Oconee County, GA Politics

Subject: RE: Greene County Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:52:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Carl McGrath <carlmcgrath@yahoo.com> Reply-To: carlmcgrath@yahoo.com To: Natasha Patel <npatel@georgiaforchange.com> , "Lance.Orchid" <lorchid@georgiaforchange.com> CC: Felton Hudson <flhud@aol.com> , Stacey Speller <stacey@speak2stacey.com> Lance, Thank you for your kind words.  You have to know, also, that the real hero here is Felton Hudson who had the courage to welcome us white folk with open arms to Greene Co., where he has lived his entire 74 years. I view him as a man who has always  stood-up to the white power structure in the County and has spoken to them  with clarity whether his response was "Yes", "No", or "Maybe". When I first met Felton and...

Subject: You're Invited! Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:17:16 -0400 From: Carl McGrath <carlmcgrath@yahoo.com> To: Carl McGrath has sent you an invitation to 'Oconee Teams for Change Phone Bank' -- click here to view the invitation and submit your response: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpvffq --- You've been invited to attend Oconee Teams for Change Phone Bank. Go to http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpvffq#rsvp to RSVP.

  The latest from our Northeast GA Region leader for the Obama-Biden Campaign. Carl McGrath 1031 Simonton Drive Watkinsville, GA 30677-2579 (706) 769-3400 --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Natasha Patel <npatel@georgiaforchange.com> wrote: From: Natasha Patel <npatel@georgiaforchange.com> Subject: Update on Georgia: The Fight is Here To: "Natasha Patel" <npatel@georgiaforchange.com> Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 9:02 AM Hi all! I hope you can all take two minute to watch this from Insider Advantage-a conservative leaning pollster. http://www.internetnewsagency.com/ It reiterates what we all have known for a while. The fight is right here in Georgia. I know that you or your volunteers have received emails urging people to drive to Florida. This has been corrected on the website that encourages Georgians to remain in Georgia. When we win Georgia, it will be because the Volunteers won it. Many of you have asked whether we will be receiving any financi...

-------- 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...

Hey, Oconee Supporters for Change.   Check-out the article Natasha sent to all Obama team leaders re the value of knocking on doors - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/on-road-grand-junction-colorado.html   Then, come back here and sign-up or confirm (if you haven't) that you're going to go knock on doors with us Saturday morning: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gs53sl   Georgia's turning BLUE!!!   Carl ***** Carl McGrath 1031 Simonton Drive Watkinsville, GA 30677-2579 (706) 769-3400 --- On Wed, 9/24/08, Natasha Patel <npatel@georgiaforchange.com> wrote: From: Natasha Patel <npatel@georgiaforchange.com> Subject: Knock Knock Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 2:22 PM Hi Guys, I wanted to share this with you. It's a study that shows Knocking on Doors is one of single most important things you can do in an election, ...

Subject: You're Invited! Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:38:51 -0400 From: Carl McGrath <carlmcgrath@yahoo.com> To: Carl McGrath has sent you an invitation to 'Phone Bank for Obama in Watkinsville' -- click here to view the invitation and submit your response: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gs5xzd --- Feel free to come for whatever time you can spare even if you can't work the entire 2 hours. Also, please send this invitation to friends who are also potential volunteers for this activity. Thanks! Carl - - Go Obama __________ To be removed, send a message to carlmcgrath@yahoo.com with REMOVE ME in the Subject line.

-------- Original Message -------- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:19:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Carl McGrath <carlmcgrath@yahoo.com> Reply-To: carlmcgrath@yahoo.com To: Carl <CarlMcGrath@yahoo.com> CC: Barack Obama <info@barackobama.com> More good stuff on our new website for Oconee Co.!  Check it out at http://www.obama.great-usa.com/ Big thanks to JP Crisan for his great work on this site.   Go Obama! Carl **** Carl McGrath 1031 Simonton Drive Watkinsville, GA 30677-2579 (706) 769-3400

Just goes to show idiots shop at Lowes as well as Home Depot. I would have dialed the Oconee County Sheriff's Department immediately or at least taken pictures of this poor fool and posted them on the internet. Myrna should have told the management at the store at the very least. I would well imagine that the Secret Service and the FBI would have wanted to know the identity of this man. Making a threat on a Presidential candidate's life is a felony. Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. To: oconee@yahoogroups.com From: herbwest@bellsouth.net Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:59:25 -0400 Subject: [oconee] Frightening anti-Obama encounter in Oconee County All:   I wanted to share with you a very frightening encounter Myrna had this afternoon with an ardent anti-Obama individual.  She had stopped at Lowe's (on Epps Bridge ) to buy a few things, and the encounter happened as she was getting back into her car in the parking lot. ...

 Please attend this event if you want to help the Obama campaign here in Oconee County, Georgia.   From: Carl McGrath <carlmcgrath@yahoo.com> Subject: You're Invited! Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:23:18 +0000 Carl McGrath has sent you an invitation to 'Voter Registration Drive' -- click here to view the invitation and submit your response: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gs7bhw

More reasons and opportunities to get involved locally.    Carl McGrath has sent you an invitation to 'Obama Team  Oconee Meeting to Strategize' -- click here to view the  invitation and submit your response:    http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/44fsw    ---    Thanks for checking us out! I hope you'll come back whenever you can. We're closing in on the last 100 days of this campaign and we need your help in rallying support for Obama!    Carl

More Oconee County Democratic Committee and Republican, Greens, Libertarians and other Independents should help out Oconee for Obama. Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. Here's a summary of our meeting Tues eve July 22 at the Sanctuary in Watkinsville:    Five more people found us! Welcome Dan Matthews, Sarahjane Love, Elyse Lang, and Keruh Andrews (please forgive any misspellings!). Hope you'll keep coming back . . . we really need your help with voter registration.    Who are we? Our group was formed on July 1st by the Athens Regional Field Director of the Obama Campaign. Our organizing fellow is Faye York, who told us she is completing the fellow program this week (bye, Faye!) and that our new liason with the Obama Campaign is Tiffany Kingery, Field Organizer (Welcome, Tiffany!). Our charge is to help get Barack Obama elected by aggressively engaging in voter registration until the Oct 6th deadline at which point our focus will shift to GOTV activities (as in Get ...

Tonight another series of meetings in living rooms all over America continued the registration of voters and get out the vote assistance in conjunction with the Barack Obama for President campaign. A dozen-plus people gathered in the back of the Sanctuary to discuss campaign strategy with an Obama fellow, a full time volunteer from Houston, TX who came to Oconee County to help forge victory in November. Discussion centered on church and school registration among many other places. People have until early October to register to vote for the Presidential election. As I took my son to get ice cream afterward, we saw an Obama sticker on a car in the parking lot of Mirko Pasta. This is a good sign, as was the turnout at the Sanctuary this evening. There are some very organized and determined individuals with loads of experience and the desire to get the job done working at this meeting.

Got the heads up from Pat Priest that there is a meeting at 7 pm at the Sanctuary - an old lovingly restored church - at 2nd and Barnett Shoals Road in Watkinsville. Should be an interesting get together. Please attend if you can. Thanks and sorry for all the spam that has appeared here recently.