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Harvey Persons, Chairman

Douglas County Republican Party

The Georgia DOT will be switching traffic up onto the new southbound lanes of Georgia Highway 92 this next Thursday, November 20^th. These are the lanes that have been under construction between Duralee Lane (Walgreen's) and Interstate 20.  Traffic will be a mess that day starting about 9:00 a.m.  The Georgia DOT anticipates the switch will be completed in the early to mid afternoon.

Wes Tallon

Director of Communications and Community Relations

Douglas County, Georgia

770.920.7593

fax 770.920.7445

www.CelebrateDouglasCounty.com

Important Runoff Voting Information Please HELP!

Runoff Voting Information RUNOFF ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2! You do not need to have voted in the general election in order to vote in the runoff. You must have been registered to vote on or before October 6, 2008, however, in order to vote in the runoff. Please help GET OUT THE VOTE FOR JIM MARTIN FOR US SENATE,  JIM POWELL FOR PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION AND SANDRA DAWSON FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE!   Absentee Ballots IF YOU INTEND TO VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT, PLEASE APPLY FOR A BALLOT IMMEDIATELY AND NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 19. If the ballot does not arrive before November 25, please call Douglas County's elections office. You can find the phone number at the Secretary of State's website, by clicking on this link. Absentee ballots will not be counted unless they are received before the closing of the polls (7:00 p.m.) on the day of the runoff, December 2. For information on applying for an absentee ballot, please see the Secretary of State's website by clicking on this link. You will have to: 1. Download, print, and fill out the form provided (it is a PDF); and 2. Mail, fax, or hand-deliver the completed form to your county elections office. You can find the address and fax number for your elections office at the Secretary of State's website, by clicking on this link. Given the short amount of time before the runoff, we recommend that you fax or hand-deliver the application if possible.     Advance Voting Advance, in-person voting for the runoff will run from Thursday, November 20 through Wednesday, November 26 (the week before the runoff) - with the exception of Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28 when there will be no advance voting. There is no advance voting on Monday, December 1, the day before the runoff. All Advance voting will occur at the Douglas County Courthouse ONLY!!! You will need an approved photo ID in order to vote in person. Please see the Secretary of State's website for more information by clicking here.     Election Day Runoff Election Day is Tuesday, December 2! To find your Election Day polling place, click on this link to use the Secretary of State's poll locator. Again, you will need an approved photo ID in order to vote in person. Please see the Secretary of State's website for more information by clicking here.     Military and Overseas Ballots If you are a military or overseas voter and would like an absentee ballot, please click here for the request form.

This was written a few days ago, but it says a lot about where we are headed.    Let's work to elect Jim Martin and turn GA purple on its way to turning blue!   

Regards,

Free Polazzo
Douglas County


 

November 9, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
 

It Still Felt Good the Morning After

By FRANK RICH

ON the morning after a black man won the White House, America's tears of catharsis gave way to unadulterated joy.

Our nation was still in the same ditch it had been the day before, but the atmosphere was giddy. We felt good not only because we had breached a racial barrier as old as the Republic. Dawn also brought the realization that we were at last emerging from an abusive relationship with our country's 21st-century leaders. The festive scenes of liberation that Dick Cheney had once imagined for Iraq were finally taking place ­ in cities all over America.

For eight years, we've been told by those in power that we are small, bigoted and stupid ­ easily divided and easily frightened. This was the toxic catechism of Bush-Rove politics. It was the soiled banner picked up by the sad McCain campaign, and it was often abetted by an amen corner in the dominant news media. We heard this slander of America so often that we all started to believe it, liberals most certainly included. If I had a dollar for every Democrat who told me there was no way that Americans would ever turn against the war in Iraq or definitively reject Bush governance or elect a black man named Barack Hussein Obama president, I could almost start to recoup my 401(k). Few wanted to take yes for an answer.

So let's be blunt. Almost every assumption about America that was taken as a given by our political culture on Tuesday morning was proved wrong by Tuesday night.

The most conspicuous clichés to fall, of course, were the twin suppositions that a decisive number of white Americans wouldn't vote for a black presidential candidate ­ and that they were lying to pollsters about their rampant racism. But the polls were accurate. There was no "Bradley effect." A higher percentage of white men voted for Obama than any Democrat since Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton included.

Obama also won all four of those hunting-and-Hillary-loving Rust Belt states that became 2008's obsession among slumming upper-middle-class white journalists: Pennsylvania and Michigan by double digits, as well as Ohio and even Indiana, which has gone Democratic only once (1964) since 1936. The solid Republican South, led by Virginia and North Carolina, started to turn blue as well. While there are still bigots in America, they are in unambiguous retreat.

And what about all those terrified Jews who reportedly abandoned their progressive heritage to buy into the smears libeling Obama as an Israel-hating terrorist? Obama drew a larger percentage of Jews nationally (78) than Kerry had (74) and ­ mazel tov, Sarah Silverman! ­ won Florida.

Let's defend Hispanic-Americans, too, while we're at it. In one of the more notorious observations of the campaign year, a Clinton pollster, Sergio Bendixen, told The New Yorker in January that "the Hispanic voter ­ and I want to say this very carefully ­ has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates." Let us say very carefully that a black presidential candidate won Latinos ­ the fastest-growing demographic in the electorate ­ 67 percent to 31 (up from Kerry's 53-to-44 edge and Gore's 62-to-35).

Young voters also triumphed over the condescension of the experts. "Are they going to show up?" Cokie Roberts of ABC News asked in February. "Probably not. They never have before. By the time November comes, they'll be tired." In fact they turned up in larger numbers than in 2004, and their disproportionate Democratic margin made a serious difference, as did their hard work on the ground. They're not the ones who need Geritol.

The same commentators who dismissed every conceivable American demographic as racist, lazy or both got Sarah Palin wrong too. When she made her debut in St. Paul, the punditocracy was nearly uniform in declaring her selection a brilliant coup. There hadn't been so much instant over-the-top praise by the press for a cynical political stunt since President Bush "landed" a jet on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in that short-lived triumph "Mission Accomplished."

The rave reviews for Palin were completely disingenuous. Anyone paying attention (with the possible exception of John McCain) could see she was woefully ill-equipped to serve half-a-heartbeat away from the presidency. The conservatives Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy said so on MSNBC when they didn't know their mikes were on. But, hey, she was a dazzling TV presence, the thinking went, so surely doltish Americans would rally around her anyway. "She killed!" cheered Noonan about the vice-presidential debate, revising her opinion upward and marveling at Palin's gift for talking "over the heads of the media straight to the people." Many talking heads thought she tied or beat Joe Biden.

The people, however, were reaching a less charitable conclusion and were well ahead of the Beltway curve in fleeing Palin. Only after polls confirmed that she was costing McCain votes did conventional wisdom in Washington finally change, demoting her from Republican savior to scapegoat overnight.

But Palin's appeal wasn't overestimated only because of her kitschy "American Idol" star quality. Her fierce embrace of the old Karl Rove wedge politics, the divisive pitting of the "real America" against the secular "other" America, was also regarded as a sure-fire winner. The second most persistent assumption by both pundits and the McCain campaign this year ­ after the likely triumph of racism ­ was that the culture war battlegrounds from 2000 and 2004 would remain intact.

This is true in exactly one instance: gay civil rights. Though Rove's promised "permanent Republican majority" lies in humiliating ruins, his and Bush's one secure legacy will be their demagogic exploitation of homophobia. The success of the four state initiatives banning either same-sex marriage or same-sex adoptions was the sole retro trend on Tuesday. And Obama, who largely soft-pedaled the issue this year, was little help. In California, where other races split more or less evenly on a same-sex marriage ban, some 70 percent of black voters contributed to its narrow victory.

That lagging indicator aside, nearly every other result on Tuesday suggests that while the right wants to keep fighting the old boomer culture wars, no one else does. Three state initiatives restricting abortion failed. Bill Ayers proved a lame villain, scaring no one. Americans do not want to revisit Vietnam (including in Iraq). For all the attention paid by the news media and McCain-Palin to rancorous remembrances of things past, I sometimes wondered whether most Americans thought the Weather Underground was a reunion band and the Hanoi Hilton a chain hotel. Socialism, the evil empire and even Ronald Reagan may be half-forgotten blurs too.

If there were any doubts the 1960s are over, they were put to rest Tuesday night when our new first family won the hearts of the world as it emerged on that vast blue stage to join the celebration in Chicago's Grant Park. The bloody skirmishes that took place on that same spot during the Democratic convention 40 years ago ­ young vs. old, students vs. cops, white vs. black ­ seemed as remote as the moon. This is another America ­ hardly a perfect or prejudice-free America, but a union that can change and does, aspiring to perfection even if it can never achieve it.

Still, change may come slowly to the undying myths bequeathed to us by the Bush decade. "Don't think for a minute that power concedes," Obama is fond of saying. Neither does groupthink. We now keep hearing, for instance, that America is "a center-right nation" ­ apparently because the percentages of Americans who call themselves conservative (34), moderate (44) and liberal (22) remain virtually unchanged from four years ago. But if we've learned anything this year, surely it's that labels are overrated. Those same polls find that more and more self-described conservatives no longer consider themselves Republicans. Americans now say they favor government doing more (51 percent), not less (43) ­ an 11-point swing since 2004 ­ and they still overwhelmingly reject the Iraq war. That's a centrist country tilting center-left, and that's the majority who voted for Obama.

The post-Bush-Rove Republican Party is in the minority because it has driven away women, the young, suburbanites, black Americans, Latino-Americans, Asian-Americans, educated Americans, gay Americans and, increasingly, working-class Americans. Who's left? The only states where the G.O.P. increased its percentage of the presidential vote relative to the Democrats were West Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas. Even the North Carolina county where Palin expressed her delight at being in the "real America" went for Obama by more than 18 percentage points.

The actual real America is everywhere. It is the America that has been in shell shock since the aftermath of 9/11, when our government wielded a brutal attack by terrorists as a club to ratchet up our fears, betray our deepest constitutional values and turn Americans against one another in the name of "patriotism." What we started to remember the morning after Election Day was what we had forgotten over the past eight years, as our abusive relationship with the Bush administration and its press enablers dragged on: That's not who we are.

So even as we celebrated our first black president, we looked around and rediscovered the nation that had elected him. "We are the ones we've been waiting for," Obama said in February, and indeed millions of such Americans were here all along, waiting for a leader. This was the week that they reclaimed their country.

Democrats,
 
Attached please find the agenda for tomorrow's meeting of the Douglas County Democratic Party that will be held at our normal meeting location which is the Alice Hawthorne Center.  Please come out to get updates related to this week's elections and upcoming run-off races.  Thanks for all of your hard work last week.
 
Regards,
 
 
 
Martin Raxton, Chairman
Douglas County Democratic Party
(404) 276-2121
www.douglascountydemocraticparty.org

11-07-08

Dear Voters,

As you read Saxby Chambliss' ad, don't forget the campaign that he ran against Max Cleland, that got him into office. Max Cleland, our Viet Nam veteran who lost both legs and an arm, was touted to be against the Boy Scouts and was supposed to be associated with Osama bin Laden. Remember how he flew on Air force One with his good friend George W. Bush. This all smacks of Karl Rove tactics which we all detest. LIES! These tactics are old school. We now have a grown -up government.

Remember to vote on December 2 and correct this injustice.

Raymond F. Page, Editor

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Dear Friends -

The PBS program NOW has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is
qualified. Apparently the right wing knew about this
in advance and are flooding the voting with YES votes.

The poll will be reported on PBS and picked up by
mainstream media. It could influence undecided voters
in swing states.

Please do two things -- takes 20 seconds.

1) Click on link and vote yourself.

Here's the link:
  http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

2) Then forward this email to every single Obama-Biden voter
you know, and urge them to vote and pass it on.

The last thing we need is PBS saying their viewers
think Sarah Palin is qualified.
 
Thanks.

Free Polazzo, Chair
Douglas County Democratic Party Recruitment and Education Committee

email: freepolazzo@comcast.net
phone: 770-949-1707 (H)
cell:  770-778-8507 (C)

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Tuesday, October 14^th

            6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

            Deer Lick Park Activity Center

            Commission District 2 Town Hall Meeting with Commissioner Charley Camp

                        6 - 7 p.m.:  Meet and Greet the County Staff, view Department exhibits, tour the renovated

                        Deer Lick Park Activity Center

                        7 - 8 p.m.:  Questions and Answers with Commissioner Camp

            Officiating:      Douglas County District 2 Commissioner Charley Camp

            Open to the Public, Free Admission

·        Thursday, October 16^th

            6:00 p.m.

            Citizen's Hall, Douglas County Courthouse

            Public Information Meeting on the Three State Constitutional Amendments and the Special

            Election in the City and County on Tax Allocation Districts

                        Including a video presentation from ACCG (Association County Governments of Georgia)

            Officiating:      Douglas County District 1 Commissioner Freddie Ashmon, Jr., State Representative

                                    Roger Bruce, Jim Woodward (Miller & Martin, attorneys), Mark Teal (Douglas County

                                    Development Services Director), Amy Brumelow (Douglas County Planning and Zoning

                                    Director

            Open to the Public, Free Admission

·        Friday, October 17^th

            10:00 a.m.

            2^nd Floor, Atrium, Douglas County Courthouse

            Cutting the Cake for the County's 138^th Birthday (County was chartered October 17^th, 1870)

            Officiating:      Douglas County Chairman Tom Worthan, Douglas County Board of Commissioners

            Open to the Public, Free Admission

·        Monday, October 20^th

            12:00 noon

            South Sweetwater Road at Mt. Vernon Road

            Groundbreaking Ceremony for the New Lithia Springs Recreational Park

            Officiating:      Douglas County Commission Chairman Tom Worthan, Board of Commissioners,

                                    Douglas County Parks and Recreation Director Gary Dukes

            Open to the Public, Free Admission

·        Tuesday, October 21^st

            11:00 a.m. (following Commission meeting)

            On site (former trailer park, enter off Fairburn Road at Shell Station)

            Groundbreaking for New Douglas County E-911 Center and Emergency Operations Center

                        Funding from the 911 Fund and Appropriations from Congress

            Officiating:      Douglas County Commission Chairman Tom Worthan, Board of Commissioners,

                                    Congressman David Scott (invited), Douglas County E-911 Director Greg Whitaker,

                                    Douglas County EMA Director Jason Milhollin, Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller,

                                    Douglas County Fire Chief Scott Spencer, E-911 and EMA Staff

            Open to the Public, Free Admission

·        Tuesday, October 22^nd

            9:00 a.m.

            Boundary Waters Aquatic Center, 5000 Georgia Highway 92/166

            Ribbon-cutting for New Cardio Fitness Center at Boundary Waters Aquatic Center

            Officiating:      Douglas County Commission Chairman Tom Worthan, Douglas County Board of                                                      Commissioners, Douglas County Parks and Recreation Director Gary Dukes, Parks and

            Recreation Staff

            Open to the Public, Free Admission

·        Monday, October 27^th

            12:30 p.m.

            Douglas County Fire Station No. 6, Riverside Parkway (one mile east of Fairburn Road)

            Ribbon-cutting for Renovated Douglas County Fire Station No. 6

            Officiating:      Douglas County Commission Chairman Tom Worthan, Douglas County Board of

                                    Commissioners, Douglas County Fire Chief Scott Spencer, Douglas County Deputy

                                    Fire Chief Kim Ransom, DCFD Staff

            Open to the Public, Free Admission

·        Friday, October 31^st (Halloween)

            2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

            Douglas County Courthouse

            Annual Trick-or-Treating in the Courthouse

                        Event Highlights - for children 12 and under ~ children visit the various Departments in the

                        Courthouse (participating departments are marked by smiling jack-'o-lanterns on the doors)

                        for treats, plus popcorn for everyone in the Courthouse Atrium

            Sponsored by the Employees of Douglas County (no tax dollars are used, all treats are funded by the

            employees)

            Open to the Public, Free Admission

	Dear Raymond, Last week, amidst the debate on the financial crisis we took a giant step forward towards a sustainable and secure energy future. In the Senate we passed and the President signed into law a landmark package of clean energy tax policies. And for the first time in history we took away some of the subsidies from oil and gas companies to pay for them.  This was not an easy victory. The Democrats only have a one vote majority and it takes 60 votes these days to get anything passed in the Senate.  While the final vote was overwhelming, getting it passed required breaking a Republican filibuster that had defeated eight previous clean energy bills. I knew this legislation was too important to get caught in partisan crosshairs. So I reached across the aisle and crafted a package with Senator Ensign that would win broad support.  I listened to my House colleagues to understand what they would support. The vote was 93-2 in the Senate. I am writing to say thank you so much for your continued support, this is a victory for all of us and it was a long time coming. I could not have waged this battle without you. And for families and business budgets that continue to be crushed by high costs help is on its way. The terrific thing about this legislation is that it gives long term predictability to the efficiency and renewable industry so they can build plants in America. It will allow them to get to large scale deployment resulting in bringing costs down. It covers a wide range of technologies and really unleashes the full power of solar. Here are some of the highlights of the legislation:   Provides a credit for every kilowatt of electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind, biomass, geothermal, and incremental hydropower for a ten year period for facilities placed in service by end of 2009.  Provides eight years of investment tax credits for solar energy and fuel cells, which will spur a $232 billion investment in solar Provides over $10,000 worth of  tax incentives to encourage consumers to make their homes and cars more efficient and lower their energy bills; includes giving $7500 to the first 250,000 people who buy a plug-in electric car and paying for 30% of full cost of residential solar. Over 500,000 clean energy, good paying jobs throughout America are expected to be created as a result of this legislation. And there is no time when we needed these more than now. It is important to remember, and important to tell to anyone who will listen, that clean, cheap and renewable energy is not something off in a distant future. The technology exists right now to begin our transition. We can have a safe and secure energy future. The only question is whether Congress continues to have the will to make it happen. The energy package we passed is a significant step in the right direction - but it is the first step. Over the coming months we are going to need to work together to make sure it is not the only step. I hope that I'll be able to have your support as we fight some difficult battles ahead. Thanks again for all your help. I'll be in touch soon. Sincerely, Maria Cantwell

Dear Democrats,
 
The message is simple: please continue with your efforts of getting Democrats elected in Douglas County on 11/04/08.  Vote, Vote and Vote!  Additionally, please plan on coming out this Saturday, October 11, 2008 @ 10:00am to the Alice Hawthorne Center located at 7775 Malone St. in Douglasville to see how you can make a difference.  Attached please find the agenda for Saturday's meeting.  This will be our last meeting before our candidates are elected so please come out and show them your support in person. 

Regards,
 
Martin Raxton, Chairman
Douglas County Democratic Party
(404) 276-2121
www.douglascountydemocraticparty.org
 

Free Polazzo

Action Alert
September 30, 2008

 Forward this Alert to Your Family and Friends to Help Defeat Amendment 3

During early voting (already underway) and on Election Day, November 4, Georgia voters will be asked to vote on 3 Constitutional Amendments. Amendment 3 would permit counties to give developers the power to create special districts, "infrastructure development districts" (IDDs), that would issue tax-free bonds to finance infrastructure for large, private residential communities. The developers would be given the power to levy taxes to pay any costs incurred in development, taxes that the counties will be required to collect for them. Georgians should VOTE NO on Amendment #3 and protect citizens and water resources for the following reasons:

1) County Commissions Can Bestow Taxing Power on Private Businesses

This Amendment will allow county commissions, acting by a single majority vote, after only two public hearings, to authorize private developers to levy taxes ("assessments") to finance Infrastructure Development District projects.

2) No Referendum is Required

No vote by the taxpayers of the host county is required to grant this power to private parties.

3) No Conflict of Interest Rules Apply

There is no legal prohibition on any county commissioner having a financial interest in these Infrastructure Development Districts.

4) Developers Allowed to Issue Tax-Free Bonds

When these tax levies ("assessments") are permitted, the developer is also authorized to issue tax-free municipal bonds; in this event, the Infrastructure Development District effectively will act like a municipal government - without being elected.

5) Host Counties May be Left Holding the Bag

Because the taxes ("assessments") levied by the developers are to be collected by county tax commissioners, by operation of law, any default in payment of taxes by the developer, or by purchasers of properties in the District may create a tax lien, which can lead directly to the host county becoming the owner of the defaulting property.

6) Costs of Development are not Controlled by Market Forces

Developers operating as Infrastructure Development Districts are required by law to pass all costs of development on to the purchasers of property in the development in the form of assessments (taxes), removing any restraints on costs that would ordinarily limit a developer's budget.

7) All Key Financial Decisions are Left Exclusively to Developers

All critical financial decisions of Infrastructure Development Districts will be made by the private developers prior to the time when control of the Districts passes to governing boards controlled by property owning residents. Thus, major financial decisions are outside their control.

8) No Evidence of Sustainability is Required

There is no requirement that developers of Infrastructure Development Districts show the suitability of their site for their project, or assure that adequate water supply or other necessary infrastructure such as transportation exist outside the boundaries of their development. Lack of fresh water supply in IDDs concerns many citizens, because developers are not required to plan for adequate supply before beginning a project. Near Port St. Lucie, Fla., a development district literally ran out of water in early 2005, leaving residents with dry faucets and $180,000 past due to their city supplier.

9) Other Creditors Will Try to Recover Debts from Host Counties

In the event of a tax payment default by developer or property owners, other creditors can, and most likely will, defer their own actions in default until the host county takes titles - along with whatever liability attaches to the properties in default.

10) Claims of Statutory Limits on Taxes are False

While the statute creating Infrastructure Development Districts requires that purchasers receive disclosure documents stating that all taxes ("assessments") of the District are "capped by law," in fact the only legal limit on such charges is left to the discretion of each District Board. Actual legal caps were amended out of the bill prior to final passage in 2007. The board can set the charges at any level it desires; that decision is merely a business arrangement, nothing resembling a law.

If you have questions about Amendment 3 or Infrastructure Development Districts contact Neill Herring at neillherring@earthlink.net.


Thanks to all of your efforts in helping to strengthen the Georgia Water Coalition!

www.georgiawater.org

 

RENOVATIONS TO "MEALS ON WHEELS"/SENIOR CENTER KITCHEN UNDERWAY

Renovations Funded by Douglas County and the Atlanta Regional Commission

          Much-needed renovations and updates to the "Meals on Wheels"/Senior Center Kitchen are now underway, thanks to a cooperative effort between Douglas County and the Atlanta Regional Commission.  Delivery of the new kitchen equipment began Friday, September 26^th.

          Douglas County Property Management is paying $25,000 for the work to be done in the senior citizens area, including re-painting, re-flooring, and installing new shelves in the kitchen area, re-painting and installing new flooring in the hallways, and cleaning the HVAC unit.  The Property Management staff itself is removing the existing aged shelving and cabinets, and re-wiring the building so that the new kitchen equipment will have the correct electrical service to be operational.

          The Atlanta Regional Commission is providing the new cook stove and two steamers

          The kitchen, located in the Senior Center on Fairburn Road, is used for the "Meals on Wheels" Program and for in-house food service to seniors who visit the Center.

          Photo:  Douglas County Chairman Tom Worthan watches new wiring being installed by Douglas County Property Management Department employees Wayne Watson, Ronald Weathington, and Mike Wade in the Senior Center kitchen

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

For more information concerning this Press Release, please contact:

Wes Tallon, Director

Douglas County Department of Communications and Community Relations

770.920.7593     office

404.405.0401     cell

wtallon@co.douglas.ga.us           e-mail

Article Title:
Pharmaceutical companies feed suicidal tendencies with another pill, or two

To view the contents on www.tennessean.com, go to:
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200809240210/OPINION03/809240419

 Heads Up, Voters

Yesterday, 9-22-08, my wife and I went to the Court House to vote before lunch. It was very crowded with a waiting time probably more than an hour so we left to do other errands. After lunch we went back again and it was still crowded but we decided to stay. It took a good hour to vote.  The staff can only be described as friendly, wonderful and courteous.  Anyway, early voting will continue to be Monday through Friday , 8AM to 5 PM until October 31st. Be ready for a line even though there are 8 voting machines. Voter turnout will probably top 90%. Maybe we'll graduate to Election Month instead of Election Day.

Raymond F. Page, Editor

Dear Democrats,
 
I have just been informed that the Political Candidates Forum scheduled for tomorrow evening, 9/18/08 at the Willie Watkins funeral home in Douglasville has been cancelled.  The event is being re-scheduled for October 7, 2008.  More information will be coming out shortly.  Please pass this message along to your friends and neighbors.
 
Regards,
 
Martin Raxton, Chairman
Douglas County Democratic Party
(404) 276-2121
www.douglascountydemocraticparty.org

BARACK OBAMA WINS the DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION by ACCLAMATION

I believe he will be elected President not because he's a Democrat, not because he's Black, not because he's young, not because he's straight, not because of the cost of his hair cuts, not because he's good looking nor because he has only one wife. He'll be elected because:

IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID!!

Dear Friend, I just signed the First Freedom First petition -- about the importance of safeguarding separation of church and state and protecting religious liberty. The founders of our nation believed that all Americans should have the right to worship according to their own beliefs, or not to worship at all. It was so important to them that they placed it in the first sentence of the Bill of Rights. I believe that religion is a deeply personal matter and that Americans must be free to practice their religion without coercion. Simply put, there must be a separation of church and state. I know that we agree about the importance of these issues, so I hope that you will ACT NOW, like I just did. Be a part of First Freedom First. Sign the petition and encourage others to join you. Together, we will send a powerful and resounding message -- safeguard the first freedom! Please visit the website below and join me in standing up for this fundamental American freedom.

http://www.firstfreedomfirst.org

Sincerely,
Tracey Adamowski
children1st@mchsi.comdi