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Today Jill Stein’s campaign, aimed at securing the Green Party’s nomination for president, sent out a fundraising email with the pitch of “Double Your Green.”  That is, if Stein raises ,000 in donations of 0 or less from 20 or more states, the federal government will then match donations of that amount dollar-for-dollar.  Interestingly, the email contained a map of their progress toward that goal:

See below for a map showing how far along your state is toward qualifying for matching funds:

The sooner we qualify, the better. That’s when we start doubling our green for the Green Party, which means that Dr. Stein can invest twice as much on getting the Greens on the ballot, building our state and local parties, and putting our Green New Deal agenda in the public eye.

As of Monday, February 20th, two states have qualified (CA, MA), one state is close (NY) and four states are halfway there (IL, MD, VA, WI).

Our goal is to qualify in our first 10 states by March 15th.

States that have qualified: California, Massachusetts

3/4 of the way there: New York

Halfway there: Illinois, Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin

1/4 of the way there: D.C., Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington

Raised something: Every state.

The full email can be read here.

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BURNET, Texas (Feb. 9) – Ken Schoolland, a long-term board member of the International Society for Individual Liberty and associate professor at Hawaii Pacific University, has endorsed Lee Wrights for President and joined the campaign as economic advisor.

In libertarian circles Schoolland is best known as the author of the animated video “The Philosophy of Liberty” popular on the Internet. He wrote the illustrated libertarian primer “The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey,” which has been translated into more than 40 languages.

Schoolland, who was Hawaii LP chair for five years, is also the author of “Shogun’s Ghost,” an expose on education in Japan, where he taught before accepting his current position in Honolulu. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, an international organization of economists, philosophers, historians, intellectuals, business leaders, and others who favor classical liberalism.

ISIL is a non-profit, non-partisan libertarian educational organization encouraging activism in libertarian and individual rights.

Schoolland issued this statement:

“I like Ron Paul. I like Gary Johnson. I’d probably like all the libertarian candidates running for President. But liking someone isn’t a reason to vote for them. When I became a member of the Libertarian Party back in 1976 I signed a non-aggression pledge. I take that pledge very seriously. That has been my guiding principle ever since.”

“I simply don’t vote for anyone who compromises on that principle, as the Libertarian Party has too often been willing to do in recent years to broaden candidate popularity. I applaud Ron Paul and Gary Johnson for promoting the libertarian program, but if people don’t grasp the underlying principle, then gains will turn to losses in an instant of mob passion. No compromise with principle.

“The libertarian message is rooted in an appreciation of individual rights … not state’s rights, not practical moderation. That is why I enthusiastically join the Lee Wrights campaign and endorse him for the 2012 Libertarian Party Presidential nomination. When I listen to Lee Wrights speak, as he did at the Libertarian Party of Hawaii convention last May – traveling on his own dime – I was reminded of that great, successful libertarian abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, who said:

I am aware, that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard.”

R. Lee Wrights

R. Lee Wrights, 53, a libertarian writer and political activist, is seeking the presidential nomination because he believes the Libertarian message in 2012 must be a loud, clear and unequivocal call to stop all war. To that end he has pledged that 10 percent of all donations to his campaign will be spent for ballot access so that the stop all war message can be heard in all 50 states. Wrights is a lifetime member of the Libertarian Party and co-founder and editor of the free speech online magazine Liberty For All. Born in Winston-Salem, N.C., he now lives and works in Texas.

Lee Wrights for President
Contact: Brian Irving, press secretary
press@wrights2012.com
919.538.4548

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First video message from Jill Stein, a candidate for the Green Party presidential nomination:

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Are You Wondering When and Where You Can Catch Bert?

 Here’s His Schedule.

Sunday, July 10, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM – Jesus Center of Refuge & Hope – Rev. Alfred Jones, 1664 Melton Road, Appomattox.

Sunday, July 10, 6:00– 9:30 PM – Lynchburg Hillcats v. Potomac Nationals at the Lynchburg City Stadium, 3180 Fort Avenue, Lynchburg.

Friday, July 15, 5:30 PM – Sundown – Friday Cheers, Riverfront Park, 1000 Jefferson Street, Lynchburg.

Friday, July 15, 7:05 – 10:30 PM – Lynchburg Hillcats at the Lynchburg City Stadium, 3180 Fort Avenue, Lynchburg.

Sunday, July 17, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM – Jordan Baptist Church – Highway 608, Appomattox.

Friday, July 22, 5:30 PM – Sundown – Appomattox Cheers , Abbitt Memorial Park, Appomattox, VA

Saturday, July 23 – Parade at 10:00 AM – Cowboy Day in Buckingham County at the Historic Village at Lee Wayside, 84 Lee Wayside Road, Buckingham, VA
Note: Admission is for adults.

Sunday, July 24, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM – Peaks Baptist Church, Highway 626, Prospect, VA 23960

If you want to contact Burt and can’t fit your schedule to his then drop by his Lynchburg Campaign Office or give them a call.   Lonnie, Gerald, Kody or Kelsey will do all they can to assist you.    Here’s the address.

1022 Commerce Street, Suite F
Lynchburg, VA 24504
Office Phone:  434-851-4885

Suite F is on the second floor.     Use the solid door with out the window to enter the building from the street.    Take elevator to second floor.    You will be greeted warmly.

Contact information for campaign staff:

Campaign Manager
 Lonny Paris
 202-957-4551     parislonny@gmail.com

Political Director
 Gerald Cheatham
 434-851-2475     gicheatham@comcast.net

Field Director
 Kody Roza
 916-521-5915     kodyjroza@gmail.com

If Kody or Kelsey contact you please give them all the help you can.      They may be contacting Amherst County Democrats as they try to place the word Senator in front of Bert’s name and send him off to his office in Richmond.      Here’s thanking you in advance for your assistence.     Thank You.

You are welcome to visit Bert Dodson Headquarters but if you would like to contribute by mail, here’s the address.

Friends of Bert Dodson
P.O. Box 10249
Lynchburg, Va  24506-0249

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Jill Stein will launch her Presidential Campaign Thursday Oct. 24 at 12:30pm at the State House in Boston, MA.  She vows to end unemployment in America and to stop the Wall Street robbery of Main Street.
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Dodson Campaign Meeting

Please join us for a very important event tomorrow night:

Tuesday 27th, 7:00 PM
SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE LIBRARY
Browsing Room – See Map Below

The Sweet Briar Young Democrats are hosting this event, along with the Dodson Campaign and the Amherst County Democrats. You are invited to attend and to show your support for our next State Senator, Bert Dodson.      Only 6 weeks until Election Day. Now is the time to get involved.

The road shown at the bottom of the map is the one leading directly from the campus main entrance on 29.        Number 1 on the map is the guard shack if you need directions.

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We will dedicate the entire evening to Bert’s campaign staff.     They will seek our advice on some community-based operations we can put into place to help assure a Democratic Victory.

There is simply no other choice.

Bert will be a great State Senator, one we’ll be proud to call our own.     We all know that.      But there’s more…

The very narrow majority we now have in the VA Senate must be held.     It’s the only thing protecting us now from a statewide Right-Wing majority – House of Delegates, State Senate, and Governor. We must not let this happen.

Imagine the likes of McDonnell, Cuccinelli, Cantor, and others of their ilk in the Party formerly known as Republican, running amok, unchecked, in our great Commonwealth.     Well, you get the idea.

We’ll take a good look at Dodson’s opponent, Tom Garrett, too.     It’s not a pretty picture.

So, again, please join us tomorrow night:

SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE LIBRARY
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7:00 PM

Sincerely,

Your Amherst County Democratic Committee
www.AmherstDems.org

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As this blog posted on Monday, a new Brennan Center for Justice study (PDF) finds that a string of election laws passed in Texas and 12 other states — and proposed in 21 more states — since the 2008 presidential election could block up to five million voters from polling places in 2012.

All IDs must be unexpired or expired no earlier than 60 days before the election. Acceptable identification includes:

• A driver’s license, election ID certificate, or personal ID card issued by the Department of Public Safety (an election certificate issued to a person 70 years or older does not expire);
• U.S. military ID card that contains the person’s photograph;
• U.S. citizenship certificate with a photograph;
• U.S. passport; or
• A license to carry a concealed handgun.

Student IDs and Military Veteran IDs are not accepted in Texas for purposes of identification for voting.

Those laws could disproportionately suppress turnout of younger voters, minorities and lower-income voters who have traditionally voted for Democratic candidates. The Brennan Center estimates that the new laws could affect some 171 electoral votes, including those of five swing states for the November 2012 presidential election.

All but two of the new election laws were passed by Republican controlled legislatures and signed by Republican governors, leading the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) to cry foul. To preserve ballot access for voters who have been eligible to vote in past elections, but who may be blocked from voting in 2012, the DSCC has launched the “2012 Election Protection Project.”

The 2012 Election Protection Project has set up an “Election Protection Project Action Center” website to serve both as an information hub on potential voter suppression and a conduit to help voters register online. The project will broadcast online advertisements on Twitter, Facebook, Google and mobile text devices. The project will also promote petition and email outreach campaigns to raise awareness about new voting restrictions.

President Barack Obama last week told a radio audience in an interview with radio host Michael Smerconish that he’s made sure the Justice Department is reviewing restrictive voting laws passed across the country.

SMERCONISH: Are the goal posts being moved on you in 2012? In my native Pennsylvania there’s a move afoot that would change the way in which electoral votes are apportioned. You picked up 21 in ’08, you’d of only had a net gain of one if this new rule, this new system were to come into effect. I look at that, and the requirement of photo IDs in some states, and the reduction of advanced voting and I wonder what’s going on out there on a grand level. What’s your level of concern? [...]

OBAMA: With respect to Pennsylvania the people of Pennsylvania will ultimately decide how they want to allocate their electoral votes, and I’ll leave it up to them. I will say that my big priority is making sure that as many people are participating in our democracy as possible. Some of these moves in some of the other states that we’ve seen—trying to make it tougher to vote, restricting ballot access, making it hard on seniors, making it hard on young people. I think that’s a bit mistake and I have made sure that our Justice Department’s taken a look at what’s being done across the country to ensure that people aren’t being denied access to the franchise.

But as a practical matter, the DOJ’s reach is limited. Officials with DOJ’s Civil Rights Division are reviewing voter ID laws passed in South Carolina and Texas because both states have a history of discrimination and are covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. DOJ told South Carolina in August that they need more info before making a decision and in September told Texas they have more questions. But for all the other states that passed voter ID laws this year that aren’t subject to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, DOJ intervention is impossible, until after the 2012 election.

More:

• New Voting Laws Could Keep 5 Million Voters From The Polls In 2012
  
• DOJ v. SCOTUS On Texas’ Voter Photo ID Law
• Texas Cites Bush-Era DOJ Approval Of Voter ID Law In DOJ Pre-Clearance Request
• Challenge To Texas Voter Registrar Rules And Process

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