Help Obama Win Ohio!

July 16, 2008 • Vol. 5, No.16 • www.uaprogressiveaction.com

Please join us this Thursday for the Campaign for Change

Sen. Barack Obama's Franklin County Campaign for Change

Organizational Kick-Off Meeting

When: Thursday, July 17 at 7:00 PM

Where: Plumbers & Pipefitter Local Union 189
1250 Kinnear Road, Columbus, Ohio 43212 (map)

Join organizers from Barack Obama's Campaign for Change for an organizational meeting. Learn about the campaign plan to win Franklin County for Democrats.

Get involved! Plan to attend this very important meeting.

The Obama campaign is a grassroots movement of volunteer leaders who organize and work within their own communities.

For more information and/or to RSVP visit http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4gv4h.

Join the Women to Women Canvasses!

Let’s Celebrate Women and Help Elect Democrats!

This Sunday, July 20, 2008

The weekend of July 19th-20th will mark the 160th Anniversary of the first Women’s Rights Convention in Senca Falls, New York. To celebrate this historic occasion, the Ohio Democratic Women’s Caucus will host canvasses across Franklin and surrounding counties for our women candidates running for Congress, State Senate and State House. Specifically, we will be walking in targeted precincts for Mary Jo Kilroy,15th Congressional District, and Danielle Blue, State Senate District 16.

The meet-ups and canvasses will take place on Sunday, July 20th at 1:00 p.m.. Two special guests, who know first-hand the importance of electing more Democratic women to office, will join us on a conference call at 1:20pm to kick off the canvasses. We hope that you will bring your friends, sisters and daughters with you to meet our terrific women candidates and then spend a couple of hours in pairs talking with voters about the importance of electing Democrats to office this year.

Meet-Up Location

Host: Danielle Blue, Candidate for State Senate District16
Organizer: Jennifer Dillard
Districts: Danielle Blue, SD 16 & Mary Jo Kilroy, CD 15
Location: Home of Danielle Blue, 625 Guilford Road, Upper Arlington
Precincts: UA 1A, UA 1B, UA 1C, UA 1D, UA 1E

UAPA's Audacious Book Club Schedules Second Meeting

Please join us on Tuesday, July 29 for the next meeting of the UAPA Book Club during which we will continue to discuss Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope. Please read chapters four through six to be prepared. You can also listen to the prologue and the first five chapters on our web site.

The meeting will be held at the home of Pat Hadler, 2477 Southway Drive, Upper Arlington. Please RSVP so we know how many cookies to bake!

Missing Your UA for Obama Sign? You're Not Alone!

The sign wars begin . . . already.

We report with regret that many of the UA for Obama signs already have been stolen since their debut in the city on June 22nd. This is a problem that we expect to continue and worsen as we approach the general election.

We understand your frustration, and hope to ease the pain by helping to make sign replacement easy and affordable. Visit our Stolen Yard Sign Replacement page to order your replacement sign. It will be placed in your yard by our volunteers, and the general location of the theft will be "push pinned" on our stolen sign map. Best of all, replacement signs are half-priced!

We encourage our supporters to report all sign thefts to the UA Police department. We hope that our local law enforcement will keep an eye out for any active sign thefts during their nightly patrols.

Just a reminder about the proper placement of your UA for Obama sign:

1) Signs must not be in the City's right-of-way (different for every street, but typically the area from the sidewalk to the curb), nor can signs pose a visibility issue for drivers.

2) Signs cannot be illuminated at night.

3) Signs that are deteriorating and unsightly, or violate the above restrictions, legally can be removed by the City.

There is no limit as to the number of political signs in your yard as long as the signs conform to the above guidelines.

In 2004, many of our UA for Kerry supporters came up with creative ways to protect their sign from theft, such as hanging it from tree or placing it in a cage. If you think of a clever and effective way to prevent your sign from being stolen, please drop us a line at info@uaprogressive.com.

Save the New Date!

UAPA Annual Garage Sale is August 9th!

We need your gently used donations!

Back by popular demand, our annual Community-Wide Garage Sale will be held August 9th at the same location as last year, Roy and Agnes Butler's home on the northwest corner of Ridgeview and Redding Roads.

Please start emptying your attics and burrow through your basements for gently used items. Popular sellers are furniture, household items, working appliances, garden tools, and knick knacks. Children's furniture, accessories and large toys also go quickly. We will not accept any clothing.

Start gathering donations today and, if necessary, we can pick up the items on August 8th. Please contact Jim Fronk at 488-1235 or email him at frosick@aol.com to arrange for pick up if necessary. More details to follow!

New Yorker Cover Illustration: Stupidity or Satire?

Is the New Yorker way off base? Or right on target? The magazine famous for its satire has generated a lot of attention for its July 2008 cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama in the Oval Office, with abundant terrorist symbolism.

According to CNN, New Yorker editors say the drawing is a comment on how the media has passed along ridiculous claims about the Democratic candidate. (Don't forget www.FactCheck.org is a great place to find out the truth when you hear allegations.)

The New Yorker magazine says its latest cover is satire.

Meanwhile, the Obama camp calls the cover " tasteless and offensive." McCain's campaign repudiated it. Liberal Liberal radio talk-show host Laura Flanders takes another view. She told CNN's "American Morning" on July 14 that Obama campaign "should have come out strongly endorsing this cover."

She said, "This isn't a jab at them, terrorist or any other kind. This is a jab at the media. ... It should be cause for our conversation to focus on the kind of fear mongering that the media and people on the right have engaged in." What do you think?

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