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Kindred Spirits, two peas in a
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Hispanic News sent out two
emails:
Running against any other GOP
candidate, the state of Arizona
would be a natural battleground
for Barack Obama, alongside
other Western states that lean
toward him, like New Mexico,
Colorado and Nevada but with
John McCain as the Republican
nominee, a serious push to win
Arizona was off the table.
Until now.
Obama's senior aides are
intrigued by several late polls
that show a narrowing of the
presidential contest in Arizona.
Most recently, on Tuesday a
Cronkite-Eight poll showed
Arizona a statistical tie, with
the Arizona senator just 2
points ahead of Obama. That poll
suggests Arizona is too close to
call, with Obama making
significant gains among
Hispanics, women and
independents.
The campaign is now seriously
examining a late surge into
Arizona. That may include
ramping up TV advertising,
on-the-ground staff or even
deploying the candidate to visit
Arizona. Obama is scheduled to
make a Western swing late this
week, making an Arizona visit
possible.
State Democratic Party Chairman
Don Bivens said there is a
chance for the state to turn
blue in the presidential
election. He said he has had
discussions with the Obama
campaign about pumping more
money into the state to get the
Democratic Party "over the top"
on Election Day.
"As Arizonans, we've known for a
long time John McCain is
vulnerable here," he said.
An Obama win in Arizona would be
significant for Saban and Nelson
because the "get out the vote"
campaign could carry Saban and
Nelson riding Obama's coattails
to victory.
If there is one lesson from all
of this, we are very close to
having Phoenix become a Hispanic
majority city estimated early
2010. There are many groups now
but they have limited success.
If there is one lesson to gleam
from Obama, organizing a
campaign can only have success
if we support one effort
organizing one Phoenix political
machine that uses the Obama
campaign model using the
Internet, text messaging,
emails, computerized telephone
commercials, raising campaign
funds and organizing on a block
level to get out the vote.
We can start this today.
The most crucial campaign is Dan
Saban's. This one is monumental
and so crucial for Maricopa
Hispanics because if Saban were
to win, it would be as
significant as Obama winning
Arizona and in essence putting
McCain on a path for defeat in
2010.
A Hispanic victory in 2010
replacing McCain in the U.S.
Senate would send a message
across American and Arizona,
Hispanics rightfully have a
place in Arizona.
Two nights ago, Barack Obama
fired the final salvo in the
great battle of images that is
the 2008 presidential campaign
last night with a half-hour,
multimillion-dollar television
infomercial.
On Univision, it was identified
as "Historias Americanas."
What was significant about
Barack Obama's "infomercial" was
Janet Napolitano was missing.
Finally, Obama may see
Napolitano and Arpaio are two
peas in the same pod each
endorsing the other to be
elected in Arizona.
With only 4 days before the
election, it is crucial we "get
out the vote" for Obama, Saban
and Nelson.
Please, please forward this
email to everyone in your email
directory. Ask everyone in your
email directory to have them
forward this email to their
friends.
Let this become a "chain" email.
The time for change has come but
it will only come if we get out
the vote!
Lastly, Hispanic News begins an
email campaign to Arizona State
Democratic Party Chairman Don
Bivens to have Saban and Nelson
appear with Obama here in
Phoenix. This would put Saban
and Nelson over the top to be
elected Maricopa County Sheriff
and County Attorney.
The Hispanic News campaign
includes "Not Napolitano" with
the Obama visit.
On the last day as U.S. Attorney
for the District of Arizona in
1998, Napolitano held a press
conference with Joe Arpaio and
announced she was dropping the
civil rights investigation of
Joe Arpaio who later endorsed
Napolitano for Governor and to
this day, Arpaio continues as a
first priority the arrest of
people with brown faces who
happen to have a broken tail
light as a pretense for
deporting the undocumented the
same day to Mexico. It was also
Napolitano who signed the
E-Verification bill requiring
all working in Arizona be
certified by E-Verify to have a
valid Social Security card.
Napolitano and Arpaio are not
friends of the Phoenix Hispanic
community and neither are any of
the persons who endorse or work
for them.
Below is the email text
recommended:
To: Don Bivens, Chairman,
Arizona Democratic Party
Subject: Dan Saban, Tim Nelson
and Barack Obama
Dear Mr. Bivens, in the event
Senator Barack Obama visits
Phoenix, Arizona in the next few
days, please accept this email
has my request to have Dan Saban,
candidate for Maricopa Sheriff
and Tim Nelson, candidate for
Maricopa County Attorney appear
with Senator Obama to have Obama
endorse Dan Saban's candidacy to
unseat Maricopa Sheriff Joe
Arpaio and Tim Nelson's
candidacy for Maricopa County
Attorney.
Please also accept this request
not to have Janet Napolitano
appear with Barack Obama for
Napolitano is an Arpaio
supporter.
Thank you for honoring these
requests. |
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Obama Probably not Coming to Arizona
PHOENIX
(By Jon Garrido, Hispanic News)
November 1, 2008
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Two days ago, Hispanic News
started an email campaign to
bring Barack Obama to Arizona to
campaign to
get out the vote for:
Obama, Saban, and Nelson.
Obama is probably not coming to
Arizona because Obama wants to
avoid the embarrassment of not
appointing Janet Napolitano to a
cabinet position.
Three nights ago, Barack Obama
fired the final salvo in the
great battle of images that is
the 2008 presidential
campaign with a half-hour,
multimillion-dollar television
infomercial.
On Univision, it was identified
as "Historias Americanas."
What was significant about
Barack Obama's "infomercial" was
Janet Napolitano was missing.
Napolitano is not a front runner
in any of the identified most
likely choices for a wide array
of Barack Obama top jobs. The
two positions coveted by
Napolitano are: Attorney general
and Homeland Security secretary
but Napolitano is not on the
list for Homeland Security and
ranks 4th on the list for
Attorney General.
Homeland Security
secretary: Former Sen.
Gary Hart (D-Col.); William
Bratton, Los Angeles police
chief and former New York police
commissioner; former Rep. Tim
Roemer (D-Ind.), a member of the
9/11 Commission; Rep. Jane
Harman (D-Calif.); Sen. Susan
Collins (R-Maine)
Attorney general:
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine; Eric
Holder, who was deputy AG under
Clinton and is now with
Covington & Burling and led
Obama's vice presidential
search; Massachusetts Gov. Deval
Patrick; Arizona Gov. Janet
Napolitano.
Obama may see Napolitano and
Arpaio are two peas in the same
pod each endorsing the other to
be elected in Arizona.
On the last day as U.S. Attorney
for the District of Arizona in
1998, Napolitano held a joint
press conference with Joe Arpaio
where Napolitano announced she
was ending the U.S. Attorney
civil rights investigation of
Joe Arpaio. Shortly thereafter,
Arpaio endorsed Napolitano for
Governor. If the civil rights
investigation had proceeded, it
would have undoubtedly found
Arpaio guilty ending the Arpaio
office as Maricopa County
Sheriff.
It is rumored there was a quid
pro quo with Arpaio with
Napolitano putting her ambition
ahead of justice. The result -
to this day, Arpaio continues
the mockery of arresting people
with brown faces who happen to
have a broken tail light as a
pretense for deporting the
undocumented the same day to
Mexico. It was also Napolitano
who signed the E-Verification
bill requiring all working in
Arizona be certified by E-Verify
to have a valid Social Security
card.
The loss of some 350,000
Mexicans from Arizona's labor
force has had an devastating
economic impact on the loss of
Arizona sales revenue.
Napolitano and Arpaio are not
friends of the Phoenix Hispanic
community and neither are any of
the persons who endorse or work
for them.
"Napolitano, who has never been
married or had children, has
long been the subject of a
whisper campaign about her
sexuality, including some dirty
campaign tricks in 2002 when
'vote gay' fliers were posted
next to her campaign signs. She
is not gay, she has said, 'just
a straight, single workaholic.'
" -- The Arizona Republic, Sept
24, 2006.
It is not important she is gay.
Everyone in America has the same
equal civil rights. What is important is she
apparently lies to voters about
her sexuality. If she lies about
small things, she can lie about
big things.
Lying to Arizona voters is her
modus operandi.
Had Napolitano been nominated,
under oath, Napolitano would
never have received Senate
confirmation on her nomination.
The Senate hearing would have
been a shambles of her
confirmation creating embarrassment
for the Obama Administration.
The Republican senators would
have taken revenge on losing
the McCain presidency and
losing the senate to the
Democrats. And don't forget,
John McCain is still a
Republican senator.
Footnote: It is ironic but
sad, Arpaio continues as
Maricopa County Sheriff because
Napolitano ended the civil
rights investigation of Arpaio
and now again, If Obama had come
to Phoenix and endorsed Saban,
it would have put Saban over the
top and defeated Arpaio. A
golden opportunity again lost
because of Napolitano.
Democrats Sketch Obama
Staff, Cabinet
WASHINGTON DC (By
Mike Allen, Politico) November 1,
2008
—
Republican
insiders close to John McCain are
spending much more time in the
campaign’s final days trying to pull
off an upset victory on Tuesday than
focusing on who might be in a McCain
Cabinet. But sources close to Barack
Obama have quite specific ideas
about his most likely choices for a
wide array of top jobs.
The list is heavy on campaign
heavyweights and Washington
insiders, many of them from the
administration of President Bill
Clinton. So while surprises can be
expected to crop up — especially on
any Republican members of the
Cabinet — many of the selections
would likely be proven hands who
would provoke little controversy.
Obama has not communicated his final
choice on any of these posts but
plans to move very quickly if he is
elected, according to the sources.
They point to the political price
that Clinton paid for dilly-dallying
on his appointments and nomination.
Obama could name his White House
chief of staff within a week of his
election, advisers say. Obama would
also likely make a rapid
announcement on an economic team in
an effort to show command of the
most pressing issue that would face
him on moving into the Oval Office
on Jan. 20.
Larry Summers, who was Clinton’s
last Treasury secretary before
becoming president of Harvard, is
considered a favorite for Treasury
secretary for Obama.
Obama transition planners have
been working to line up a national
security team, which would also
likely be named sooner rather than
later.
Here is the list of names being
widely discussed in Democratic
circles. Some of the names are more
likely than others, but all are
being seriously considered by Obama
advisers. Some of the sources would
be involved in decision making, and
some were making educated
deductions.
In any case, ask a well-positioned
Democrat, and this is what you’ll
hear.
White House chief of
staff: Former Sen. Tom
Daschle (D-S.D.); Rep. Rahm Emanuel
(D-Ill.); or dark horse candidate
Bill Daley, Commerce secretary under
President Bill Clinton and now an
executive with JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Deputy chief of staff:
Pete Rouse, chief of staff in Obama
Senate office; Ron Klain, former
chief of staff to Vice President Al
Gore; longtime Obama adviser Valerie
Jarrett; Jim Messina, campaign chief
of staff
Senior adviser:
David Plouffe, David Axelrod, Steve
Hildebrand
Outside adviser:
Abner Mikva
Ambassador at large on
climate change: former Vice
President Al Gore
National security adviser:
Jim Steinberg, the deputy under
Clinton; Gregory Craig, special
counsel to Clinton; Susan Rice;
retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni;
Samantha Power of Harvard’s Kennedy
School
White House counsel:
Bob Bauer, campaign counsel; Chris
Lu, Obama legislative director and
member of transition staff; Heather
Higginbottom, campaign senior policy
strategist and longtime aide to Sen.
John F. Kerry; Mike Strautmanis,
congressional affairs for campaign
and former chief counsel in Senate
office
Chief of staff to the vice
president: Tony Blinken,
chief of staff, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee (Biden is
chairman) and senior campaign
adviser for Biden; Stephanie Cutter;
former Biden aides Mark Gittenstein,
Alan Hoffman and Ted Kaufman.
Chief of staff to first lady
Michelle Obama: Alyssa
Mastromonaco, campaign director of
scheduling and advance; Melissa
Winter; Linda Douglass, senior
spokeswoman for campaign
Counselor: Robert
Gibbs; Anita Dunn; Valerie Jarrett;
Jon Favreau
Communications director:
Robert Gibbs; Dan Pfeiffer, who has
that post in the campaign
Deputy Communications
Director: Josh Earnest
Press secretary:
Robert Gibbs, Linda Douglass, Bill
Burton, Stephanie Cutter
Director of media affairs
(regional and specialty media):
Blake Zeff
Speechwriting director:
Jon Favreau; Jeff Nussbaum
Deputy press secretary:
Karen Dunn, currently Axelrod’s
deputy
Press staff morale chief:
Tommy Vietor
Assistant press secretary:
Isaac Baker, Reid Cherlin, Ben
LaBolt, Moira Mack, Hari Sevugan,
Nick Shapiro
Press secretary to the first
lady: Katie McCormick
Lelyveld
White House economic
adviser: Austan Goolsbee,
senior policy adviser to campaign
and University of Chicago economics
professor; Jason Furman, director of
economic policy for the campaign;
Michael Froman, former Treasury
chief of staff, Citigroup executive
and Harvard Law classmate with Obama
Domestic policy adviser:
Heather Higginbottom, Jason Furman,
Neera Tanden
Director of scheduling:
Marvin Nicholson
Personal aide:
Reggie Love
Cabinet secretary:
Christine Varney, who held that post
under Clinton
White House staff secretary:
Cassandra Butts
Director of legislative
affairs: Chris Lu; Mike
Strautmanis
Political director:
Erik Smith
Defense secretary :
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.); Richard
Danzig, Navy secretary under
Clinton; John Hamre, president and
CEO of CSIS and former deputy
secretary of Defense; President
Bush’s incumbent, Robert Gates —
would be for at least a year so he
wasn’t a lame duck.
Attorney general:
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine; Eric
Holder, who was deputy AG under
Clinton and is now with Covington &
Burling and led Obama’s vice
presidential search; Massachusetts
Gov. Deval Patrick; Arizona Gov.
Janet Napolitano.
Supreme Court nominee:
Washington superlawyer Robert
Barnett; legal scholar Cass Sunstein;
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick;
2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York;
Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law
School. Consensus is it would most
likely be a woman.
Secretary of State:
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson;
Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.); Sen.
Richard Lugar (R-Ind.)
Deputy secretary of state:
Gregory Craig
Director of State Department
policy planning (internal think
tank): Samantha Power
U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations: Susan Rice,
senior campaign national security
adviser and State Department and
National Security Council official
under Clinton; Caroline Kennedy
Treasury secretary:
former Clinton treasury secretaries
Larry Summers and Robert Rubin; FDIC
Chairman Sheila C. Blair; New York
Fed President Timothy Geithner,
former Treasury under secretary and
Assistant Secretary; former Federal
Reserve hairman Paul Volcker.
Deputy Treasury secretary:
Jake Siewert.
Secretary of Health and
Human Services: Tom
Daschle; Democratic National
Committee Chairman Howard Dean, a
physician; John Kitzhaber, medical
doctor and former Oregon governor.
Health care czar in White
House: Tom Daschle.
Education secretary:
David Boren, president of the
University of Oklahoma and former
U.S. senator and former Sooner State
governor; Former New Jersey Gov. Tom
Kean (R), who was chairman of the
9/11 commission; Rep. George Miller
(D-Calif.)
Environmental Protection
Agency administrator:
Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.);
Kathleen McGinty, former head of the
Pennsylvania Environmental
Protection Agency
Commerce secretary:
Penny Pritzker; Kansas Gov. Kathleen
Sebelius; Sen. Olympia Snowe
(R-Maine).
Homeland Security secretary:
Former Sen. Gary Hart (D-Col.);
William Bratton, Los Angeles police
chief and former New York police
commissioner; former Rep. Tim Roemer
(D-Ind.), a member of the 9/11
Commission; Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.);
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
CIA director:
Former Rep. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.);
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
Director of National
Intelligence: Rep. Jane
Harman (D-Calif.)
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development: Longtime
Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett; Rep.
Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.)
Secretary of Veterans
Affairs: Former Sen. Max
Cleland (D-Ga.); Tammy Duckworth,
the director of Illinois Veterans’
Affairs, Iraq veteran and former
Democratic House candidate; Bush’s
incumbent, James Peake
Secretary of the Interior:
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.); Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.
Secretary of Energy:
California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger (R); Sen. Jeff
Bingaman (D-N.M.)
Secretary of Transportation:
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.); Rep.
Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.)
Secretary of Labor:
Former Rep. Richard Gephardt
(D-Mo.); Andrew Stern, president of
the Service Employees International
Union; Kay Hagan of North Carolina
(if she loses her challenge to U.S.
Sen. Elizabeth Dole); Jeanne Shaheen,
former New Hampshire governor (if
she loses her challenge to U.S. Sen.
John Sununu)
Secretary of Agriculture:
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack; Rep.
Collin Peterson (D-Minn.)
Director, Office of National
Drug Control Policy:
William Bratton
Director, Council for
Faith-Based and Neighborhood
Partnerships (Obama's renamed
faith-based office): Josh
DuBois, campaign's director of
religious affairs
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