FRIDAY: Senators Clinton and Obama to Campaign Together in Town of Unity, New Hampshire
Candidates received 107 votes apiece in Granite State town
CHICAGO, IL— Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama will hold a “Unite for Change” Rally this Friday in Unity, New Hampshire. Both candidates received exactly 107 votes in the western New Hampshire town in the primary. See below for important event details regarding ticketing and parking.
FRIDAY, JUNE 27
Unity, NH
“UNITE FOR CHANGE” RALLY WITH BARACK OBAMA AND HILLARY CLINTON
Unity Elementary School
864 Second NH Turnpike
Unity, NH
The event is free and open to the public. Gates open at 11:00 AM. However, there is NO ONSITE PARKING. Members of the public MUST take shuttles provided by the Obama campaign to access the event. Shuttles will begin running at 10:00 AM Friday, June 27, from the locations listed below. Tickets are REQUIRED to ride the shuttles. Shuttles are first-come, first-served for ticket-holders. Members of the public can get tickets online at www.barackobama.com.
We don’t have a choice. Now, If we screw this up, and all those people who really need help, they not going to get help. Those of you who care about global warming, I don’t care what John McCain says, he’s not going to push that agenda hard. Those of you who care about Darfur, I guarantee you, they’re not going to spend any political capital on that. Those of you who are concerned about education, there will be a bunch of lip service, and then more of the same. Those of you who are concerned that there’s a sense of fairness in our economy, it will be less fair. So, now everybody’s counting on you, not just me. But what a magnificent position to be in: the whole country is counting on you to change it for the better…Here you are five months away from changing the country.
Vermonters For Obama sends warm congratulations to the following people who were elected as District Delegates at the VDP’s State Convention last Saturday…
Rachel Weston
Carolyn Dwyer
Daria MonDesire
Arshad Hasan
Taylor Bates
Philip Baruth Alternates: Mary Sullivan and Michael Gaffney
Do us proud in Denver!
And here are highlights of the convention courtesy of the Vermont Democratic Party…
Obama DNC Delegate Candidate’s Forum in Manchester was Outstanding!
The third and final Vermont Obama delegate candidate’s forum was held in Manchester last night and it was a marvelous demonstration of grassroots democracy in action! Almost 30 people attended, including 10 District-level delegate candidates! It was the most well attended forum of the three held across the state in the last week! The other two forums were attended by about 25 people/each.
We even had some Clinton-pledged Town Delegates that attended as well last night!
Each candidate spoke briefly (about 30 seconds) about themselves and explained why they should be one of the 6 Delegates selected Saturday at the VDP convention. A question and answer session followed – with each candidate answering two questions from the audience.
The final phase of the forum included discussions and an exchange of views by the candidates and audience members that focused on criteria to use while choosing 6 Delegate candidates from a field of more than 100 in Barre! The role and responsibilities of VDP Delegates with regard to fidelity to the Obama nominating process in Denver was also deliberated. A need for communication with Town Delegates remaining in Vermont during the DNC was also articulated.
Uniquely, several of the candidates mentioned that they planned to use “geographic diversity” as one of their standards for evaluating and voting for the 6 Delegates in Barre on Saturday. Also mentioned as additional criteria being pondered for evaluation/selection of the 3 female and 3 male delegates in Barre this Saturday included:
Time and effort spent on the primary campaign as a “foot soldier” for the Obama campaign
Youth and new faces and ideas in the campaign
Age, experience and political connections (pre- “baby-boomers”) – those that rebuilt the VDP party in the 60’s and 70’s
Reflect the range of Democratic voters in VT such as the “average Vermonter” – following Obama’s new “big tent” strategy of inclusion
Ensuring that Vermont continues to build upon our role and stature as a politically progressive state with regards to increasing participation by traditionally discriminated groups and underrepresented segments of our population
I personally want to thank everyone for participating and taking so much time to attend these forums. In the course of the last 3 weeks I have spoken with about 200 Town Delegates and District –level delegate candidates across the state about these delegate forums. I have been overwhelmed by the support and encouragement I’ve received. 99% of the people I spoke with were strongly in favor of holding these delegate forums. All of those in favor mentioned how sorely this effort was needed, in the midst of this new political paradigm and threshold that we find ourselves this year. Only two people that I spoke with were not in favor of holding these Delegate Forums, one from Montpelier and another from Burlington.
Best of luck to everyone on Saturday in Barre! It might seem like all Presidential political campaigns are the same. This is not true this year – we are on the threshold of Change – brought about by the millions of American’s that have become involved in this campaign!
As a courtesy to the Delegate candidates that showed Obama-like conviction and took time from their busy schedules last night to attend the Vermont Obama-pledged Delegate Forum in Manchester, I will list their names.
Delegate Candidates attending the Manchester forum
