic Party
P.O. Box 4568
Bryan Texas 77805
979-779-5600 Fax 979-779-5601

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