Blog for Iowa Canvassing Day Part 1
by Paul Deaton
The last weekend before the election is the beginning of what progressives hope will be an all out effort to contact every like minded voter and encourage them to get to the polls early or on Tuesday. Blog for Iowa will be out working on the Get Out the Vote effort and today we will post a few articles from other media sources that we find to be of interest. This morning a story about the conflict between a MoveOn.org member and a Rand Paul campaign staffer in Kentucky. Look for additional posts throughout today.
By the way, it is not too late to get involved with the GOTV effort.
Contact your county auditor or go to IowaDemocrats.org for early voting info. Find contact information for your Democratic county chair here. Didyou know? …one knock on
the door within 72 hours of the election can increase turnout by 12.5%
— a second by almost as much…a live
phone contact increases turnout by 2.5% to 3%… link. There are only 3 days left to volunteer. Find contact information for your Democratic county chair here. Sign up for a GOTV shift. Your help will be appreciated.
Now this from Huffington Post on the MoveOn.org activist who had her head stomped by a Rand Paul campaign worker in Kentucky. This woman must be a Quaker.
Lauren Valle, Head-Stomped MoveOn Activist, Responds To Stomper's Request For Apology
“In a statement sent to reporters on Friday, Lauren Valle, the MoveOn.org activist who was stomped on during a pre-rally demonstration outside the Kentucky Senate debate, addressed her antagonist's insistence that he is the one owed an apology.
The crux of the issue, Valle said, is not who was in the wrong with respect to the fracas (most sober-minded observers agree that head-stomping was a completely inappropriate response to Valle's pre-debate antics). Rather, it is about whether contemporary politics would continue to be threaded with violence. Mr. Profitt, You have asked that I apologize to you. Perhaps this is not the apology that you are looking for, but I do have some things to say.
I have been called a progressive, a liberal, a professional agitator. You have been called a conservative, a Republican, a member of the Tea Party movement. Fundamentally and most importantly, you and I are both human beings. We are also both American citizens. These two facts, to me, are far more meaningful than the multitude of labels that we carry. And if these two facts are true then it means we are on the same team.”
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The Rand Paul supporter who was caught on camera stepping on the head of a MoveOn activist has been charged with fourth-degree assault, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.
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