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In his last Sunday sermon, Martin Luther King warned that "one of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet ... they end up sleeping through a revolution."

And here we are, forty years later, with a chance to make history in this election. Let's seize the opportunity to be a part of something we will tell our children and grandchildren about.

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Statewide Dems rally SEIU workers

By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com Reporter
Merkley with SEIU volunteer: U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley meets with SEIU volunteers before they head out to canvass voters three days before the election.Several Democratic candidates appeared to rally Service Employees International Union volunteers at the SEIU Local 49 hall in southeast Portland before they headed off to canvass Washington County neighborhoods on Saturday morning.

Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian, attorney general candidate John Kroger, secretary of state candidate Kate Brown and U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley each took their turn thanking the volunteers and urging them to reach out to as many voters as possible.

The statewide candidates especially urged the 75 volunteers gathered to promote Merkley’s candidacy. The Oregon House Speaker has been in a dead-heat with U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Pendleton), and his fellow Democrats were determined to see him oust the west coast's last Republican senator.

“The nation is looking to Oregon to make this man the 60th vote in the Senate,” Avakian told the fired up crowd.

“It’s time for Smith to go,” Kroger said.

When Merkley took the microphone, the standing-room only crowd cheered as he promised changes in policies ranging from health care to trade to the war in Iraq. He said that by working to create more jobs the American economy could get back on track.

“There is no government program of any kind that equals a living-wage job,” Merkley said.

After Merkley spoke, the crowd went to go knock on doors in nearby Washington County to make sure that voters, who only have three days left, were turning in their ballots.

According to SEIU officials, SEIU volunteers have already knocked on 25,000 doors this week.

 
BRITTEN CHASE is a PolitickerOR.com Reporter and can be reached via email at brit.chase@politickeror.com.
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AFT - You Decide 2008 - Member Comments  

Once the election is over, the topic of the poor state of our healthcare in this country becomes a mute topic. I recently read that the U.S. is 78th on a ...  http://www.aft.org/youdecide/views-opinions-1.cfm

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Experts Weigh Value of Endorsements for Presidential Candidates
US Department of State, DC - Oct 16, 2007
Labor unions also help a candidate with raising money, which Shea called the “mother’s milk of politics.” He also discussed the importance of celebrity ...

Union Endorsements in 2008 Pres Race

Oct 8, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) — Major labor endorsements made early in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary:

2008 Democratic Presidential Primary:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York
 Clinton Gains Teachers Union Endorsement
The Associated Press - Oct 3, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Federation of Teachers
backed Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid on Wednesday

_ United Transportation Union. Endorsed in August 2007.

_ International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Endorsed in August 2007.

_ Transportation Communication Union. Endorsed in September 2007.

_ National Association of Letter Carriers. Endorsed in September 2007.

_ International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers. Endorsed in September 2007.

_ National Federation of Teachers. Endorsed in October 2007.

Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina
Edwards Comes to LA, Picks Up Key Union Endorsement
abc7.com, CA - Oct 19, 2007

_ United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. Endorsed in August 2007.

_ United Steelworkers of America. Endorsed in September 2007.

_ United Mine Workers of America. Endorsed in September 2007.

_ Transport Workers Union. Endorsed in September 2007.

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois
 Obama wins Missouri/Kansas SEIU endorsements
Baltimore Sun, United States - Oct 18, 2007   by John McCormick

 _ Correction Officers' Benevolent Association. Endorsed in September 2007

Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut
Connecticut teachers union continue to back Dodd
Newsday, NY - Oct 3, 2007

_ International Association of Fire Fighters. Endorsed in August 2007.

Dennis Kucinich

American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Endorses Bipartisan Kucinich ...

ACLU Endorses Kucinich-(9/24/2003) ...
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Joe Biden Hillary Clinton Chris Dodd John Edwards Dennis Kucinich
 
Barack Obama Bill Richardson Tom Vilsack Mike Gravel  

2008 Democratic Presidential Candidates

Presidential Candidates Deficit Comparison The Deficit. Presidential Candidates Stem ... NH Union Leader New Hampshire. Jan. 6, 2008 The Des Moines Register ...
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2008 Republican Presidential Candidates Family Profile comparison

Presidential Candidates Environmental Comparison Environment ... NH Union Leader New Hampshire. October 21, 2007 Fox News in Orlando, FL. November 6, 2007 ...
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Sam Brownback Rudy Giuliani Jim Gilmore Mike Huckabee Duncan Hunter
Ron Paul Mitt Romney Tom Tancredo Fred Thompson John McCain
Democratic Candidates
Candidate   ↓ Home State   ↓ Q3 Raised   ↓ Q3 Spent   ↓ Total Raised   ↓ Total Spent   ↓ Cash on Hand   ↓ Debts   ↓

Clinton, Hillary

NY

$27,859,861

$22,623,680

$90,935,788

$40,472,775

$50,463,013

$2,347,486

Obama, Barack

IL

$21,343,292

$21,519,790

$80,256,427

$44,169,236

$36,087,191

$1,409,740

Edwards, John

NC

$7,157,233

$8,271,938

$30,329,152

$17,932,103

$12,397,048

$0

Richardson, Bill

NM

$5,358,585

$6,666,681

$18,699,937

$12,878,349

$5,821,588

$75,222

Dodd, Chris

CT

$1,522,061

$4,025,458

$13,598,152

$9,723,278

$3,874,874

$0

Biden, Joe

DE

$1,757,394

$2,635,896

$8,215,739

$6,329,324

$1,886,340

$128,210

Kucinich, Dennis

OH

$1,011,696

$888,774

$2,130,200

$1,803,576

$327,094

$0

Gravel, Mike

AK

$130,510

$99,866

$238,745

$207,604

$31,141

$64,716

http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/candcomp.asp?cycle=2008

Republican Candidates
Candidate   ↓ Home State   ↓ Q3 Raised   ↓ Q3 Spent   ↓ Raised   ↓ Spent   ↓ Cash on Hand   ↓ Debts   ↓

Romney, Mitt

MA

$18,396,719

$21,301,756

$62,829,069

$53,612,552

$9,216,517

$17,350,000

Giuliani, Rudy

NY

$11,624,255

$13,300,650

$47,253,521

$30,603,695

$16,649,826

$169,256

McCain, John

AZ

$5,734,478

$5,470,277

$32,124,785

$28,636,157

$3,488,628

$1,730,691

Thompson, Fred

TN

$12,828,111

$5,706,367

$12,828,111

$5,706,367

$7,121,744

$678,432

Paul, Ron

TX

$5,258,456

$2,169,644

$8,268,453

$2,824,786

$5,443,667

$0

Brownback, Sam

KS

$925,745

$1,278,856

$4,235,333

$4,140,660

$94,654

$0

Tancredo, Tom

CO

$767,152

$1,209,583

$3,538,244

$3,458,130

$110,079

$295,603

Huckabee, Mike

AR

$1,034,486

$819,376

$2,345,798

$1,694,497

$651,301

$47,810

Hunter, Duncan

CA

$536,357

$618,117

$1,890,873

$1,758,132

$132,742

$50,000

Keyes, Alan

MD

$21,218

$10,139

$22,768

$10,139

$12,629

$12,876
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Using a "feeling thermometer" to evaluate the major Republican and Democratic candidates for president in 2008, a majority of Americans indicate they feel warmly toward Barack Obama; Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards are rated nearly as well. Although she has high warm ratings, Hillary Clinton also has the highest cold ratings, pushing down her average rating among Americans. However, among Democrats she is the most well-regarded, ahead of Obama.

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