Posted on 07/29/2003 9:04:03 AM PDT by PhiKapMom
July 28, 2003
Dear xxxxxx,
Last week I was honored to be elected as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Like you, I am a Team Leader and one of my priorities as RNC Chairman is to recruit new Team Leaders and grow our party. Everywhere I go I encourage people to sign up to be Team Leaders. You are our frontline out in the states and we must work together to be successful. I am excited for the opportunity to work with you. Together we can expand our Party by sharing the President's message with new voters across the country.
In my acceptance speech I outlined some important ideas about where we are as a party and where we want to go. We can only achieve our goals if we work together. So I encourage you to read the speech and share your thoughts with me. I am excited about our agenda, our President and our candidates all across the country. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers all across the country will make the difference in the next election and you will help lead our team in that effort.
Together we can accomplish history. I look forward to working with you and meeting with you as I travel across America.
Thank you for being a Team Leader and your dedication towards helping grow our Party.
Sincerely,
Ed Gillespie
Chairman Republican National Committee
Question: I am already active with my state and local parties. What is the value of joining Team Leaders?
As some of you might know, the Team Leader program was first developed during the "Bush for President" campaign. To continue the success of the Team Leader program, it is now being fully integrated in to the RNC's grassroots network, with the full support of state and local parties.
State parties will be using the Team Leader program to recruit more volunteers and activists, with the end result being national coordination of Republican grassroots efforts.
On March 12, 2003, former Congressman J.C. Watts (R-OK) was chosen to head GOPAC. Personally cannot think of a better person to be Chairman!
Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT): "I am also troubled with members of my own party..."
Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT): "I am also troubled with members of my own party, most of whom in Congress and in fact throughout the country supported the war against Saddam, who now seem to be raising so many questions that they are leaving the impression that they don't think this was a just war. I want to come back and restate that case because I am convinced it was." (Sen. Joe Lieberman, NBC's "Today," 7/28/03)
RNC Web site Enabling Citizen Involvement Wins Award
WASHINGTON - President Bush’s agenda to create jobs, grow our economy and protect our homeland has the support and praise of a wide majority of Americans. This week the Republican National Committee’s program to help citizens participate in voicing their opinion and promoting the President’s agenda earned praise as well.
The Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet, as well as, George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, and Politics Online presented the GOP Team Leader program and Web site with a Golden Dot award for “civic excellence in online campaigning during 2001 and 2002” at the 2003 Politics Online Conference.
“The Republican Party was successful in 2002 thanks to the hard work of grassroots activists involved in the Team Leader program across the nation. It is their support of President Bush’s agenda that has made the Team Leader program work and we are grateful for the recognition of their work,” said Serenety Hanley, Director of the Team Leader program.
Enabling every citizen to participate in political process and help move the President’s agenda forward is a key function of the Republican National Committee and is at the heart of the now award winning GOP Team Leader program. In his inaugural address President Bush called on every American to be “citizens, not spectators” in building a better America. The GOP Team Leader program follows through on the President’s challenge by giving citizens the tools to participate in the political process by quickly and easily contacting their elected officials, voice their opinion to their local media, register to vote and more.
The Team Leader program will be an integral part of the RNC’s efforts in 2003 and 2004. RNC Chairman, Marc Raciciot has challenged every Republican to register at least five new Republican’s to vote. Team Leaders are central to coordinating that effort.
For more information go to www.GOPTeamLeader.com.
GOP Reaches Out to NYC Hispanics
By AMY WESTFELDT
Associated Press Writer
July 24, 2003, 4:37 PM EDT
NEW YORK -- State Republicans, saying they are strong enough to reach out to previously untapped communities, opened a voter registration office Thursday in a Hispanic neighborhood in upper Manhattan.
"Don't take a single precinct for granted, because we are here and we're here to stay," said incoming Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie, who joined Gov. George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the opening.
Gillespie directed his comments at state Democrats as the office opened in Inwood, a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood near the Manhattan-Bronx border. The RNC, which is conducting four days of meetings in the city, has announced plans to campaign heavily in the Democratic state, hoping for victory in the 2004 presidential race for the first time since Ronald Reagan won here in 1984.
More than 2 million Hispanic residents live in New York City, and Bloomberg said the Hispanic vote will be critical to the party's efforts next year.
Pataki, who was re-elected last year in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 5-to-3, said his party's economics and policies are "not just for Park avenue."
"It's aimed at helping every single person in every single community," he said.
Pataki aggressively sought out Hispanic voters during last year's gubernatorial campaign, frequently campaigning under the "Amigos de Pataki" banner in Latino communities.
Pataki, Bloomberg and RNC Chairman Marc Racicot walked through the state GOP Committee's office, which opened between a dress shop and a fruit and vegetable stand. More than 30 neighborhood residents visited the office on Thursday to register as Republicans.
The GOP news conference was confronted more than 30 protesters headed by Democratic city councilman Miguel Martinez, who led chants in English and Spanish saying Republicans were against immigrants and neighborhoods.
"We don't need more Republicans. We need more services," said Martinez, who said the GOP has backed policies that erode support for undocumented immigrants and cut services to working families.
Pataki waved at the protesters as he left, prompting loud boos.
Earlier Thursday at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, city tourism officials courted RNC delegates with clips from famous films, videos of tourist attractions and a live performance by four Radio City Rockettes as a preview of what to expect for the 2004 party convention in New York.
Delegates posed with three statues, on loan from Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, of President George W. Bush, Pataki and former mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The museum has yet to make a statue of Bloomberg, or he would have been there too, said Keith Yazmir, a spokesman for the city's tourism agency.
Tourism officials played film clips from "Saturday Night Fever," "Charade" and other films featuring the city. Bloomberg welcomed the party on a video while Frank Sinatra crooned "New York, New York" in the background. Conservative commentator Sean Hannity narrated a second video touting the city's accomplishment, including a 70 percent drop in crime in the last 10 years.
Kucinich Campaign Hunts for Greens
By Charles Mahaleris
Talon News
July 28, 2003
CLEVELAND, OH (Talon News) -- Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) proudly has boasted being the most "progressive" candidate among the field of Democrat contenders for the White House. Late last week, he began the call to Greens and Nader voters to help his long-shot campaign.
In an open letter published last Thursday in Common Dreams, the online newspaper for progressive politics, Kucinich asked Greens and supporters of Ralph Nader to support his presidential bid.
"We all know we will do better if we work together," Kucinich wrote in the letter. "Perhaps we can find common ground on issues and principles. I would like to open up that possibility. And I would like to ask that you give serious consideration to my candidacy for President. Because a better world is still possible.
"Kucinich co-chairs the Progressive Caucus and reminded the liberal Greens and Nader supporters that he shares their view on such topics as: opposition to the World Trade Organization, opposition to the war in Iraq, opposition to the Patriot Act, opposition to the death penalty, support for Canadian-style national health care, and support for voting reforms for ex-felons.
"We stand together in demanding that publicly-owned clean water is a human right. We stand together in demanding that the developing world's debt be forgiven, as if it were still the Jubilee Year; and that we act seriously to build a world in which arms sales decline, hunger declines, poverty declines, and human rights increase," Kucinich attested.
"We stand together on rejoining the rest of the world, and signing the Kyoto Treaty, the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Land Mines Ban Treaty, and all the rest of the treaties and agreements and working relationships that the current Administration has so cavalierly tossed aside," the former Cleveland mayor reminded the liberal activists.
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