From jac07 at dcn.org Mon Feb 13 20:34:12 2012 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:34:12 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Voluntary action opportunity: joint recommendation of Environmental Caucus & IrishAmerican Caucus of California Democratic Party In-Reply-To: <1329175728.20588.YahooMailNeo@web160705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message From: Thom O'Shaughnessy Reply-To: Thom O'Shaughnessy Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:28:48 -0800 (PST) To: Thom OShaughnessy Subject: Fw: Urgent Action Needed Before 9AM Tuesday, February 14th! Dear Irish Caucus Members & Friends, Please share this and join with the Environmental Caucus on this critical and timely issue. Thomas Patrick O'Shaughnessy Chair, Irish American Caucus, CDP ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Environmental Caucus To: Environmental Caucus Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 2:02 PM Subject: Urgent Action Needed Before 9AM Tuesday, February 14th! Dear Environmental Caucus Supporters, Stop the Keysone XL pipeline in the Senate! Your voice is needed before 9 AM California time tomorrow, Feb. 14 Two places to sign the petition: You can start with the site at www.350.org : http://act.350.org/sign/kxl/ Or sign a CREDOMobile petition http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/kxl_24hours/ Don?t stop there: Please push this to your email lists, Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and elsewhere. It's especially important to reach Democratic friends who are not normally active in environmental causes and to reach people outside California. We've just concluded the California Democratic Party's annual convention, where the Environmental Caucus meeting was honored to have John Laird, Michael Brune of the Sierra Club, and pollster Ben Tulchin speak on the The Fight For The Environment in 2012. In the next few weeks, we'll be emailing regarding our policy and political priorities for the year. The caucus has already resolved to oppose the pipeline, as has every environmental group in America. Environmental leaders are calling for 500,000 signatures in 24 hours - by 9 AM California time tomorrow, Feb. 14 - opposing the Keystone amendment. It's a very ambitious goal and we hope you will join us in this effort. Thank you for your participation, The Environmental Caucus ------ End of Forwarded Message From jac07 at dcn.org Mon Feb 27 08:21:10 2012 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:21:10 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Voluntary action opportunity: from Senator John Kerry- to retain the U.S. Senate firewall In-Reply-To: <1496663683.-1093458646@democracy.dsccdb.www.democratsenators.org> Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message From: John Kerry Reply-To: Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:11:58 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Clueless Remember Rick Santorum's big bucks backer who got nostalgic saying women used to hold an aspirin between their knees for birth control? John , Remember Rick Santorum's big bucks backer who got nostalgic saying women used to hold an aspirin between their knees for birth control? Foster Friess isn?t just incredibly clueless or the owner of an awful sense of humor. He?s also taking out his checkbook to spend mounds of cash to paint the Senate red, and he?s not alone. Karl Rove is spending $120 million. Friess plans to target 10 states. Flip four, and Republicans take charge. We wouldn't have a firewall to stop their dangerous agenda. Finding an aspirin would be the least of our worries. I know what it?s like to fight a tide of outside cash, and that?s why I?m asking for your immediate help. The DSCC?s crucial FEC deadline is 48 hours away, and they still need $300,000. Fall short, and say hello to the Aspirin Agenda. Hit this goal, and we can hold accountable the extremes of the far-right fringe. Click here to give $25 or more to the DSCC. We can re-elect President Obama and our Democratic Senate, but only if we raise $300,000 in the next 48 hours! Thanks to the Citizens United ruling, Foster Friess, Karl Rove and other top Republicans can spend freely in support of candidates. American Crossroads and our Republican Senate counterparts are both running attack ads right now. And we know what these Republicans want. A nation where it?s hard to get preventative care, but easy to lose your health coverage. Where we put the rights of big polluters above the rights of women. The Republicans have Foster Friess. But we have something far more powerful ? half a million passionate people who won?t rest until we move this nation forward. More than 90% of gifts to the DSCC come from grassroots donors. The DSCC needs those grassroots donors now! Click here to give $25 or more. We can keep the White House and Senate blue, but only if we raise $300,000 in the next 48 hours! Giving to the DSCC just might be the single best way to put Foster Friess ? and every other retrograde Republican ? in their place. Please give now. Sen. John Kerry Paid for by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, dscc.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. ------ End of Forwarded Message From jac07 at dcn.org Mon Feb 27 08:43:44 2012 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:43:44 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Voluntary action opportunity: Put Americans Back to Work Rebuilding our Roads and Bridges-from U.S. Congressman Mike Thomson In-Reply-To: <201202241612.q1OGB127019821@s-bulk1-f.house.gov> Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message From: Congressman Mike Thompson Date: 24 Feb 2012 11:12:19 -0500 To: Subject: Put Americans Back to Work Rebuilding our Roads and Bridges February, 2012 Having trouble reading this email? Click here to view the web version. Dear Friend, While accepting the Democratic Party?s nomination for President in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt pledged to our nation and himself a New Deal for the American People. At the time, America was facing some of the Great Depression?s darkest days. Infrastructure investments were the centerpiece of the New Deal because these investments were one of the strongest jump starts for a struggling economy. Americans from all corners of our country were put to work modernizing our roads and bridges. Nearly 80 years later, our nation is once again faced with high unemployment and slow economic growth. And once again we need bold investments to rebuild our nation?s crumbling infrastructure. The best way to get our economy moving again is to put Americans back to work fixing our roads, schools and bridges. This isn?t a Republican priority or a Democratic Priority, it?s an American priority. As House Majority Leader Eric Cantor recently said, job creation is the most important priority facing our country as a whole. However, the Republican led House has kicked the can down the road, not once, but twice in the last year, refusing to pass long-term legislation that will fund transportation projects ? instead passing very short-term extensions. Now that a vote is expected on long-term legislation that would fund surface transportation projects, the Majority?s bill is filled with poison pills. The bill halts funding for high-speed passenger rail projects. It opens up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska for oil drilling. It ends important competitive grant funding for road improvements, port upgrades, bridge maintenance and light rail. It defunds bike and pedestrian projects. It ends funding that is used to build safer routes to schools. And it would allow for the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline though an environmentally sensitive area before environmental reviews are complete. Our national infrastructure earns a grade of D from the American Society of Civil Engineers. We cannot keep playing games while jobs and infrastructure are at stake. We must pass a bill that is free of these poison pills so we can get construction projects moving and put folks back to work. We did this in 2005 by an overwhelming vote of 412-8. Now it is time to come together and do it again. According to the American Crisis in Transportation Coalition for every $1 billion invested in transportation, more than 30,000 jobs are created. A transportation bill free of poison pills would invest more than $300 billion in our roads and bridges, meaning we could create more than nine million jobs. By that estimation, our local communities will feel the positive economic impact of a bi-partisan transportation bill. In Solano County, by updating the I-80/680/12 interchange, we can create 1,350 jobs. In Lake County, improvements to Highway 29 would create 900 jobs. In Napa County, updating the 1st Street/SR-29 intersection would create more than 500 jobs. In Sonoma County, US Route 101 widening and bridge maintenance would create more than 9,000 jobs. And in Mendocino County, finishing the second phase of the Willits Bypass would create more than 1,800 jobs. Hard working families across our district are looking for a fair shake. They want jobs. They want to get to work. And they want to know that if they work hard and play by the rules, then they will be able to put food on the table and gas in their car, make their mortgage payment, send their kids to college and save for retirement. When FDR accepted the presidential nomination in 1932, folks across our county knew that making this fair shake a reality meant committing to shared responsibility ? if we shared in the responsibility of building a great nation then we would share in the success of a great nation. We made that commitment then. I know we can do it again. It?s time to put partisanship aside and work across the aisle to make that fair shake a reality. No more poison pills. We need to get America working again for the folks who work for a living ? and creating jobs by rebuilding our schools, roads and bridges is the best way to make that happen. Sincerely, Mike Thompson Member of Congress ------ End of Forwarded Message From jac07 at dcn.org Mon Feb 27 21:56:00 2012 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:56:00 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Voluntary action opportunity: YES on Measure C -PHONE BANK SCHEDULE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message From: Martha Beetley Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:36:37 -0800 To: John Chendo Hi John, We really need to pour it on these last few days!?? Thanks so much. Yes on Measure C phone banks on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week, Feb 28, 29, and March 1.? Then Sunday, March 4 and Monday, March 5. We are phoning from 6:00 - 8:30 pm at Lyon Real Estate offices, 401- 2nd Street, Davis. contact: Martha Beetley, tomandmartha912 at gmail.com ???????????????????????????????????? 756-4222 ???????????????????????????????????? 574-1154 ? From jac07 at dcn.org Wed Feb 29 19:50:29 2012 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:50:29 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Voluntary action opportunity: Huge new poll from Wisconsin-Democracy for America In-Reply-To: <26d72-6db-4f4e8228@list.democracyforamerica.com> Message-ID: ------ Forwarded Message From: "Nick Passanante, Democracy for America" Reply-To: Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:53:12 +0000 Subject: Huge new poll from Wisconsin Great news from Wisconsin -- a new PPP poll shows right-wing Tea Party Gov. Scott Walker is running dead even with his Democratic opponents for this summer's big recall election. Three Democrats are running in the primary to beat Walker and end his right-wing war on working families -- and all three of them lead Walker or are polling within the margin of error in head-to-head matchups. This is huge news. Gov. Walker was beating every single Democrat the last time PPP polled this race and now they're neck-and-neck, proving that Democrats have all the momentum going into the summer recall election. We need to finish the job we started in Wisconsin last year -- we need to recall Gov. Walker and his right-wing Republican cronies in the State Senate. Can you chip in $4 right now to the DFA Wisconsin recall campaign? This poll is just great. Gov. Walker is trailing Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, and WISCONSIN Secretary of State Doug La Follette and State Sen. Kathleen Vinehout are each within the margin of error against Walker. These numbers make one thing clear -- Wisconsin voters are sick and tired of the Republican war on working families. Scott Walker and his right-wing cronies won in 2010 promising jobs; and all they've done is attack unions, defund Planned Parenthood, and push through a new voter ID law that makes it harder for the poor and elderly to vote. We have the momentum in Wisconsin -- please contribute $4 to the DFA Wisconsin recall campaign right now. Thank you for everything you do. -Nick P.S. Winning big in Wisconsin this summer can be a huge boon for Democrats nationwide. Progressives will have all the momentum going into November and we can use it to reelect President Obama, send Elizabeth Warren to the U.S. Senate and take back the House from John Boehner's Tea Party caucus. But we can't do any of it without your support. Please contribute $4 today. Nick Passanante, Deputy Political Director Democracy for America Democracy for America relies on you and the people-power of more than one million members to fund the grassroots organizing and training that delivers progressive change on the issues that matter. Please Contribute Today and support our mission. Paid for by Democracy for America, http://www.democracyforamerica.com/?akid=1755.159090.lNhfj8=5 and not authorized by any candidate. 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