Richmond County Democratic Committee

07/30/2015

What are your thoughts about this rant?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/09/1053088/-An-open-letter-to-the-people-who-hate-Obama-more-than-they-love-America #

I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies, you ...

03/09/2015

Pay attention America.

03/03/2015

Sen. Elizabeth Warren needed just one sentence to lay waste to the hopes of the union buster turned Republican Great White Hope for 2016 Scott Walker.

02/07/2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/us/politics/democrats-exercise-no-power-in-senate-to-republicans-dismay.html?_r=0

Now that they control both houses of Congress, the G.O.P. is beginning to learn the limits of its newfound power.

02/03/2015

http://thefederalist.com/2015/02/02/how-school-choice-could-come-back-to-bite-republicans-in-the-butt/

High-profile Republicans are embracing school choice, but in such a way as to anger their most politically effective constituents.

02/03/2015

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2015/02/how_much_control_should_states.html

Under the current U.S. Senate draft to overhaul the No Child Left Behind Act, 67 federal education programs would be eliminated or not reauthorized.

02/03/2015

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/03/senate-dems-block-legislation-to-defund-obamas-immigration-plan/

Senate Democrats on Tuesday foiled a Republican attempt to pass legislation that would defund President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration. The defunding language was added to a Department of Homeland Security funding bill last month. Even though Republicans run the Senate, there are onl…

06/28/2013

Just a few hours ago, 68 senators voted to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

That's an impressive majority -- and it shows just how much momentum OFA volunteers have helped build across the country. We've organized more than a thousand events, made tens of thousands of calls, and helped at least one senator find the courage to support reform.

But the real fight is just getting started.

Passing this bill through the House of Representatives is going to be an uphill climb. If we want to get this done, we need every single person who cares about immigration reform to double down right now.

You in?

http://my.barackobama.com/Take-this-Fight-to-the-House

Congrats on a big victory today. Now let's get back to work and make history.

What a week,

Emmy

Emmy Ruiz
Immigration Campaign Manager
Organizing for Action

Commit to be a part of our fight for immigration reform today.

11/05/2012

Did you know about this?

By Kenric Ward | Watchdog.org Virginia Bureau FREDERICKSBURG — U.N. election observers will be at some Virginia po

11/05/2012

What a mess.

So many voters showed up at the Miami-Dade elections headquarters in Doral to cast absentee ballots in person Sunday afternoon that the department shut down the operation less than two hours in, saying it did not have enough resources to help everyone.

11/04/2012

Read on...

Just three days until the election and Mitt Romney throws a desperate Hail Mary, taking President Obama’s “revenge” comment way … Read More

11/04/2012

uh... what?

First up from the God Machine this week is a look at Daniel Jenky, the bishop for the Roman Catholic diocese of Peoria, Illinois, who seems a little too eager to intervene in the 2012 presidential election. We were first introduced to Jenky back in April when the Catholic bishop …