After casting her ballot for Barack Obama, Amanda Jones said simply, "I feel good about voting for him." Ms. Jones, of Cedar Creek, Texas (a town just south of Austin), is African-American, and what gives her vote some historic punch is that she's 109 years old. Her father was a slave. Her mother was born right after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She's been through it all--Jim Crow segregation, women's suffrage, the Great Depression, the poll tax, FDR, the civil-rights movement, desegregation, 13 years of George W (five as guv, eight as prez), and now: Barack Obama. This last change fills her with joy, she says.
DO SOMETHING!
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Posted by Jim Hightower
Posted by Jim Hightower
You will not be alone if you choose to fight for clean elections in your area. Several battletested groups stand ready to provide how-to packages and hands-on help, including educational, strategic, tactical, and technical assistance. They can also plug you into state and local groups that have made such fights or are involved in them now and are willing to share info.
Public Campaign:
www.publiccampaign.org
202-293-0222
Common Cause:
www.commoncause.org
202-833-1200
Public Interest Research Group (PIRG):
www.uspirg.org
Each of these groups is also involved in efforts to apply clean elections to congressional races. Another push for this is coming from a bipartisan national organization called Americans for Campaign Reform: 603-227-0626, www.just6dollars.org.
