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Kaine Makes Stimulus Pitch To Obama's Army
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Gov Tim Kaine just put out his first video as chairman of the DNC -- to be shown during the 3,000 plus tow nhall meetings organized by Obama supporters -- making the case for the passage of the stimulus by highlighting the dire, current economic landscape.
Much of the video is a background of the legislative debates and wonky details surrounding the recovery package. Kaine also takes a few of the 30,000 questions submitted after earlier meetings.
The video is accompanied by an email, instructing recipients to show the video "during your Economic Recovery House Meeting, then encourage your guests to ask their own questions and share their personal stories." ...
Kaine Makes Stimulus Pitch To Obama's Army
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Gov Tim Kaine just put out his first video as chairman of the DNC -- to be shown during the 3,000 plus tow nhall meetings organized by Obama supporters -- making the case for the passage of the stimulus by highlighting the dire, current economic landscape.
Much of the video is a background of the legislative debates and wonky details surrounding the recovery package. Kaine also takes a few of the 30,000 questions submitted after earlier meetings.
The video is accompanied by an email, instructing recipients to show the video "during your Economic Recovery House Meeting, then encourage your guests to ask their own questions and share their personal stories." ...
Christina Bellantoni: Kaine asks Obama-ites to advocate for stimulus
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
First published at WashingtonTimes.com
The newly revamped campaign arm for President Obama, Organizing for America, will bank more than 3,300 house parties this weekend as Obama intensifies his political push for the economic stimulus package.
I've obtained a copy of the email sent to the folks hosting parties across the country, along with a video from new Democratic National Committee chairman, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine.
"Don't forget to gather stories and questions from your guests -- they will be featured on BarackObama.com to tell the story of the economic crisis, and our recovery," the Organizing for America email reads.
Kaine, ...
Stimulating the Netroots
The Caucus —
President Obama and his family just departed for Camp David , the presidential retreat where they’ll be chilling Saturday night. But the White House and Organizing for America, the reincarnation of Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign machinery, want you to spend the evening with him as well — watching his video . The message comes amid a series of more than 3,300 “Economic Recovery House Meetings,” as in somber house parties, scheduled this weekend, of which about 300 were held on Friday. The events represent the campaign apparatus’s first major organizational effort since Mr. Obama took office. But unlike more conventional rallying cries, the goal of the meetings is not to ...
Activists Left Hoping for Change at Obama's Stimulus Parties
Weekly Standard Blog —
When Obama supporters gathered this weekend to build support for the first major legislation of the new president's tenure, those who had campaigned for change found themselves talking about something unexpected— politics as usual.
"I trust Obama. I'm disappointed in what has been put out here for this meeting today," said Ron, an Obama supporter from Alexandria who hosted an "economic stimulus house party" Sunday with five attendees. "We were uniformly disappointed."
When Obama and the Democratic National Committee asked Americans to host such parties, they supplied a 13-minute online video of DNC Chair Tim Kaine answering viewer-submitted questions and one ...
