The E-War: Dems: Scarlett versus Jack

In an attempt to make the “e-war” coverage more manageable, I’m gonna split it it into Ds, Rs, and maybe national party committees (the RNC deserves their own dedicated blog).

Obama and Clinton after the jump, subjects include:

Subject: COUNTY LEGISLATOR TIM KENNEDY CAMPAIGNS FOR HILLARY

Subject: HILLARY CLINTON STATEMENT ON THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET

Subject: ACTOR JACK NICHOLSON ENDORSES HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT

Subject: Obama Supporters Campaign Across the Country Today

Subject: Make a call

(Oh, and for some reason, the BHO campaign has cross-pollinated their spam list with their supporter list. Hence, the “Dear Ana” letter…)

Subject: COUNTY LEGISLATOR TIM KENNEDY CAMPAIGNS FOR HILLARY
Date: Monday, February 4, 2008 3:37 PM
From: Clinton Campaign, Press Office

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 4, 2008

nypress@hillaryclinton.com

***ADVISORY***

COUNTY LEGISLATOR TIM KENNEDY CAMPAIGNS FOR HILLARY
Erie County Legislator Tim Kennedy will campaign on behalf of Hillary tonight in Buffalo at 7:30pm.

WHAT: County Legislator Tim Kennedy Campaigns for Hillary Clinton

WHERE: Valley Community Association
93 Leddy Street
Buffalo

WHEN: TONIGHT, February 4, 2008 at 7:30 EST

Subject: HILLARY CLINTON STATEMENT ON THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET
Date: Monday, February 4, 2008 2:14 PM
From: Clinton Campaign, Press Office

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 4, 2008
Contact: Press Office, 703-875-1271

Hillary Clinton Statement on the President’s Budget

The only real significance of the President’s budget is to serve as a legacy of his disastrous fiscal management over the last seven years. Once again we’ve seen the President’s failed priorities laid bare in a budget that preserves every cent of his tax cuts for the wealthiest while placing the burden of his failures on the backs of working families, senior citizens, our police, our firefighters, our teachers and others. Instead of budgeting a long term AMT fix to provide tax relief for the middle class, addressing our long term energy needs or prioritizing sensible health care reforms, this budget’s biggest contribution is a commitment to more deficits and even more debt financed by countries like China. Instead of addressing the needs of low income families and working poor, the President has proposed cutting home heating assistance in the middle of winter by 22 percent, cutting rural health care programs by 86 percent and the deepest cuts, and completely eliminating a critical early education program, Even Start. It has been seven years since this President squandered the opportunities of the surpluses created during the Clinton Administration, and it is past time to restore responsible fiscal management and put the priorities of middle class Americans first.

Subject: AP: Ex-Civil Rights Commission head asks DNC to settle delegate fight

Date: Monday, February 4, 2008 4:26 PM

Ex-Civil Rights Commission head asks DNC to settle delegate fight, 1st Ld-Writethru, FL
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON AP Political Writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ The woman who oversaw a federal report documenting voter disenfranchisement during Florida’s disputed 2000 presidential election is asking the Democratic Party to settle a fight with Florida and Michigan before the party harms itself.

Mary Frances Berry, who served as U.S. Commission on Civil Rights chairwoman until 2004, is concerned that there will be a ”bloody” battle at the August convention over the seating of delegates from the two states that have been punished by the Democratic National Committee.

She and Roger Wilkins, a George Mason University history professor and former Justice Department official involved in the civil rights movement, sent party leader Howard Dean the letter by e-mail Sunday.

”Public floor fights have served the Party badly in the past. They left deep-seated ill will and preceded Democratic Party defeats in 1968, and 1972,” the letter said. ”Resolution of this issue is a matter of fairness, justice and practicality.”

The DNC declined to comment on the letter, but a spokesman said the credentials committee will meet before the convention and make a recommendation on seating.

The letter also pointed out that the Democratic Party supported the Help America Vote Act and the Voting Rights Act, both of which ”helped ease discontent over disenfranchisement” after the 2000 Florida election, which President Bush won by 537 votes after five weeks of recounts.

The Democratic National Committee stripped both states of their delegates because they violated party rules by holding presidential primaries before Feb. 5. Both states are pushing to have the delegates restored, and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has said the delegates should be seated.

Her rival, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, hasn’t made such a push, but it’s widely expected that whoever the nominee is will try to seat the delegates for the sake of party unity. Wilkins is an Obama supporter. Berry is not registered with either major party.

Clinton won both states’ primaries, but Obama’s name wasn’t on the Michigan ballot and neither candidate campaigned in either state for the four months leading up to the election after signing pledges to protect the interests of party-approved early voting states.

The DNC’s decision to strip the states of all delegates caused critics to say they also stripped millions of Democrats of their right to vote. Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and Rep. Alcee Hastings made that case in a federal lawsuit, which they lost.

”This is an issue about the possible disenfranchisement of people and what makes practical sense and what would be fair,” Berry said in a phone interview.

Berry said she isn’t recommending how the dispute gets resolved, only that it gets resolved well before the convention.

”There will be a challenge at the convention and there will be a big, bloody fight with everybody arguing,” she said. ”And at the end of the day you have people going away angry and it’s hard to get them together for the general election.”

Berry served on the civil rights commission for 25 years and oversaw the 2001 report that studied the Florida election and found thousands of voters, particularly black voters, were disenfranchised.

Subject: ACTOR JACK NICHOLSON ENDORSES HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT
Date: Monday, February 4, 2008 4:58 PM
From: Clinton Campaign, Press Office To:
Conversation: ACTOR JACK NICHOLSON ENDORSES HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 4, 2008 Contact: Press Office, 703-875-1271
press@hillaryclinton.com

Actor Jack Nicholson Endorses Hillary Clinton for President

Nicholson and Hillary Spoke Together on the Rick Dees Radio Show Today

In a surprise announcement on this morning’s Rick Dees show, Oscar-winning actor Jack Nicholson endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.

“Mrs. Clinton has been involved in issues, everything from health care, which we know and prison reform and helping the military, speaking for women and speaking for Americans,” Nicholson said. “I’m thrilled to have Jack’s support,” Hillary said. “I’m a big fan and a friend of Jack’s. Having us on the show this morning gives me a chance to thank him.”

Today, Rick Dees and the Rick Dees in the Morning Show on Los Angeles’ MOVIN’ 93.9 FM invited Jack Nicholson and Senator Clinton on to his show. Rick Dees is heard Monday through Saturday on Movin’ 93.9-FM, Los Angeles, by millions around the world and on

www.rick.com

on his internationally syndicated Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Jack Nicholson moved to California in the late 1950s to pursue a career in acting. He has since become one of Hollywood’s most beloved actors and an American icon. He is a three-time academy award winner, seven-time Golden Globe winner and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. His film career spans five decades and includes starring roles in such films as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and A Few Good Men.

The audio from the interview can be downloaded at the following link: http://senduit.com/cb84fc .

OBAMA:

Subject: Obama Supporters Campaign Across the Country Today
Date: Monday, February 4, 2008 1:40 PM
From: Obama For America

Obama Supporters Campaign Across the Country Today
CHICAGO, IL – With just one day remaining before twenty-two states hold primaries and caucuses to decide the Democratic presidential nominee, Obama campaign surrogates will travel nationwide to engage and mobilize voters to participate in February 5th contests and join Barack Obama’s grassroots movement for change.

In Obama’s home state, Mayor Richard Daley will join city officials at Chatham’s Pancake House to rally support for Obama. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky will greet suburban voters at Union Station in the afternoon and during the evening, she will join with Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and Professor Cornell West to Get Out The Vote at the Obama for America Volunteer Headquarters in Chicago.

Senator John Kerry will be meeting with seniors at a community gathering in Quincy, Massachusetts, and will then travel around the state to discuss why Obama is the best candidate to bring the country together and move us into the future.

General Scott Gration will attend a Jackson Veterans for Obama meeting in Tennessee, followed by a Meet and Greet with local veterans and supporters in Clarksville. He will then travel to Nashville to meet with students to Get Out The Vote at Tennessee State University.

Governor Kathleen Sebelius will stump across her home state of Kansas at a Get Out The Caucus rally at Kansas State University in Manhattan. Later in the day, she’ll be joined by Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle at Get Out The Caucus events in Lawrence and Topeka. Earlier Monday, Governor Doyle will join volunteers and supporters at local Obama offices to kick off canvasses in Kansas City and Lawrence.

Congressman Patrick Kennedy will travel to Delaware for retail politics in Wilmington. He will meet with local seniors before canvassing local neighborhoods with supporters and volunteers. Later, he will attend a Meet and Greet at the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington.

In Minnesota, actress Scarlett Johansson will meet with students at a local high school in Edina as well as University of Minnesota students in Minneapolis. She will also attend caucus trainings with Kal Penn and Congressman Keith Ellison in Minneapolis and St. Paul before kicking off the Midnight Madness rally with Kal Penn at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Earlier, Penn will also meet with University of Minnesota students and attend a youth voter forum in Minneapolis. Hawaii Congressman Neil Abercrombie will also be in the state to Get Out The Caucus.

In Colorado, actor Forest Whitaker will hold events in Boulder and Denver to Get Out The Caucus.

Actress Kerry Washington will continue her campaign tour across the South, kicking off canvasses at the Little Rock Obama for America headquarters. In Georgia, foreign policy advisor Susan Rice will attend a roundtable lunch in Athens before visiting the local Athens Obama for America office to join supporters in making final Get Out The Vote calls to local residents. She will then attend a foreign policy forum with University of Georgia, Atlanta students, where she will discuss Obama’s innovative global approach.

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Mayor Richard Daley: Meet & Greet in Chicago

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL): Retail politics and GOTV at Union Station in Chicago

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.: Get Out The Vote event at the Obama for America Headquarters in Chicago

Senator John Kerry: Community Gathering in Quincy, MA; community gatherings throughout MA

General Scott Gration: Veterans for Obama meeting in Jackson, TN; Event with veterans and activists in Clarksville, TN; Student Event at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN

Governor Kathleen Sebelius (KS): GOTC Rally at Kansas State University, Manhattan; GOTC Rally at Kansas State University, Lawrence with Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle; Washburn College event with Governor Jim Doyle

Governor Jim Doyle (WI): Kansas City Canvass Kick-Off; Lawrence Canvass Kick-Off; GOTC Rally at Kansas State University, Lawrence with Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius; Washburn College event with Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius

Congressman Patrick Kennedy: Senior Center Meet & Greet in Wilmington, DE; Canvass Kick-Off and Canvass in Wilmington, DE; Meet & Greet at Latin American Community Center in Wilmington, DE

Kal Penn: Rally with Greek Students at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; UDFL Caucus Training with Scarlett Johansson and Congressman Keith Ellison at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; Young Professional Caucus Training with Scarlett Johansson in St. Paul, MN; Youth Voter Forum at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; Midnight Madness Kick-Off with Scarlett Johannson at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis

Scarlett Johansson: Edina High School Event in Edina, MN; Sorority Events at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; UDFL Caucus Training with Kal Penn and Congressman Keith Ellison at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; Young Professional Caucus Training with Kal Penn in St. Paul, MN; Midnight Madness Kick-Off with Kal Penn at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis

Congressman Keith Ellison: UDFL Caucus Training with Kal Penn and Scarlett Johansson at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis

Congressman Neil Abercrombie: Retail Politics in Minnesota

Forest Whitaker: Caucus training and community gatherings in Boulder, CO; GOTV events in Denver, CO

Kerry Washington: Canvass Kick-Off in Little Rock, AR

Dr. Susan Rice: Roundtable Lunch in Athens, GA; Office Visit and GOTV Calls at Athens Obama for America Headquarters; Student Forum at University of Georgia, Atlanta

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Monday, February 4, 2008

Subject: Make a call
Date: Monday, February 4, 2008 2:26 PM
From: Barack Obama
Reply-To:
Conversation: Make a call

Ana — Tomorrow, 22 states across the country are holding Democratic caucuses and primaries. You can help Get Out The Vote in these crucial contests by calling fellow supporters from your own home. Use our online calling tool and make a difference today: http://my.barackobama.com/feb5calls

When Michelle and I talked about my running for president, one of the core goals we both had for this campaign was to leave the political process better off than we found it. You have challenged conventional thinking and built a grassroots movement for change that is sweeping this country. I have no doubt that the election tomorrow will be close, but you can help ensure that as many people as possible participate. Make calls using our online calling tool and help Get Out The Vote: http://my.barackobama.com/feb5calls

I believe that this movement for change can do more than just win an election. Together, we can transform this country.

Thank you for being part of this, Barack