Link here and get totally psyched!

Link :   notionscapital.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/oui-on-peut-zydeco-for-obama-2008/

Corner of Poydras and Freret October 21, 2008
12:00PM FREE T-SHIRTS FOR THE FIRST 500
Enjoy free food and beverages!
Come celebrate the Early Voting Kick-Off!

For more information, contact Patrice Jacques at 504.482.2937
Attachment:   Download Flyer in PDF Format

September 30, 2008
Its time to REPRESENT!!! !!

This election season has remained too close for comfort and to close to call!
We have 100,000s of unregistered and millions who remain on the fence!
Its time for us to come together, voice our unity, and make a difference!
Tuesday September 30, 2008
everyone in Louisiana is asked to do two things
1) WEAR BLUE
2) REGISTER TWO VOTERS!
(If you can't register two voters talk to two people who may be on the
fence/ or a McCain supporter and sway them to become a Obama Supporter).
LETS MAKE OBAMA BLUE DAY a DAY OF ACTION!!!!
BARACK THE VOTE!!!!!!

This is what the bailout fiasco reminds me of...

For once, I'm with the crazy, right wing guys. I'm talking narrow
self-interest here. I pay my taxes, I could not get a loan when I
started my biz because banks told me a woman-owned biz was
too risky (that was 23 years ago), and I paid my mortgage off
after Katrina, mainly because my husband and I feared
falling behind and someone not giving us a break.
So I have no sympathy at all for Wall Street wanting a bail out. No one
would offer me one, or you one...they'd tell us to go bankrupt. So I say 'no' to the
Bush bailout "fire drill" and I say give Congress time to work out a GOOD
deal. I mean bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac didn't stop the crisis.
Why should more bailouts? Bush's friends don't deserve to make more money
at our expense, and that is what the rushed plan seems be to me. And
didn't Bush's brother have links to the old savings and loan crisis...and
wasn't that under the other Bush president? Oh, I could go on and on. NOOOO!

Read more commentary by KOT reader Scott Ploof

Another candidate for Congress is Trying to Fool You

I will leave nameless the congressional candidate whose
campaign literature appeared in my mailbox with his
photo and Obama's. You might have gotten it too. The mailer,
paid for by the Orleans Parish Democratic Executive Committee,
would lead you to believe that this Second District candidate is on a ticket
with Obama, even though the only Louisiana congressional campaign
which the presidential hopeful has weighed in on is District
6's Don Cazayoux. Obviously, Obama is popular. Since he
endorsed Cazayoux, the BR Democrat has moved into a double-
digit lead in the CD6 race. So obviously, there is
an advantage to putting your mug next to Barack's and hoping
voters will assume you got their endorsement. Sheesh. Don't
be fooled. Obama did not make an endorsement in the CD2 race.

Help TURN LOUISIANA BLUE! Volunteering
at the Louisiana Democratic Party or Obama for America
office of your choice

LOUISIANA FOR OBAMA OFFICES

New Orleans: 3601 Canal St., 504-482-2937
Baton Rouge: 701 Government St., 225-336-4155
Lafayette: 601 Jefferson Blvd., 337-272-9950
Lake Charles: 1820 Oak Park Blvd., 337-272-9950
Shreveport: 520 Spring St., suite A, 318-221-7902
Monroe: 1215 Royal St., 318-322-8467
Alexandria: 1257 MacArthur Drive, 318-619-8380
Slidell: 2143 1st Street
Covington: 215 E. Gibson St.

Link :   www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/calculator/

Playing with scheduled debates is risky business

You know the disgust you feel watching John McCain
try to use the influence of his Senate seat to dodge a
debate? Because we all know that is what he's doing.
Pundits were predicting he would not do well because
he's too much of a hothead, and maybe, for all we know,
he's hoping to get the Palin-Biden match up cancelled, because
reporters are saying republican insiders think she is now
a polititcal liability. Regardless, keep all the messy feelings
this conjurs up handy because...you'll be able to apply
them to the same disgust you should feel that Indicted
Incumbent William Jefferson is avoiding debates. Oh, cuz
he's working in DC...Right. Anyway, watch on your favorite
news station at 8 p.m. CST 9-26-08

OBAMA SHRINKS MCCAIN'S LEAD IN LOUISIANA;
CAN CATCH HIM BY NOV. 4

Interview dates: September 9-12, 2008
Sample size: 600 likely voters
Margin of error: ± 4 percentage points, 95% of the time

Question wording and responses:

If the general election were being held today between John McCain for president and Sarah Palin for vice president, the Republicans, and Barack Obama for president and Joe Biden for vice president, the Democrats, for whom would you vote - McCain and Palin, Obama and Biden (names rotated), or someone else?

Louisiana

                               McCain        Obama      Other Undecided
Likely voters                   50%           43%        1%          6%
Democrats (51%)                 22%           71%        1%          6%
Republicans (27%)               91%           3%                     6%
Independents (22%)              63%           27%        2%          8%
Men (46%)                       58%           35%        1%          6%
Women (54%)                     43%           50%        1%          6%
18 to 49 (59%)                  45%           47%        1%          7%
50 and older (41%)              56%           37%        1%          6%

This is an independent poll and isn't it interesting that with a little hard work, this red state could turn blue?

As they say...mission possible!

Link :   www.americanresearchgroup.com

Erness Wright-Irvin provided this post written by Tim Wise

For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege,
or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-
understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like
Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that
of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge
you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as
black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are
regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a "fuckin' redneck,"
like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone
messes with you, you'll "kick their fuckin' ass," and talk about
how you like to "shoot shit" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible,
all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six
years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of,
then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college),
and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement,
whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college,
and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative
action.

Come on, guys. It was a sexist comment, and the Demos need to be careful.

Look, we're for Obama, and what bugs me about the nomination of Sarah Palin, from day one, is that she was chosen to push my Hillary Clinton buttons. I am still mad about how Hillary was treated, shoved off the bus, and never even considered for VP, but I'm really pissed off that some Republican strategist, especially Rush Limbaugh of all people, thinks I'd vote for McCain just because Sarah Palin is on the ticket.

Her political experience and agenda doesn't even come close to Hillary's but I'm supposed to like her just because she is a girl. No way, no how, no McCain-Palin.

However, Obama did make a huge mistake with the "lipstick on a pig" comment, and there is no covering up the fact it was sexist. We in New Orleans know how weird "ism's" work, like racism and sexism. If a white librarian working for a black mayoral administration, for example, is run out of town for being racist because he compared an internal problem he was having to a "tar baby", well...need we say more.

Or look at Bobby Jindal's first run for Governor: He was supposed to win but on the first go-round white voters stayed home, just unable to pull the lever for a smart "brown" man. So, a pig with lipstick is what it is.

The point is the Demos are way off stride, way off message because they are totally freaked by the girl in the room, just like they were freaked by Hillary. Except, this woman, Palin, they are allowing into the game because she's "acceptable", i.e. she will never, ever say a woman should have sole control of the decisions she makes about her own body. Sarah Palin is a woman who believes we can't trust women to make decisions about themselves. That is not my type of leader. However, I think unfortunately for McCain, Obama and Biden, she is more like the average voter than any of them... she has family issues, she likes to seek revenge against those who hurt her family, she robs peter to pay her family bills. So the way to attack her is not by snide comments but by making her own up to the job she claims she is qualified for because the average Joe does not want to be VP or pretend they could do the job...but they want someone who can!

Thus, make her do the test, like any other VP candidate. Challenge her on the issues, on what she knows, on how she deals with stress. And see how she comes out. She has dangerously painted herself as a perfectionist. A lot of inexperienced women in politics make that mistake to disastrous results...because no one is perfect and she has just challenged every Democrat and reporter to prove it. But the proof is in the performance, not in name calling. So stop holding her to some different standard and make her apply for the job.

Link :   www.newsweek.com/id/160080/page/1

Sorry guys, just no contest.

Give it to Jon Stewart and the Daily Show for keeping 'em honest. Click the link. It says it all.

also, read:
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/090408.html

Link :   www.oculture.com/2008/09/when_comedy_keeps_american_politics_honest.html

On Thursday, February 4, the Broadmoor Improvement Association
received a proclamation from Councilmember Stacy Head for
Broadmoor's efforts in obtaining grant funding for the restoration of the
Rosa F. Keller Library. The Broadmoor Improvement Association
presented the city of New Orleans with a 1.3. million dollar check to
begin construction of the library. Featured in photo from left to right-
Maggie Carroll, Kevin Caldwell, Ernest O'Steen, Rica Trigs, Ernest
Brumfield, Stacy Head, LaToya Cantrell and Shannon Aymami.

Link :   www.stacyhead.com

Obama for President!

Call for state by state acclamation unifies party for Obama

Finally, a healing. Throughout most of the convention, right up to the historic vote nominating the first African American president on Wednesday, the on-going discussion was the party still didn't feel unified, a Hillary-Obama malaise hung over everything. The vote last night definitely healed that. Former City Councilwoman Renee Gill Pratt and Legislator Charmaine Marchand celebrate the historic moment in typical New Orleans style.

Your delegation is solid for Obama

Senator Cheryl Gray (far right) and former Senator Diana Bajoie (far left) join other delegates in formally selecting Barack Obama for President tonight. They are also celebrating Louisiana's new State Director for the campaign David Huynh.

Can't Help It

The entire time I watched her speech Tuesday night, I couldn't help feeling we had made a huge mistake. I know, I know...move on, but I can't help it.

City abandons political chains

Finally! Leesville, the home of Ft. Polk and the greatest
potential to be one of Louisiana's breakaway economic
stars, has thrown off political patronage and chosen an
independent business leader for Mayor.

Tracking polls supposedly show lead for Capitano

Mike "Yenni", the guy who wants to be Mayor in Kenner so bad he changed
his name to pretend he is the son of the late Jefferson Parish President Mike
Yenni, has cancelled all debates. See the attached press release. This seems
odd behavior after picking up the Times Picayune endorsement, but pundits say
polls show Capitano leading substantially. Capitano won the coveted Alliance
for Good Government endorsement. We think the absenteeism by Yenni
is due to his disastrous performance on WDSU where he said racism didn't
exist anymore in America or Kenner, and thus diversity in government is no
longer needed. I'm wondering how Hispanic voters felt about that one...
Attachment:   YenniMissingPresser.doc

No vote could mean tougher times for Cedric Richmond

While Cedric Richmond, a declared opponent to Cao for CD 2, is
making hay of Cao's "no" vote on healthcare, the state rep may find
he dislikes this vote for more than one reason, i.e. there are now
national democrats feeling he's not strong enough a candidate to take
on the race. National party donors are looking for a substitute, feeling
Obama's "I like this guy" status for Cao when he voted FOR the House
healthcare bill, is now over. However, a wider field of candidates, which
supposedly includes former City Councilwoman Cynthia Willard Lewis and
newly elected Senator Karen Carter, may only push some named Democrats
like Richmond and Rep. Juan Lafonta into the independent column. Since
"winner takes all" in November, one only needs a plurality to win. This worked
to tremendous advantage to Bill Cassidy (R) in Baton Rouge, thanks to the
independent candidacy of Rep. Michael Jackson versus incumbent
Democrat Don Cazayoux. Of course, BR Dems are still not on speaking terms
with Jackson after that spoiler...

Part 3 of WDSU TV debate serves up weirdo answers

In the WDSU TV debate by Norman Robinson featuring
Phil Capitano and Mike "Yenni", at the very end, Norman
asks if racism still exists in America, if it still exists in Kenner, and
whether diversity is still needed in government. Surprisingly,
Mike "Yenni" says racism is over and diversity is not
needed in government. This from one of the metro area's
increasingly hispanic districts. Hmmmm. Phil Capitano said racism
did still exist and diversity was necessary.

Link :   www.wdsu.com/video/index.html