Oconee County, GA Politics

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Today's VR Event in Greene Co... A SUCCESS!!! Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:07:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Hi, All.   We had an amazing day with voter registration in Greene Co. today.  The amazement was not only that 50+ volunteers registered 135 new voters.  It was also in the make-up of the teams we had working in the predominately black neighborhoods and businesses in Greene County.  In most instances, the teams were biracial teams united in the common cause of getting a biracial candidate elected President of the USA.  Another piece of the amazement was Eris Gaul who was registering folks at the Galaxy grocery store in Union Point.  By lunch-time, Eris had already registered 15 people and was out of forms.  As of this writing, I don't know what her total was for the day, but I think she probably g...

State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond of Athens spoke at our May meeting of the Oconee County Democratic Committee. He said he is taking a look at running for Lieutenant Governor. We had such a big crowd that we had to move the meeting across the hall to the Board of Commissioners' chambers.