Phone Bank for Hillary

Please join us and other Hillary supporters across North Carolina as we make 100,000 calls to our neighbors and fellow voters and remind them why Hillary is ready to lead this nation.

She is ready to deliver universal health care, invest in alternative energies, and bring our troops home from Iraq. So come to your North Carolina for Hillary office in Greenville tomorrow and help us make history by delivering North Carolina to Hillary.

Greenville Headquarters
2502 South Charles St
Greenville, NC 27858
Click here to let us know you're coming.

Thanks,

Michael Trujillo
North Carolina Field Director

P.S. If you want to start making calls now, click here to call from home.

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill

Republicans seem to have forgotten that national security is one of the most important issues we address in the Senate. Yesterday, they proved the only thing they care about is politics.

They spent the day filibustering on the Senate floor, preventing Democrats from introducing any amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) bill. This means they are blocking an important amendment, which I support, that would make sure phone companies don't receive retroactive immunity.

At the end of the day, Senator McConnell decided he would try and stop debate entirely by filing for cloture. That means if Republicans get 60 votes on Monday, debate on this vital issue will be shut down.

Normally I wouldn't go this deep into Senate procedure, but if you care about your civil liberties and our national security, it is vital you tell your Senators to vote no on cloture Monday by visiting:

http://giveemhellharry.com/fisa

Looking at this situation makes me think the President and Republicans want to fail so they can run and cry to the media that Democrats are weak on national security. That line didn't work in 2006 and it won't work in 2008.

Closing the debate on this bill now is wrong.

Tell your Senators to vote no on cloture Monday by visiting:

http://giveemhellharry.com/fisa

Thank you,

Harry Reid

September 25th House Parties

Post from North Carolina Democratic Party, 220 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27603. http://www.ncdp.org 08/03/07

Markos, of the popular blogging site the Daily Kos, will be the featured speaker at the NCDP House Parties on September 25.

Democrats across the state will gather at more than 100 homes from 6 to 8 p.m. for the house parties.

Markos Moulitsas is the co-author of the best-selling book Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People Powered Politics. The book details the challenges and opportunities Democrats face in today’s political climate.

Be a part of this event by opening your home so that Democrats in your community can join this incredible grassroots movement.

We know the power that comes from having a strong grassroots movement. This is your opportunity to help bring Democrats together.

Each Democrat attending a House Party is asked to bring a $15 donation. This contribution will help the State Party prepare for the critical 2008 elections by building local parties and recruiting an enthusiastic army of trained volunteers ready to go to work.

For more info, contact John Gardner at jgardner@ncdemocraticparty.org

NCDP Eastern Caravan: A Road Trip with a Purpose

Post from North Carolina Democratic Party, 220 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27603. http://www.ncdp.org 08/03/07

The North Carolina Democratic Party is going on a road trip on Friday, August 10th through Sunday, August 12th in eastern North Carolina.

Road trips usually conjure memories of dusty roads, rocking out to bad 80s music, and quirky roadside attractions like Fire House Fred or the world’s biggest frying pan.

But our road trip has a purpose. Many counties in the east are Democratic strongholds with lower than ideal levels of voter turnout. If we hope to win big statewide in 2008, it’s critical that voters in the east make their voices heard!

Volunteers from across the state will hit the road, working with local activists, registering voters, canvassing, performing community service projects, meeting with candidates and elected officials, and listening to the ideas and concerns of eastern North Carolinians.

Young, College and Teen Democrats will team up with folks from the NC Democratic Party, including NCDP Chairman Jerry Meek. The caravan will leave Raleigh at noon Friday, August 10th and return Sunday evening, August 12th.

If you would like to join the caravan, or if you live in or around the counties of Robeson, Sampson, Pitt, Bertie, Northampton, Pasquotank or Lenoir, we want you involved. For more information, or to sign up, contact the project coordinator, Drew Ball, at (919)821-2777 ext. 206, or e-mail him at dball@ncdp.org.

Life is a journey. Take this opportunity to define your own road.

PCDP strategic plan for 2007

Are you an Active Democrat?

Do you have an ideas to add to PCDP strategic plan for 2007?

• In what ways can we expand and strengthen our Party?


• What are your ideas on ways to have a successful fundraiser?


• Do you have any contacts who we can use to get a suitable headquarters for 08'?


• Identify goals we should set.


• How we can identify future leadership for the Party?


• What is your feelings on where the required precinct meetings should occur? All on the same day? Same place? Same place different different day?


• How can we create effective committees?


• Do we need a have any training sessions for our membership? What areas?


• Would you be interested in organizing a local candidate forum this year?


• How can we make our website better?

We need your input. Please email Debra at admin@pittdems.com

Border Patrol Agents Need Pardon

In light of President George W. Bush’s recent commutation of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s prison sentence, North Carolina Congressman Walter B. Jones has written a letter to again call on the President to pardon U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean.

“I am writing to express my deep disappointment that U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean remain unjustly incarcerated for wounding a Mexican drug smuggler who brought 743 pounds of marijuana across our border,”
Jones wrote.

“While you have spared Mr. Libby from serving even one day of his ‘excessive’ 30-month prison term, agents Ramos and Compean have already served 167 days of their 11 and 12-year prison sentences,” Jones wrote.

“By attempting to apprehend an illegal alien drug smuggler, these agents were enforcing our laws, not breaking them.”

“Mr. President, it is now time to listen to the American people and members of Congress who have called upon you to pardon these agents,” Jones continued. “By granting immunity and free health care to an illegal alien drug trafficker and allowing our law enforcement officers to languish in prison – our government has told its citizens, and the world, that it does not care about protecting our borders or enforcing our laws.”

“I urge you to correct a true injustice by immediately pardoning these two law enforcement officers,” Jones concluded.

Send your letter to Bush
Urgent Appeal for Presidential Pardon Two Border Patrol Agents Being Railroaded for Political Purposes

College Cost Reduction Act of 2007

The College Democrats of America applauded House Democrats for standing up to President Bush’s irresponsible veto threat and passing the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007 [HR 2669]. After promising last year to make college more accessible and affordable, Democrats kept that promise by passing the Reduction Act, which would increase the size of Pell grants for poor students, cut interest rates for student loans, cap monthly loan payments at 15 percent of a student’s discretionary income, and slash subsidies for the scandal-plagued student loan industry by $19 billion. [New York Times, 7/11/07]

Instead of joining Democrats in helping make college more affordable for more Americans, President Bush and Republicans in Congress continue to put their special interest friends first and stand in the way of long-overdue reform.

“Democrats today kept their promise to help make college more accessible and affordable for millions of students, but the Bush Republicans continue to stand in the way,” said CDA President Lauren Wolfe. “Making sure young Americans have every opportunity to attend college is not a partisan or political issue, it is a pressing national issue. America’s young people expect and deserve leaders who understand that expanding education is the key to a stronger America.

“Instead of joining Democrats in helping students and their families find urgently-needed financial aid, the Bush Republicans continue to put their special interest friends in the student loan industry first. Considering how important the youth vote will be in 2008, Republicans who stand in the way of college opportunity for young people should expect to pay a heavy price in 2008. Instead of threatening to veto this bill, President Bush should join Democrats in expanding educational opportunities for millions of aspiring, hard-working students.”

CDA has consistently supported efforts to help students and would-be students attend college. During the 2006 election cycle, CDA mobilized students across the country by demonstrating that President Bush and the Republican Congress refused to combat skyrocketing student loan rates. The Reduction Act would cut loan rates from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent. At its upcoming National Convention on July 26-29 in Columbia, South Carolina, CDA will train thousands of college students from around American in how to hold their members of Congress accountable.

The Senate will soon consider its companion bill, the Higher Education Access Act (as yet unnumbered). Both bills will overhaul the student aid and debt relief system and make college more affordable for students and their parents. Also, the Senate is considering the Higher Education Amendments (S. 1642), which would reauthorize the Higher Education Act.

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