| CHICAGO - The Obama for America campaign announced today that former Virginia Governor Mark Warner will deliver the keynote address at the 2008 Democratic Convention on Tuesday, August 26th, the second night of the Convention. An innovative businessman known for his ability to work with Republicans, Democrats and Independents, campaign officials said that Warner's vision for Virginia and his leadership style echoed the Convention's theme of Americans coming together for change. "Barack Obama believes you can't have a strong economy when you have a weak middle class," said Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe. "Millions of Americans are struggling to get by, forced to make impossible choices about their future and the future of their families. Tuesday's Convention program will feature the voices of Americans who share Obama's concerns and strongly support his detailed economic plan to grow the economy, create jobs, restore fairness, and expand opportunity. As Governor of Virginia, Warner used his experience in business to help deliver jobs and hope to the citizens of Virginia. His work creating jobs in Southwest and Southside Virginia is a model for the rest of the Country. Like Barack Obama, Mark Warner is not afraid to challenge the status quo to bring people together and get things moving. It's that kind of spirit and innovation that resulted in his selection as keynote speaker on a night when we will be discussing how to renew America's promise." Warner, a candidate for the United States Senate in Virginia, will speak on Tuesday night of the Democratic Convention. The theme of Tuesday's night program at the Convention is Renewing America's Promise. |
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Mark Warner To Deliver Convention Keynote Address On Tuesday, Aug. 26th
The Obama campaign today announced that Mark Warner, Virginia's former governor and its Democratic candidate for the Senate, will deliver the convention keynote address on Tuesday, Aug. 26th. Original Blog Post
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Our Civic Duty to Vote and Help Get Out The Vote
A crucial election day is only months away. At stake are vital political, economic and moral issues of concern to Texans and all Americans.
During the next four years important decisions will be made about the direction and responsibilities of our government. Legislation on significant issues such as the economy, health care, energy, and the environment are just a few of the critical issue that are likely to be considered by the next Congress and Administration. Other top issues will likely include education, national security, foreign policy, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In addition, possibly up to three Supreme Court Justices, who will make crucial decisions affecting our lives, will be appointed to the bench during the terms of the next President and Senate. With the stakes so high, we all must work hard to extend the trend toward increasing Democratic voter turnout in Collin County during the early voting period of 10/20-10/31 and on election day November 4th.
As citizens of Texas and America we have an obligation to not just cast our ballot on election day, but to also fully participate in the election process. We must ensure that our country's policies at the local, state and national levels protect the genuine security needs of American families as well as ensure America's continued tradition of justice and equal protection under the rule of law for every American.
Every vote will count this fall toward setting our government's agenda for the benefit of ourselves, our children and our grandchildren. It is our civic duty to promptly register to vote, educate ourselves about the critical issues and each candidate's position on the issues and then vote! More than that - it is our civic responsibility to help inform our fellow citizens on the issues and candidates and to urge our fellow citizens to also go vote!
From now until election day November 4th your Democratic friends and neighbors will be in your neighborhood to Get Out The Vote. This activity is commonly referred to as GOTV. It is through this GOTV effort that your Democratic friends and neighbors are volunteering their time to register new voters and to educate their fellow citizens on the issues and candidates. During Early Voting and again on Election Day these civic volunteers will also help the elderly, handicapped or anyone without transportation travel to their respective polling place to cast their ballot.As described on the GOTV page of the Texas Democratic Women of Collin County's website, there are three types GOTV activities that volunteers can help accomplish between now and election day:
Voter Registration
Voter registration volunteers meet at a location such as a grocery store or community event and register people to vote. It is helpful if you are a Deputy Voter Registrar, but not mandatory. To find out more information about the quick and easy process of becoming a Deputy Voter Registrar in Collin County, please call the Collin County Elections Department at 972-547-1990.Block Walking
Volunteers meet at a designated location. After a brief training, volunteers are sent out in groups of two or more to block walk (knock on pre-designated doors) in a neighborhood. Depending on where we are in the election cycle, block walkers speak to residents about our party/candidates, hand out literature, provide yard signs, remind people to vote, and/or ask voter ID questions. You do not need to be a veteran block walker to volunteer, just a passionate Democrat. We will provide you with the scripts, literature, information and training you need.Phone Banking
Volunteers meet at a designated location to call voters. Depending on where we are in the election cycle, callers will remind people to vote and/or ask voter ID questions. Callers will not be asking for money. You do not need to be a veteran phone banker to volunteer, just a passionate Democrat. We will provide you with the scripts and training you need.Many Democratic groups and organizations are already ramping up each of these GOTV activities today. Prominent among the Collin County neighborhood groups ramping up all of these GOTV activities are:
- Collin County for Obama campaign supporters,
- Tom Daley for U.S. House of Representatives - TX 3rd District campaign supporters,
- Glenn Melançon for U.S. House of Representatives - TX 4th District campaign supporters,
- Rick Noriega for U.S. Senate campaign supporters,
- The Democratic Party of Collin County,
- The Texas Democratic Women of Collin County,
- and more (look in the left hand sidebar of this blog page to find the box titled Democratic Groups and Information)
We witnessed nearly 80,000 people cast a Democratic ballot in the March 4th primary election and more than 20,000 of our fellow Democrats returned for the Democratic Precinct Conventions all across Collin County after the polls closed on election day. Pick your favorite Democratic candidate or one of the political organizations and call to volunteer today -- I promise, you will not be standing alone this year!!
| The Democratic Party of Collin County especially needs Election Clerks, Poll Greeters and Poll Watchers to work on Election Day, Nov 4th. If you can work all day or even just a few hours, please phone 972-578-1483 to volunteer! |
But, remember, Democratic Senate and House candidates Rick Noriega, Tom Daley and Glenn Melançon need your support! Please contribute your much needed dollars as well as your volunteer time to these candidates. President Barack Obama will need all the help he can get in congress when he takes office January 20, 2009!! PLEASE, please help send Rick Noriega, Tom Daley and Glenn Melançon to Washington to help President Obama quickly turn our country onto the right road to a 21st century America!! (I have embeded videos of many of these Democratic Candidates around this blog, so please explore and watch all the videos.)
And, don't forget -- Other local Democratic Candidates will appear on Collin County Ballots for the 2008 General Election and they must have your support too!!! These local Democratic Candidates include:
- Mark Thompson - Texas Railroad Commissioner
- Jim Jordan - Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas
- Sam Houston - Justice, Supreme Court of Texas - Place (Seat) 7
- Linda Reyna Yanez - Justice, Supreme Court of Texas - Place (Seat) 8
- Susan Strawn - Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals - Place (Seat) 3
- J.R. Molina - Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals - Place (Seat) 4
- Don B. Chae - Justice, Texas 5th District Court of Appeals - Place (Seat) 3
- David Hanschen - Justice, Texas 5th District Court of Appeals - Place (Seat) 6
- Tina Yoo - Justice, Texas 5th District Court of Appeals - Place (Seat) 8
- Victor Manuel Collin County Commissioner Precinct 3
- Jean Power - Collin County Commissioner Precinct 4
And, don't forget your friends and relatives who might be living abroad during this election season. You can help them Get Out The Vote too.
Contributing To The Democratic Party's 2008 Platform
About a dozen people showed up for the house of Obama's precinct captain for precinct 89 on Saturday July 26th as part of Obama's nationwide Democratic Platform "Listening to America" campaign. Thousands of Obama supporters across the U.S. sent out an open invitation for people to join together to talk about the Democratic Party's 2008 Platform.
On Sunday August 10th the Obama Campaign sent out the following email to participants of those "Listening to America" discussions:
On Sunday August 10th the Obama Campaign sent out the following email to participants of those "Listening to America" discussions:
Thank you for participating in a Platform for Change Meeting in your community and for submitting your report. The Platform Drafting Committee met last weekend in Cleveland, Ohio. We closely reviewed all 1,200 reports and the message was clear -- Americans are hungry for change on the economy, health care, energy, and the environment. Other top issues include education, national security, foreign policy, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. . . We also met with a number of platform meeting attendees to hear their personal stories about the need for a Platform for Change. Your ideas and your language are being directly incorporated into the platform. And when the final draft is posted online after the convention, your Platform Meeting will be listed as a contributor. Thanks to the commitment, passion, and energy of ordinary Americans like you, the Listening to America open platform was a resounding success. Together, we are rewriting how priorities in Washington are set. Thank you for everything you are doing, Jeff Jeff Berman National Delegate Director Obama for America |
Plano Balloon Fest 2008
Join Us For The Fascination Of Balloons
Gracefully Floating Across The Texas Sky
September 19, 20, 21, 2008.
September 19, 20, 21, 2008.
The Democratic Party of Collin County needs volunteers to staff work shifts in the Party's information booth during the entire run of the Balloon Fest. To volunteer - phone the Democratic Party Of Collin County Office at 972-578-1483.
2008 Daily Schedule
- Friday, September 19 - 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Saturday, September 20 - 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM
- Sunday September 21 - 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Be First To Know Obama's VP Pick
For anyone not already on the Obama campaign's email list - The following email was sent by the campaign Sunday evening.
| Barack Obama is about to make one of the most important decisions of this campaign -- choosing a running mate. You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be the first to know his choice. Sign up today to be the first to know: http://my.barackobama.com/vp You will receive an email the moment Barack makes his decision, or you can text VP to 62262 to receive a text message on your mobile phone. Once you've signed up, please forward this email to your friends, family, and coworkers to let them know about this special opportunity. No other campaign has done this before. You can be part of this important moment. Be the first to know who Barack selects as his running mate. Thanks, David David Plouffe Campaign Manager Obama for America | |  |
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Cornyn Approves Iraqi Gov. Sitting On America's Oil Money In The Bank
A new Government Accountability Office study reports (GAO report PDF) that the soaring price of crude oil will yield the Iraqi government a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by the end of 2008. While paying $4 per gallon of gas for every fill up at the pump, American taxpayers have also spent a total of ### for the war in Iraq, and the meter is still running. That large sum includes the $42 billion American taxpayers have spent, so far, for the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq. (That large sum does not in the cost of benefits the U.S. government will pay to military veterans over the next fifty or more years.) In contrast, the Iraqi government has spent less than $4 billion on the country's reconstruction while the government banks profits on its crude oil sales to America and the international markets.
During an appearance last Sunday on a CNN program with Wolf Blitzer, Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) said he believes it's a positive thing that American taxpayers are sending money to Iraq simultaneously out of two pockets while the Iraqi government banks its massive $79 billion oil profit surplus by not spending the money to rebuild its own country. The video of Senator Cornyn's appearance on CNN can be viewed at Think Progress.
Texas State Legislator Rick Noriega is the Democratic Candidate challenging incumbent John Cornyn for the U.S. Senate Seat for Texas.
During an appearance last Sunday on a CNN program with Wolf Blitzer, Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) said he believes it's a positive thing that American taxpayers are sending money to Iraq simultaneously out of two pockets while the Iraqi government banks its massive $79 billion oil profit surplus by not spending the money to rebuild its own country. The video of Senator Cornyn's appearance on CNN can be viewed at Think Progress.
Texas State Legislator Rick Noriega is the Democratic Candidate challenging incumbent John Cornyn for the U.S. Senate Seat for Texas.
A Reason To Vote Democratic in 2008 - Episode 2
Video Submission to Howard Dean's Democratic National Convention
"Why Am I A Democratic"
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Hillary Clinton Affirms Support For Barack Obama
In a call for party unity, Senator Hillary Clinton again affirmed her support for Barack Obama's presidential candidacy during a public appearance on Friday. Senator Hillary Clinton will headline the second night of the Democratic National Convention, the Obama campaign announced Sunday. The second day of the Convention, Tuesday, Aug. 26, is the 88th anniversary of the women's right to vote.
Associated Press News Video
Associated Press News Video
Presidential Debates Set
PBS will host two of the four presidential debates with Jim Lehrer hosting the first debate and Gwen Ifill hosting the only Vice Presidential debate. NBC and CBS will host one debate each with Tom Brokaw hosting the NBC debate and Bob Schieffer hosting the CBS debate. ABC is noticeably left out the presidential debate line up this year.
- First Presidential Debate: – Date: September 26 – Site: University of Mississippi – Topic: Foreign Policy & National Security – Moderator: Jim Lehrer – Staging: Podium debate – Answer Format: The debate will be broken into nine, 9-minute segments. The moderator will introduce a topic and allow each candidate 2 minutes to comment. After these initial answers, the moderator will facilitate an open discussion of the topic for the remaining 5 minutes, ensuring that both candidates receive an equal amount of time to comment.
- Vice Presidential Debate – Date: October 2nd – Site: Washington University (St. Louis) – Moderator: Gwen Ifill – Staging/Answer Format: To be resolved after both parties’ Vice Presidential nominees are selected.
- Second Presidential Debate – Date: October 7 – Site: Belmont University – Moderator: Tom Brokaw – Staging: Town Hall debate – Format: The moderator will call on members of the audience (and draw questions from the internet). Each candidate will have 2 minutes to respond to each question. Following those initial answers, the moderator will invite the candidates to respond to the previous answers, for a total of 1 minute, ensuring that both candidates receive an equal amount of time to comment. In the spirit of the Town Hall, all questions will come from the audience (or internet), and not the moderator.
- Third Presidential Debate – Date: October 15 – Site: Hofstra University – Topic: Domestic and Economic policy – Moderator: Bob Schieffer – Staging: Candidates will be seated at a table – Answer Format: Same as First Presidential Debate – Closing Statements: At the end of this debate (only) each candidate shall have the opportunity for a 90 second closing statement.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Texas Observer - Big Bland John - Cornyn
The Texas Observer has a new story on U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who is being challenged for re-election by Democrat Rick Noriega.
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| Democratic strategists in Texas have been telling anyone who will listen for the past year that they can defeat John Cornyn, the state’s junior U.S. senator, in November. This is big talk for a party that hasn’t won a statewide race since 1994 and hasn’t held Cornyn’s senate seat in 47 years. But they have some fancy polling data to back it up. More than a third of Texans wouldn’t know their junior senator if he fell on them. They call this “name ID” (or lack thereof) in the political consulting business. Cornyn’s is abysmal for a politician who’s served as a Texas Supreme Court justice, state attorney general, and, for the past six years, U.S. senator. Of those who do know Cornyn, fewer than 50 percent view him favorably—dangerous territory for an incumbent seeking re-election. Some of those same polls show him running closely with Democratic opponent Rick Noriega. But you don’t need polling data to know that Cornyn can be beaten. Just watch him give a speech. “Dull” is an understatement . . . . . . Cornyn often votes with a small group of two-dozen arch-conservatives in the Senate, and in opposition to the more moderate, and more popular, Hutchison. In July 2005, for example, he was one of 26 senators to vote against an amendment requiring gunmakers to install child safety locks on their weapons. In exchange for protecting children, gunmakers received immunity from lawsuits. Hutchison and McCain backed the proposal “He’s very much seen as a partisan Republican,” says Allen of Congressional Quarterly. “There are a fairly limited number of issues where he’s reached across the aisle.” He also has surrendered to political expediency. In 2006 and 2007, Congress nearly self-immolated over immigration ahead of the midterm elections. Cornyn made clear he opposed construction of a border fence. He told reporters at the time that walling off the entire border was a 20th century answer to a 21st century problem, that the wall wouldn’t stem illegal immigration, and that it was too expensive. “I’m not sure that’s the best use of that money,” he told reporters in early October 2006. Three weeks later, he voted for the Secure Fence Act—a vote he later described as symbolic support of border security. He said he didn’t think the fence would ever receive funding. (The funding, of course, did come through, and construction began this summer.) His vote for the wall has infuriated some mayors along the border who are fighting the federal government’s efforts to build the fence. Read the full Texas Observer article |
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Proud To Support Our Democratic Candidates
I'm Barbara Walters, a member of the Texas Democratic Women of Collin County; OK, I'm the President! On Monday night, July 28, our organization donated $6000 to 8 candidates.
Our hard work over the last two years paid off. We organized, we raised money, we studied the positions of the candidates, we voted to endorse them, and then we invited them back to accept the checks! There was a full house of about 60 people and a wonderful amount of energy and excitement filled the room.
You can review responses to a position questionnaire submitted by the Texas Democratic Women of Collin County (TDWCC) to each of these candidates. Discover why the TDWCC endorses each for elected office.
We barely have time to celebrate, though, because we need to organize more, raise more money, and get out the vote to get our candidates elected in November.
The organization of Texas Democratic Women of Collin County are conducting multiple phone banks per week, voter registration drives, and having our second annual fundraiser dinner on Sept. 28. I f you want to know more, check out our website.
| $1,000 | - Rick Noriega, candidate for US Senate |
| $1,000 | - Tom Daley, candidate for US Congress, District 3 |
| $1,000 | - Glenn Glenn Melançon, candidate for US Congress, District 4 |
| $1,000 | - Jim Jordan, candidate for Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice |
| $500 | - Susan Strawn, candidate for Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, Place 3 |
| $500 | - Don B. Chae, candidate for 5th Court of Appeals Justice, Place 3 |
| $500 | - Victor Manuel, candidate for Collin County Commissioner, Precinct 3 |
| $500 | - Eric Roberson, candidate for US Congress, District 32 (not in Collin Co.) |
Our hard work over the last two years paid off. We organized, we raised money, we studied the positions of the candidates, we voted to endorse them, and then we invited them back to accept the checks! There was a full house of about 60 people and a wonderful amount of energy and excitement filled the room.
Pictures of Each Candidate Who Received a Contribution
With Barbara Walters, President Of
The Democratic Women of Collin County
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| Stephen Sargent accepting on behalf of Rick Noriega, candidate for US Senate | Tom Daley, candidate for US Congress, District 3 |
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| Glenn Melancon, candidate for US Congress, District 4 | Jim Jordan, candidate for Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice |
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| Don B. Chae, candidate for 5th Court of Appeals Justice, PL3 | |
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| Victor Manuel, candidate for Collin County Commissioner, Precinct 3 | Eric Roberson, candidate for US Congress, District 32 (not on Collin Co. Ballots) |
You can review responses to a position questionnaire submitted by the Texas Democratic Women of Collin County (TDWCC) to each of these candidates. Discover why the TDWCC endorses each for elected office.
We barely have time to celebrate, though, because we need to organize more, raise more money, and get out the vote to get our candidates elected in November.
The organization of Texas Democratic Women of Collin County are conducting multiple phone banks per week, voter registration drives, and having our second annual fundraiser dinner on Sept. 28. I f you want to know more, check out our website.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Democratic Candidates Showing Strength In Southern States
| The Republican fortress in the South, which started with the Goldwater campaign in 1964, has been an impregnable voting block of conservatives for 40 years. Now, the Democratic Party is running its most competitive campaign across the South in 40 years, fielding potential winners along a rib of states stretching from Louisiana to Virginia. As recently as July 2006, the year Democrats took control of Congress, a Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll showed Southern voters bucking national sentiment, saying they preferred Republicans over Democrats by 47% to 40%. In early 2007, both parties expected only 35 to 40 House seats out of 435 to be truly competitive. However, in the latest Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll, conducted last month, Southern voters said they prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress over a Republican one by a 44% to 40% margin, a reversal of the long-term historical patterns. |
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In the spring of 2008, Democratic candidates won special elections for U.S. House seats in heavily Republican parts of Mississippi and Louisiana.
- MS Democrat Travis Childers beat Republican Greg Davis 54% to 46% in a U.S. House special election in a red Republican district.
- LA's 6th district Democrat Cazayoux Woody Jenkins, won a special election 49% to 46%, for a seat held by a Republican for two decades.
Democratic voter turnout consistently outpaced Republicans across the South in this year's presidential primaries, often by wide margins, even in Texas. In the 20 largest counties in Texas, 19 had more Democrats turnout than Republicans. Democrats outvoted Republicans in Republican strongholds like Collin County and Williamson County by at least 20,000 votes.
During the 2008 Democratic Primary more people voted on the Democratic Primary Ballot in Collin Co. than voted for John Kerry (68,935 votes for Kerry in Collin Co.) in the 2004 Presidential general election. More than 20,000 people attended the Democratic Party's 2008 Precinct Conventions on March 4th all across Collin County and approximately 4,000 people attended the Democratic Party's 2008 County Convention in Collin County. These are all historic record turnouts for the Democratic Party in Collin County.
In the 2008 election cycle several Republican-held House seats across the South, including rural districts in Virginia, North Carolina, Louisiana and South Carolina, that were once considered "safe" are looking more competitive as election day approaches. That could increase Democratic advantage of 19 House seats in the current Congress to an advantage of possibly up to 75 House seats over Republicans in the next Congress.
That edge could grow even larger if Collin County Democrats can turn out in large enough numbers to help Tom Daley, age 44, Democratic Candidate for the U.S. 3rd Texas Congressional District win against Republican incumbent Sam Johnson, age 78, and Glenn Melançon, age 42, Democratic Candidate for the U.S. 4th Texas Congressional District win against Republican incumbent Ralph Hall, age 85.
Read more about "The New Southern Strategy" in The Wall Street Journal.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Bush Admin Seeks to Redefine Birth Control Pill as Abortion
As reported in the Wall Street Journal OnLine, "The Bush Administration's Department of Health and Human Services writes a draft regulation that defines most birth-control pills and intrauterine devices as abortion because they work by preventing fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus."
The regulation considers that such contraception approaches - destroys the life of a human being. By its expansive definitions, the draft furthers a key goal of the religious right - to define single-cell fertilized eggs as legal people with full legal rights. If the regulation is enacted, insurers, hospitals, HMOs and other institutions could decline to provide or cover contraception pills and IUD devices.
If Roe v. Wade were to be overturned, it is conceivable that even the common birth control pill and IUD device could eventually be ruled to be a type of abortion by a very right leaning Supreme Court of the United States. The next President will likely appoint as many as three new Supreme Court Justices to the bench. Long after the next president is gone, his appointments will be sitting on the bench, making decisions that impact our rights and liberties.
McCain has repeatedly stated that he opposes abortion and has said that he would appoint Supreme Court Justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark court decision from the 1970s that legalized abortion, whereas, Obama supports the current Roe v. Wade position.
Which Presidential candidate do you want to appoint the next three Supreme Court Justices? John McCain or Barack Obama?? The choice is up to you - the voter!
The regulation considers that such contraception approaches - destroys the life of a human being. By its expansive definitions, the draft furthers a key goal of the religious right - to define single-cell fertilized eggs as legal people with full legal rights. If the regulation is enacted, insurers, hospitals, HMOs and other institutions could decline to provide or cover contraception pills and IUD devices.
If Roe v. Wade were to be overturned, it is conceivable that even the common birth control pill and IUD device could eventually be ruled to be a type of abortion by a very right leaning Supreme Court of the United States. The next President will likely appoint as many as three new Supreme Court Justices to the bench. Long after the next president is gone, his appointments will be sitting on the bench, making decisions that impact our rights and liberties.
McCain has repeatedly stated that he opposes abortion and has said that he would appoint Supreme Court Justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark court decision from the 1970s that legalized abortion, whereas, Obama supports the current Roe v. Wade position.
Which Presidential candidate do you want to appoint the next three Supreme Court Justices? John McCain or Barack Obama?? The choice is up to you - the voter!
 A message from Cecile Richards,President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. It seems like the [other] person who doesn't want to discuss this issue is Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt. A few days ago, health care blogger Scott Swenson asked Secretary Leavitt whether it will be "HHS policy that the 98 percent of Americans who use contraception at some point in their lives are terminating rather than preventing pregnancy." Leavitt's reply: no comment. We deserve answers from Secretary Leavitt on this secret plan to radically change family planning funding rules, and we need you to help us get those answers. Here's what you can do:
Thank you for standing with us, and please keep an eye out for future updates on this vital issue. P.S. Our best chance of stopping this assault on the fundamental health care rights of women is to raise a massive public outcry. Help us get a head start by urging your friends to contact President Bush. Click here. |
ExxonMcCain'08
The Politico.com reports that the Democratic National Committee on Wednesday will launch an “Exxon-McCain ’08” campaign website where ExxonMcCain'08 lapel buttons, bumper stickers and yard signs, complete with gas-pump logo, will be available. Click on the bumper sticker below.
Donations to McCain's campaign from the oil industry
Donations to McCain's campaign from the oil industry
Obama Leads McCain In New AP-Ipsos Poll
AP-Ipsos Poll - A new AP-Ipsos poll just released shows Barack Obama leading John McCain nationally by 6 percentage points. The Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows that Obama is leading his Republican rival 47 percent to 41 percent. McCain has a 10-point lead among whites and is tied with Obama among men. Obama leads by 13 points among women and has huge leads with minorities and the young. Poll Press Release PDF
McCain Chooses Big Oil Over American Families For Gas Price Relief
Robert L. Borosage: The Audacity of Contempt at (Huffington Post) - "Exxon reports a new record in the history of corporatedom. So Barack Obama suggests that we provide every American with a $1000 tax rebate to help pay for rising prices, paid for by levying an excess profits tax on the oil companies. What does the maverick battler of big oil say? No way. McCain angrily dismisses the idea, saying that it would lead the oil companies to reduce their drilling in the US -- but this is based upon what might generously be called a big lie. . . McCain's not about to support a tax on the big oil companies whose executives are helping to fund his campaign. But that won't stop him from selling himself as a maverick promising to "battle Big Oil." If nothing else, he has the audacity of contempt for the very voters he needs to win." Read the full editorial
Republican incumbent for the U.S. 3rd Texas Congressional District, Sam Johnson, age 78, Republican incumbent for the U.S. 4th Texas Congressional District, Ralph Hall, age 85, and Republican incumbent Senator John Cornyn all stand with Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain, age 72, on the issue of continuing big federal tax breaks (gifts) to big oil even as big oil rakes in new record highs in corporate profits quarter after quarter from struggling American families! (See- Big Oil's biggest quarter ever: $51.5B in all)
In addition to calling for a excess profits tax on big oil companies, Barack Obama proposed Monday that President Bush, if he is truly interested in immediate gas price relief, immediately sign an executive order to sell 70 million barrels of oil from the government operated strategic petroleum stockpile. This immediate supply of crude oil into the oil markets could serve to break the back of speculative commodity traders who many believe are responsible for as much as 50% of the price increase to $4 per gallon of gasoline Americans are paying to big oil companies.
The so-called "Enron Loophole" was created and attached to U.S. Senate legislation in December 2000 by McCain's former campaign co-chair Senator Phil Gramm at the behest of Enron executives. It was this "loop hole legislation" that Enron exploited to speculatively manipulate electricity commodity trading in California energy markets in the summer of 2001, spawning artificial electricity shortages, steep climbs in electricity prices and rolling brownouts across California. It is this legislation that continues to allow unbridled and unregulated oil and gas commodity trading that has propelled gasoline price increases by as much as an additional 50 percent since mid-2007. Republicans in the Senate recently blocked legislation offered by Senate Democrats that would have closed the so-called "Enron Loophole."
Republican incumbent for the U.S. 3rd Texas Congressional District, Sam Johnson, age 78, Republican incumbent for the U.S. 4th Texas Congressional District, Ralph Hall, age 85, and Republican incumbent Senator John Cornyn all stand with Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain, age 72, on the issue of continuing big federal tax breaks (gifts) to big oil even as big oil rakes in new record highs in corporate profits quarter after quarter from struggling American families! (See- Big Oil's biggest quarter ever: $51.5B in all)
In addition to calling for a excess profits tax on big oil companies, Barack Obama proposed Monday that President Bush, if he is truly interested in immediate gas price relief, immediately sign an executive order to sell 70 million barrels of oil from the government operated strategic petroleum stockpile. This immediate supply of crude oil into the oil markets could serve to break the back of speculative commodity traders who many believe are responsible for as much as 50% of the price increase to $4 per gallon of gasoline Americans are paying to big oil companies.
The so-called "Enron Loophole" was created and attached to U.S. Senate legislation in December 2000 by McCain's former campaign co-chair Senator Phil Gramm at the behest of Enron executives. It was this "loop hole legislation" that Enron exploited to speculatively manipulate electricity commodity trading in California energy markets in the summer of 2001, spawning artificial electricity shortages, steep climbs in electricity prices and rolling brownouts across California. It is this legislation that continues to allow unbridled and unregulated oil and gas commodity trading that has propelled gasoline price increases by as much as an additional 50 percent since mid-2007. Republicans in the Senate recently blocked legislation offered by Senate Democrats that would have closed the so-called "Enron Loophole."
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
NYTimes: GOP Drops While Dem Voter Rolls Grow Across U.S.
NYTimes.com, "Well before Senators Barack Obama and John McCain rose to the top of their parties, a partisan shift was under way at the local and state level. For more than three years starting in 2005, there has been a reduction in the number of voters who register with the Republican Party and a rise among voters who affiliate with Democrats and, almost as often, with no party at all.
Voting experts say the registration numbers may signal the beginning of a move away from Republicans that could affect local, state and national politics over several election cycles. In several states Democrats have surprised their own party officials with significant gains in registration." Read the Full Story
This is a trend that has also been observed in traditionally Republican Collin County. During the 2008 Democratic Primary more people voted on the Democratic Primary Ballot than voted for John Kerry (68,935 votes for Kerry) in the 2004 Presidential general election. More than 20,000 people attended the Democratic Party's 2008 Precinct Conventions on March 4th all across Collin County and approximately 4,000 people attended the Democratic Party's 2008 County Convention in Collin County.
There are likely several factors that explain this progressive shift in Collin County. Part of the shift may be explained by Republicans loosing faith in their party leaders. More than half of Republican voters now believe that their Republican leaders, who have controlled America's direction for more than eight years, have taken the country down the wrong track (55%), up from 51% in June, according to a July 2008 Reuters/Zogby national poll of likely voters.
Another part of the shift may be explained by the dramatic population growth across Collin County and the voter demographic shift such growth engenders.
From now and until election day all the Democratic Groups around Collin County will be busy registering new voters and campaigning for the party's local and national candidates. Then, starting on the first day of early voting on October 20th and continuing all the way through to the closing minutes of voting on Election Day November 4th all the Democratic Groups will be busy getting people out to vote.
The Democratic Candidates who will appear on Collin County ballots this fall need your help -- They MUST have your help to win here in traditionally Republican Red Collin County!!
PLEASE contact you neighborhood Obama campaign organizer, the Democratic Party of Collin County, the Texas Democratic Women of Collin County, any of the local Democratic candidates' campaign organizations or any of the other Democratic groups active here in Collin County. Look in the left-hand sidebar of this blog page to find all of the Democratic candidates (see - Democratic Candidates '08) running for office in Collin County that need your help.
PLEASE VOLUNTEER to help Get Out The Vote (GOTV) in this "Change'08" election year!!
Voting experts say the registration numbers may signal the beginning of a move away from Republicans that could affect local, state and national politics over several election cycles. In several states Democrats have surprised their own party officials with significant gains in registration." Read the Full Story
This is a trend that has also been observed in traditionally Republican Collin County. During the 2008 Democratic Primary more people voted on the Democratic Primary Ballot than voted for John Kerry (68,935 votes for Kerry) in the 2004 Presidential general election. More than 20,000 people attended the Democratic Party's 2008 Precinct Conventions on March 4th all across Collin County and approximately 4,000 people attended the Democratic Party's 2008 County Convention in Collin County.
There are likely several factors that explain this progressive shift in Collin County. Part of the shift may be explained by Republicans loosing faith in their party leaders. More than half of Republican voters now believe that their Republican leaders, who have controlled America's direction for more than eight years, have taken the country down the wrong track (55%), up from 51% in June, according to a July 2008 Reuters/Zogby national poll of likely voters.
Another part of the shift may be explained by the dramatic population growth across Collin County and the voter demographic shift such growth engenders.
| Collin County Historical Populations | ||
| Census | Pop. | %± |
|---|---|---|
| 2008~ | 758,500 | +8.5% |
| 2006* | 698,851 | +11% |
| 2004* | 625,000 | +27% |
| 2000 | 491,675 | +86.2% |
| 1990 | 264,036 | +82.6% |
| * - Estimated | ||
- 28.70% under the age of 18,
- 7.40% from 18 to 24,
- 37.90% from 25 to 44,
- 20.70% from 45 to 64, and
- 5.30% who were 65 years of age or older.
From now and until election day all the Democratic Groups around Collin County will be busy registering new voters and campaigning for the party's local and national candidates. Then, starting on the first day of early voting on October 20th and continuing all the way through to the closing minutes of voting on Election Day November 4th all the Democratic Groups will be busy getting people out to vote.
The Democratic Candidates who will appear on Collin County ballots this fall need your help -- They MUST have your help to win here in traditionally Republican Red Collin County!!
PLEASE contact you neighborhood Obama campaign organizer, the Democratic Party of Collin County, the Texas Democratic Women of Collin County, any of the local Democratic candidates' campaign organizations or any of the other Democratic groups active here in Collin County. Look in the left-hand sidebar of this blog page to find all of the Democratic candidates (see - Democratic Candidates '08) running for office in Collin County that need your help.
PLEASE VOLUNTEER to help Get Out The Vote (GOTV) in this "Change'08" election year!!
Possible that Obama Leads By 100+ Electoral Votes
Huffington Post, "Despite Media Narrative, Obama Leads By Over 100 Electoral Votes According To Independent Groups. It's quite instructive to see how the independent groups (and even right-leaning ones) currently see the state of the race through the only prism that matters -- the Electoral College."
Read the full Huffington Post Posting
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Read the full Huffington Post Posting
WaPo Blog: Swift Boat Veterans Take Aim At Obama
Washington Post Blog, "Just as they sought to destroy John Kerry in 2004, the founders of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group are aiming their guns at this season's presumptive Democratic presidential candidate. But unlike four years ago, when the Swifties spent millions to discredit Kerry, their hit on Barack Obama so far hasn't cost them a dime.
The opening assault came over the weekend in the form of a mass email to would-be sympathizers. "As liberal as Kerry was, America faces an even more liberal threat today: Barack Obama," wrote John O'Neill, a founder of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who co-authored the book "Unfit for Command," the attack (or smear) on Kerry's Vietnam War record."
Read the rest of the story
The opening assault came over the weekend in the form of a mass email to would-be sympathizers. "As liberal as Kerry was, America faces an even more liberal threat today: Barack Obama," wrote John O'Neill, a founder of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who co-authored the book "Unfit for Command," the attack (or smear) on Kerry's Vietnam War record."
Read the rest of the story
Monday, August 4, 2008
West Texas Wind Turbines
Giant wind turbines are not uncommon in the wide open West Texas plains. But there's a big problem getting that electricity out to the big cities like Dallas and Houston.
Listen to this Marketplace Radio Report:
Tom Daley, Democratic candidate for the U.S. 3rd Texas Congressional District, age 44, and Glenn Melançon Democratic candidate for the U.S. 4th Texas Congressional District, age 42, do understand the dramatic revolution to American industry, white and blue collar job availability and personal life style that 21st century clean alternative energy technologies can bring to a 21st century America and Texas. Both Democratic congressional candidates, whose districts meet down the middle of Collin County, stand with U.S. Senate Democratic Candidate for Texas, Rick Noriega, and the Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, for the deployment of clean alternative energy technologies for a better America and a better Texas.
Listen to this Marketplace Radio Report:
Tom Daley, Democratic candidate for the U.S. 3rd Texas Congressional District, age 44, and Glenn Melançon Democratic candidate for the U.S. 4th Texas Congressional District, age 42, do understand the dramatic revolution to American industry, white and blue collar job availability and personal life style that 21st century clean alternative energy technologies can bring to a 21st century America and Texas. Both Democratic congressional candidates, whose districts meet down the middle of Collin County, stand with U.S. Senate Democratic Candidate for Texas, Rick Noriega, and the Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, for the deployment of clean alternative energy technologies for a better America and a better Texas.
American Tax Payers Paying the Price for Republican's Zeal to Deregulate
Immediately after Republicans eliminated the regulatory guidelines of prudent banking practices, unscrupulous home mortgage lenders were free to unfairly prey on both American home buyers and securities investors. Mortgage lenders were free to aggressively market risky sub-prime home mortgages to unsuspecting home buyers and then speculatively trade those risky sub-prime loans in securities markets to such unrestrained levels that the U.S. Federal Reserve and FDIC are now forced into government bailouts of banks and private securities companies to avert economic disaster.
The U.S. Federal Reserve and FDIC were forced into such a Federal bailouts of Bear Stearns in March 2008 and IndyMac Bank in California in July 2008 over these risky sub-prime mortgage loan trading practices. The depth of sub-prime mortgage loan risks to the U.S. economy are yet unfolding with thousands more American homeowners losing their homes every month through foreclosure.
Republicans would rather allow banks and brokers to take unmitigated and unregulated risks, to profit the few, and then socialize the bailout cost of those "too big to fail" by adding the rotten fruits of their bad decisions onto the public debt.
The United States is in the second inning of a recession that will last for at least 18 months and help kill off hundreds of banks, influential economist and New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini recently told Barron's in an interview.
Taxpayers will pay a big price for helping bail out the rest of the financial services industry as well, Roubini said; likely in excess of $1 trillion and possibly closer to $2 trillion. The banks will become insolvent because of mounting losses as a result of the housing bust and because they have only written down their sub-prime loans so far, he said. Still in front of them are their consumer-credit losses, for which they lack the reserves, Barron's reported. He also said there are hundreds of millions of dollars outstanding in home-equity loans that could be worth zero, too.
Democrats favor legislation that will restore the federal banking regulatory authority that the Republicans discarded in their zeal to eliminate any and all protective government oversight in every quarter of American financing and commerce.
Read RawStory's article, "Expert on bailouts: Bank regulators should investigate themselves" for additional background.
The U.S. Federal Reserve and FDIC were forced into such a Federal bailouts of Bear Stearns in March 2008 and IndyMac Bank in California in July 2008 over these risky sub-prime mortgage loan trading practices. The depth of sub-prime mortgage loan risks to the U.S. economy are yet unfolding with thousands more American homeowners losing their homes every month through foreclosure.
Republicans would rather allow banks and brokers to take unmitigated and unregulated risks, to profit the few, and then socialize the bailout cost of those "too big to fail" by adding the rotten fruits of their bad decisions onto the public debt.
The United States is in the second inning of a recession that will last for at least 18 months and help kill off hundreds of banks, influential economist and New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini recently told Barron's in an interview.
Taxpayers will pay a big price for helping bail out the rest of the financial services industry as well, Roubini said; likely in excess of $1 trillion and possibly closer to $2 trillion. The banks will become insolvent because of mounting losses as a result of the housing bust and because they have only written down their sub-prime loans so far, he said. Still in front of them are their consumer-credit losses, for which they lack the reserves, Barron's reported. He also said there are hundreds of millions of dollars outstanding in home-equity loans that could be worth zero, too.
Democrats favor legislation that will restore the federal banking regulatory authority that the Republicans discarded in their zeal to eliminate any and all protective government oversight in every quarter of American financing and commerce.
Read RawStory's article, "Expert on bailouts: Bank regulators should investigate themselves" for additional background.
WaPo: GOP Tries To Scare New Voters Away From the Polls
The Washington Post - Editorial Section, "In Virgina, as in other states, loads of first-time voters are registering to cast ballots in the fall elections . . . As registration drives accelerate, including those run by the Barack Obama campaign and its allies, it's no wonder that Republicans are increasingly anxious about retaining their hold on a state that GOP presidential candidates have carried since 1968. What is surprising is their utterly baseless charge of "coordinated and widespread voter fraud" . . . The allegation of a "very serious and troubling trend" of registration fraud is unsupported by election officials, police or prosecutors. It is couched in the toxic language of gauzy innuendo, insidious suggestion and simple fear." Read the rest of the story in the WaPo.
House Republicans On Floor Of Empty Chamber in Drill More Holes Push
RawStory.com - Read the full story
Excerpts from RawStory:
It will take more than ten years for drilling new oil wells in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and in off shore locations to drop prices by perhaps as much as a few cents per gal.
On the other hand, while Republicans pontificated in an empty House chamber to gin up an election year political diversion, Barack Obama proposed Monday that the government sell 70 million barrels of oil from its strategic petroleum stockpile. This immediate supply of crude oil into the oil markets could serve to break the back of speculative commodity traders who many believe are responsible for as much as 50% of the price increase to $4 per gallon of gasoline Americans are paying to big oil companies. (Big Oil's biggest quarter ever: $51.5B in all)
The so-called "Enron Loophole" was created and attached to U.S. Senate legislation in December 2000 by McCain's former campaign co-chair Senator Phil Gramm at the behest of Enron executives. It was this "loop hole legislation" that Enron exploited to speculatively manipulate electricity commodity trading in California energy markets in the summer of 2001, spawning artificial electricity shortages, steep climbs in electricity prices and rolling brownouts across California. It is this legislation that continues to allow unbridled and unregulated oil and gas commodity trading that has propelled gasoline price increases by as much as an additional 50 percent since mid-2007. Republicans in the Senate recently blocked legislation offered by Senate Democrats that would have closed the so-called "Enron Loophole."
Excerpts from RawStory:
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It will take more than ten years for drilling new oil wells in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and in off shore locations to drop prices by perhaps as much as a few cents per gal.
On the other hand, while Republicans pontificated in an empty House chamber to gin up an election year political diversion, Barack Obama proposed Monday that the government sell 70 million barrels of oil from its strategic petroleum stockpile. This immediate supply of crude oil into the oil markets could serve to break the back of speculative commodity traders who many believe are responsible for as much as 50% of the price increase to $4 per gallon of gasoline Americans are paying to big oil companies. (Big Oil's biggest quarter ever: $51.5B in all)
The so-called "Enron Loophole" was created and attached to U.S. Senate legislation in December 2000 by McCain's former campaign co-chair Senator Phil Gramm at the behest of Enron executives. It was this "loop hole legislation" that Enron exploited to speculatively manipulate electricity commodity trading in California energy markets in the summer of 2001, spawning artificial electricity shortages, steep climbs in electricity prices and rolling brownouts across California. It is this legislation that continues to allow unbridled and unregulated oil and gas commodity trading that has propelled gasoline price increases by as much as an additional 50 percent since mid-2007. Republicans in the Senate recently blocked legislation offered by Senate Democrats that would have closed the so-called "Enron Loophole."
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Should Voters Consider the Technology Awareness of 21st Century Candidates?
Should the computing habits of today's Presidential, Senatorial and Congressional candidates have any bearing at all on the candidate's credentials as voters decide which candidate they should elect on November 4, 2008? Here are a few considerations given in an article that discusses John McCain's lack knowledge on the 21st century computing and Internet tools that are already used by 73 percent of all American adults and an even higher percentage of young adults and teens. Excerpts from a New York Times article titled, "McCain, the Analog Candidate."
There is, perhaps, more to this story than just using and understanding personal computers and Internet technology in the 21st century. Incumbents that have not kept up with the times likely do not understand other 21st century technologies that have the potential to benefit Americans and the American economy.
Case in point is the myriad of 21st century alternative energy technologies that stand poised to revolutionize how Americans, and the rest of the world, generate and use energy.
Republican incumbent for the U.S. 3rd Texas Congressional District, Sam Johnson, age 78, Republican incumbent for the U.S. 4th Texas Congressional District, Ralph Hall, age 85, Republican incumbent Senator John Cornyn and Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain, age 72, all advocate drilling more oil well holes in the ground and coastal areas as America’s primary energy strategy.
All these Republican incumbents also downplay the impact that alternative energy technologies can bring to American and Texas. Do the Republicans advocate drilling more oil well holes because drilling holes in the ground is the most advanced technology they understand? Or, is it something else? Multiple oil company executives did give huge contributions to Senator McCain's campaign just days after his offshore drilling change of heart. (Until very recently Senator McCain was against offshore drilling.)
T. Boone Pickens may be an old Republican, he is sounding awfully like a younger generation Democrat these days. Watch his T. Boone's TV ad:
Younger candidates such as Tom Daley, Democratic candidate for the U.S. 3rd Texas Congressional District, age 44, and Glenn Melançon Democratic candidate for the U.S. 4th Texas Congressional District, age 42, do understand and do use personal computers and the Internet in the course of their daily lives and to support their respective congressional campaigns.
Both Democratic congressional candidates do understand the dramatic revolution to American industry, white and blue collar job availability and personal life style that 21st century clean alternative energy technologies can bring to a 21st century America. Both Democratic congressional candidates, whose districts meet down the middle of Collin County, stand with U.S. Senate Democratic Candidate for Texas, Rick Noriega, and the Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, for the deployment of clean alternative energy technologies for a better America and a better Texas.
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There is, perhaps, more to this story than just using and understanding personal computers and Internet technology in the 21st century. Incumbents that have not kept up with the times likely do not understand other 21st century technologies that have the potential to benefit Americans and the American economy.
Case in point is the myriad of 21st century alternative energy technologies that stand poised to revolutionize how Americans, and the rest of the world, generate and use energy.
Republican incumbent for the U.S. 3rd Texas Congressional District, Sam Johnson, age 78, Republican incumbent for the U.S. 4th Texas Congressional District, Ralph Hall, age 85, Republican incumbent Senator John Cornyn and Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain, age 72, all advocate drilling more oil well holes in the ground and coastal areas as America’s primary energy strategy.
All these Republican incumbents also downplay the impact that alternative energy technologies can bring to American and Texas. Do the Republicans advocate drilling more oil well holes because drilling holes in the ground is the most advanced technology they understand? Or, is it something else? Multiple oil company executives did give huge contributions to Senator McCain's campaign just days after his offshore drilling change of heart. (Until very recently Senator McCain was against offshore drilling.)
T. Boone Pickens may be an old Republican, he is sounding awfully like a younger generation Democrat these days. Watch his T. Boone's TV ad:
Younger candidates such as Tom Daley, Democratic candidate for the U.S. 3rd Texas Congressional District, age 44, and Glenn Melançon Democratic candidate for the U.S. 4th Texas Congressional District, age 42, do understand and do use personal computers and the Internet in the course of their daily lives and to support their respective congressional campaigns.
Both Democratic congressional candidates do understand the dramatic revolution to American industry, white and blue collar job availability and personal life style that 21st century clean alternative energy technologies can bring to a 21st century America. Both Democratic congressional candidates, whose districts meet down the middle of Collin County, stand with U.S. Senate Democratic Candidate for Texas, Rick Noriega, and the Democratic Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, for the deployment of clean alternative energy technologies for a better America and a better Texas.
Scientists Mimic Plants' Photosynthesis Energy Production & Storage System
ScienceDaily (Aug. 1, 2008) — In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine. Excerpts from the ScienceDaily Article:
When electricity — whether generated from a photovoltaic cell, thin-film photovoltaic plastic sheets, a wind turbine or any other source — runs through the catalyst treated electrodes, water is very efficiently split into oxygen and hydrogen gases. It is the hydrogen gas created in this process that can be stored for use in future home energy systems or the hydrogen can be fed into hydrogen powered cars already in production today. That could mean no more $4++ per gallon gas fill ups at the local Exxon Station - rather you could fill up your hydrogen powered car for free with the sun, rather than Exxon, as your energy provider.
Read the full ScienceDaily article here
U.S. Senate Candidate for Texas Rick Noriega supports the development of alternative energy sources such as this. Noriega's opponent, Texas' incumbent Senator John Cornyn, dismisses such alternative energy research and development as "unrealistic" and "against mainstream solutions" such as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and off shore drilling -- both advocated by Senator Cornyn as priorities over alternative energy development.
It must also be noted that, like Rick Noriega, Collin County U.S. Congressional Democratic candidates Tom Daley, Candidate for the U.S. 3rd Texas Congressional District against Republican incumbent Sam Johnson and Glenn Melançon - Candidate for the U.S. 4th Texas Congressional District against Republican incumbent Ralph Hall also support alternative energy technology development. Both Sam Johnson and Ralph Hall favor the energy positions held by incumbent Senator John Cornyn -- drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and off shore drilling for carbon fossil crude oil as priorities over alternative energy development.
Experts agree that arctic and off-shore drilling would not add significantly oil flow to refineries and it would not cool gas prices at the pump. In 10 years time arctic drilling might drop crude oil prices as much as $0.75 per barrel of crude oil.
That's not to say that continued careful drilling using modern drilling technologies is necessarily a bad idea. Millions of acres of oil and gas leases in the lower 48 states sit undrilled and untapped.
Why are John McCain and other Republicans so urgently trying force the issue of arctic and off-shore drilling when so many acres of oil and gas leases sit untapped in the lower 48 states. Could it be diversionary election year politics? Or, is it something else? Multiple oil company executives did give huge contributions to Senator McCain's campaign just days after his offshore drilling change of heart. (Until very recently Senator McCain was against offshore drilling.)
Even if all the oil wells possible were being drilled today, no one should get the idea that would reduce America's dependence on foreign oil imports or reduce the price we all pay at the pump for a gallon of gasoline. Only significant investments in the development of domestically produced alternative energy technologies will significantly reduce America's dependence on foreign oil imports, improve America's national security and reduce the price we all pay for every form of energy.
All of the Republican candidates, that will appear on the Collin County Voters' ballot this fall, support continuing tax breaks to big Oil and Coal companies for projects such as Arctic and Off-Shore drilling. (read Big Oil's biggest quarter ever: $51.5B in all) These tax subsidies bleed money away from American tax payers and the Texas economy and simple add to big oil profits.
Alternative energy development, particularly like west Texas wind power generation, is already pulling much needed jobs and money back into the Texas economy. Technologies such as developed by MIT can rapidly accelerate solar and wind power investment and development in Texas. After all, anyone who has lived in Texas for very long knows well that the most abundant resources to be found in Texas are wind and sun!!!
Why aren't the Republican candidates John McCain, John Cornyn, Sam Johnson and Ralph Hall supporting alternative energy development when it can be so good for the Texas economy?
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When electricity — whether generated from a photovoltaic cell, thin-film photovoltaic plastic sheets, a wind turbine or any other source — runs through the catalyst treated electrodes, water is very efficiently split into oxygen and hydrogen gases. It is the hydrogen gas created in this process that can be stored for use in future home energy systems or the hydrogen can be fed into hydrogen powered cars already in production today. That could mean no more $4++ per gallon gas fill ups at the local Exxon Station - rather you could fill up your hydrogen powered car for free with the sun, rather than Exxon, as your energy provider.
Read the full ScienceDaily article here
U.S. Senate Candidate for Texas Rick Noriega supports the development of alternative energy sources such as this. Noriega's opponent, Texas' incumbent Senator John Cornyn, dismisses such alternative energy research and development as "unrealistic" and "against mainstream solutions" such as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and off shore drilling -- both advocated by Senator Cornyn as priorities over alternative energy development.
It must also be noted that, like Rick Noriega, Collin County U.S. Congressional Democratic candidates Tom Daley, Candidate for the U.S. 3rd Texas Congressional District against Republican incumbent Sam Johnson and Glenn Melançon - Candidate for the U.S. 4th Texas Congressional District against Republican incumbent Ralph Hall also support alternative energy technology development. Both Sam Johnson and Ralph Hall favor the energy positions held by incumbent Senator John Cornyn -- drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and off shore drilling for carbon fossil crude oil as priorities over alternative energy development.
Experts agree that arctic and off-shore drilling would not add significantly oil flow to refineries and it would not cool gas prices at the pump. In 10 years time arctic drilling might drop crude oil prices as much as $0.75 per barrel of crude oil.
That's not to say that continued careful drilling using modern drilling technologies is necessarily a bad idea. Millions of acres of oil and gas leases in the lower 48 states sit undrilled and untapped.
Why are John McCain and other Republicans so urgently trying force the issue of arctic and off-shore drilling when so many acres of oil and gas leases sit untapped in the lower 48 states. Could it be diversionary election year politics? Or, is it something else? Multiple oil company executives did give huge contributions to Senator McCain's campaign just days after his offshore drilling change of heart. (Until very recently Senator McCain was against offshore drilling.)
Even if all the oil wells possible were being drilled today, no one should get the idea that would reduce America's dependence on foreign oil imports or reduce the price we all pay at the pump for a gallon of gasoline. Only significant investments in the development of domestically produced alternative energy technologies will significantly reduce America's dependence on foreign oil imports, improve America's national security and reduce the price we all pay for every form of energy.
All of the Republican candidates, that will appear on the Collin County Voters' ballot this fall, support continuing tax breaks to big Oil and Coal companies for projects such as Arctic and Off-Shore drilling. (read Big Oil's biggest quarter ever: $51.5B in all) These tax subsidies bleed money away from American tax payers and the Texas economy and simple add to big oil profits.
Alternative energy development, particularly like west Texas wind power generation, is already pulling much needed jobs and money back into the Texas economy. Technologies such as developed by MIT can rapidly accelerate solar and wind power investment and development in Texas. After all, anyone who has lived in Texas for very long knows well that the most abundant resources to be found in Texas are wind and sun!!!
Why aren't the Republican candidates John McCain, John Cornyn, Sam Johnson and Ralph Hall supporting alternative energy development when it can be so good for the Texas economy?
U.S. Senate Candidate Rick Noriega Calls for Alternative Energy Strategy
U.S. Senate candidate Rick Noriega calls for wind, solar power in all Texas homes by 2019 (The Dallas Morning News) - "Texas Democratic Senate candidate Rick Noriega called Tuesday for all Texas households to get their electricity by renewable energy resources, such as wind and solar power, by 2019. "
The Dallas Morning News article includes in its news observation, "Mr. Noriega does not, however, support drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which is believed to contain significant oil deposits." --A position supported by Noriega's opponent, Senator John Cornyn-- The article goes on to report that Mr. Cornyn's campaign dismissed Mr. Noriega's energy plan [for national renewable energy resources strategy] as unrealistic. Senator Cornyn's campaign manager Rob Jesmer wrote in a statement, "The sad truth is Rick Noriega is against many mainstream solutions [solutions such as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and off shore drilling as advocated by Senator Cornyn] that will put America on the path to a comprehensive energy plan."
Rick Noriega's alternative energy plan can be found - here.
Texas Democratic Senate candidate Rick Noriega has served in the Texas House of Representatives and is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard. Noriega was deployed to Afghanistan for one year and served as deputy garrison commander of the KMTC training facility in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Watch Noriega's YouTube videos displayed in the right sidebar of this blog page!!
The Dallas Morning News article includes in its news observation, "Mr. Noriega does not, however, support drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which is believed to contain significant oil deposits." --A position supported by Noriega's opponent, Senator John Cornyn-- The article goes on to report that Mr. Cornyn's campaign dismissed Mr. Noriega's energy plan [for national renewable energy resources strategy] as unrealistic. Senator Cornyn's campaign manager Rob Jesmer wrote in a statement, "The sad truth is Rick Noriega is against many mainstream solutions [solutions such as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and off shore drilling as advocated by Senator Cornyn] that will put America on the path to a comprehensive energy plan."
Rick Noriega's alternative energy plan can be found - here.
Texas Democratic Senate candidate Rick Noriega has served in the Texas House of Representatives and is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard. Noriega was deployed to Afghanistan for one year and served as deputy garrison commander of the KMTC training facility in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Watch Noriega's YouTube videos displayed in the right sidebar of this blog page!!
Obama Wants Full Voting Rights for Florida and Michigan Delegates
The New York Times Caucus Blog, "Senator Barack Obama, the party’s presumptive nominee, has asked the credentials committee to let the two states have full voting rights at the convention. The credentials committee is to meet Aug. 24, the day before the convention begins in Denver, to determine who will be seated."
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