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Joanne — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:00:41 +0000

Just Say No Deal Presents Closing Arguments in Nationwide Conference Call

Hillary Supporters, PUMAs & Fence Straddlers,
You’re Invited To Join:

Just Say No Deal’s
Closing Argument Conference Call
Sunday, November 2, 5:00 PM ET

The Just Say No Deal coalition, a group of Senator Hillary Clinton’s most ardent supporters, will be holding its final conference call of this election season on Sunday, November 2, 2008 from 5:00 to 6:30PM EST.

Guests include:
Charlie Crist, Governor of Florida
Rudy Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York City
Larry Johnson, PhD.
Lynette Long, PhD.
Lady Lynn de Rothschild
Will Bower, National Spokesperson, PUMA & Just Say No Deal

Listen Online @ BlogTalkRadio hosted by NoQuarterUSA:
Or Dial: (218) 486-1662
Access Code: 82114#

The Just Say No Deal coalition, a group of Senator Hillary Clinton‘s most ardent supporters, is hosting its Closing Argument Nationwide Conference Call, Sunday, November 2, 5PM et. High-profile Democrats including Lady Lynn De Rothschild and Dr. Lynette Long join Moderate Republicans Charlie Crist and Rudy Guiliani in a plea to Hillary Supporters, PUMAs and Undecided Voters during this 1 hour 30 minute call, which will also be streamed live over the internet.

Since its inception on the weekend of Hillary Clinton’s suspension speech, Just Say No Deal put Country Before Party by vocalizing opposition to thuggery, sexism, voter disenfranchisement, caucus fraud and corruption within the Democratic Party, in mainstream media and in the blogosphere.

The distinguished guests will specifically make their case to former Hillary Clinton supporters, who are still on the fence, as to why they should cast their votes for John McCain and Sarah Palin on Tuesday, November 4th. The panel will cover a host of topics based on questions posed by Just Say No Deal members via email.

Thank you,

http://www.justsaynodeal.com

Photos From Palin’s Florida Rally!

Joanne — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:16:47 +0000

My family & I attended a Sarah Palin rally’s today in Central Florida. There were thousands of people there to hear her speak. The crowd was upbeat, even after standing in the Florida sun for hours, and cheering her on. I also saw quite a few “Democrats For McCain” shirts today, which was great.

An article from Ocala.com on today’s rally.

Here’s a video from today and then some pictures that I took.

Hillary Advisor And Delegate Back McCain

Joanne — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:54:41 +0000

Here is a partial transcript of a conference call held with Miguel D. Lausell, Senior Political Advisor to Hillary Clinton, and Clinton Delegate-at- Large Luchy Secaira (Florida), bot of whom are endorsing John McCain for president.

Luchy Secaira: “I was a very strong Hillary Clinton supporter because she had a set of principles, characteristics, and her stand on the issues along with a track record of fighting on behalf of families. That was very attractive to me.

“Well, we now know that the primaries are over. However, those qualities are not transferable. I do not believe that Senator Obama shares in those qualities. Therefore, my support and my vote is also non-transferable.

“I am supporting John McCain and Governor Palin because John McCain has spent his whole life standing up for his country. He has a record of fairness, compassion, responsibility, and giving back.

“Governor Palin is a woman of compassion and accomplishment in the mold of Senator Clinton. So I have chosen to put my country before my party and this is the ticket to support.

“They both care deeply about working families. They are reformers. They will go to Washington and they will remember who sent them there. So country before party, and that is why I’m supporting John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin. …

“And you know the Hispanic community knows John McCain. They know him. They know that he has a record. They know that has gone up against his own party on behalf of the Hispanic community.”

Miguel D. Lausell: “I decided, after searching my conscience, to back Senator McCain for many reasons. He is a man of great experience. He’s a sound man. He’s a man that you know what you’re getting when you vote for him.

“And the country is in very difficult situation and needs a man that can decide on difficult matters and has the experience and the soundness to help the struggle to get through these bad times.

“I cannot say the same about Senator Obama. We don’t know what we’re getting when we vote for him. He doesn’t really have the experience.”

Hillary Supporters Warn About Obama Voter Fraud

Joanne — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:49:25 +0000

From Newsmax:

With accusations of voter registration fraud swirling as early voting begins in many states, some Hillary Clinton supporters are saying: ?I told you so.?

Already in Iowa, the Obama campaign was breaking the rules, busing in supporters from neighboring states to vote illegally in the first contest in the primaries and physically intimidating Hillary supporters, they say.

Obama’s surprisingly strong win in Iowa, which defied all the polls, propelled his upstart candidacy to front-runner status. But Lynette Long, a Hillary supporter from Bethesda, Md., who has a long and respected academic career, believes Obama’s victory in Iowa and in 12 other caucus states was no miracle. It was fraud, she told Newsmax.

Long has spent several months studying the caucus and primary results.

In Texas, for example, more than 2,000 Clinton and Edwards supporters filed complaints with the state Democratic Party because of the massive fraud. The party acknowledged that the Obama campaign’s actions amount to criminal violations and ordered them to be reported to state and federal law enforcement, but nothing happened.

Read the rest at the link above.

Clinton Supports Aid Palin

Joanne — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:41:45 +0000

From The New York Times:

Gov. Sarah Palin met with a group of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former supporters Tuesday, October 14, at a special fund-raising reception organized for them on behalf of the Republican ticket.

The reception for former Clinton supporters, which also was attended by Rick Davis, the McCain campaign manager, was spearheaded by Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a former telecommunications entrepreneur and “Hillraiser” who brought in more than $100,000 for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign; Calvin Fayard, also a former Hillraiser and longtime Democratic donor from Louisiana, and Miguel Lausell, a former senior political adviser to the Clinton campaign from Puerto Rico. Other prominent former Clinton supporters in attendance included John Coale, a former Hillraiser, Washington lawyer and husband of Fox News television host Greta Van Susteren.

“These people want to give their vote of disapproval,” said Mr. Lausell. “This is a way they’re doing it.”

100 U.S. Ambassadors Endorse McCain/Palin

Joanne — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:21:33 +0000

McCain-Palin 2008 announced that more than 100 former U.S. ambassadors are endorsing Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin for president and vice president.

Prominent former U.S. ambassadors endorsing the McCain-Palin ticket include former Ambassador to Japan, Senate Majority Leader and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker; President George H. W. Bush, former Ambassador to the United Nations; former Ambassador to Yugoslavia and former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger; former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton; former Secretary of Defense and former Ambassador to Portugal, Frank Carlucci III; former Ambassador to the Vatican and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson; and Ambassadors Richard Burt (Germany), Bruce Gelb (Belgium), Margaret Heckler (Ireland), John L. Loeb (Denmark), Ed Ney (Canada) and Julia Chang Bloch (Nepal), the first U.S. ambassador of Asian descent.

Democrat Mark W. Erwin, a former Hillary Clinton supporter and an ambassador during the Clinton administration, is co-chair of the group. “I will vote for John McCain because the differences between the two candidates are so vast and profound,” he said.

“Senator Obama does not have sufficient leadership experience, nor has he been tested in difficult times,” Erwin said in his endorsement.

Other co-chairmen of the group called “Former U.S. Ambassadors for McCain/Palin” are former U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Gregory J. Newell and former Ambassador Gilbert A. Robinson, both of whom served in the Reagan administration. Newell also served as an assistant to President Gerald Ford and as Assistant Secretary of State. Robinson was special adviser to Secretary of State George Shultz, Director of the Office of Public Diplomacy and Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency.

“Nobody could ask for a greater show of confidence,” Sen. McCain commented. “These former ambassadors are outstanding men and women who have served their country in foreign lands with great distinction and devotion to the values we all hold dear. They have a deep knowledge of the challenges facing this country abroad as well as at home. I am honored by their endorsement.”

Ambassador Robinson added, “The endorsements from this country’s most experienced foreign affairs experts are still pouring in. This demonstrates the overwhelming admiration and respect they have for John McCain’s leadership and the confidence they have in the historic McCain-Palin ticket.”

FORMER U.S. AMBASSADORS FOR MCCAIN-PALIN

Weston Adams, Malawi — Columbia, S.C.

Lenore Annenberg, Chief of Protocol — Radnor, Penn.

Cresencio Arcos, Jr., Honduras; FP/NS — Coral Gables, Fla.

George Argyros, Spain and Andorra — Costa Mesa, Calif.

Catherine Todd Bailey, Latvia — Louisville, Ky.

Howard H. Baker, Jr., Senator (R-TN); Senate Majority Leader; Amb. Japan — Huntsville, Tenn.

Douglas H. Barclay, El Salvador — Pulaski, N.Y.

Stuart A. Bernstein, Denmark — Washington, D.C.

Everett E. Bierman, Papua New Guinea — Oakton, Va.

Julia Chang Bloch, Nepal — Washington, D.C.

John Bolton, United Nations

Stephen F. Brauer, Belgium — Bridgeton, Mo.

Keith Lapham Brown, Lesotho; Denmark — San Antonio, Texas

Donald Burnham, Ensenat, Brunei; Chief of Protocol — New Orleans, La.

Richard R. Burt, Germany — Washington, D.C.

President George H.W. Bush, United Nations — Houston, Texas

William J. Cabaniss, Jr., Czech Republic — Birmingham, Ala.

Richard G. Capen Jr., Spain — Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

Richard W. Carlson, Seychelles — Weems, Va.

Frank Carlucci III, Portugal

Bruce Chapman, IAEA; Vienna — Seattle, Wash.

Sue McCourt Cobb, Jamaica — Coral Gables, Fla.

Charles E. Cobb, Jr., Iceland — Coral Gables, Fla.

Walter J.P. Curley, Ireland; France — New York, N.Y.

Peter H. Dailey, Ireland; Special Envoy to NATO Countries — Pasadena, Calif.

Lawrence Eagleburger, Yugoslavia

Mark L. Edelman, Cameroon — Washington, D.C.

Mark Erwin, Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros — Charlotte, N.C.

Richard M. Fairbanks III, Ambassador-at-Large — Washington, D.C.

William S. Farish III, United Kingdom — Versailles, Ky.

Edward R. Finch, Jr., Panama — New York, N.Y.

John R. Gavin, Mexico — Los Angeles, Calif.

Bruce S. Gelb, USIA; Belgium — New York, N.Y.

Joseph B. Gildenhorn, Switzerland — Washington, D.C.

Anthony H. Gioia, Malta — Buffalo, N.Y.

Luis Guinot, Jr., Costa Rica — Falls Church, Va.

Margaret M. Heckler, Ireland — Arlington, Va.

Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., Sweden — Riverside, Conn.

Hans H. Hertell, Dominican Republic — Washington, D.C.

Alfred Hoffman, Jr., Portugal — Fort Meyers, Fla.

Richard Holwill, Ecuador

G. Philip Hughes, Barbados, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines — Falls Church, Va.

Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Singapore — Salt Lake City, Utah

Robert S. Ingersoll, Japan — Evanston, Ill.

James C. Kenny, Ireland — Glenview, Ill.

Alfred H. Kingon, European Union — Bronxville, N.Y.

Lester B. Korn, UN Economic and Social Council — Beverly Hills, Calif.

Mary E. Kramer, Barbados and Eastern Caribbean — Clive, IA

Paul C. Lambert, Ecuador — New York, N.Y.

Mark Langdale, Costa Rica — Dallas, Texas

Howard Leach, France — Salinas, Calif.

Melvyn Levinsky, Bulgaria and Brazil — Ann Arbor, Mich.

John L. Loeb, Jr., Denmark — New York, N.Y.

Earle I. Mack, Finland — Fort Lee, N.J.

Susan Rasinski McCaw, Austria — Kirkland, Wash.

Robert C. McFarlane, Special Envoy for the President

Thomas Patrick Melady, Burundi, Uganda, Holy See — Washington, D.C.

J. William Middendorf II, Netherlands, OAS, European Union — Little Compton, R.I.

Steve Minikes, CSCE — Washington, D.C.

George Cranwell Montgomery, Sultanate of Oman

Thomas A. Nassif, Morocco — La Jolla, Calif.

Gregory J. Newell, Sweden — Provo, Utah

Edward N. Ney, Canada — New York, N.Y.

Jim Nicholson, Holy See — McLean, Va.

Herman W. Nickle, South Africa — Tucson, Ariz.

Julian M. Niemczyk, Czechoslovakia — Annandale, Va.

Keith Foote Nyborg, Finland — Sugar City, Idaho

John D. Ong, Norway — Hudson, Ohio

Penne Korth Peacock, Mauritius — Washington, D.C.

Joseph Carlton Petrone, United Nations European Office — Dublin, N.H.

Charles J. Pilliod, Jr., Mexico — Akron, Ohio

John Price Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros — Salt Lake City, Utah

Charles H. Price, II, Belgium, United Kingdom — Kansas City, Mo.

James W. Rawlings, Zimbabwe — Southbury, Conn.

Otto J. Reich, Venezuela — Washington, D.C.

Mercer Reynolds, Switzerland and Liechtenstein — Indian Hill, Ohio

Gilbert A. Robinson, Special Advisor to the Secretary of State — McLean, Va.

Joe M. Rodgers, France — Nashville, Tenn.

Sig Rogich, Iceland — Las Vegas, Nev.

John Rood, Bahamas — Jacksonville, Fla.

Francis L. Rooney III, Holy See — Naples, Fla.

Frank Ruddy, Equatorial Guinea

Bob Royall, Tanzania — South Carolina

Rockwell A. Schnabel, Finland, European Union — Los Angeles, Calif.

Peter F. Secchia, Italy — Grand Rapids, Mich.

Martin J. Silverstein, Uruguay — New York, N.Y.

Ronald J. Sorini, Chief Textile Negotiator, U.S. Trade Representative — Hinsdale, Ill.

Michael G. Sotirhos, Jamaica, Greece — Lauderdale by the Sea, Fla.

Robert D. Stuart, Jr., Norway — Lake Forest, Ill.

Charles J. Swindells, New Zealand, Samoa — Portland, Ore.

Peter Terpeluk, Jr., Luxembourg — Washington, D.C.

Timothy L. Towell, Paraguay — Washington, D.C.

Rodolphe M. Vallee, Slovakia — Shelburne, Vt.

Leon J. Weil, Nepal — New York, N.Y.

John G. Weinmann, Finland, Chief of Protocol — New Orleans, La.

Ronald N. Weiser, Slovakia — Ann Arbor, Mich.

Pamela P. Willeford, Switzerland and Liechtenstein — Austin, Texas

Richard Williamson, Asst. Secy; Amb. IAEA — Chicago, Ill.

Curtin Winsor, Jr., Costa Rica — McLean, Va.

Dr. Aldona Z. Wos, Estonia — Greensboro, N.C.

Joseph Zappala, Spain — Aventura, Fla.

Hey Western PA – You’re All Racists!

Joanne — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:27:44 +0000

From ABC News:

Democratic Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama‘s victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points.

The 17-term Democratic congressman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story posted Wednesday on its Web site: “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area.” Murtha said it has taken time for many Pennsylvania voters to come around to embracing a black presidential candidate….

Yet another disturbing example of Americans being told that those of us that don’t support Barack Obama are racist.

Democrats Against McCain March in PA

Joanne — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:54:33 +0000

March For McCain & Palin
October 13, 2008
2:30 PM, State College, PA

In Attendance:
Democracy In Suffrage
Free Us Now Mavericks
NOBAMA’s
Hillary Supporters
18 million voices phase 2
Democrats For McCain
And You!

All McCain & Palin Supporters Welcomed!
Please RSVP here http://politics.meetup.com/53/

We will be meeting in front of the McCain / Palin headquarters at 1:30 PM. Centre County Victory Office 108 W Beaver Ave. Suite 207 State College, PA 16801

Hispanic Democrats For McCain

Joanne — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:58:29 +0000

HISPANIC DEMOCRATS FOR MCCAIN ANNOUNCE:
WWW.HISPANICDEMOCRATSFORMCCAIN.COM

HOUSTON, TX, OCTOBER 7, 2008 – Hispanic Democrats for McCain (HDM) announced the launch of their latest grassroots resource,
www.HispanicDemocratsforMcCain.com, today. Fellow volunteers across the country will be able to communicate the McCain-Palin message and to encourage Democrats to vote across party lines on November 4, 2008 using the sites tools and resources.

“There is a reason why John McCain has been able to earn more than 70% of the Hispanic vote in his home state of Arizona”, said Ben Mendez, HDM organizer in Texas and lifelong Democrat. “McCain’s Hispanic supporters, both democrat
and republican, know he is independent, courageous, and patriotic. They also know that he is willing to go against his party and stand up for issues that are in the best interest of the community.”

HDM organizer in Nevada, Fernando Romero, a Democrat and president of Hispanics in Politics which endorsed Richardson in the caucus, added, “The Hispanic vote will make the difference in several battleground states. Therefore, it is necessary that we inform our community that McCain has shown leadership on
issues that are of importance to Hispanics, such as the economy, immigration, national security, and health care.”

The site includes links for contacting Hispanic Democrats for McCain coordinators and for volunteering to join the thousands of Democrats that are already members of Team McCain-Palin. Hispanic Democrats for McCain is a grassroots organization dedicated to country first, Party second.

Contact: Mary Jean Duran, Hispanic Democrats for McCain
Phone: 949-433-2015
Email: MaryJean@HispanicDemocratsforMcCain.com

Yet Another Democrat Endorses McCain/Palin

Joanne — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:30:56 +0000

They just keep coming. This time from NOW in California of all places.