Space Coast Working News: September 2008

_KENDALL T. MOORE, I need your help!
Hello friends,
First, let me say that my campaign is rapidly picking up steam! In the short time since we started this race, we’ve already spoken with thousands (literally, THOUSANDS) of voters across our district who are tired of Tallahassee tricks that are played by the special interests and legislators who forget about those of us that voted to send them there. It is clear the voters of this district are ready for something new; they are ready to say “We Want Moore!”
But, I need your help. Political experts with tons of experience have painted a clear picture on the outcome of this race, and it comes down to one simple point........If we get the word out, WE WIN!! It’s that simple. With your donations, we can get that word out, and make sure that we can make a change in Tallahassee.
I need a favor. Can you go to www.WeWantMoore.com and make a contribution now? We only have 24 hours left to meet our next critical fundraising deadline. The contribution limit is $500 per person or business entity, but I would be grateful for anything you can give.Please feel free to forward this email to all of your friends, family and colleagues.
Thanks so much for your help, and we'll see you in Tallahassee!"
Kendall
PS – If you prefer to mail your donation, please send it to:
Kendall Moore for State Senate, 590 Solutions Way, Suite 110, Rockledge, FL 32955
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From: KENDALL MOORE FOR FLORIDA SENATE CAMPAIGN Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 3:17 pmSubject: News from KENDALL MOORE FOR FLORIDA SENATE CAMPAIGNIf you haven't heard by now, Kendall Moore is running in a special election against Tallahassee Thad Altman for State Senate, District 24. We need all the help we can get! Please take just a couple of hours out of your week to help Kendall get elected. We need volunteers to make phone calls to voters and go door to door. Please contact James Rigdon (417) 389-1157 or Alex Alamo (305) 299-8974 to sign up or feel free to drop by the office: 590 Solutions Way, Rockledge, FL, 32955. You can also sign up by visiting our website, http://www.wewantmoore.com./
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Labor 2008 Strategy Memo
There are only 55 days until election day, and the future of America’s middle class may hang in the balance. Here’s a quick guide to our exclusive Working Families e-Activist Labor 2008 Strategy Memo:
To follow our progress, keep up with the news and learn more about these issues, check out our blog, and the Working Families Vote 2008 website.
In just 55 days 100-plus million Americans will go to the polls and select our next president. The stakes for working families across America couldn’t be higher. The differences between the pro-worker policies of Barack Obama and the pro-corporate CEO policies of John McCain are overwhelming.
To protect and grow America’s middle class, the labor movement is coordinating our largest electoral program ever. We’re 100 percent committed to electing Barack Obama and Joe Biden and at least 60 senators who share our pro-worker legislative priorities.
With so much at stake, we’re going to need everyone to pitch in. Over the next 55 days, we’re going to ask you to participate in labor walks and phone banks, write letters to the editor, call talk radio shows and of course—vote. First, we wanted to lay out how important this election is, what our actual plan is and why your help is so critical to our success in the following strategy memo.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve presented this information to labor leaders across the country, and today we’re sharing it with our most important constituency—you. Thanks for everything you have done and will continue to do to make America a better country for all of America’s workers.
In Solidarity,
Karen AckermanAFL-CIO Political Director
Labor 2008 Strategy Memo
Electoral Landscape
President Bush’s approval rating has reached a record low, and a record number of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. From the debilitating economic situation to the ongoing disaster in Iraq, it is clear that not only are the policies of the Bush administration a failure, they are deeply unpopular.
Even so, John McCain and Republicans in the U.S. Senate have chosen to run on the Bush policies, which has created an extremely favorable landscape for pro-labor candidates at both the presidential and senatorial level.
Our Challenge
With such a favorable electoral landscape, it would seem victory would be easily in our grasp. John McCain, however, is well aware of America’s distaste for President Bush’s policies. McCain knows he can’t run on his own record or on Bush's, so he's hoping to make this election a referendum on Obama.
Put simply, McCain's plan is to scare voters away from Obama by painting him as “Other.” To combat that effort, we have aggressively moved to provide accurate biographical information about Barack Obama to our members and stop these smears on his character.
At the Senate level, our challenge is even greater. During this past congressional session, every legislative priority of working families has been stymied or stopped by the minority in the Senate. To break this stranglehold on our priorities, we need to elect 60 senators who share our pro-worker agenda. As an example, there are currently 51 senators—a majority—who support the Employee Free Choice Act. Thus, to provide workers a free choice to join a union and bargain for a better life, we need to not only win the presidency, but we need to win nine more Senate seats. This is an almost unprecedented number of new Senate seats to win in one year, but we’ve identified 11 races that we believe we can win, and we’re going to do everything we can to make that happen.
Our Plan—Labor 2008
At the core of our Labor 2008 program is an intensive member-to-member communication program focused on our target universe of 3 million swing union voters. Through intensive polling, focus group work and message testing, we are able to identify and microtarget swing union voters in critical states with messages matched to their individual concerns.
We will communicate our core messages with these 3 million swing union voters in a multi-layered fashion, including direct mail, phone calls, worksite leafleting, e-mails and home visits. People like you are what make these communications streams so powerful and effective. Union members and union leaders have significant credibility on the issues, particularly those which affect America’s workers.
To give you a sense of the scale of our member-to-member communications stream, in the coming 55 days, the AFL-CIO will activate a network of over 250,000 volunteers in 24 targeted states to educate our members on the issues. As a part of this effort, we will:
Knock on 10 million doors.
Send 25 million pieces of mail.
Make 70 million phone calls.
Drop 20 million leaflets.
Activate our 4 million-person e-mail network.
None of this could happen without your commitment to our cause. As we have learned so painfully during elections in the past, every vote really does matter. By participating in Labor 2008, you can be certain that you will be speaking directly with critical voters about the issues they care about.
Our Messaging
With the steady erosion of the American middle class, our core message this election cycle involves drawing clear comparisons between the policies and positions of Barack Obama and John McCain on the economy. Obama is committed to building an economy that works for all, protecting workers’ rights and fighting for health care for all.
In 2007, Obama voted with working families 100 percent of the time in the Senate, whereas McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time. The distinction couldn’t be clearer, and we can’t afford another four years of Bush-style governance.
In addition to educating union voters about Obama and McCain’s positions on economic issues, we are aggressively countering the smear campaign against Obama designed to paint him as somehow being “different” from the rest of us. We already have sent mail to hundreds of thousands of union members presenting the facts on Obama’s religious beliefs, his upbringing and more.
We will continue to fight these smears as necessary, but at its core, our messaging will aggressively make the case that Obama will provide a voice for all Americans.
Down-Ballot Races—510 additional races
Winning the presidency is not enough for working families. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are committed to helping America’s workers, but we know that we need more pro-worker politicians in every level of the government. Most critical is ensuring that we have 60 pro-worker votes in the U.S. Senate. Beyond that, we are focused on several hundred state-level races, including governor races and highly targeted legislative races where control of the state legislature hangs in the balance.
In total, we’re investing resources in 510 races this cycle, in addition to the presidential race. Broken down, this means we’re getting directly involved in 11 Senate races, 61 House races, 4 governor races and 434 state legislature races. Each of these races has been carefully selected and vetted to ensure that the candidates are committed to pro-worker policies and where the investment of our scarce time and resources will be most effective.
Protecting the Vote
Just as important as educating union members on the issues, we need to ensure that everyone who makes the effort to vote has their vote counted. We have all heard the stories of voter suppression over the years, and we have a multi-pronged effort under way to protect voters’ rights.
The key to protecting our vote is to start early and build relationships with boards of elections. From there, we work to ensure there are adequate voting machines in every location and that there are accessible early-vote locations in states that allow early voting.
Finally, we are helping boards of elections find and train more poll workers—and, yes, we are building a network of lawyers who will be available by phone to address any issues if they arise prior to, or even during, election day.
Labor 2008—13 Million Strong—We Have the Power to Make the Difference
Thank you for taking the time to read our Labor 2008 strategy memo and more importantly for the time you have spent working to make a difference. None of this would be possible without your commitment. Together, we truly have a wonderful opportunity to make America a better place for all working families.
Karen AckermanAFL-CIO Political Director
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Subject: Democrats vs Republicans, Military Service!!!!This is quite an eye-opener ..........
DEMOCRATS:* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.*
David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.*
Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.*
Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.*
Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.*
Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.*
John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hear ts.* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.*
Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam. Paraplegic from war injuries. Served in Congress.*
Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.*
Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.*
Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971 -1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91.*
Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons.*
Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars,and Soldier's Medal.* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit.*
Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.*
Bill McBride: Candidate for Florida Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V.* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.*
Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57.*
Chuck Robb: Vietnam.*
Howell Heflin: Silver Star.*
George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.*
Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received #311.
* Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.*
Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953.*
John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18 Clusters.*
Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.

REPUBLICANS -- and these are the guys SENDING PEOPLE TO WAR:*
Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.*
Dennis Hastert: did not serve.*
Tom Delay: did not serve.*
Roy Blunt: did not serve.*
Bill Frist: did not serve.* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.*
Rick Santorum: did not serve.*
Trent Lott: did not serve.*
John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.*
Jeb Bush: did not serve.*
Karl Rove: did not serve. (Bush's Machiavelli)*
Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve. Neocon warhawk
* Vin Weber: did not serve.*
Richard Perle: did not serve. Neocon warhawk*
Douglas Feith: did not serve.*
Eliot Abrams: did not serve.*
Richard Shelby: did not serve.*
Jon Kyl: did not serve.*
Tim Hutchison: did not serve.*
Christopher Cox: did not serve.*
Newt Gingrich: did not serve.*
Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.*
George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; gotassigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running forU.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappearedfrom duty.*
Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non- combat rolemaking movies.*
B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.*
Phil Gramm: did not serve.*
John McCain: Vietnam POW, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. Remember how the Bush campaign trashed him in the Republican primaries in 2000?*
Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.*
John M. McHugh: did not serve.*
JC Watts: did not serve.*
Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem, " although continued in NFL for 8 years as quarterback. (Win one for the Gipper!!)*
Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.*
Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.*
George Pataki: did not serve.*
Spencer Abraham: did not serve.*
John Engler: did not serve.*
Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.*
Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base. (Our gift from Austria)

Pundits & Preachers:*
Sean Hannity: did not serve.*
Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst.')*
Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.*
Michael Savage: did not serve.*
George Will: did not serve.*
Chris Matthews: did not serve.*
Paul Gigot: did not serve.*
Bill Bennett: did not serve.*
Pat Buchanan: did not serve.*
John Wayne: did not serve.*
Bill Kristol: did not serve.*
Kenneth Starr: did not serve.*
Antonin Scalia: did not serve.*
Clarence Thomas: did not serve.*
Ralph Reed: did not serve.*
Michael Medved: did not serve.*
Charlie Daniels: did not serve.*
Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things that don't shoot back.)
Please keep this information circulatingIllinois State Sen. Howard W. Carroll

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