Steps We Chose Last Night For Obama

Written by: Edwin Hughes on Feb 7, 2008 9:53 AM EST

Monouth for Democracy

Feb 6,2008, Racippio’s, Red Bank,Nj

After a discussion of Super-Tuesday and where we want to spend our energies in behalf of the Democratic contenders, a straw poll was taken and the majority is willing to take the following actions on behalf of Barack Obama. (NOTE: Some were still not ready to make a commitment, but we had a large majority (90%) in favor of Obama.)

1. Pledged to do 15 calls a day for upcoming primaries minimum at phone banking on line for Obama. Following is the link to do this; sign in and follow instructions:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/phonebankmap

Link shows which states are being worked; select and follow instructions. (NOTE: let’s shoot for 15 live dialogs with real voices at the other end.) For a more detailed account of how this has been a great resource for Obama, read here:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/2/6/21256/57177

For those who support Hillary, here is her link:

http://tools.hillaryclinton.com/calling/

2. (Spread the word, reach out to some like thinkers and ask for the extra effort from anyone who cares.}

3. Mount a campaign to Edwards website to ask him to publicly support Obama. You will find email and phone numbers here:

http://www.johnedwards.com/about/contact/form/

4. We also agreed to work on superdelegates to get them to support Obama, but as I researched the superdelegates, I ran across the following.

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegates-who-havent-endorsed.html

and this

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-campaign-dont-contact.html

As you can see, it is a request from the Obama campaign to leave the superdelegates alone.

We can do what we want, I suppose, but I am inclined to follow Obama’s lead on this. I am sure there is a concerted effort going on.

We can work on two out of three items; Edwards is not a superdelegate. And as Andy said we can always go register and educate the voters in Asbury, Long Branch and Neptune.

Thanks for a great meeting.

Ed Hughes standing in for Ed Z.

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