I would like to start a post about the Dem leaders all over the country..

[madfloridian]

who are working their butts off for candidates and to energize and mobilize the base. All of the 04 presidential candidates for sure are all over. Everywhere...traveling, rallying with those running for election or re-election.

Let me start with who's coming to Florida, and then some of you can add your posts.

First off, Governor Dean is in Austin, TX tomorrow. You can get in by just buying a Democracy Bond or a small donation.

http://www.democracyfortexas.org/node/view/464#comment

Dean will also be at a large donor fundraiser in Coral Gables in October.

Also this week he will be attending a conference of the Democratic women in DC.

And take a look at the great guys coming to Florida this next month. Kerry, Warner, and Obama.

https://www.fladems.com/donate/eventticket.php

Now who else is doing what? I have more to post.

Also let's show some of the ways all of our Democrats have been speaking out against this administration lately. They have, you know.

[TayTay]

1. I too applaud all the good Democrats who are showing up

and working so hard to get a Democratic Congress for this nation. That really means so much. (And to work for Democratic Governors as well! We should know after 2000 and 2004 that it really matters who controls the Governor's offices in the various states.)

I salute all the good Dems who are working so hard for Unity this fall. And thanks for this thread. We at DU should acknowledge the good that is going on because it does help to foster hope.

[CarolNYC]

3. Good point on the Govs...

Here's hoping we get a Dem one back in NY this fall....

[madfloridian]

4. I notice I am even getting emails from the DGA.

I am amazed at all they are doing.

[madfloridian]

5. John Edwards was in Florida this month.

From our state chairwoman:

"Dear Fellow Floridians,

I'm looking forward to this Friday, Sept. 15, because a dear friend to all
of us is making a special appearance in Miami to support Jim Davis's
campaign for governor.

John Edwards, former Senator from North Carolina and potential presidential
candidate in 2008, will join Jim Davis and his soon-to-be-named running
mate for a community gathering in support of the Davis for Governor
campaign."

Didn't get to go, but hear it was great.

Oops, responded to my own thread, but no harm done.

[CarolNYC]

2. Wes Clark

Hey, thanks for the thread mad...

Here's my thread on Wes Clark's crazy week this week...something like 6 or 7 events in KY over the last two days, then onto AZ (four events in one day), TX, MT, PA and IA...I probably have the order wrong..Is it TX before AZ?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2842222

I love what both Howard and Wes are doing for the party...50 state strategy.....gotta love it!

[madfloridian]

11. The thread was needed. I notice he has been all over for candidates.

:hi:

[CarolNYC]

6. Max Cleland

And the brilliant and wonderful Max Cleland, true American hero and a peach of a guy to boot, will be appearing with Wes in support of Jack Murtha on Friday in Johnstown, PA. God bless Max for continuing to fight.

[madfloridian]

7. Cleland has really been speaking out powerfully.

And Murtha needs their support. I don't remember paying much attention to Cleland until lately. He has real anger.

[CarolNYC]

8. One of the truly beautiful things about Max

is that he's been through so much and he can be so tough...Yet, in spite of everything, he really is a sweetheart. Now, that's someone with a really strong character and sense of self. I adore Max.

[madfloridian]

9. Wow, having trouble getting on DU tonight. But here's some stuff.

I posted this several months ago when people were saying Dems weren't speaking out.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Quote of the Week: Harry Reid on Bush Credibility
"President Bush has as much credibility on immigration as he does on Iraq and national security.

If the president is serious about moving forward, then he should join me in calling on Senator Frist to bring immigration reform back to the Senate floor when we return. Hopefully, by then, President Bush and his majority leader will have found the backbone to stop the extreme elements of the Republican Party from blocking improvements to America's security."

---- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), on April 13,2006, in response to statements by President Bush accusing Reid of "single-handedly thwarting" action on immigration legislation.


Iowa Dems push for minimum wage hike.
http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=A681DC24-2D2C-4255-B95FC5CC41F22572&dbtranslator=local.cfm

"Statehouse Democrats are staging a last-minute push to raise Iowa’s minimum wage before the legislative session ends. Senator Tom Courtney Courtney, a Democrat from Burlington, says while most Iowans earn more than $5.15 an hour, raising the base would help everyone.

Courtney says the chances of raising the minimum wage improved after Mary Lundby of Marion was elected Senate Republican leader last week. Lundby has supported increasing the minimum wage in the past, but she said last Friday that no Democrat had approached her about taking up the issue.

House Speaker Christopher Rants, a Republican from Sioux City, says raising the minimum wage will raise the cost of doing business in Iowa. However, Rants says he's willing to consider it if Democrats will also discuss the other costs of doing business in Iowa. "

Boxer, Feinstein can't digest food legislation
http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_3729846

SAN FRANCISCO — "California's U.S. senators Wednesday denounced federal legislation that would pre-empt the state's food safety laws in the name of "national uniformity."
Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both Democrats, said the "National Uniformity for Food Act" — long sought by the food industry — would defang California's groundbreaking Proposition 65, which has forced scores of manufacturers to retool or clean up products since 63 percent of voters approved it in 1986.

"This is really a bill that would override the wishes of the people of the state of California," Boxer said at a morning news conference. "For a state like ours, a leader in the nation, this is a particular threat."

The bill gives federal regulators sole power to determine what foods on the grocery shelf would require a label warning of particular contaminants — be it arsenic in bottled water, mercury in tuna or PCBs in farmed salmon. "

[madfloridian]

10. I don't know much about others, so I will post the last Dean interviews.

And Keith Olbermanns rant for good measure.

Dean on MSNBC with David Gregory on the Countdown to 2006. Sept. 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTHd-W2F5rU

Dean on CNN with Harris on Sept. 6. Election discussion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uANGYL_dbkM

Howard Dean, first time on Countdown with Olbermann Sept. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipr2UApRCY8

Howard Dean on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, in studio.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/10/howard-dean-breezes-through-chris-wallace-interview/

And an added bonus:
Keith Olbermann's wonderful speech on 9/11 about Bush. It should go down
in history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1OA2wHcBt4

[madfloridian]

12. Great site from the DGA, Dem Governors.

This is their page with all the things you can do about healthcare, one of the projects they are taking on. When Governor Dean was chairman of the group it was one of his pet projects.

http://www.democraticgovernors.org/action

"
Health Care Is an Issue We Cannot Afford to Ignore: Speak Out
Democratic Governors have taken the lead in ensuring that Americans have access to affordable healthcare, while their Republican counterparts continue to fail over 45 million uninsured Americans by hiking up the cost.

Using our website tools, you can combine your personal experience with Democrats' broader accomplishments to raise awareness in your community about this important issue.

What do you have to say about health care? Take Action »"

Interestingly enough, this was a passion of Howard Dean and others governors in the early 90s. Here is a passage from his book, You Have the Power, where he tells of the climate in DC about getting healthcare.

Howard Dean's book, "You Have the Power", he talks about trying to get help from congressional Democrats in 1991 for the states to pass health care bills on their own. He and several governors went to talk to the House leadership. They asked for changes in federal laws that were keeping states from working out their own plans for universal health care. The leadership refused to help on the grounds, he says, that many had waited their whole careers to pass it, and they did not yet have the votes....and they did not want to states to do it. (Page 62)

And a paragraph from page 63 that just makes me furious. Again from 1991 and early 90s.
SNIP.."Many of the congressional Democrats wouldn't take a risk on anything that might be unpopular, be subject to attack, or allow other people to outshine them in getting some actual work done. So they wouldn't give a green light to the governors in 1991; and a few years later, they wouldn't hear the signals coming from Bob Dole that he was willing to compromise on Clinton's health-care plan. They were paralyzed between their fear of losing an election and their fear of change. In the end they lost and became the victims, in 1994, of the most sweeping congressional changes in sixty-two years. They set the table for Newt Gingrich. It was an awful irony: After decades of domination by the so-called party of the people, the party of FDR and Harry Truman, America continued, at the turn of the millennium, to be the only country in the industrialized world that didn't have health insurance for all its people. "

"The Democrats, who by the early 1990s had been in power in Congress without interruption for forty years, became so obsessed with keeping their seats and staving off challenges that they forgot why they were there."

Keep posting what the Dems are doing.

A good place to find out is to go to

www.democrats.org

and look under the Local tab. Then you pick a state, and then the state website. Choose their calendar or events.

[madfloridian]

13. Never mind.

Maybe no one thinks they are doing things. Ain't worth it.

[CarolNYC]

20. No mad....this is a nice thread...

Here's another thing Wes has done in the middle of his traveling this week:

"Generals endorse Jim Webb for Senate

Richmond Times-Dispatch Sep 26, 2006

Three military critics of the Bush Administration's policy in Iraq said today Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jim Webb would be an outstanding, independent voice on veterans issues in the Senate.

General Wesley Clark, a retired four-star Army General and Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, former Marine General Anthony Zinni and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, joined Webb in a conference call with reporters.

"He has the courage and integrity to ask the right questions," Clark said.

Webb declined to answer questions about the latest controversy involving his Republican opponent, U.S. Sen. George Allen.

For the latest news on the Senate race and more on this story see tomorrow's Times-Dispatch."

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149190830866


Also, I know that at least Max Cleland and Eliot Spitzer have been upstate for Eric Massa this month....www.massaforcongress.com.

And last month Jack Murtha was in NYC for Eric....Murtha, Wes, Spitzer, Hillary and a bunch of NY politicians all also appeared at Charlie Rangel's fundraising birthday party last month....

[glitch]

14. Good post. Thanks for the info. K & R nt

[seabeyond]

15. hoo YAH to our DEMS. i for one, really appreciate all tehy are doing

wink

[madfloridian]

16. An oldie from 04..." Outfoxing" Hannity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-VX-YJAKIs

Howard Dean told Hannity he needed to watch Outfoxed, the movie.

From 2005...another.

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/11807

"Dean's recent remarks drew a rebuke from Vice President Dick Cheney in an interview to be aired Monday on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," according to the Associated Press.

Cheney called Dean "over the top" and "not the kind of individual you want to have representing your political party," according to the Associated Press.

Asked by a reporter Sunday to reply to Cheney's criticisms, Dean said: "My view is that Fox News is a propaganda outlet of the Republican Party and that I don't comment on Fox News." The response drew applause from the room."

I see Dean is in Georgia on Thursday.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
DNC Chairman Howard Dean
WHAT: Remarks to Chairman's Reception at National Black MBA Association National Conference

WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 28 at 6 p.m.

WHERE: Marriott Marquis, 265 Peachtree Center Ave., Atlanta, Ga.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I see John and Elizabeth Edwards are on Oprah tomorrow. Good for them. That should be good.

I hope others will post some speeches and rallies.

[tomreedtoon]

17. Why isn't this a regular box on the DU Front Page?

Why not list - as a public feature - a list of non-candidate Democrats who are appearing to speak at various locations? Give the dates, times, locations, facilities where they're appearing, contact phone numbers or e-mail addresses if available?

Moderators, how about it?

[madfloridian]

18. I started it because of the sentiment started this week...

that our Democrats were just getting all inspired by one person . I kind of resented it as they all work so hard. I have only posted a small portion of the events I know about.

We have all kinds of inspiring people leading our party, and this week it was said there was just one.

I wanted us to show differently.

They are constantly traveling and appearing with candidates. I know Dean has two appearances Thursday in two different states.

You have a good idea, a place to post so we can see what all the others are doing.

[wiley]

19. Great Post!

Too late to R but I can :kick: