Posted on 08/05/2009 3:00:50 PM PDT by Ibleedred
--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Organizing for America wrote:
From: Organizing for America Subject: Thanks! Can you bring a friend? To: XXXXX@XXXXXX.com Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 3:49 PM
(Name Withheld) --
Thanks for answering the President's call and committing to attend a local event this month to build support for insurance reform. We'll be in touch very soon with more details for what you can do in your area...
(Excerpt) Read more at operationembarrassyourcongressman.com ...
We should all go to the Organizing for America website and RSVP to as many events as we can, and then of course not go. Just think how disheartening it would be if these clowns are expecting 100 people to how up at an event and there are only 10.
Those people are clowns and they are not going to stop our side from speaking our mind and excercising our constitutional right to free speech. They honestly don’t scare me one bit...in fact, I am even more determined to attend any and all events in my area. All of my reps and senators are republican..so I might have to take a drive to a dem district...lol!
Bravo!
And right on, dude/dudette.
A full copy of this TP Memo should be fired off ASAP to ALL major national, regional, State and local Conservative Talk show hosts.
Top of the list: Rush Limbaugh, then Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, Lars Larson, and so on...
As well, every FReeper here who may be involved in their local or regional Tea Party/AFP/9-12 organizations, any among us who are Libertarian or GOP precinct committee persons should have a printed copy in hand and begin working their respective “telephone trees”.
These yutzes are planning what amounts to highly organized “soft intimidation” of REAL individuals who are sick of being taxed to death with little or no real, honest representation from slick professional liars who cannot tell the truth about their intentions and get elected.
Basically, they want to repeatedly interrupt, misdirect, chant over the top of, and generally abuse and intimidate individuals like us who are NOT getting paid OR bussed in by ACORN/UNION THUGS.
But, paraphrasing Herb Cohen (”You Can Negotiate Anything” and “Negotiate This!”) a tactic EXPOSED is a tactic rendered useless. If we already know how they are going to try to derail us, we can take countermeasures of our own...
Starting with perhaps a pregnant pause, a brief withering glance, and
“Oh, well now, I see you are following the ‘Democracy Now’ talking points memo almost word for word...Sorry but I have the floor right now, and I am not yielding to your programmed propaganda, you paid shill!”
Congrats, kcvl on this post - an excellent and informative “catch”!
I hope everyone on this thread follows through with at least one of my suggestions
A.A.C.
I’m listening in to a telephone town hall with Mike Thompson right now (D-CA, 1st district). It is nothing but a filibuster. You can’t interrupt with another question and the callers getting to ask questions are meek and docile. Each answer is a filibuster. The callers are screened; Thompson just said so in response to a supposed doctor who just fell all over Thompson praising him for his leadership, blah, blah, blah.. Thompson noted that the screener isn’t there at his location as though he didn’t know what the call was about.
confrontation? Im getting to that point. Im a simple guy - and iM really GETTING pissed off with whats going on in THE USA.
That’s a great idea, MrB!
This is where they are getting trained during the week of August 8th - formally Camp Obama - now Camp OFC/Camp Organizing for America (You can’t make this stuff up!)
This training is designed for volunteers who want to be volunteer leaders and organizers in their neighborhoods and communities.
Topics include:
*Working as a community organizer
*Storytelling as an organizing tool
*Creating and working in organizing teams
*Campaign structure and strategy
*Issue advocacy for health care reform
*Using social media for organizing
*Phonebanking and canvassing
*Event planning
*Organizing for America’s Arizona field plan
Your trainers will include veteran political, union and community organizers, Organizing for America field staff and campaign alumni. You will also be training with the first wave of OFA Community Organizers.
To participate in this training, you must commit to attending the entire weekend of training - both days are required.
Learn how to be make change in your own neighborhood and beyond, with the same tools that helped elect Barack Obama!
PLEASE VISIT
http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/azcampofa
TO SIGN UP!!!
At the end of the day it really is quite simple, isn’t it?
Submit. Or Fight.
Amen!
Obama Endorsed this effort: (below parts of letter from Obama)
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hqblog
“And some people, not surprisingly, are getting pretty nervous. So we’ve got to get out there, fight lies with truth, and set the record straight.
That’s why Organizing for America is putting together thousands of events this month where you can reach out to neighbors, show your support, and make certain your members of Congress know that you’re counting on them to act.
But these canvasses, town halls, and gatherings only make a difference if you turn up to knock on doors, share your views, and show your support. So here’s what I need from you:
Can you commit to join at least one event in your community this month?”
I fight
For some reason, The link to Obama’s letter isn’t working anymore.
There’s the rub. These are almost all DEMOCRAT congresscritters who are being roasted by their DEMOCRAT voters. How do you send Obamabots, Kos Kidz, ACORN types, union thugs, etc. to try and crash a DEMOCRAT townhall?
I’m not worried, those types are cowards. They are not going to show up when they know they’ll be outnumbered 20 to 1.
Here is what they are going to try to do:
1) bring more people to events than we do;
2) arrive earlier than we do and sit up front to be very visible to cameras;
3) study venue staging ahead of time to plan strategy
4) be more visible than we are and situate their signs where cameras are;
5) assign 3-5 people to approach each reporter to “shape the narrative;”
6) interrupt us and “refocus” the meeting;
7) don’t debate us and prep their side with questions;
8) repetition of their talking points is key to their strategy;
9) organize their own town hall meetings and choose a venue that is difficult for us to attend; put protesters in the back; make us submit questions and select the questions to be asked; collect all signs and leaflets that are not the ones they provided;
10) assign people to greet reporters and enter and leave the meeting with them to minimize the chances we will have to speak to the reporters.
You’re not alone.
here’s another link to Obamas endorsement: (not the original though)
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