Obama Fundraising Email Author Arrested Outside White HouseChris Good - TheAtlantic
AUG 29 2011, 5:16 PM ET4
If you received fundraising emails from Barack Obama or campaign manager David Plouffe in 2008, it probably comes as no surprise that Obama and Plouffe didn't write all of them. They began with "Friend --" and included links to credit-card donation forms. The campaign regularly blasted them out to millions of people.
Elijah Zarlin, the author of many of these emails as part of Obama's new-media campaign team, was arrested today outside the White House during a protest of the Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed oil conduit from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast. Zarlin was one of Obama's primary fundraising-email-writers, according to Zarlin and Stephen Geer, a new-media staffer on Obama's campaign payroll.
Obama must personally approve the Keystone plan, first offered in 2008. The State Department recently concluded its final assessment, recommending approval of the plan.
Zarlin now works on environmental campaigns for CREDO Action, a progressive group that helped recruit attendees at today's event.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/obama-fundraising-email-author-arrested-outside-white-house/244301/:kick:
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