October 13, 2008

U.S. Senator John McCain's recent attacks on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), are puzzling given his historic support for the organization and its efforts on behalf of immigrant Americans. As recently as February 20, 2006, Senator McCain was the keynote speaker at an ACORN-sponsored Immigration Rally in Miami, Florida at Miami Dade College - Wolfson Campus. Full release

ONE IN 14 AMERICANS IS STILL UNDECIDED. In some swing states, the estimate is double that. "Who is helping them?" asks Frances Moore Lappe, author of Getting A Grip and 15 other books on citizen-driven democracy. Lappe says "undecideds" need basic facts -- the essential contrasts in positions and record of the presidential candidates and the parties. Full release

The American Red Cross today announced a new course. Coping With Deployments: Psychological First Aid for Military Families, is now available. The course, offered free of charge, is open to military family members of active duty, Reserve and National Guard forces, as well as veterans and their families. Presently, the course is offered in sixteen states (Ala., Ark., Calif., Colo., Fla., Hawaii, Ind., Minn., Neb., N.H., Ohio, Ore., Pa., Tenn., Texas, and W.Va.) and Washington, D.C. However, the Red Cross plans to make the course available across the country in the summer of 2009. Full release

"The Presidential candidates' platforms, their statements and recent ad campaigns reflect the reality that we cannot throw coal-generated power under the energy policy bus," Joe Lucas, vice president of communications for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), said today. Full release

The following is an excerpt from a news segment from Fox News, and is being released today by the Republican National Committee: WITNESS: People from ACORN are always asking me to sign a registration to vote. So, I do it to help them for their job. QUESTION: Did you tell them that in fact you'd already registered to vote? Full release

After campaigning in his home state of Vermont over the weekend, today Governor Howard Dean will continue to campaign on behalf of the Obama-Biden ticket, Jeanne Shaheen for Senate and Paul Hodes for Congress in New Hampshire. Full release

In recognition of the upcoming Boss Day holiday (October 16), Adecco USA, part of the world's largest recruitment and workforce solutions provider, has released its latest Workplace Insights survey highlighting overall employee sentiments when it comes to their bosses. The survey also asked employed adults which of the two presidential candidates would make a better boss, and the response turns out to be as close as the campaign itself, with 54% giving the nod to Barack Obama and 46% to John McCain. Full release

The Republican National Committee (RNC) today added a new friend update to its social networking Web site, http://www.BarackBook.com. The most recent friend update includes Barack Obama's notable association with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley whose administration has been scandal-plagued. Daley, a third of whose campaign coffers is stocked with money from groups with city contracts, has endorsed Obama's presidential bid -- Obama returned the favor, endorsing Daley's mayoral campaign just two months after three of the mayor's top aides were given federal prison sentences for running the city's corrupt patronage machine. Full release

The Republican National Committee (RNC) today announced a new Web video, titled "Guilt By Participation." The video highlights Barack Obama's ties to unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers, whose home served as the launching pad for Obama's political career, and with whom Obama served on various boards in Chicago, even writing a favorable review of Ayers' book.
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