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OFA Wall Street Reform Day of Action – TOMORROW!

By on May 5, 2010 in Organizing For America

Tomorrow, Thursday, May 6th, Organizing for America (OFA) is holding a nationwide Wall Street Reform Day of Action. Across the country, thousands of OFA volunteers will attend phone banks to call constituents in districts with wavering Senators. Like we did with health insurance reform, we’ll be urging our supporters to call their Senator to urge them to support comprehensive Wall Street Reform legislation.

Will you join us?


From the OFA page:

Wall Street reform is gaining steam in the Senate, and a vote could come very soon.

But the big banks are ramping up their effort to carve out loopholes and exemptions — or block the bill altogether.

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Tim Walberg: Out of touch on health insurance reform

By on April 28, 2010 in MI-07, Organizing For America

On Monday night, former MI-07 Congressman Tim Walberg (shown here with his friend Michele Bachman who, thankfully, did not attend), held a “townhall” meeting in Chelsea, MI to discuss “repealing and replacing the recently passed health care bill.” Given that Barack Obama will be president after the November elections, the premise of the townhall was pretty bizarre to begin with.

But the event itself was really bizarre.


Michigan Organizing for America volunteers arrived at the Chelsea clock tower an hour before Mr. Walberg’s event to show their support for the freshly-minted reform law.

We started out in front of the clock tower itself where we were most visible and then moved to the other end of the complex where the meeting was being held to greet attendees as they entered the parking lot.…


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MI House candidate: “OFA is the equiv. of the brown shirts”

By on April 15, 2010 in Conservatives, Michigan, Organizing For America

Dave Franklin is running for the Michigan House of Representatives seat in Michigan’s 54th district, a seat currently held by Michigan gubernatorial candidate Alma Wheeler Smith. Dave Franklin hates him some government. And Dave Franklin especially hates him some Democratic Party grassroots organizers.

Yesterday, on the Facebook page for a Tea Party protest on the campus of the University of Michigan, I refuted the accusation of one commenter that Organizing for America is an “astroturf” organization (since they are part of a political party and not secretly funded by corporate backers.) Here is his response:

OFA is the equivalent of the brown shirts.…

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Health Care Bill Thank you party

PHOTOS (lots) – OFA says THANKS to Congressmen Dingell & Schauer

By on April 11, 2010 in John Dingell, MI-07, Michigan, Organizing For America

Yesterday morning, Organizing for America (OFA) held an event at the Ann Arbor Community Center to thank Congressmen John Dingell (MI-15) and Mark Schauer (MI-07) for their leadership and votes on the recently-enacted health insurance reform law. The two men represent opposite ends of Congressional spectrum. Congressman Dingell has served longer than any current member of the House of Representatives. Congressman Schauer is still in his first term.


Congressman Mark Schauer and John Dingell

While the event was held to thank them, both legislators emphatically thanked US — their staff, their volunteers, OFA and everyone who kept the faith, made the calls, wrote the letters and talked to their neighbors over the past nine months when the path to health insurance reform was being navigated.…


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The must-have t-shirt of the season

By on April 1, 2010 in Organizing For America

You know you want one.

Well, I know I do anyway.

I’m just sayin’…

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They throw bricks, we throw a BIG party!

By on April 1, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Organizing For America


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When President Obama signed into law of the health insurance reform law last week, the most historic piece of social legislation in decades, those on the right threw a fit. Some of them actually threw bricks.

We, on the other hand, threw a damn party. A BIG party!

Tuesday night this week, Democrats from all around the Ann Arbor and Western Wayne area got together to celebrate. With just a week’s notice, we had over 100 people RSVP on BarackObama.com and, so far as I could tell every one of them showed up and then some.…


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And the grownups move forward

By on March 22, 2010 in Barack Obama, Conservatives, Organizing For America, President Obama, Republicans

I’m taking a day off from being a grownup. In fact, I’m acting childish today. On my way to work, as I drove past the home of the man (Mark Koernke) who placed “Buy Gasmasks Now!” and “Buy more Ammo NOW!” signs in front of his house the day after the 2008 presidential elections, I let my Eff Flag fly and I cackled a derisive laugh.

I reveled in listening to John Boehner beg last night on C-SPAN. I’m laughing and laughing and laughing at the Red Staters and Freepers and the right-wing people I work with. Not in their face.…


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Organizing for America: Making a difference in Americans’ lives

By on March 21, 2010 in Organizing For America

Proud to be part of something like Organizing for America, a group helping to change America for the better.

Over half a million calls by OFA vols nationwide in ten days. Nobody could ever convince me that didn’t make a difference.

I’m just sayin’…

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GOP giving up the health insurance reform fight?

By on March 9, 2010 in Democrats, MI-07, Obama, Organizing For America, President Obama, Republican-Fail

It’s starting to look like the Republicans are finally seeing the handwriting on the wall with regard to health insurance reform.

The signs are everywhere.


First we have the Club for Growth’s “Repeal It!” campaign. In this campaign, they are urging their candidates to sign the following pledge:

“I hereby pledge to the people of my district/state to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government.”

When you quit fighting the reforms themselves and move to vowing to repeal the reforms months from now, that smacks of a tacit admission that they know the fight is all but over.…


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Why you should give OFA a second look

By on March 2, 2010 in Democrats, Obama, Organizing For America, Politics, President Obama

A few days ago, I wrote a blog entry titled “Whither OFA?”. In it I talked a bit about OFA and where we’ve been over the past year.

Looking forward, I thought some folks might be interested in learning how Organizing for America (OFA) is evolving and suggest that you consider taking another look.

The executive summary is this: OFA has made significant strides in the past year, has learned from some of its mistakes, and is making changes that should make it a more effective network to enact the policies supported by the Obama administration and the Democratic Party.…


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