Obama Delegate Candidates for the Democratic National Convention

WHY BARACK OBAMA & BOB WILLIAMSON

MAYBE YOU STOOD WITH ME ON THE STEPS OF THE STATE CAPITOL LAST WEEK WHEN GAYE SYMINGTON ANNOUNCED SHE'S RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR. I WAS THE GUY WITH THE SIGN "SPRINGTIME IN VERMONT! YAY GAYE!"

OR MAYBE WE MET IN MANCHESTER OR BURLINGTON THIS WEEK AT ONE OF THE DISTRICT DELEGATE FORUMS.

OR PERHAPS WE CROSSED PATHS KNOCKING ON DOORS FOR BARACK OBAMA HERE IN VERMONT OR IN NEW HAMPSHIRE OR IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS OR IN NEW JERSEY OR IN PENNSYLVANIA.

OR MAYBE WE SHARED A TABLE TWO YEARS AGO MAKING PHONE CALLS FOR PETER WELCH, MATT DUNNE OR SCUDDER PARKER OVER IN WHITE RIVER.

OR MAYBE WE SLUNG PASTA TOGETHER FOR ALL OF 'EM AND BERNIE IN HARTLAND'S DAMON HALL.

I WANT TO REPRESENT YOU AS A MEMBER OF THE VERMONT DELEGATION THAT GOES TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN DENVER.

I KNOW BARACK OBAMA. I WORKED ON HIS SENATE CAMPAIGN IN ILLINOIS BEFORE MOVING HERE 3 1/2 YRS. AGO, & I'VE KNOWN HIM FOR 9 YEARS. IN MY NEARLY 20 YRS. OF HANDS ON EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR DEMOCRATS AT THE GRASSROOTS LEVEL, BARACK IS THE BEST OF THE BUNCH.

THAT'S WHY SINCE EARLY JANUARY OF 2007 I'VE BEEN WORKING DAILY ON BARACK'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. THIS INCLUDES KNOCKING ON HUNDREDS OF DOORS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, VERMONT, NEW JERSEY, MASSACHUSETTS & PENNSYLVANIA; PHONING PROBABLY MORE THAN A THOUSAND FOLKS IN THOSE STATES & IN CALIFORNIA, MICHIGAN, INDIANA, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MAINE, OREGON, KENTUCKY, ILLINOIS, ARIZONA & WYOMING; HANDWRITING HUNDREDS OF POSTCARDS TO VOTERS; ZAPPING INNUMERABLE EMAILS; AND WRITING THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS OP-ED ON BARACK JUST PRIOR TO VERMONT'S PRIMARY.

I KNOW FROM FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE THAT HE HAS THE JUDGMENT, COURAGE & SKILL TO RESTORE AMERICA'S GREATNESS. I SAW BARACK REVEAL THIS COUNTLESS TIMES. IN HIS RUN FOR THE U. S. SENATE, HE WAS THE ONLY ONE OF 7 CANDIDATES WITH THE INSIGHT & GUTS TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST AN INVASION OF IRAQ SIX MONTHS BEFORE PRES. BUSH TOOK US THERE. AND AS BARACK FIRST SPOKE OUT, HILLARY CLINTON WAS VOTING BUSH THE 'SPECIAL POWERS' BUSH USED TO INVADE. BARACK SHOWED A REAL PROFILE IN COURAGE, WHILE HILLARY REVEALED A PROFILE IN PERSONAL POLITICAL CALCULATION.

EVEN BEFORE THIS, I KNEW BARACK OBAMA WAS SPECIAL. ON ONE DAY IN OCTOBER OF 2000 I HAD THE HONOR OF SPEAKING AT TWO DIFFERENT EVENTS IN ONE DAY ALONGSIDE BARACK. TALK ABOUT HUMBLING. EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, BARACK SHOWED ME HE TALKED & WALKED MANY OF THE SAME CORE VALUES I DID. SO I KEPT MY EYE ON HIM. AND WHEN HE ANNOUNCED HE WAS RUNNING FOR THE U.S. SENATE, I WANTED TO HELP HIM.

I'M CONVINCED BARACK OBAMA HAS IN HIS D.N.A. THE EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY TO BUILD BRIDGES ACROSS WIDE DIVIDES. HE DID SO AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, IN CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOODS, IN THE ILLINOIS STATE SENATE, IN THE U. S. SENATE, AND NOW ALL ACROSS AMERICA WITH HIS AMAZING CAMPAIGN.

AS PRESIDENT, BARACK OBAMA WOULD CONTINUE TO BUILD BRIDGES IN A WORLD SHAKEN BY THE RECKLESSNESS OF OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT. THE CHALLENGES WILL BE GREAT, BUT BARACK OBAMA HAS SHOWN ALREADY THE EXTRAORDINARY SKILLS REQUIRED TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE TO AMERICA'S TARNISHED REPUTATION AND START REBUILDING THE WORLD COMMUNITY.

WE NEED HIM. I KNOW HIM, AND I WOULD DEEPLY APPRECIATE YOUR VOTE TO GO TO DENVER. IN ADDITION TO MY BACKGROUND, TWO KEY MEMBERS OF THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION ARE DEAR FRIENDS OF MINE--CONGRESSWOMAN JAN SCHAKOWSKY & U. S. SENATOR DICK DURBIN. BOTH ARE PILLARS OF BARACK OBAMA'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. IF HILLARY STARTS A FLOOR FIGHT IN DENVER, MY RELATIONSHIP WITH JAN SCHAKOWSKY & DICK DURBIN COULD MEAN THE DIFFERENCE FOR BARACK.

PLEASE VOTE FOR ME ON MAY 24TH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTFUL CONSIDERATION.

SINCERELY,

BOB WILLIAMSON
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