Thursday, August 14, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
Harris County Jury Assembly Room
1019 Congress, Downtown Houston (map) Parking Available $3.00
The purpose of this meeting:
Turn Texas Blue in Senate District 11 Democratic Party Candidates invite you to a special presentation and training this Saturday, August 2, from 9:00 to 3:00 at IBEW Hall, 4345 Allen Genoa, Pasadena (map).
Campaign workshop includes:
Plus…
This is a FREE event but you MUST RSVP to attend.
Please RSVP at demovictory@jaworskifortexas.com or call (409) 762-6475!
Share this historic moment with other Democrats and help benefit the Harris County Democratic Party! On Thursday, August 28 at 7 pm, the Stonewall Democrats present the official Harris County Democratic Convention watch party. Come to the Renaissance Hotel, 6 Greenway Plaza East, Houston TX 77046 (map) to watch Obama’s acceptance speech on a really big screen and party with party hats, noise makers, balloons and confetti! Revenues from the event benefit the HCDP Coordinated Campaign’s effort to turn Harris County blue.
Tickets:
Reserved table seating — $50
General Admission — $30
HASD Sustaining Member — $25 (reserved table)
Youth under 18 — $15
Thursday, August 28, 7 pm
To buy tickets, go to www.celebrateobama.com!
Another week, another great office opening! Join Democrats from all over Harris County at the Grand Opening of our Westside Houston Office this Saturday, August 2nd, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, in the Commons Shopping Center located on the corner of Westheimer & Eldridge, at 13316 Westheimer Suite 100 (map).
Congressman Al Green will sponsor our food and cold drinks as we welcome you to your local Democratic headquarters. An exciting program featuring master of ceremonies State Representative Scott Hochberg will kick off promptly at 11:45 am. The energy in our March Primary was unprecedented, and we need it again to make sure that Democrats win all over the state and in our community. The Republicans in Harris County have proven they will do whatever it takes to hold on to their offices, and it will take all of our effort to restore integrity and accountability to our public officials.
The Coordinated Campaign is spreading out across Harris County, and our offices need our help. Part of that is financial support, and we are depending on you to help Turn Harris County Blue! By clicking on our donate button, you can give $25, $50, or whatever you can afford to help elect every Democrat on the ballot. You donations help pay for the following:
• $25 pays for a phone line for volunteers to phone-bank
• $50 pays for 25 yard signs with a “Vote Democratic” message
• $100 helps pay for our internet connection to input data into our Voter Activation Network
You money goes directly to our coordinated efforts, so by contributing to the Coordinated Campaign, you help every Democrat on the ballot. We need your help to fund these efforts, and we hope you can see our program is a good investment.
We hope to see you this Saturday at the Westside Houston Office from 11:00am to 1:00pm, and thank you for your supporting helping elect Democrats.
R.K. Sandill, Candidate for Civil District Court
Running for the 127th Civil District Court, R.K. is a graduate of UT-Austin and The University of Houston Law Center. Previously a briefing attorney to Justice Murry Cohen of the Texas First Court of Appeals, R.K. practices employment law and commercial and appellate litigation with Steele Sturm, PLLC. He is admitted to all federal courts in Texas and is a member of the Houston Bar Association and the Garland R. Walker Inn of Court. A cancer survivor, R.K. serves on the Advocacy Committee and the Board of Trustees of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. He resides with his wife Kelly and their young son Asher in Houston.
The Harris County Democratic Party is proud to announce the grand opening of the first of many local campaign offices in Harris County! This Saturday, July 26th, join your friends, neighbors, and local candidates and officials as we open the doors of the the Coordinated Campaign’s East End Campaign Office at 201 Broadway (map). Come at 10 am for hot dogs and cold drinks, and at 11 am enjoy an exciting program featuring master of ceremonies Constable Victor Trevino, and raffle drawings every 15 minutes.
Many of us volunteered at this location for Senator Hillary Clinton, and we hope you will come back once more to support our Democrats up and down the ballot. The energy in our March Primary was unprecedented, and we’ll need it again to make sure that Democrats win all over the state and in our community to restore integrity and accountability to our public officials. We hope you will join us this weekend for the fun and festivities at our new East End Campaign office, so we can build momentum to Turn Texas Blue.
If you aren’t able to attend this opening, stay tuned for our West Houston Campaign Office opening next Saturday, August 2! Read the rest of this entry »
Some promising news for the top of our ticket comes today from the Houston Chronicle:
WASHINGTON — Hispanic support for Republicans has collapsed in the past four years, driven by immigration, the sagging economy and the Iraq war, a new poll has found.
The poll of 2,015 Latino voters conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center found that Democrat Barack Obama, who lost the Hispanic vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 2-to-1 in the Democratic primary, holds a commanding 66 percent to 23 percent lead over Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
The Democratic tide in the Latino community is so strong that Obama leads among every nationality group, including the historically Republican Cuban-American population, where Obama now leads, 53 percent to 29 percent.
The Illinois Democrat is running far ahead among Mexican-Americans, who cast about 40 percent of their ballots for George W. Bush in 2004. Among voters of Mexican ancestry, Obama leads McCain, 70 percent to 21 percent.
Obama is running so far ahead that he has the support of 25 percent of Hispanics who identify themselves as Republicans and holds an edge of about 5-to-1 among Latinos who consider themselves political independents…
…The Pew survey finds the largest Democratic lead in party identification in its decade of polling — a 39 percentage point edge. Just 16 percent of registered Hispanic voters say they are Republicans, and another 10 percent are independents who lean to the GOP.
That Democratic edge has nearly doubled in the past two years, from a 49 percent to 28 percent edge in 2006 to today’s 65 percent to 26 percent advantage.
Obama leads McCain among all issues in the Hispanic community. On immigration, the Democrat has a huge advantage — even though his rival from Arizona has a liberal record on immigration — 59 percent to 19 percent. Half of Latinos say Obama would be better for immigrants, while just 12 percent say McCain would help immigrants more.
On the war in Iraq, Latinos trust Obama more to handle it, 58 percent to 27 percent — dashing Republicans’ hopes to appeal to the “patriotism factor” in Hispanic Americans. And on jobs, Hispanics prefer Obama, 65 percent to 19 percent.
While the hard-line rhetoric of some Republican conservatives has alienated many Latinos, the issue of immigration appears to have receded a bit as a voting issue. While 75 percent of Hispanics say immigration is “extremely” or “very” important to them, it lagsbehind education, Latino’s top concern at 93 percent, and pocketbook issues such as the rising cost of living (92 percent), jobs (91 percent) and health care (90 percent).
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5905184.html
The Coordinated Campaign is proud to open our East End Office on Saturday, July 26th starting at 10:00 in the morning. We have a number of exciting guest speakers, including our Master of Ceremonies, Constable Victor Trevino. Great door prizes will be given away every 15 minutes starting at 10:00am, so come early. Join us for drinks and hot dogs (and some good campaign fun) on Saturday, July 26th.
Harris County Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign
East End Campaign Office
201 Broadway St.
Houston, Texas 77012 (map)
