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President Barack Obama speaks to student journalists at a “daily briefing.” College student journalists were participating in the first College Reporter Day, an opportunity to discuss issues of importance to college campuses with administration officials
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Hi All
I wanted to address the ?? about OFA posted on an earlier OFA thread
In 2008 and 2012 OFA was a partisan electoral group whose sole purpose was to elect Barack Obama.
Today we are a 5013C non-partisan group that CANNOT work on electoral politics. We will retain that status after the President retires and hope he will join us in our community organizing efforts. We will no longer switch off the non profit status since we no longer need to get him elected.
Having said that several OFA volunteers are working on election politics with our “hats off”. We are volunteering on local elections, presidential elections and working on ballot initiatives, but our title is “engaged citizen” not OFA volunteer.
I am working on voter registration, and participating in delegate elections this weekend. Several other volunteers in Santa Rosa are registering voters, and calling for Hillary and Bernie.
If you would like to get involved with voter registration I would suggest you contact the local Democratic party or league of Women Voters.
If you would like to work on Hillary’s campaign in CA i have that contact info – send me an email whatisworking@gmail.com
Also – remember that although the official organization of OFA is not active in election politics – many of the OFA paid staff, volunteer staff, and OFA Fellows, will join candidates staff.
Just this week Jennifer Warner – National Field Director for OFA (#2 spot at HQ) stepped down to join the Hillary campaign.
In 2014 Sonoma County had an OFA Fellow who was hired by Tom Udall’s staff and he worked in NM for both Udall and Ben Ray Lujan. Having OFA Fellow on your resume still gets you in the door for on political campaigns.
Although the superb electoral organization and strategy we saw in 2008 and 2012 is no longer a part of OFA it lives on in the staff and volunteers that elected PBO twice.
If you live outside of CA, and can’t find anyone to work with, send me a note, I can see if my contacts can get you a name.
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.@amnesty has a 13-person human rights delegation in #Ferguson. “Unprecedented” in America: http://t.co/bNp25u7VOg
— Andrew Katz (@katz) August 17, 2014
#Ferguson made front pages in Turkey pic.twitter.com/ea0AmVMxxk
— Vince (@vinceperritano) August 16, 2014
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She gave out FREE water & other goods to protestors & press only to get maced by police. I guess thats ok. #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/zVf6dOxyHw
— dieter (@ThaDietz_) August 20, 2014
Besiktas fans. Istanbul, Turkey pic.twitter.com/mL6pEhB0hg
— Rocket RacCOON (@G_Coppo) August 19, 2014
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Bet you didn’t know this about #Ferguson #HandsUpDontShoot pic.twitter.com/33jTZ2Ejco
— Wolf PAC (@WolfPAChq) August 19, 2014
Defense donations favored congressmen who back militarized police http://t.co/zyYmtsSVpa @9870513 @WolfPAChq
— Impact Democracy (@ImpactDemocracy) August 19, 2014
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Dan Froomkin: Shutdown Coverage Fails Americans
holding the entire government hostage while demanding the de facto repeal of a president’s signature legislation and not even bothering to negotiate is by any reasonable standard an extreme political act. It is an attempt to make an end run around the normal legislative process. There is no historical precedent for it. The last shutdowns, in 1995 and 1996, were not the product of unilateral demands to scrap existing law; they took place during a period of give-and-take budget negotiations.
But the political media’s aversion to doing anything that might be seen as taking sides — combined with its obsession with process — led them to actively obscure the truth in their coverage of the votes. If you did not already know what this was all about, reading the news would not help you understand. What makes all this more than a journalistic failure is that the press plays a crucial role in our democracy. We count on the press to help create an informed electorate. And perhaps even more important, we rely on the press to hold the powerful accountable.
That requires calling out political leaders when they transgress or fail to meet commonly agreed-upon standards: when they are corrupt, when they deceive, when they break the rules and refuse to govern. Such exposure is the first consequence. When the transgressions are sufficiently grave, what follows should be continued scrutiny, marginalization, contempt and ridicule. In the current political climate, journalistic false equivalence leads to an insufficiently informed electorate, because the public is not getting an accurate picture of what is going on.
More here
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Two Perfect Examples
There is no choice but for their to be a negotiation on debt limit if only to negotiate on how much to lift it.
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Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) October 06, 2013BOEHNER: "Call me, maybe."
OBAMA: "All you're ever gonna be is mean."
Our government is run by teenage pop divas.
#shutdown #default
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Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) October 06, 2013****
Only way to shame dysfunction in MSM is by others in MSM calling out some of their own. If not, dysfunction continues.
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KSK(africa) (@lawalazu) October 06, 2013When @Froomkin writes about journalistic failure, he paints a perfect portrait of @ChuckTodd. america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/… http://t.co/XqXlmuBajA
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) October 06, 2013shorter @ron_fournier @chucktodd - Obama should act like an adult while we still shill for the temper tantums of .@gop. #TreasonousBastards
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(@amk4obama) October 06, 2013game to date: GOP adopts insanely obstructionist strategy. DC pundits tell WH what concessions it should give so GOP will stop acting insane
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Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 05, 2013"Both sides to blame" pundits will use anonymous quote with ellipses as excuse to refuse to reckon with reality of GOP position.
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Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 04, 2013@ron_fournier Our press is run by people with no journalistic integrity, insight, or even intelligence. Present company not excepted.
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Mary Foster (@marylynne1) October 06, 2013@chucktodd I see you call yourself a 'political junkie'. How appropriate when what you write is political junk.
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President Obama takes questions from college and university student-journalists in a conference call about efforts to make college more affordable, expand financial aid, improve access to health insurance and create jobs for new graduates. September 27, 2010
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