This is in response to a post on DailyKos. Someone asked how they could best help Obama win in Pennsylvania. I was part of a group that helped pull off one of the biggest upsets in the last election cycle.
Help Obama seal the deal! Write a short letter and submit it to your state newspaper. Letters-to-the-editor are the most read section of any newspaper. We know that because a small group of us in IA-02 helped now Rep. Dave Loebsack defeat Jim Leach in 2006. We bombarded our local newspapers: published at least 1-2 letters everyday for a 10-month period. Loebsack's victory was a national shockwave, people never saw it coming. But we did!
Tips for your letters: Make your point early, keep your letter under the word count limits--usually 150-200 words, proofread your letter, provide solid facts and don't rant.
Newspaper email addresses:
http://www.ccmc.org/oped.htm (this is a place to start for the larger papers in Philly, Pittsburgh and Allentown)
Here are some example LTTEs that some friends helped put together.
Note we mentioned only pocketbook issues. We have work to do...
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Clinton ties to Wal-Mart:
http://walmartwatch.com/blog/archive...An ABC News analysis of the videotapes of at least four stockholder meetings where Clinton appeared shows she never once rose to defend the role of American labor unions.
A former board member told ABCNews.com that he had no recollection of Clinton defending unions during more than 20 board meetings held in private.
Her Senate campaign returned a $5,000 contribution from a Wal-Mart Political Action Committee, although ABCNews.com discovered another $20,000 in contributions from Wal-Mart executives and lobbyists.
According to the New York Times, Sen. Clinton "maintains close ties to Wal-Mart executives through the Democratic Party and the tightly knit Arkansas business community." The May 20, 2007 article also reported that her husband, former President Clinton, "speaks frequently to Wal-Mart’s current chief executive, H. Lee Scott Jr." and held a private dinner at the Clinton’s New York home in July 2006 for him.
Sen. Clinton has recently sought to distance herself from Wal-Mart. (Once again, poor judgment).
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Clinton ties to the health care industry:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/12/news...Health-care sector, once a critic of then-first lady's plans for reforms, now lavishing contributions on senator.
According to Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan group that tracks campaign finance filings, Clinton has received $781,112 in contributions from the health-care sector during the current election cycle, which makes her the No. 2 recipient of funds from that sector, behind only Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., who received $977,354.
"If the usual rules apply," Mr. Graefe said, early donors will "get a seat at the table when health care and other issues are discussed."
The New York Times reports that while there are still some doubts about her in the health-care industry, some in the industry are making contributions in case she is elected president. The newspaper reports that William R. Abrams, the executive vice president of the Medical Society of the State of New York, is one of her fundraisers in the sector, even though he is a Republican.
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Clinton and NAFTA:
Reuters is reporting that Clinton says she will vote for the Peru Free Trade Agreement - the first agreement in a package of corporate-crafted agreements to vastly expand the NAFTA trade model.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-...Hillary Clinton has made statements unequivocally trumpeting NAFTA as the greatest thing since sliced bread.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-...Link below: See Table 2 for net jobs lost in your state (3rd column) from 1993-2002
Pennsylvania: 38 325 jobs lost; North Carolina: 32, 585 jobs lost
http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/brief...Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed in 1993, the rise in the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and Mexico through 2002 has caused the displacement of production that supported 879,280 U.S. jobs. Most of those lost jobs were high-wage positions in manufacturing industries. The loss of these jobs is just the most visible tip of NAFTA's impact on the U.S. economy. In fact, NAFTA has also contributed to rising income inequality, suppressed real wages for production workers, weakened workers' collective bargaining powers and ability to organize unions, and reduced fringe benefits.
Let's get going!
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