Oconee County, GA Politics

Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:48:58 -0400 Subject: Let's Beat the Billionaires - Vote Straight Democratic From: activist@democrats.com To: danmatt@hotmail.com Message body Dear Dan, A handful of powerful rightwing billionaires are trying to buy Congress. Who will stop them? The Corporate Media won't. The most powerful man in Corporate Media - FOX chairman Rupert Murdoch (right) - is also the most powerful rightwing billionaire. First he turned FOX into 24x7x365 rightwing Republican propaganda. Then he hired the top Republicans like Karl Rove and Sarah Palin as "analysts." Then he used his hosts to raise millions for Republicans, both on-air and at their fundraisers. Then he gave millions directly to Republicans, both from his corporation and from his own pocket. What about the rest of the Corporate Media? Last week ABC hired Andrew Breitbart - the video liar most infamous for the vicious Shirley Sherrod a...

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Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. Send Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:22:03 -0600 From: alerts@pfaw.org To: danmatt@hotmail.com Subject: ELECT JIM MARTIN! People For the American Way VIEW WEB PAGE   |  TELL A FRIEND   |  SUBSCRIBE Dear Dan, This is HUGE. If you and other Georgia progressives can spread the word and get out the vote for Jim Martin this Tuesday, it could mean erasing one of the biggest barriers to change for President-elect Obama and the Democratic majority: the Senate filibuster. If Democrat Jim Martin can defeat Sen. Saxby Chambliss in Tuesday's runoff election, the Democrats could have a filibuster-proof 60 votes in the U.S. Senate. And that would be a critical protection against Republicans' efforts to subvert and block the change Americans so overwhelmingly voted for on November 4. (Not to mention that Saxby Chambliss is about as far to the right as they come in the U.S. Senate and this could be ...

State Representative Bob Smith may think everything is rosy back home in 113th district, but disgruntled constituents have approached a well financed couple to ask either one of them to consider taking on the House Appropriations Committee member. This could make local races rather interesting in the fall. More than one person has approached a former candidate for Mayor of Watkinsville to run against Board of Commissioners chairman G. Melvin Davis, but so far this person has declined to accept the offers. There are a lot of angry voters in Oconee County, and it will be no small feat to organize that anger into a viable political movement. So stay tuned, intrepid reader, and I will attempt to gather every shred of gossip, innuendo and hearsay and turn it into facts that will have incumbents quaking in the beds from Farmington to Bishop to Washington to Watkinsville.