Hello All,
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Ryan
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Friends,

Just a short note to remind everyone that we will be holding our official campaign weekly conference call tomorrow evening, Wednesday, November 14th at 9PM EST. National Political Director Ben Chao will be our special guest. I promise you will find Ben's presentation both informative and entertaining. We will be sending out the link for the event later today which will have the call number and passcode. PLEASE do share that email with your groups. Tomorrow's call will include some very special information you will not want to miss.

Also, if you need to reach my new assistant, Danielle Stein, her email is dstein@richardsonforpresident.com

http://action.richardsonforpresident.com/page/event/detail/wst

Best,

Jeff

Jeff Gulko
National Grassroots Director
Richardson For President
jgulko@richardsonforpresident.com
(505)917-5660

Friends,

NARAL National is holding presidential candidate poll. Right now Hillary is at 30% and BR is at 5%.

Please vote for BR and forward to your social networks!

http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/

Dear Richardson supporters:


Here is another poll. www.billpressshow.com/
Cast your vote to move the Governor up in the standings.

Hello everyone again,

I was reading this interesting article on BBC.co.uk



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7073664.stm



This is a new website that is launching on Nov 4 which is Monday for students to cover the elections. The website is Scoop08.com so we should watch that especially since students are one biggest potential voting blocks. If any students are willing to contribute to this site that would be great so we can get our name out there. Check it out.

Ryan

Hello all,
This is Ryan again and we had an exciting week in Southern California not only were we packed with events last weekend we were able to the Festival in East LA have a conversation with the Governor and were able to hear him give a major policy speech. When I went to the march this weekend with fellow Richardson supportors we were given a dilema that I think still effects our candidate. That is we are still dealing with the effects of the negative publicity of the HRC Debate. I know that I have reconciled my differnces and it is time that we made an outreach effort to the rest of the LGBT community that the Governor is not anti gay but was victim of a mistep. I know that during the parade route we encountered, several times, people who were lukewarm to the Governor due to his performance at the debate. I can assure you that the voting record for the Governor is very pro LGBT issues. As I stated before I was really quite conflicted with this issue myself and it almost led me away from the campaign but we have to discuss this with the rest of the LGBT community and make them realize that our candiate is the one for change and experince. Knowing full well that other prominent politians like Barney Frank( who is openly gay) still support the Governor. We have to make an effort we are a very large democratic voting bloc and we have to make sure that one sound bite does not come back to bite us. We have to make sure that we are heard. We are not silent we are strong and we need to unify the LGBT community to say that the governor is human and can make mistakes but we can forgive them.

Dear friends,

On the front page of the Elko Daily Free Press (NV) is a Democratic presidential poll. Of all of the Democrats, Bill Richardson is in the lead, but trailing "None of the Above". Please help us put Governor Richardson in front by going to the link below and voting for Bill Richardson. I'm told this is going to be published in the print edition of the paper, which means we can help generate more support for the Governor in Nevada.

Here is the link: www.elkodaily.com

The poll is on the home page, just scroll down about halfway and look in the middle of the page. You can only vote once. Thanks for your continued support of Governor Bill Richardson.

Ken

Hey Everyone,
A Busy week in Southern California with the fires and such. I went to three events this week for the governor. I actually got to meet the governor and watch him speak at a donor event in Los angeles on Tuesday night and on Wednesday I got to see him speak in a NDN.org speech at UCLA. Then I got to go to a democratic group in Southern Orange county and spar with an Obama Supporter as well as talk to many intersting people. We have the peace rally on Saturday in Downtown it will be awesome to see how many people show up for the cause of peace.
The pics are below from some of our grassroots from Los Angeles

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v304/thetalesend/Richardson/

Hello all,
Please take a mun to vote in this new straw poll for DailyKos.

Cheers,
Ryan

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/22/132221/88

Hello Everyone please vote on this new poll. Have a great day!

http://DemocracyforAmerica.com/VoteRichardson

The Governor's interview with Charles Gibson will air tonight on ABC's World News Tonight.

The Gov. will also be on POTUS '08 (XM Radio station) today at 1 PM ET and 10 PM ET. The Post Politics Program is on XM Radio channel 130.

Hey everyone!

Please vote in this new important Poll it's the end of the month and we need more momentum if you haven't contributed or know someone who can contribute please make our 3rd quarter goal possible!


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/24/124656/503

Hey Everyone,

Please read and forward out this great article about Governor Richardson from The Nation. It is one of the strongest pieces we've seen in support of the Governor and this campaign - here's to many more of its kind to come!

Best,

Mara Meaney-Ervin
Assistant to the National Grassroots Director
Bill Richardson for President
mmeaney-ervin@richardsonforpresident.com
(505) 235-9741


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This article can be found on the web at
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071008/nichols

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The Richardson Surge


by JOHN NICHOLS

[from the October 8, 2007 issue]

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson was supposed to be the cautious candidate Democrats respected but never got excited about. With his extensive diplomatic experience and his hunger for a return to the national stage--if not as a realistic candidate for the presidency then as a top vice presidential prospect or the next Secretary of State--the man who served as Bill Clinton's Energy Secretary and United Nations ambassador was tagged at the time of his January announcement as a deliberate, capable but almost certainly inconsequential contender for the 2008 nomination. But Richardson has refused to play his assigned role, and with an unexpectedly resolute antiwar stance and a freewheeling campaign style that distinguishes him from the field's punch-pulling frontrunners, he is the first member of the race's "also-ran" pack to elbow his way from the margin of error to the verge of serious competition.

Richardson's edgy, opinionated and at times risky high-wire campaign has gained him double-digit poll numbers in the first primary state, New Hampshire, where he has begun to attract endorsements from key local Democrats and favorable reviews from the state's influential newspapers. One recent New Hampshire poll put him ahead of John Edwards. A summer survey of Democrats in the first caucus state by Iowa's Des Moines Register had Richardson in front of Barack Obama and just five points behind Hillary Clinton as the choice of the most likely caucusgoers. In Nevada, another early caucus state, Richardson's support has grown from 2 percent in March polling to 11 percent in August.

Why is Richardson clicking? Against a field of first-tier candidates (Clinton, Obama and John Edwards) who don't mind savaging the Bush Administration's management of the Iraq imbroglio but who regularly fall short of proposing clear exit strategies, Richardson offers not just a résumé but specifics--and a sense of urgency. His TV ads in the early caucus and primary states identify him as the candidate with "the only plan that pulls every single soldier out of Iraq." As the contender with the most international experience--save, perhaps, hapless Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Joe Biden--Richardson says it is not merely possible but necessary to end the US military presence in Iraq and to replace it with diplomacy and targeted aid initiatives. Rejecting all the dodges of the frontrunners, Richardson argues, "If we are going to get out, we need to do it now."

For all his much-ballyhooed experience, and for all the sole Hispanic contender's supposed--if largely unconfirmed--appeal to the party's rapidly expanding Latino voting bloc, Richardson recognizes that it is his position on the war that is giving his candidacy traction. Of course, he's glad to discourse on how to tackle the crisis in Darfur and his concerns about Pakistan, and he's more than willing to detail his mainstream progressive positions on everything from gay rights to net neutrality. But the governor's antiwar position is now the primary focus of his media buys, his savvy campaign appearances and his aggressive new direct-mail fundraising appeals to liberal donors. That's smart politics. Richardson's Iraq stance is at once refreshing and reassuring for grassroots Democrats, who polls suggest are increasingly frustrated with the cautious approach of party leaders. In the former UN ambassador they get a candidate who knows his way around the world, who understands th e delicacy of diplomacy, who actually negotiated with Saddam Hussein and yet whose statements echo the assessment (if not quite the Department of Peace rhetoric) of antiwar absolutist Dennis Kucinich. As party leaders seek to exclude from debates two outspoken advocates for bringing the troops home, Kucinich and former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, Richardson's résumé and his poll numbers assure him a place on the stage and an ability to keep prodding the frontrunners to clarify their murky positions on Iraq.

None of this means Richardson is on a fast track to the nomination. He's still playing catch-up in a brutal fundraising competition, and he remains a largely unexamined contender with his share of political baggage--the Energy Department's bungling of the Wen Ho Lee nuclear espionage scandal during Richardson's tenure is an embarrassing footnote, as is his post-Cabinet service on the boards of energy firms with troubling environmental records. But no 2008 Democratic candidate has come further on the basis of a bold stance on the essential issue of the race than Richardson. At the very least, he will make it difficult for Clinton, Obama and Edwards to continue dancing around the core questions of the war. And if the leading Democrats fail to make convincing moves toward withdrawal, Richardson is better positioned than any other candidate to ride that issue to the center of the competition.

Hey everyone. I just went to the LA county Fair where over 50000 people a day attend and I saw in front of the fair some supporters of Ron Paul and was wondering if anyone would be intersted in passing out info about the Governor there. Please give me your input on that and if you want me to check with the fair. I asked the people at the table how they got permission but they did not know and were sent by the coordinators of the campaign.
Ryan

September 13, 2007
Richardson nabs support from key NH politico

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN) — Gov. Bill Richardson scored a significant endorsement Thursday from one of New Hampshire's top Democrats, former Manchester mayor Bob Baines.

"In the race for president, there are a few candidates with experience, and there are a few others who represent change," Baines said in a written statement. "Bill Richardson is the only candidate who can bring both change and experience to the White House."

Baines, who the Richardson campaign points out was twice named as one of New Hampshire's "Ten Most Powerful People" by a local business magazine, served as mayor from 2000 to 2006. He was defeated for re-election in 2005.

"In the battle for votes in the state's largest city, Bob Baines' endorsement is a clear win for Bill Richardson," said Scott Spradling, political director for WMUR-TV in Manchester. "Connected in city politics, Baines still has the type of access to a grassroots operation that you would expect a former mayor to have, and he can potentially provide access to supporters throughout the city."

The impact of the Baines endorsement on Richardson's long-term standing in the Granite State remains to be seen.

"Endorsements in New Hampshire are nice, but rarely have they shown to make a huge difference with independent-minded voters. What Baines can do is perhaps provide a new introduction to an audience he [Richardson] has not met yet," said Spradling.

– CNN New Hampshire Producer Sareena Dalla

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/13/richardson-nabs-support-from-key-nh-politico/

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Ryan

Hey everyone check out this article from Salon.com it shows how our candidate would combate Global Climate Change through engergy policy.


http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/09/03/richardson_qa/

The August straw poll for Daily Kos is now online, and Governor Richardson needs your vote. This poll will close later this afternoon, so please go vote and ask all of your friends, co-workers and family to vote for Bill Richardson as soon as possible.

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Thanks for your continued support for Bill Richardson for President.