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Two "Locals" Win Trip to DNC

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Anonymous

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Two of the 10 contributors that won flights to the Dem Convention....

Barb Sackman of Fallon, Montana
Barb is a teacher living in Fallon, Montana, a town of 150. She lives on her family's wheat and cattle farm, and rising fuel prices are making it hard to get by. She hopes Barack's plan for alternative bio-fuels will help the struggling economy in rural Montana. Barb volunteers for her church, sits on a hospital board, and organizes community events in Fallon. Barb says Barack "genuinely cares about the problems of people like me. We appreciate his continued trips to Montana to let us know that we are not forgotten." She will attend the convention with her husband.

Kayla Whitaker of West Fargo, North Dakota
Kayla is a 20-year-old student and evangelical Christian who credits Barack for her newfound interest in the political process. "As a Christian, I have seen it repeated that evangelical Christians are 'required' to vote Republican. When I heard Barack's 'Call to Renewal' speech, I was surprised... This is change I can believe in and many other young, evangelical Christians can believe in, too. For the first time in my life, I got hooked on politics." She now plans to register to vote so that she can cast her ballot for Barack in November. Among Kayla's top concerns are health care, teacher pay, and the environment. In an effort to convince her mom to become involved in politics, she is bringing her to Denver.
 

Mike

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She hopes Barack's plan for alternative bio-fuels will help the struggling economy in rural Montana.

Obama voted for the 2005 Bush Energy plan, while saying that it doubled the incentives for alternative fuels and was the best plan for America's future because of ethanol subsidies and clean coal research money.

McCain voted against it.

Don't you have your candidates mixed up? :roll:
 
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Mike said:
She hopes Barack's plan for alternative bio-fuels will help the struggling economy in rural Montana.

Obama voted for the 2005 Bush Energy plan, while saying that it doubled the incentives for alternative fuels and was the best plan for America's future because of ethanol subsidies and clean coal research money.

McCain voted against it.

Don't you have your candidates mixed up? :roll:

Probably not-- because that area of the country is one that is sitting on huge unlimited (600+ years) of energy in the form of coal that Obama is supporting developing along with coal gasification.....
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Mike said:
She hopes Barack's plan for alternative bio-fuels will help the struggling economy in rural Montana.

Obama voted for the 2005 Bush Energy plan, while saying that it doubled the incentives for alternative fuels and was the best plan for America's future because of ethanol subsidies and clean coal research money.

McCain voted against it.

Don't you have your candidates mixed up? :roll:

Probably not-- because that area of the country is one that is sitting on huge unlimited (600+ years) of energy in the form of coal that Obama is supporting developing along with coal gasification.....

You're talking in circles again. Obama's vision for coal gasification is out of the Bush playbook, since you say McCain is the same category with Bush....then..........................you're chasing your tail.

The lady above uses the term: "Baracks plan for alternative Biofuels", not coal..........................

Wasn't there lot's of alternative biofuel legislation/subsidies in the Bush 2005 Energy plan? Same as Obama's plan?
 
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Mike said:
Oldtimer said:
Mike said:
Obama voted for the 2005 Bush Energy plan, while saying that it doubled the incentives for alternative fuels and was the best plan for America's future because of ethanol subsidies and clean coal research money.

McCain voted against it.

Don't you have your candidates mixed up? :roll:

Probably not-- because that area of the country is one that is sitting on huge unlimited (600+ years) of energy in the form of coal that Obama is supporting developing along with coal gasification.....

You're talking in circles again. Obama's vision for coal gasification is out of the Bush playbook, since you say McCain is the same category with Bush....then..........................you're chasing your tail.

The lady above uses the term: "Baracks plan for alternative Biofuels", not coal..........................

Wasn't there lot's of alternative biofuel legislation/subsidies in the Bush 2005 Energy plan? Same as Obama's plan?

Actually if you go look on his website - Obama has been supporting coal and coal gasification from day one- including the immediate building of 5 large new coal plants...He also has a very unique bio fuel plan- calling for all new vehicles to be flex fuel- something that has been available for years- and Detroit has been producing for the military and Brazil for years- but as far as I know not available in the US...

http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/factsheet_energy_speech_080308.pdf

the Obama plan has been widely accepted as the most comprehensive energy package released by a Presidential candidate to date. There is one specific section of the Obama energy plan which has the biofuel community abuzz: a flex fuel mandate for all new vehicles in the United States.

Sustainably‐produced biofuels can create jobs, protect the environment and help end oil addiction – but only if Americans drive cars that will take such fuels. Obama will work with Congress and auto companies to ensure that all new vehicles have FFV capability – the capability by the end of his first term in office.”

Obama’s mandate would require that every new vehicle sold in the United States would be capable of running on gasoline, ethanol, methanol and other alcohol-based fuels. While this is exciting news to the biofuel world, Obama’s plan only effects new vehicles– leaving only a tiny portion of the 250,851,833 cars on the road in the US ready for Biofuels. This mandate would only stimulate biofuel production as new cars are sold, ignoring the opportunity of converting the existing fleet to flex fuel ready vehicles.
http://gas2.org/2008/08/11/beyond-obama-a-biofuel-stimulus-for-president/

January 10, 2007---The coal industry praises Obama's reintroduction, with Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.), of the Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2007 last week, which would provide incentives for research and plant construction. The industry says the technology, which converts coal into diesel engine fuel, would reduce America's dependence on foreign oil through a new, home-mined fuel that burns as cleanly as gasoline.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010901503.html
 

hopalong

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wonder just how much extra time tose two have to put in in order to get those tickes, or didn't you see what the Obama camp was making those who won tickets do in order to get them???? :D :D
Suppose i could bump it up again!!
 
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Fallon woman to meet Obama
By The Associated Press

HELENA - A teacher from Eastern Montana is among 10 supporters who will be joining presidential candidate Barack Obama backstage before he accepts the nomination at this month's Democratic National Convention.

Barb Sackman, 35, lives on her family's wheat and cattle farm near Fallon, a town of 150 people, and teaches first grade in the nearby town of Terry.

Sackman said Monday that she applied online last month to join Obama backstage and was later called to do a phone interview. The Obama camp called her back last week and left a message saying she'd been chosen.

"I was just beside myself," Sackman said. "I couldn't believe I had been picked. I had to listen to the message again." Sackman, a longtime Democrat, said she is proud to represent Eastern Montana at the Denver convention and hopes Montanans from all political backgrounds will feel the same.

"I just want people to be excited no matter what side of the fence you're on," she said. "I think it's great for Montana and Eastern Montana to boot."

Her one regret is that her father, also a staunch Democrat, isn't alive to hear about it.

"He would think this was the coolest thing ever," she said.

In applying for the opportunity, Sackman said she wrote a short essay about living in rural Montana and how rising fuel prices are making it hard for people to get by. She wrote that she hoped Obama's plan for alternative biofuels would help her area's struggling economy.

In Sackman's community, "if agriculture doesn't do well, we don't do well." Alternative biofuels would be a "great opportunity for our tiny county that has no other resources," she said.

Biofuels - solid, liquid or gas fuel derived from recently dead biological material - offer the possibility of producing energy without a net increase of carbon into the atmosphere.

Sackman will attend the convention with her husband, Marty, a farmer and fellow Obama supporter. She said her two kids, ages 4 and 1, will stay home.

Besides biofuels, Sackman said she hopes to talk to Obama about education reform and his plans to protect family farms.

The other supporters selected to be backstage with Obama are from North Carolina, Indiana, Ohio, Colorado, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alaska and North Dakota.
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/08/19/news/state/35-obama.txt
 

hopalong

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Yep another post disappears.
Seems strange that those that show the democraps in bad light seem to disappear occasionally.

Oldtimer you getting selective again, or is that the only way you can show control! sooner or later you will show your real colors,
 

nonothing

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hopalong said:
Yep another post disappears.
Seems strange that those that show the democraps in bad light seem to disappear occasionally.

Oldtimer you getting selective again, or is that the only way you can show control! sooner or later you will show your real colors,

You mean like you did with all your ID's.....Funny how nobody gives you any respect here....not even your fellow conservatives.. :roll:
 

hopalong

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In case you missed it the first time!!!!

Russell Haythorn, 7NEWS Reporter

POSTED: 6:16 pm MDT August 12, 2008
UPDATED: 1:35 pm MDT August 13, 2008


DENVER -- The Obama campaign has begun notifying people who got tickets for the big acceptance speech at Invesco Field the final night of the convention.

Many of those who received tickets told 7NEWS they have come with a caveat.Those viewers said the campaign told them they must volunteer six hours for the campaign by Friday in order to get a ticket.

"I got a call that if I want the tickets I have to volunteer two shifts of three hours apiece -- for one ticket. If I want two tickets, then it's four shifts of two hours apiece," said Berenice Christensen.

Another 7NEWS viewer sent an e-mail that said, "I received a call Monday saying I could 'qualify' for the tickets if I do 12 hours of volunteer work for the Obama campaign between now and Friday the 15th."

The viewer e-mail goes on, "To work 40 hours at my job, get to and from work, get to and from the campaign office and complete the 12 hours in three days would be next to impossible."

Dozens of Obama supporters are already volunteering. They are volunteers who believe working for tickets to the biggest night of the convention is a small price to pay.

"They're trying desperately. I mean, they're almost panic-stricken, they want tickets to hear his acceptance speech," said volunteer Terry Andrews.

"I put my name in. I'm keeping my fingers crossed," said Sue Palmer.

Christensen said she too is excited, but a part of her believes the process for signing up was disingenuous. "I mean they made it seem like any Coloradan could go, and now you have to work for your ticket."

A Breckenridge resident e-mailed 7NEWS with a similar experience:

"My experience matches what you are hearing from other sources. Because of my work schedule and other activities going on, I did not sign up for the All Star tickets. But I was called by the campaign and told that I had to volunteer this week in order to get tickets at all. I finally agreed to one three-hour shift, but it left a bad impression for this lifelong Democrat. I hope someone in the campaign understands that they are turning off volunteers with their aggressive and disorganized approach," the Breckenridge resident wrote.

Susan M. Martinez, from Boulder, Colo., wrote us to say, "There is no way I can volunteer between now and Friday (if that is the timeframe). I think I entered my name for consideration early. I entered my name within 5 minutes of the 'Breaking News' message appearing in my e-mail from TheDenverChannel. I just might wait to see if "community creditionals" really exist."

Loring Abeyta, from Denver, wrote, "I just read your article... about the confusion regarding tickets to Obama's speech, and the situation is worse than you reported. I went to the Campaign for Change office last Friday evening to earn three hours of credit toward my "All Star Credentials," and it was nothing but confusion. I went to one meeting where I thought I would earn my volunteer credit, and learned that I had gone to the wrong meeting and had not earned credit. When I told the volunteer coordinator how unhappy I was about spending my evening at the campaign office for nothing, she had nothing to say -- not even an apology for the confusion. It is utter disarray in that office and they have alienated me as a volunteer."

Abeyta's letter goes on to say, "The problem got worse today when I got three phone calls from three different people at the Obama campaign office asking me to bring food for the staff. I had signed up to donate snacks, but I didn't realize I was supposed to feed the whole staff. Just thought you'd want to know that the problem goes way beyond just the confusion about the tickets. I have no idea how Obama can win Colorado when the campaign office is such a disaster."

The Obama campaign insists that volunteering is not a requirement to get a ticket.

They said those who were told they must volunteer must have clicked on the opt-in button for "all-star seating" when they signed up for the tickets. If you click that button, then you are required to volunteer, but you get a better seat.

If you choose not to volunteer, you retain your place in line for what is called a "community credential," according to the campaign.


People who received tickets for Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium will be notified by text or e-mail between now and Friday.

Yep just another way the DEMOCRAP party screws the little people
 
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