Oconee County, GA Politics

Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. From: jim@jimpowellforgapsc.com To: friendsandfamily@list.jimpowellforgapsc.com Subject: Jim Powell endorsed by former President Jimmy Carter Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:02:23 -0500 PHOTO ATTACHED   For Immediate Release: November 21, 2008 Contact:          George P. Birchby, Campaign Manager                         678-644-8355 (Mobile)                         gpbirchby@gmail.com     Jim Powell endorsed by former President Jimmy Carter   ATLANTA -   Jim Powell, Democratic nominee and first-place candidate for Georgia Public Service Commission, District 4, has received the endorsement of former Preside...

What more needs to be said? I voted in advance today. You can Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of next week in advance of the December 2nd Run Off Election. Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:02:35 -0500 To: danmatt@hotmail.com From: georgia@barackobama.com Subject: Volunteer for change in Georgia Obama '08 Dan -- What you do in Georgia in the next two weeks could bring change to your state and to Washington. Jim Martin is facing a runoff election for the U.S. Senate. The unprecedented organization you've built in the Peach State can help give him a fighting chance to bring change to Georgia. Sign up to volunteer before the December 2nd special election. On November 4th, Americans voted for change. You can help continue that momentum. A victory here in Georgia will strengthen our ability to make change happen. Get involved now and help elect Jim Martin in these final two weeks: http://ga.barackobama.com/garunoff Thanks, ...

Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me From: tlathrup@oconee.ga.us CC: rgriffin335@charter.net; josh.eclipse@gmail.com; shrimprcool@hotmail.com; houlihan@uga.edu; 924185075@gsc.edu; 924185075@gsc.edu; ndgreg39@yahoo.com; 924163623@gsc.edu; pjt8406@gmail.com; zachmagill@gmail.com; 924196835@gsc.edu; jkinney@uga.edu; jkinney44@gmail.com; chiers@uga.edu; scgreen@uga.edu; cc103189@uga.edu; mgarner@uga.edu; dwiley12@gmail.com; tlittle149@yahoo.com; cpetty2@uga.edu; ayarbrou@uga.edu; ldavol@oconee.ga.us; mperkins@oconee.ga.us; dtorok@oconee.ga.us; jhightower@oconee.ga.us Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:01:17 -0500 Subject: OCPRD Basketball practices/game schedules Coaches, Please be reminded that our practice schedule is suspended for the Thanksgiving week. There will be NO PRACTICES Monday Nov. 24, Tuesday Nov. 25, Thursday Nov. 27, and Saturday Nov. 29. The normal pre-season practice schedule will resume on Monday, December 1 st ....

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Purchase Your Grocery Gift Card Raffle Tickets Today! Dear Dan,   The date of our raffle drawing is quickly approaching! On Monday, November 24 one lucky person will win a $500 Kroger gift card just in time for Thanksgiving, and that lucky person could be you!    Purchase your raffle tickets online  by credit card - just $2 each, or 3 for $5. The gift card can be used at any Kroger location, and you don't need to be present at the drawing to win!   Other prizes include a turkey dinner complete with all the trimmings, JRF merchandise and more. Boosters like this are important to our org...

Subject: Share your story with President-Elect Obama Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:40:36 -0500 From: Carl McGrath <carlmcgrath@yahoo.com> To: Hey, President-Elect Obama is hard at work getting this country back on track, but he’s counting on input from all of us. I just wrote in to share my vision for where President-Elect Obama should lead the country, and I thought you might want to do the same: http://www.change.gov/yourvision Thanks.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Can you help GOTV for Martin on Saturday? Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:58:44 -0800 (PST) From: Carl McGrath <carlmcgrath@yahoo.com> Reply-To: carlmcgrath@yahoo.com To: Carl <CarlMcGrath@yahoo.com> For details and to sign-up, follow this link: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gsx2qw Please disregard if you have already replied to me on this. Thanks!  Carl  Carl McGrath 1031 Simonton Drive Watkinsville, GA 30677-2579 (706) 769-3400

As the self proclaimed Emperor of the Trans Oconee Republic, I hereby deem the shadow Board of Education appointed with Rich Clark, Ashley Hood, Chuck Toney and Kyle Martin as charter members. Their roles shall be to foster understanding between parents and teachers, administrators and the populace, to explain where our monies have been going, why we pay two Superintendents at the same time, and why Dr. Tom Dohrmann was expelled. Together we will make a better burrito than Barberitos and have school lunches kids will actually eat, covet and enjoy. Our softball coaches will no longer diddle their students, past, present or future. Our football teams will craft the offensive schemes to our quarterback's needs, creating the West Coast offense for Zach Mettenbergers. Three point lines will be painted all on basketball courts and all children will make a minimum of ten a day. The Brodrick family shall lead the entire student populace on a bike/race/jog/walk around the schools every day....

Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:37:13 -0500 To: danmatt@hotmail.com From: autoresponse@esmtp.change.gov Subject: Take a look The Obama-Biden Transition Project   Dear Dan, 62 days. That's how much time we have left to prepare for the Obama-Biden Administration that will bring the change Americans demanded so strongly in this past election. President-elect Obama has set a high bar for the Transition team: to execute the most efficient, organized, and transparent transfer of power in American history. As a co-Chair for the Transition, I want to tell...

Lee Becker once again is ahead of the curve in the local media in anticipating local government action and reaction. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lee Becker < lbbecker@mindspring.com > Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:54 PM Subject: SPLOST Upcoming To: lbbecker@mindspring.com Dear Friends, In the next two weeks, the Board of Commissioners will fashion a tax sales tax package it hopes you will approve in March of 2009. The county has come to depend on the "special purpose" sales tax to fund lots of routine activities and to pay off debt for projects approved far in the past. Some local citizens think part of the county's pitch for the continuation of the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) should be some local projects the county has so far ignored, such as historic and scenic site and farmland protection. For a primer on the upcoming SPLOST and the key meetings on Nov. 20, Nov. 25 and Dec. 2, go to my blog at http://www.oconeecoun...

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: best of the best on Obama's election Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:03:56 -0500 From: Rich Rusk <richrusk@bellsouth.net> To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>   Dear Moores Ford friends...and special friends,    Janice and I continue to marvel over the impact that Barack Obama's election has had on our lives. We simply cannot get over it.    I have been reading voraciously since November 5 and have enclosed three articles and one cartoon - sent by my brother Dave - that had a special impact. The impact of Obama's election on Kenyans is especially fascinating.    To quote Garrison Keilor (see more below),   "The French junior minister for human rights said, 'On this morning, we all want to be American so we can take a bite of this dream unfolding before our eyes.'"    Our nex...

Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. To: oconee@yahoogroups.com From: ppriest@charter.net Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:34:16 -0500 Subject: [oconee] Movie Night for Area Democrats: W Hi! Please join local Democrats to see Oliver Stone's new movie, W, at Ciné on Monday the 24th at 7 PM. (More info on the movie is pasted in below.) We get together occasionally to see and discuss political films and to support Ciné, a wonderful arthouse theater that supports the community in myriad ways. The theater is located at 234 W. Hancock in downtown Athens. Parking is free across the street from the theater (most) Monday evenings -- and the movie tickets and popcorn are cheaper on Mondays, too! Hope to see you! Go Jim Martin and Jim Powell! Pat Priest Member, Oconee Democrats ------------ ------- W.: USA 2008, 35mm, color, 129 minutes SHOWTIMES 11/21-27: 4:15p | 7:00p "You're a devil in a white hat" declares Laur...

Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. I was at one of these meetings and not at the other called meeting Subject: Minutes of Meeting - 11/10/08 Called Council Meeting and 11/12/08 Regular Council Meeting Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:46:03 -0500 The "draft" minutes from the Nov. 10 th called Council meeting and the Nov. 12 th regular Council meeting are attached.  These minutes have not been read or approved by Council.  Please let me know if you have any questions or comments regarding the attached.  Thank you.   Julie     Julie A. Sanders, CMC City of Watkinsville 191 VFW Drive P. O. Box 27 Watkinsville, Georgia 30677 706-769-5161 (office) 706-769-4760 (fax) wkvcityhall@charter.net   MINUTES OF MEETING OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL CITY OF WATKINSVILLE CALLED MEETING November 10, 2008 PRESENT: Mayor Luken, Council members Link, Purcell, Brodrick, Walsh and Walter VISITORS: Adam Thompson, Athens Banner Heral...

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Jim Martin for Senate Party Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:25:44 -0500 From: kathy kirbo <kkirbo@hotmail.com> Reply-To: <kathy@reefball.com> To: <kkirbo@hotmail.com>   Hey Guys,   Please come to a party/rally for Jim Martin if you support him next Sunday at Bertis and Katherine Down's house, Sunday Nov 13th at 4:00pm to 6:00pm. I'm one of the many hosts. It's a free event, but donations are kindly requested. Please bring anyone who would be interested.   Bring your friends and family and join us for an afternoon of fun!     Hugh Acheson & Mary Koon Patricia & Rufus Addison Buddy & Lucy Allen Rinne Allen & Lee Smith Milner & June Ball Gary & Joan Bertsch Corrie Brown Bob Carson & Teresa Bethke Ivery & Pat Clifton Dan & Sally Coenen...