URGENT DU RESPONSE NEEDED

Hey Fellow DU'ers the Party needs your help!

Did you know there is a Congressional Election this Tuesday!

The California's 48th District. The right wing wacko running against a solid progressive candidate is one of the founders of the "Minute Men Project." Yes that is right... the new racist armed organization setting up camp on America's Borders! Jim Gilchrist - Look at this guy: http://www.jimgilchrist.com/

And unfortunatly this guy is picking up speed at the last minute.

The good news is there is a solid unity campaign to beat this right wing nut, and they are getting tons of additional last minute support from labor rank and file. Steve Young for Congress. This guy is the real deal and a true progressive!

http://www.steveyoungforcongress.com/

California Democratic Party Overwhelmingly Endorsed Steve Young for Congress from California’s 48th District

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IRVINE, Ca. – On Wednesday, August 31, 2005, Region 18 of the California Democratic Party voted overwhelmingly to support Steve Young for Congress from the 48th District. The Party voted to enthusiastically endorse Young over a field of three other candidates, including John Graham, who had earned the endorsement in the previous two races for the 48th district Congressional seat.
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I am flying out there to help mobilize nearly 300 rank and file labor brothers and sisters in the last few days of the GOTV effort. We need all hands on deck. This could be a huge win for a progressive Democrat!

Please forward this DU post to all you know. Go here to support this campaign: http://www.steveyoungforcongress.com/action.php

If you can take time to help make phone calls into this Congressional District, please join the Virtual Phone Bank. Your computer and a phone is all that you need. Just send an e-mail to our Orange County PDA coordinator, Dr. Bill at honeyman4@aol.com, and in the subject put “Virtual Phone Bank.” In the body of your message tell Dr. Bill how many blocks of calls you would like to make. One block represents 50 phone numbers. Doug will send you back a log-in and password for each block you request, as well as instruction for calling and downloading a phone script.

I will be leaving tomorrow to get out there. Our Director is already out there and PDA activists have and are continuing to work hard.

I have seen DU rise to the occasion before. we need your support now! Please forward this, keep it kicked and nominated. This is an important race!

:kick:

Update on PDA's First Congressional Endorsement
A few months ago PDA made our first Congressional endorsement with Steve Young. His race is in the final days. The special election will be held on December 5th. Steve is running against two conservatives, Republican State Senator John Campbell and American Independent, Jim Gilchrist, founder of the border vigilante group, the Minute Man Project. What fun! They split the republican vote and we turn out a big chunk of the 110,000 democrats in the district and we win!

PDA is going full force to make sure Steve Young is elected! PDA's Director, Tim Carpenter will be on the ground this week helping get the progressive vote out. We ask you to help as well. If you can take time to help make phone calls into this Congressional District, please join the Virtual Phone Bank. Your computer and a phone is all that you need. Just send an e-mail to our Orange County PDA coordinator, Dr. Bill at honeyman4@aol.com, and in the subject put "Virtual Phone Bank." In the body of your message tell Dr. Bill how many blocks of calls you would like to make. One block represents 50 phone numbers. Doug will send you back a log-in and password for each block you request, as well as instruction for calling and downloading a phone script.

If you can not help with phone banking, consider making a small contribution to PDA to help our on ground GOTV efforts for a Peace Candidate!

since he will takes votes away from the almost crowned Republican John Campbell.

There are about 100,000 requested Democrats in the 48th District (of 400,000 total). Only 90,000 voted in the primary two months ago and turnout is expected to be even lower next week.

Thus, if only half the registered Democrats will go out and vote, Young will win.

And what a wonderful victory this will be - a Democrat from the heart of ultra conservative Orange County.

A good summary of Steve Young http://www.dailypilot.com/politics/story/31546p-46097c.html

Another target of Young's campaign is the middle class, which he cautions is disappearing as America loses jobs with living wages. "We've lost 12 million manufacturing jobs in the last 10 years, and these are what I call family jobs -- jobs where a worker can have a spouse and have a car and have children," he said. What remain are jobs at Wal-Mart and Blockbuster Video, for example -- jobs Young calls anti-family because they don't offer workers enough pay or benefits to ever get ahead.

His answer is a five-point economic plan that includes creating a business-friendly environment, encouraging education and training for workers and cutting wasteful federal spending. To trim the federal budget, Young suggests rescinding the $260 billion transportation bill and putting the money instead into rebuilding infrastructure in areas at risk from natural disasters, such as levees in the Sacramento delta that could be damaged in an earthquake.

He'd also cut the billions fueling the Iraq war by bringing in the Arab League -- an organization that in 1989 helped end a lengthy civil war in Lebanon -- to negotiate a peace plan so the U.S. could withdraw its troops.

Finally, Young suggests money to shrink the deficit could come from a much-maligned but untapped source: immigrants. He proposes having people pay the U.S. government instead of smugglers to come across the border, so they could be registered and fingerprinted. Once here, immigrants would pay a fee every six months to renew their legal status. He projects the plan could raise $90 billion in six months. He'd also crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants.

But in spite of his detailed plan, Young doesn't believe illegal immigration is the massive, immediate problem some politicians make it out to be. "They have been targeted as a boogeyman that is convenient and defenseless and has no way to fight back," he said.

"You get more people out to vote for anger and fear than for other issues, and I think that's what is happening here."

It is a simple GOTV for Dems!!!!!

Please please spread the word!!!

Just a few more recommendations...

Look, guys, WHATEVER we can do to increase our numbers in Congress.

WHATEVER it takes.

keep it kicked throught the night for us folks... so those DU'ers back east can get this message tomorrow morning!

Kickety

He will be doing robo calls to the district.

PDA just called MoveOn, they might be helping out as well!


KEEP ON IT FOLKS!

PDA delivered his recording! Now it is going off to 110,000 Dems' phones.

http://pdamerica.org/audio/dean-for-young.wav

things are heating up!

I've been doing a lot of virtual phone banking out here as well as volunteering at campaign headquarters. The virtual phone bank is a great idea! I hope it catches on for other campaigns across the country.

they will be sending 75 some od volunteers to gotv for steve!

in the teamsters hall. all of union is coming out full force! WE CAN WIN this seat!