|
LOUISVILLE /JEFFERSON COUNTY
DEMOCRATIC PARTY NEWSLETTER
Week of January 27, 2008
The link to this electronic newsletter is being e-mailed to 4,000+
Jefferson County Democrats
We hope you will forward the link to your own e-mail list.
***********************************
CLICK HERE FOR CURRENT LIST OF EVENTS
Updated on a regular basis
Bulletin Board:
- The Louisville/Jefferson County Democratic Executive Committee meets the 4th Wednesday of every month at 5:00 pm at Democratic Headquarters,
- 640 Barret Avenue .
-
VOTE
RS,
YOUR NEXT ASSIGNMENT
DITCH MITCH
-
REMEMBER,
CHECK - TO DONATE TO THE
- DEMOCRATIC PARTY
- ON YOUR STATE & FEDERAL
- TAX RETURNS
Two Yarmuth Initiatives Included in Bipartisan Economic Stimulus Package
Provisions provide relief for small business, hard-working families
The economic stimulus deal reached today between
Congressional leaders and the White House will include two major provisions
championed by Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3). 
Yarmuth introduced the provisions earlier this week; one to increase the child tax credit and another to stimulate job-growth through tax incentives for small businesses.
“I’m pleased that leadership included my provisions to boost small businesses, the backbone of our economy, and provide relief for struggling families,” Yarmuth said. “These initiatives will help get local businesses the resources they need to survive the difficult times, expand, and create new jobs. We’re providing immediate help for American families who face skyrocketing healthcare, gasoline, and education costs while the housing market is collapsing around them.”
Yarmuth’s provisions in the bipartisan package are detailed below:
Increasing the Child Tax Credit by 30 percent
Couples making less than $110,000 per year are currently eligible for a $1,000 tax credit per child each year—a provision from which 360,000 Kentucky benefit. Yarmuth’s proposal increases the tax credit by $300 for 2007 returns, immediately providing cash to working families struggling to make ends meet.
Doubling write-offs for business expenses
Yarmuth joined with Melissa Bean, Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Tax and Finance, to propose raising the small business expense write-off limit from $125,000 to $250,000 for 2008. This provision encourages business owners to seize the moment and expand—purchasing more equipment and creating new jobs.
WHAS840’s new 9:00 – Midnight Talk Show Host
Advertisers Drop Savage Over Hateful Remarks, USO Hints At Suit
At least four major firms have pulled advertising from Michael Savage's nationally syndicated radio show following a campaign highlighting his inflammatory rhetoric. One other company, Geico insurance, is expected to follow suit.
The
campaign,
launched recently by Brave New Films, generated thousands of calls
urging advertisers on the Savage Nation show to sever financial ties to the
widely popular (and frequently offensive) talk host.
In less than a week, four agreed to pull their ads from the show, including Union Bank of California (whose representative says they were advertisers on the Savage show by mistake and were glad to be taken off), Intuit, Chattem, ITT Technical Institute.
"We are thrilled at the amazing response of the true patriots all over the blogsphere who responded to our NOSAVAGE campaign," Robert Greenwald, head of the film company, said in a statement. "People have called and emailed and the responsible sponsors have responded by pulling their ads and asking that their ads not be on this racist and hateful show."
But group who has segments run on the show is raising eyebrows by refusing to distance itself from Savage. The USO, a non-profit that does work for U.S. armed forces, wrote Brave New Films complaining about being targeted and even hinting at a lawsuit. The organization's lawyer Tony Bisceglie says it does not pay for the USO public service announcements that air on Savage's show.
"As a tax exempt not-for-profit organization, regulated by the Attorney General's Office of the state of California and the Internal Revenue Service, your organization may not engage in making false statements to solicit public support," Bisceglie wrote to Brave New Films. "Therefore, please take the necessary steps to remove USO from your website entirely to avoid further action on our part."
Bisceglie denied that the USO is considering legal action. But John Hanson, a spokesman for the USO, said the organization could ask for its PSAs to be taken off of Savage's program, and wouldn't. "Because then who is next?" he asked. "We provide no revenue for Michael Savage. We may improve his image. But we provide no revenue for him."
The reasoning was not enough to impress officials at Brave New Films who called it a lost opportunity for the USO.
"Considering the USO's role in the world," said Leighton Woodhouse, a spokesperson for Brave New Films, "we would have expected them to be the first to distance themselves from someone who is deliberately fanning the flames of hatred between Muslims and non-Muslims; we were sorely disappointed."
The campaign by Greenwald mirrors an earlier initiative taken on behalf of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In both cases, Savage's invective was used against him as fuel for advertisers to rescind their financial support. Highlights of the radio host's statements include:
• To "save the
United States," lawmakers should institute "outright ban on Muslim
immigration" and on "the construction of mosques."
• "90 percent of the people on the Nobel Committee are into child
pornography and molestation, according to the latest scientific studies."
• The U.S. Senate is "more vicious and more histrionic than ever,
specifically because women have been injected into" it.
• Adherents of Islam would do well to "take your religion and shove it up
your behind" because "I'm sick of you."
Interestingly, while Brave New Films and CAIR have run identical campaigns against Savage, the radio host has only filed a lawsuit against CAIR. His claim: that his comments were taken out of context and illegally made available.
A call and email to Savage's radio station was not returned.
According to an account in the New York Times, Savage broadcasts his show out of three "virtual safe houses" - whose location he will not reveal - and "is licensed to carry a pistol and does so," out of fears for his life. His program reaches an estimated eight million listeners a week on nearly 400 stations.
AFL-CIO Proposes 5-Point Economic Stimulus Plan, by Mike Hall
Unemployment is climbing. The stock market is dropping. The housing boom is bust. Corporate earnings are tanking. The nation’s economy is in the worst shape it’s been in years. Maybe even headed toward recession. Working families are worried.
The Bush administration today proposed a growth package of as much as $150 billion, which insiders familiar with the details say may include $800 tax rebates for individuals and $1,600 for households, along with business incentives. Although it is “encouraging” that President Bush recognizes the need to act quickly to stimulate the economy, Bush focuses too much emphasis on tax cuts—both business and personal, according to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. Bush’s plan does not address crucial problems facing working families or target tax benefits to those families who need them the most and will spend them the fastest.
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Sweeney wrote:
In particular, we are concerned that the President’s income tax cut proposal would not be sufficiently stimulative because it fails to target lower-income and middle-income households who, as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) wrote last week, are likely to spend a larger share of any tax benefit they receive.
Today, the AFL-CIO outlined several proposals to develop a short-term stimulus package that “offers the biggest bang for the buck” and began to address the underlying causes of today’s economic anxiety.
In addition, with many state tax codes linked directly to federal tax rates, Sweeney warns the business tax cuts could lead to a reduction in state revenues, resulting in economically depressing budget cuts and tax increases by state governments.
Noting that compromise will be needed to quickly enact a stimulus package, Sweeney urges Reid and Pelosi to “insist on legislative measures” that will deliver the biggest boost to the economy and protect state and local budgets.
The five points the leaders are urged to include are:
- Extension of unemployment benefits.
- Increased food stamp benefits.
- Tax rebates targeted to middle-income and lower-income taxpayers.
- Fiscal relief for state and local governments to avoid the economically depressing effect of tax increases and budget cuts.
- Acceleration of ready-to-go public investment in school renovations and bridge repair.
For the long term, Congress also must address the deep and serious underlying causes of today’s economic woes. Says Sweeney: While it is appropriate for Congress to focus on measures that have an immediate economic impact as it crafts a short-term stimulus package, this is no excuse to put our heads in the sand and do nothing about the underlying longer-term problems afflicting our economy. Wage stagnation is at the heart of the economic problems facing today’s ordinary working families.
Wage stagnation, which began in the 1970s, has led to longer working hours, higher consumer debt, and increasing reliance on home equities. But today home values are plummeting, home foreclosures are on the rise, consumer debt is reaching unsustainable levels, and prices for energy, health care, and education are soaring out of reach for many working families.
Sweeney’s letter points to several solutions to solving the wage stagnation, including:
- Ensuring transparency and effective regulation of our housing and financial markets.
- Reactivating the historically successful fiscal and monetary policies that place a higher priority on full employment.
- Fixing our flawed trade policies.
- Investing in the high-paying green jobs of the future.
- Fixing our broken labor laws so that workers who want to form a union can bargain with their employers for better wages and benefits.
- Ensuring affordable health care and retirement security.
Comments to the Editor:
None this week
DAILY GRILL
"I think, to the best of what all the analysis we've been able to
do, we have absolutely no reason to believe that any e-mails are missing."
-- White House spokesman Tony Fratto,
1/17/08
VERSUS
"Tony Fratto is lying. There is considerable evidence demonstrating that
millions of White House emails are missing from between 2003 and 2005; in
fact, White House spokesperson Dana Perino confirmed this in a previous
statement, televised on April 13, 2007." -- CREW Executive Director Melanie
Sloan,
1/17/08
Quotes of the Day
Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from it's death throes? He has a new book, and here are some excerpts.
Lee Iacocca Says: 
"Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder.
We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course"
Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned "Titanic". I'll give you a sound bite: "Throw all the bums out!"
You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.
The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving 'pom-poms' instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of the "America" my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?
I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have.
The Biggest "C" is Crisis !
Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It's easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else's kids off to war when you've never seen a battlefield yourself. It's another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.
On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A Hell of a Mess
So here's where we stand. We're immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving. We're running the biggest deficit in the history of the country. We're losing the manufacturing edge to Asia, while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble. Our borders are like sieves.
The middle class is being squeezed every which way These are times that cry out for leadership.
But when you look around, you've got to ask: "Where have all the leaders gone?" Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.
Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?
We've spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.
Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane, or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm.
Everyone's hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn't happen again. Now, that's just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you're going to do the next time.
Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when "The Big Three" referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it?
Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debt, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.
I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn't elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on Fox News will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don't you guys show some spine for a change?
Had Enough?
Hey, I'm not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I'm trying to light a fire. I'm speaking out because I have hope I believe in America.
In my lifetime I've had the privilege of living through some of America's greatest moments. I've also experienced some of our worst crises: the "Great Depression", "World War II", the "Korean War", the "Kennedy Assassination", the "Vietnam War", the 1970's oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11. If I've learned one thing, it's this:
"You don't get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it's building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play. That's the challenge I'm raising in this book. It's a call to "Action" for people who, like me, believe in America. It's not too late, but it's getting pretty close. So let's shake off the crap and go to work. Let's tell 'em all we've had "enough."
Excerpted from "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?".
Copyright (c) 2007 by Lee Iacocca. All rights reserved.
Recent Senate Votes
The Senate is not in session; reconvenes for business on Jan. 22.
Recent House Votes
-
S-MINER Act - Vote Passed (214-199, 17 Not Voting)
The House passed the S-MINER Act in an attempt to improve mine safety standards.
Rep. Ron Lewis voted NO - Rep. John Yarmuth voted YES
-
National Defense Authorization Act, FY2008 - Vote Passed
(369-46, 15 Not Voting)
On Wednesday the House approved a modified version of the defense authorization bill, which addressed concerns that caused the President to unexpectedly veto the original bill last month.
Rep. Ron Lewis voted YES - Rep. John Yarmuth voted NO
-
HOPE VI Improvement and Reauthorization Act - Vote Passed
(271-130, 29 Not Voting)
The House passed this bill to reauthorize the HOPE VI grant program that revitalizes severely distressed public housing.
Rep. Ron Lewis voted Not Voting - Rep. John Yarmuth voted YES
HUMOR
"After that fight the other night between
Barack Obama
and Hillary
Clinton at the Democratic debates -- did you watch that? Well,
John Edwards
said he is proud to represent the grownup wing of the Democratic party. The
grownup wing of the Democratic Party? No wonder he's in third place. Talk
about a distant minority." --Jay Leno
"Are you folks worried about the economy? Stock market crumbling.
Everybody's crazy about this. Don't worry.
George W. Bush
says he's got something in mind to give it a shot in the arm. And if that
doesn't work,
Cheney is going to give it a shot in the face." --David Letterman
"Republican candidate
Mike Huckabee
said, when he was in college, he used to use a
popcorn popper to fry up squirrels. They'd fry up squirrels and eat
them. And people thought this would hurt him in the polls. It turns out, in
South Carolina, he went up 30 points." –Jay Leno
"Florida is the big one for the Republicans. In fact, Florida is the first
state where Rudy
Giuliani is seriously campaigning. See, for Giuliani, primaries are kind
of like marriages. The first two or three don't really count." --Jay Leno
"Because it's a long, horrifying process to run for the
nomination, candidates often like to have fun on the campaign trail. And a
couple of days ago -- this is great --
Hillary Clinton,
while she was flying on her campaign airplane,
pretended to be a flight attendant. But that's not all. She was so
convincing that
Bill actually hit on her" --David Letterman
"I don't know if you heard this or not but
Fred Thompson has dropped out of the presidential race. Don't worry
about Fred, he can always go back to his prestigious fake law firm. ... Fred
spent all day packing the bags under his eyes." --David Letterman
"Today was a big day in Hollywood. The Academy Awards were announced. It
looks a lot of Oscar buzz for 'No Country For Old Men,' which I think was
also John McCain's
campaign slogan." --Jay Leno
"Here's one of those philosophical questions. If Fred Thompson stopped
campaigning, how could you tell?" --Jay Leno
"Mitt Romney
was in Jacksonville, Florida, and they had the big King Day parade there.
... You have to hand it to him. Even though he didn't fit in at all, he made
himself right at home there. Take a look [on screen: Romney asking a group
of black children
'Who let the dogs out, whoo whoo!']. Did you hear that question he
asked? In fairness, that was his first time ever meeting black people."
--Jimmy Kimmel
AMNESTY FOR POTENTIAL CRIMES: In a
speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation yesterday, Vice President
Dick Cheney argued that the administration's push for retroactive immunity
is based on the "important principle" that "those who assist the government
in tracking terrorists should not be punished with lawsuits." In reality
though, the immunity "would
reward those who knowingly broke the law and would undermine the
critical role played by service providers in ensuring that the government
presents the required documentation before being given access to intercepted
communications." Additionally, as Feingold pointed out, "existing
law already immunizes telephone companies that respond in good faith to
a government request, as long as that request meets certain clearly
spelled-out statutory requirements." "It's
not as if these companies don't have lawyers to tell them what's legal
and what's not," he wrote on the site DailyKos.com. If Congress does allow
retroactive immunity, it will not only encourage a potential repetition of
the
illegal eavesdropping that took place after 9/11, but it would also
protect the administration itself from facing repercussions for ordering the
warrantless program by forcing dismissals of pending
lawsuits that could reveal the truth of what took place.
IRAQ -- CBO PREDICTS RISE IN BUDGET DEFICIT, REPORTS SKYROCKETING IRAQ WAR COSTS: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report yesterday on the U.S. budget and economic outlook. The CBO projects the 2008 fiscal year budget deficit to rise to $219 billion, up from $163 billion in 2007. Yet the report added that "'funding that is likely to be needed to finance military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan could add $30 billion to outlays this year," making its total budget deficit projection for 2008 at $250 billion. CBO also stated that "funding for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and other activities in the war on terrorism expanded significantly in 2007," from $120 billion in 2006 to $171 billion in 2007. President Bush "has requested $193 billion for war-related purposes in 2008, of which $88 billion has been appropriated thus far." Congressional Democrats reportedly predict that the budget deficit could increase to as much as $350 billion.
Think Fast
The House Oversight Committee announced yesterday that it will hold hearings on missing White House e-mails. Responding to White House claims that there is "no evidence" of missing emails, Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) released "an internal White House study" identifying "473 separate days in which no electronic messages were stored" by White House offices.
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee defended South Carolina's right to display the confederate flag on public grounds. "You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag," he said. "If somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole; that's what we'd do."
CNN reported yesterday that "lobbyists are working overdrive in Washington trying to make sure that their cash cows are not affected by any economic stimulus plan."
The Washington Post reports that FEMA has reversed course again on what to do with its Katrina trailers. After originally purchasing 145,000 trailers and then selling them at steep discounts because communities refused them, FEMA is now seeking to repurchase them at the original price "because of concerns that the trailers are tainted with formaldehyde."
"Many of the poorest people in the United States are still struggling to recover from the effects of a recession that ended six years ago, making them very vulnerable as the country stands on the brink of a new downturn." In 2006, "12.3 percent of Americans were living in poverty, compared with 11.7 percent in 2001, the year of the last recession."
The House has postponed votes on "criminal contempt citations against White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers" in order to foster "bipartisan unity" while working on an economic stimulus package.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal today, former President Bill Clinton and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) advocate "helping the 'unbanked' enter the financial mainstream by opening checking and savings accounts." Americans spend $8 billion annually "at check-cashing outlets, payday lenders and pawnshops on basic financial services" that most can get from checking accounts.
A McKinsey report finds, "at an oil price of $70 a barrel, the six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council would earn a cumulative $6.2 trillion by 2020, or more than triple the amount they earned from 1993 through 2006. Decisions by Gulf leaders on how to use this wealth will have global repercussions for decades"
INTERESTING
The Right Prescription to Cure Economic Ills, by James Parks
Now that working families have forced the issue of the economy to the forefront of the presidential campaign, it’s time to make sure we keep the debate on real solutions that work for working people and not on “quack” remedies that will lead us down the road of economic disaster.
In a Point of View column on the AFL-CIO website, economist Lawrence Mishel says what’s missing from the debate is any meaningful discussion of how to create new jobs. Click here to read “Rx for Recession: An Economic Strategy that Works.”
Mishel, president of the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (EPI), says the relationship between jobs and the impending recession is simple:
The recession is about paycheck economics—jobs, wages and family budgets. When most Americans don’t have the cash or the confidence to continue the spending that keeps the economy running, demand for goods dries up, businesses lay off workers, corporate bottom lines flat-line and the economy plunges into a downward spiral.
But there is a blueprint for federal action to generate jobs, increase incomes and make our communities and our country a better place to live, work and raise kids, he says. It’s EPI’s Strategy for Economic Rebound.
This common-sense plan would preserve and produce jobs and help working families by pumping $140 billion into the economy to:
- Promote growth—thereby, creating more jobs.
- Take effect as soon as possible before the economy plunges into a deep downturn.
- Increase deficits in the immediate future but not for years to come.
- Create new jobs by investing in the nation’s unmet priorities, such as the huge backlog of necessary repairs in schools and bridges and new sewage treatment plants and energy-efficient public facilities of all kinds.
- Put more money in the pockets of those who need it most and are most likely to spend it on necessities of life, bolstering consumer demand, boosting business activity and preserving and producing more jobs.
The centerpiece of the strategy is creating jobs that match the country’s needs. Mishel points out that we need to invest at least $17 billion a year in maintenance and rehabilitation of the nation’s school buildings—and the U.S. Department of Transportation has found more than 6,000 major bridges that need to be repaired or replaced. At the same time, more than $4 billion in wastewater-treatment projects are ready to go to construction, if funding is made available.
So he proposes:
Let’s provide the money for all these needs—schools, bridges, sewage treatment plants and more. Every $1 billion of construction spending creates 14,000 to 47,000 new jobs—and these should be good-paying union jobs—and also generates up to $6 billion in additional economic activity.
Yet, instead of proposing a program that will work for working families, Mishel says, the Bush administration is “prescribing more of the quack remedies that weakened the economy and widened the federal deficit.”
Tell Bill O’Reilly: Hundreds of Thousands of Vets are Homeless, by Mike Hall
Bill O’Reilly, the obnoxious, belligerent, ranting loudmouth of Fox News, is at it again. But he’s not after some evil liberal or even a mainstream moderate.
This
time, O’Reilly is going after homeless veterans—men and women who served in
the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines. He claims the homeless group is
“nonexistent.”
Earlier this year, O’Reilly mocked former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) for pointing out that nearly 200,000 veterans are homeless, “sleeping on grates…and under bridges.” Said O’Reilly of Edwards’ statement:
I mean, come on, the only thing sleeping under a bridge is that guy’s brain.
But as Levi Cunningham, a homeless Vietnam-era vet, says in a video rebuttal on the lets-keep-Fox-honest website, FoxAttacks:
There’s a lot of homeless veterans out there. Anybody that would even imply there are no homeless veterans is out of touch with reality.
In fact, the Department of Veterans Affairs says that in 2006 there were 195,827 homeless vets on any given night. That figure could be higher. In November, we reported on a study by the National Alliance to End Homelessness that estimated more than 336,000 vets were homeless sometime in 2006.
When the soldiers sent to Iraq and Afghanistan by the Bush administration return home, many of them have difficulty finding jobs, shelter and health care—about 1.8 million vets have no health insurance. Don’t forget, Bush vetoed a bill that would have extended the Family and Medical Leave Act to family members of wounded service members.
Last week, O’Reilly grudgingly admitted there might be some homeless veterans, telling talk radio host Ed Schultz:
Maybe they’re out there, but there’s not many of them out there.
Homeless Iraq veteran Ryan Sussman says:
I would sure like to meet that guy and tell him a thing or two, honestly, I mean….
There are a lot of people who would like to say a thing or two to O’Reilly, and the folks at FoxAttacks are giving you an opportunity. You can click here and join the more than 15,000 people who have e-mailed a letter to O’Reilly demanding that he apologize for his remarks.
If you are looking for a little more strident take on O’Reilly’s ridiculous riff, click here to see what MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Paul Reickhoff, executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, have to say.
Not much good news this week.
None this week
NEED COMPUTER ASSISTANCE??
Democrat Activist Mike Bailey is now providing “Professional Computer Support.” He can be contacted at 502-558-4026, or mikebailey2000@usa.net.
Notice to our Readers & 2008 Primary Election Candidates:
This newsletter will carry, in this space, any Democratic candidates' notice of events or communications (250 words or less) to our readers that the candidate provides to the editor at rcrider@insightbb.com
CLICK HERE FOR LATEST ISSUE OF THE "FRIDAY ALERT"
If you plan to change your e-mail address, please let me know at rcrider@louisvilledem.com
Your contributions of news, comments and/or events are invited. Please e-mail such items to
Ray Crider at rcrider@louisvilledem.com . If you know someone who would like to be on the newsletter e-mail list, please have him or her supply the following information to the same
e-mail address: Name, address, phone numbers ( home , work, fax, cell), and e-mail address.
|
TOP
Not authorized by any candidate
or candidate's committee.
Contributions or gifts to the Louisville/Jefferson County Democratic Party
are not tax deductible.
About Us | Events Calendar | The Candidates | Local Clubs | Local Officials
Vote Here | Get Involved | Did You Know | Contact Us | Home
640 Barret Avenue | Louisville, KY 40204 | Tel: 502 582-1999 - Fax: 502 582-9933
Copyright ©2009 The Louisville Jefferson County Democratic Party
"Paid for and Authorized by the Louisville and Jefferson County
Democratic Party."
Charles Horton, Treasurer - Tim Longmeyer, Chairman