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To: unclewest who wrote (15922)	11/12/2003 3:36:55 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793592

The Unions are battling back. Harvesting Voters By Harold Meyerson Wednesday, November 12, 2003; Washington Post The cause for Democratic celebration is not Street himself, who seems unlikely to make it into the pantheon of great American mayors. Rather, it is the astonishing voter registration and mobilization campaign waged on Street's behalf by several organizations, chiefly the political operation of local congressman Chaka Fattah. When the voting rolls closed last month, it had registered 86,000 new voters over the preceding three months, virtually all of them from Philadelphia's African American and Latino communities. In a city of 1.49 million residents (according to the 2001 Census Bureau estimate) that's a mind-boggling achievement. I know of no voter registration campaign anywhere in the United States over the past several decades that can claim results this impressive...... The Partnership for America's Families is funded by a number of unions to the tune of $12 million over the next year. Another Rosenthal-led 527, America Coming Together, has a budget of just under $100 million and has already received several tidy $10 million donations from Democrats with discretionary income, such as George Soros. That level of resources allows Rosenthal to go into 17 battleground states and establish field operations in black and Latino communities earlier than the Democrats have ever done. Though heartened by some recent reforms at the Democratic National Committee, Rosenthal is a longtime critic of many of the official party's voter outreach campaigns. "The Democratic program aimed at minority voters has often been to ignore them for one year and 50 weeks out of a two-year election cycle, then send in recorded phone messages from Bill Clinton and last-minute mail," he says. "Our goal is to try to keep communicating with people over a two-year process." In that regard, the Philadelphia project was a model of its kind. Tom Lindenfeld, a veteran political operative and Rosenthal associate who helped shape the project, says that the program had a far more intensive canvasser training program than is the norm, and that canvassers returned to the same households, in some of the city's most desolate neighborhoods, four times over the course of the summer and fall. At that level of frequency, a canvasser becomes almost an old-style ward heeler, though minus the plums of patronage. The Philadelphia project is not going away; indeed, Lindenfeld thinks it can add 85,000 minority voters to the rolls before next November. Other operations funded by the Partnership for America's Families are already registering voters in St. Louis and Cleveland, and Rosenthal marvels that he has the resources to hire as his state directors experienced operatives "who've won these states for Democratic governors or senators" -- not the 25-year-olds who have often run such operations in the underfunded past. "We plan to bring millions of voters back to the political process" over the next year, Rosenthal says. If Philadelphia is any indication of what's to come, that is no idle boast. washingtonpost.com

To: unclewest who wrote (15922)	11/12/2003 3:42:52 AM
From: kumar	Respond to of 793592

my God was a real God and his was an idol As a matter of fact, I have been to many churches, where a statue of Jesus was present (one could define that as an idol), and I have also been to many mosques, where there is no physical depiction of either Mohammed or Allah - only their words inscribed. Regardless, I have no beef with what Boykin said - to each his/her own opinion. All I am saying is that it would not have made the news if he was not wearing the uniform when he said the words he said.