[big campaign] FW: Supporters Blast Pass 100,00 Calls, Up Goal to 150,000

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Fyi... ________________________________ From: OFA Press [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:31 PM Subject: Supporters Blast Pass 100,00 Calls, Up Goal to 150,000 It's Time to Deliver: OFA Volunteers Surpass 100,000 Calls to Congress Goal in Support of Health Insurance Reform - Up Goal to an Ambitious 150,000 Calls By Days End Track Today's Calls to Congress in Support of Health Insurance Reform Here: http://my.barackobama.com/TTDCall <http://my.barackobama.com/TTDCall> Organizing for America and allied groups have declared today a national day of action in support of health insurance reform with the goal of generating 100,000 calls to Congress in a single day. The response from Americans in all 50 states has been overwhelming and as a result, Organizing for America has surpassed its goal of 100,00 calls and has established a new, ambitious goal for calls of 150,000 in a single day. This effort comes on the heels of polls which show strong support for reform and President Obama's handling of the issue. Today's calls are being made in support of reform by individuals and groups from living rooms, cafes, college campus and community centers in all 50 states. President Obama will address thousands of supporters who are making calls tonight via live webcast from an event at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City where 2500 people will be making similar calls in support of reform. You can track the progress of these calls at: http://my.barackobama.com/TTDCall <http://my.barackobama.com/TTDCall> . Please see below for early coverage of Organizing for America's "Time to Deliver" events happening across the country. TPM: (Jillian Rayfield) "Obama to Join OFA's 'Time To Deliver" Health Reform Webcast": President Obama will join Organizing For America's "Time To Deliver" events via webcast tomorrow, in an effort to drum up support for his health reform bill. The events will occur in "living rooms, coffee shops, student unions and senior centers" in all 50 states, and will encourage participants and members of the OFA mailing list to call their Congressional representatives and express support for the President's health care plan. The group aims to get 100,000 people to call, or commit to call, their Congressional representative by the end of the day. President Obama will join the events at 7:45pm EST Tuesday, and will deliver remarks via webcast at an OFA fundraising event at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/obama-to-join-ofas-time -to-deliver-health-reform-webcast.php Associated Press: (Staff) "Democrats play rally, phone calls for health bill": An arm of the Democratic National Committee plans to rally support for health care reform plans backed by President Barack Obama by urging citizens to call lawmakers and urge them to support the plan. Officials with Nevada Organizing for America say they hope thousands of calls will be made statewide to members of Congress. Organizers plan four hours of calls Tuesday at an amphitheater at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as nighttime calls from the Washoe Democratic Party office. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/oct/20/democrats-plan-rally-phone-c alls-for-health-bill/ USA Today: (Richard Wolf) "White House pushes to shape health bill": Proponents of revamping the nation's health care system will hold phone-bank events in 50 states today. Here in the nation's capital, a coalition of more than 100 liberal interest groups will convene its weekly meeting, with health care atop the agenda. Congressional leaders will seek to meld five health care bills into two for House and Senate votes. Beyond the topic, all the public and private meetings will have one other thing in common: White House involvement. President Obama will speak from New York City by video hookup to hundreds of small gatherings sponsored by Organizing for America, a spinoff of his 2008 campaign. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-10-19-healthcare_N.htm Huffington Post: (Micah Sifry) "OFA's "Time to Deliver" is Now; Watching Obama's Army Flex Its Muscles": Today, President Obama is doing something no sitting U.S. President has done before. He is using his massive network of grass-roots supporters, which has been undergoing a reboot since Election Day, to go between the legs of Members of Congress and generate pressure from below on them to pass health care reform. Today is a big test of Organizing for America (OFA), Obama's political arm at the Democratic National Committee. OFA's leaders are calling on its supporters to generate a massive wave of phone calls to Congressional offices and district offices--100,000 or more in one day. They've got a barometer up showing more than 1,100 2,468 calls so far. (It jumped 1,300 in the 15 minutes since I started writing this post.) Will they succeed? And will the calls sway any wavering Members? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/micah-sifry/organizing-for-americas-t_b_32 7080.html ABC News: (Sunlen Miller) "The Presidential Planner": Rounding out his day, the president will participate in a rally as part of the fundraising arm of the DNC, Organizing for America's "Time to Deliver" event on health care reform. The president's remarks will be streamed live via the web to house parties across the country in an effort by the OFA to get 100,000 calls into Congress urging them to get reform on health care done. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/10/the-presidential-planner -.html Wall Street Journal: "Politics of Health Care": Organizing for America, Obama's political arm run out of the DNC, is holding a grassroots event today, encouraging supporters of Democrats' health care legislation to make at least 100,000 calls to Congress in a single day. OFA is asking organizes to host "Time to Deliver" call parties and neighborhood outreach events tonight during which Obama will address his supporters live via webcast. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/20/wire-watch-obama-in-nyc-biden-i n-eastern-europe-elizabeth-edwards-on-capitol-hill-jewish-democrats-conv ene-in-dc-and-the-state-of-the-housing-market/ Burlington Free Press "Health care day of action?": Today is the day that Democrats hope to turn up the heat on the health care debate by barraging members of Congress with telephone calls. The goal is 100,000 calls. Organizing for America, an arm of the Democratic National Committee, plans "Time to Deliver" events across the country including one in Vermont at 4 p.m. at the Vermont Democratic headquarters in Montpelier. Why just one here? One could ask why hold any event here. What's the point when Vermont's congressional delegation signed on to health care reform long before Barack Obama became president. http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/blog/politics/ Sussex Countian: "Organizing for America to hold "Time to Deliver" Health Insurance Reform Event Across Delaware": Delaware's Organizing for America, a grassroots project of the Democratic National Committee, will hold 'Time to Deliver' health insurance reform events in New Castle today, Oct. 20. Local supporters of reform will watch a live simulcast of President Obama encouraging volunteers gathered from coast to coast to ask their neighbors, friends and family to call their members of Congress to show them that Delawareans support health insurance reform. As momentum builds, OFA volunteers from all the across the country will attend these "Time to Deliver" events today in living rooms, coffee shops and senior centers to continue building support for the president's plan. The OFA events today are part of a larger nationwide "Time to Deliver" effort that includes events from other organizations supporting health insurance reform across the country. Throughout the day, members of the OFA email list will be encouraged to call their members of Congress by using OFA's online neighbor-to-neighbor call tool. http://www.sussexcountian.com/newsnow/x826019521/Organizing-for-America- to-hold-Time-to-Deliver-Health-Insurance-Reform-event-across-Delaware WRAL News: "Democrats holding health care events across NC": Democrats in North Carolina are holding health care events across the state, trying to build support for President Barack Obama's overhaul agenda. The Democratic National Committee's Organizing for America project is hoping to spur 100,000 calls to Congress on Monday. Nine events across the state, from Wilmington to Hendersonville, will include a live link to Obama encouraging volunteers from around the country. http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/6243647/ The Post and Courier: "DNC health reform group to meet": A health reform group backed by the Democratic National Committee will hold a campaign event in North Charleston tonight. South Carolina Organizing for America, a grassroots project of the DNC committed to supporting President Barack Obama's agenda for change, will hold a "Time to Deliver" phone bank event from 6-9 tonight at 4925 LaCross Road, Suite 106, in North Charleston. Local supporters of reform will watch a live simulcast of Obama encouraging volunteers to ask their neighbors, friends and family to call their members of Congress to show them that South Carolinians support health insurance reform. Nationally, the group is working to set a record of 100,000 calls to Congress placed or committed to in a single day. Since June 6, OFA has held nearly 20,000 events in all 50 states and every congressional district encouraging support for Obama's plan for health insurance reform. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/oct/20/dnc-health-reform-group-m eet <http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/oct/20/dnc-health-reform-group- meet/> Capital News 9: "Health care rallies being held today": A number of health care rallies are being held across the country today in support of President Obama's health care plan. There are five being held right here in the Capital Region, but thousands are being held across the U.S. It's being called a National Day of Action for Heath Care Reform, and volunteers will be making thousands of phone calls on behalf of the president. The goal is to persuade constituents to call their elected representatives asking them to support health care reform. Nationwide they want to see 100,000 commitments from people who want to push this health care bill through. It's been an issue of much debate over the past few weeks and continues to draw criticism and support from both sides of the table. But volunteers with this push today said they are standing strong with the president and with his insistence on a public option. http://capitalnews9.com/capital-region-news-12-content/top_stories/48552 5/health-care-rallies-being-held-today Post Courier: "DNC health reform group to meet": A health reform group backed by the Democratic National Committee will hold a campaign event in North Charleston tonight. South Carolina Organizing for America, a grassroots project of the DNC committed to supporting President Barack Obama's agenda for change, will hold a "Time to Deliver" phone bank event from 6-9 tonight at 4925 LaCross Road, Suite 106, in North Charleston. Local supporters of reform will watch a live simulcast of Obama encouraging volunteers to ask their neighbors, friends and family to call their members of Congress to show them that South Carolinians support health insurance reform. Nationally, the group is working to set a record of 100,000 calls to Congress placed or committed to in a single day. Since June 6, OFA has held nearly 20,000 events in all 50 states and every congressional district encouraging support for Obama's plan for health insurance reform. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/oct/20/dnc-health-reform-group-m eet/ News and Observer: "Support for reform forms": With the Senate considering landmark legislation overhauling the health care system, North Carolina groups supporting Democratic proposals are stepping up their lobbying efforts. The North Carolina chapter of Organizing for America, the grassroots effort of the Democratic National Committee, plans to have phone banks working today in Carrboro, Raleigh, Charlotte, Hendersonville, Asheville, Wilmington and Fayetteville, Rob Christensen reports. The phone banks are part of a national effort by the Obama organization to make 100,000 calls on Tuesday. President Barack Obama is expected to talk to people working the phone banks by way of a simulcast hook up this evening. This morning, Congressman Bob Etheridge is holding a health care discussion at the downtown Raleigh YWCA targeted at seniors and retirees. Members of the State Employees Association of North Carolina will be at several college campuses making calls to the office of Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan urging her to pass "real health care reform." Hagan has been vague as to what form of health care legislation she will support. http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/support_for_reform_forms ### --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. To post to this group, send to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] E-mail [email protected] with questions or concerns This is a list of individuals. It is not affiliated with any group or organization. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---