College Democrats of America Western Regional Video Chat - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Join CDA’s Western Regional Video Chat (encompassing our Southwest, Mountain West, and Pacific regions) for a conversation about how to continue the momentum following the historic progress made in 2012. This is an opportunity to collaborate on organizing techniques and share updates from your state federation or College Democrats chapter. We will meet via Google + Hangout on Wednesday, March 20 at 10pm EST. RSVP here: http://bit.ly/13HlUvc
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College Democrats of America Western Regional Video Chat - Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Join CDA’s Western Regional Video Chat (encompassing our Southwest, Mountain West, and Pacific regions) for a conversation about how to continue the momentum following the historic progress made in 2012. This is an opportunity to collaborate on organizing techniques and share updates from your state federation or College Democrats chapter.

We will meet via Google + Hangout on Wednesday, March 20 at 10pm EST. RSVP here: http://bit.ly/13HlUvc

Giffords’s Mission

By John Powers | Photographed by Norman Jean Roy | Vogue

When Gabrielle Giffords heard about the shooting of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, last December, she decided enough was enough.

Like everyone else that day, she knew that gun violence is a national epidemic—the Sandy Hook massacre came in the wake of the theater killings in Aurora, Colorado, five months earlier (not to mention fourteen other mass shootings last year alone). But unlike most of us, Giffords knew firsthand how guns can change your whole life in an instant. Her authority was born of cruel experience. She and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, concluded they could no longer delay confronting the issue. “We realized,” he tells me, “that now is the time. We have to do something.”

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The interview with Gabby Giffords and husband Mark Kelly appears in the March issue of Vogue.

Source: Vogue

Say What?: GOP Rep: ‘It’s About Time’ We Had Another Government Shut Down Appearing on CBS’ Face the Nation this morning, Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) enthusiastically called for a government shut down: SALMON: I was here during the government shutdown in 1995. It was a divided government. we had a Democrat [sic] President of the United States. We had a Republican Congress. And I believe that that government shutdown actually gave us the impetus, as we went forward, to push toward some real serious compromise. I think it drove Bill Clinton in a different direction, a very bipartisan direction. In fact, we passed welfare reform for the first time ever, and we cut the welfare ranks in the last decade and a half by over 50%. These are good things. We also balanced the budget for the first time in 40 years in 1997, 1998, 1999. And when I left we had an over $230 billion surplus. This was with a Democrat [sic] president, A Republican — HOST: You think that’s a good idea? SALMON: Yes, I do. I really do. I think it’s about time!
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Say What?: GOP Rep: ‘It’s About Time’ We Had Another Government Shut Down

Appearing on CBS’ Face the Nation this morning, Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) enthusiastically called for a government shut down:

SALMON: I was here during the government shutdown in 1995. It was a divided government. we had a Democrat [sic] President of the United States. We had a Republican Congress. And I believe that that government shutdown actually gave us the impetus, as we went forward, to push toward some real serious compromise. I think it drove Bill Clinton in a different direction, a very bipartisan direction. In fact, we passed welfare reform for the first time ever, and we cut the welfare ranks in the last decade and a half by over 50%. These are good things. We also balanced the budget for the first time in 40 years in 1997, 1998, 1999. And when I left we had an over $230 billion surplus. This was with a Democrat [sic] president, A Republican —

HOST: You think that’s a good idea?

SALMON: Yes, I do. I really do. I think it’s about time!

Source: thinkprogress.org

Giffords Marks 2-Year Anniversary Of Shooting With ABC Interview Pema Levy | TPM Former Rep. Gabby Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, will sit down for a joint interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer that will air Monday, Jan. 8, the anniversary of the mass shooting Gifford’s survived two years ago. “Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly will speak exclusively to “ABC World News” anchor Diane Sawyer about an important new initiative they are launching,” ABC News announced Sunday. “The interview will also be featured on ‘Good Morning America,’ ‘Nightline,’ as well as ABCNews.com, Newsmakers on Yahoo!, ABC News Radio, and ABC’s local affiliates.” Giffords recently visited Newtown, Conn., where she met with the families of those killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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Giffords Marks 2-Year Anniversary Of Shooting With ABC Interview

Pema Levy | TPM

Former Rep. Gabby Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, will sit down for a joint interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer that will air Monday, Jan. 8, the anniversary of the mass shooting Gifford’s survived two years ago.

“Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly will speak exclusively to “ABC World News” anchor Diane Sawyer about an important new initiative they are launching,” ABC News announced Sunday. “The interview will also be featured on ‘Good Morning America,’ ‘Nightline,’ as well as ABCNews.com, Newsmakers on Yahoo!, ABC News Radio, and ABC’s local affiliates.”

Giffords recently visited Newtown, Conn., where she met with the families of those killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Source: talkingpointsmemo.com

Gameday Watching college football today? The teams on the field aren’t the only ones going head to head on campuses across the country. The Obama 2012 campus call contest lets you match up the Students for Obama call team from your favorite school against any other—and you can help your team win by making more calls for the President. So who can make the most calls? Will USC hold onto its narrow lead over Arizona? Can Michigan State make a heroic comeback against Wisconsin? The ball’s in your hands. Set up your rivalry of choice, call voters in battleground states, and score a touchdown for President Obama today.
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Gameday

Watching college football today? The teams on the field aren’t the only ones going head to head on campuses across the country.

The Obama 2012 campus call contest lets you match up the Students for Obama call team from your favorite school against any other—and you can help your team win by making more calls for the President.

So who can make the most calls? Will USC hold onto its narrow lead over Arizona? Can Michigan State make a heroic comeback against Wisconsin? The ball’s in your hands. Set up your rivalry of choice, call voters in battleground states, and score a touchdown for President Obama today.

Arizona Daily Star Presidential endorsement: Obama’s agenda gives steady hand to economic growth “Obama has demonstrated leadership by signing equal-pay legislation, creating a $10,000 college-tuition tax credit, ending “don’t ask, don’t tell” and including contraception in medical coverage provided by nonreligious employers. Obama understands that reproductive health-care choices belong to an individual and her medical provider, not politicians. Obama sees so-called “women’s issues” as what they are: economic, family and community issues. And when Obama has changed a position, as he did this spring when he announced his support of same-sex marriage equality, for example, he explained his reasons clearly. America needs a leader with a strong moral compass who is steadfast but not rigid - a leader whose views evolve within a consistent and inclusive world view. The foundation Obama has built has kept the nation steady. Obama projects a vivid image of hope. We still have that hope in his leadership. Hope is by nature an ambitious agenda. Hope 2.0 requires a renewed American purpose that lifts an economy as much as it lifts the people and businesses making it possible. Recovery is an American responsibility and not that of one man. Four years ago we said in our endorsement of Obama, “Like a race car driver going into a turn, a leader must see not only what confronts our nation today but envision where we come out on the other side.” Our journey on that road has been slowed by economic obstacles, but our nation will press forward. The Arizona Daily Star endorses Barack Obama for president.”
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Arizona Daily Star Presidential endorsement: Obama’s agenda gives steady hand to economic growth

“Obama has demonstrated leadership by signing equal-pay legislation, creating a $10,000 college-tuition tax credit, ending “don’t ask, don’t tell” and including contraception in medical coverage provided by nonreligious employers. Obama understands that reproductive health-care choices belong to an individual and her medical provider, not politicians.

Obama sees so-called “women’s issues” as what they are: economic, family and community issues.

And when Obama has changed a position, as he did this spring when he announced his support of same-sex marriage equality, for example, he explained his reasons clearly. America needs a leader with a strong moral compass who is steadfast but not rigid - a leader whose views evolve within a consistent and inclusive world view.

The foundation Obama has built has kept the nation steady.

Obama projects a vivid image of hope. We still have that hope in his leadership. Hope is by nature an ambitious agenda. Hope 2.0 requires a renewed American purpose that lifts an economy as much as it lifts the people and businesses making it possible.

Recovery is an American responsibility and not that of one man.

Four years ago we said in our endorsement of Obama, “Like a race car driver going into a turn, a leader must see not only what confronts our nation today but envision where we come out on the other side.”

Our journey on that road has been slowed by economic obstacles, but our nation will press forward.

The Arizona Daily Star endorses Barack Obama for president.”

Hazte Voluntario de Barack El éxito de nuestra campaña dependerá de nuestros voluntarios—gente como tú, de todos los 50 estados, que están dispuestos a dar de su tiempo y talento para mejorar nuestro país. En este momento, gente a lo largo del país está uniéndose a nuestro esfuerzo para construir la campaña del Presidente Obama.
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Hazte Voluntario de Barack

El éxito de nuestra campaña dependerá de nuestros voluntarios—gente como tú, de todos los 50 estados, que están dispuestos a dar de su tiempo y talento para mejorar nuestro país.

En este momento, gente a lo largo del país está uniéndose a nuestro esfuerzo para construir la campaña del Presidente Obama.