[mpen-dayton] FW: "Election Day, Retired NFL Player Keith Byars to give Water/Pizza to Voters" & "This is a CRISIS (Senate)" & "Latino FIREWALL" and more

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·         FW: Election Day, Retired NFL Player Keith Byars to give Water/Pizza to Voters

·         FW: Exercise your precious right tomorrow

·         This is a CRISIS (Senate) - please read!

·         FW: NYT's Top News: Emails Warrant No New Action Against Hillary Clinton, F.B.I. Director Says

·         FW: "Latino FIREWALL"

·         FW: Stand with Sen. Warren: Tell President Obama Mary Jo White must go

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From: SOPHIESCHOICE7@aol.com
Subject: Election Day,Retired NFL Player Keith Byars to give Water/Pizza to Voters

News from Byars Sportswear (www.KeithByarsSportswear.com)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For Information Contact:
Sophia Johnson, 937-222-9326
Sophieschoice7@aol.com

RETIRED NFL FOOTBALL PLAYER & DAYTON NATIVE

KEITH BYARS
WILL BE PASSING OUT FREE BOTTLED WATER & FREE PIIZZA
TO TROTWOOD VOTERS ON ELECTION DAY

PARTNERED WITH THE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INC.  (Tau Lambda Omega Chapter, Inc.)

(DAYTON, OHIO), November 4, 2016 – On Election Day, voters in one Ohio area will have the privilege of not only voting, but enjoying FREE pizza and FREE bottled water thanks to retired NFL football player Keith Byars.  Byars, along with local sorority group AKA's (Tau Lambda Omega Chapter) will pass out pizza and bottled water to all those who show up and vote on Election Day at local Trotwood Precinct, Mother Brunner Catholic School (Formerly Precious Blood School) 4870 Denlinger Road from 4pm-6pm.

 

Byars, known for giving back to his community, played professional football between 1986 and 1998 for the Philadelphia Eagles, the Miami Dophins, the New England Patriots, and New York Jets.  Before playing professionally, Byars played for The Ohio State University including their championship in the Big Ten under Head Coach Earle Bruce.

 

When asked why is it important to encourage voters on election day, Byars stated " As we move forward with the mission of informing and enfranchising the citizens of Montgomery County, and beyond, we are making it our duty to encourage the citizens of Trotwood to get-out-to-vote on election day and make their voices heard…", Byars will be joined by local sorority AKA's to assist in passing out the pizza and bottled water for voters in the Trotwood (Mother Brunner Catholic School (Formerly Precious Blood School) 4870 Denlinger Road from 4pm-6pm.

 

The AKA's (President, Mrs. Patricia Meadows), stated "…We are excited to serve the constituents of Trotwood and assist Keith Byars in this great effort to provide voter friendly refreshments, in support of a nonpartisan voting initiative"

 

Owner of Official Ohio State University Apparel via web site www.byarssportswear.com.

 

 

From: Morris Dees;  Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center, FIGHTING HATE // TEACHING TOLERANCE // SEEKING JUSTICE
Subject: Exercise your precious right tomorrow

Last week one of America's true heroes reminded me why voting is vitally important.

"I've marched, protested, been beaten and arrested – all for the right to vote," Congressman John Lewis wrote. "Friends of mine gave their lives. Honor their sacrifice. Vote."

Many of us still vividly recall that day in March 1965 when Congressman Lewis and other voting rights marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma only to be attacked by baton-wielding Alabama state troopers and a sheriff's posse.

Lewis, his skull fractured, almost died that day.

We all know that justice eventually prevailed. But not without great sacrifice.

Today, voting rights are once again under assault. More than 6 million African Americans can't cast ballots at all because of Jim Crow-era laws that ban voting by those with felony convictions. Many others face barriers in states that have enacted discriminatory laws to suppress the votes of minorities.

We can do something. We can stand up.

The candidates have all had their say. Now it's our turn.

Please honor the sacrifices of heroes like John Lewis.

Exercise your precious right and go to the polls tomorrow. And if you've already voted, do more by helping someone else get to the polls. Remember that every vote counts.

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you do to help our country live up to its highest ideals

 

 

 

 

From: PFAW GOTV (TRIPLE MATCH: ACTIVE)
Subject: This is a CRISIS (Senate) - please read!

>> 1 Day Until Election Day <<

THIS:

Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, North Carolina ... according to polling aggregators, these are among the states that will decide the majority in the US Senate -- and, with it, whether or not we'll have a government and a Supreme Court that works, at even the most fundamental level!!!

Election Day polling places will begin to CLOSE in less than 28 hours from now!

We need to throw everything we have at winning these crucial Senate races until the very last voter votes.

Your donation right now to help win the White House AND THE SENATE will be triple matched!

Click to donate now>>

We're on the air and on the ground in these states -- but we need YOUR help to drive home the historic victory our country needs.

Donate here and THANK YOU for your amazing support!

 

 

From: NYTimes.com
Subject: NYT's Top News: Emails Warrant No New Action Against Hillary Clinton, F.B.I. Director Says
   

Emails Warrant No New Action Against Hillary Clinton, F.B.I. Director Says By MATT APUZZO, MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and ADAM GOLDMAN The F.B.I. informed Congress on Sunday that it had reviewed newly discovered emails and not changed its conclusions about Mrs. Clinton's use of a private server.

Inside Donald Trump's Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance By MAGGIE HABERMAN, ASHLEY PARKER, JEREMY W. PETERS and MICHAEL BARBARO Behind the show of confidence orchestrated by Mr. Trump's staff are the neediness and vulnerability of a once-boastful candidate uncertain of victory.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Scramble to Make Their Final Pleas By ALEXANDER BURNS Racing across the electoral map, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump begged voters to see Tuesday's vote as a choice of almost apocalyptic significance.

 

 

From: Michael Keegan, President, PFAW
Subject: "Latino FIREWALL"

>> One Day Until Election Day <<

I needed to make sure you saw Lizet's message (forwarded below), but I also wanted to add something.

For the better part of the past year, something I've been telling people is that the next president and control of the US Senate could all boil down to Latino voter turnout in Nevada. I was using Nevada as one example of a critical battleground state, but now it looks like the "Latino firewall" in Nevada, and perhaps a handful of other states, could in fact be what it all comes down to.

The presidency, control of the Senate, and the make-up of the Supreme Court for a generation could all depend on Latino turnout in just a few places.

Will you make a TRIPLE MATCHED donation to our efforts to get out the Latino vote in these crucial final days of the election?>>

Jon Ralston -- one of the most widely respected reporters on Nevada politics -- wrote yesterday, "Early voting kills Trump in NV," describing dramatic scenes of thousands of Latino voters waiting in line to vote on the last night of early voting in that state.

And the New York Times reports, "Early voting has surged among Hispanics in key swing states."

Seeing the MASSIVE increases in Latino early voting in states like Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Nevada has made me so proud of the tenacious work done by our Latinos Vote! campaign, but we still have a lot of work to do -- and a lot of voters to turn out -- before the polls close on Tuesday. Trump is a great motivator, but it's up to us to turn that disgust into votes -- including votes all the way down the ballot.

Trump still has a very real path to victory and now polling shows that key Senate races are slipping away from us.

As I write this, Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight polling-based projection even has the Republicans keeping the Senate for the first time in over a month! But it's on a knife's edge -- Dems 49.4% to Repubs 50.6% -- and keeps shifting back and forth.

We must win the White House AND the Senate, or we're going to be in trouble - especially with the Supreme Court on the line.

We have only 2 days left to do EVERYTHING we can to save America from Donald Trump several more years of Mitch McConnell's obstruction and gridlock.

Please take advantage of the triple match program now running and triple YOUR impact in these final days with an urgent donation right now>>

THANK YOU for everything. Now let's win this thing!

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Liset's previous message:
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It's become clear that Hillary Clinton's real "firewall" isn't any one swing state, it's the Latino vote in several of them.

That's a firewall that we have been working to build over the past several YEARS, and are continuing to build, with your help, all the way through Election Day.

All online donations through Election Day will be TRIPLE MATCHED!

Will you rush an urgent support donation to get out the Latino vote in all the close battleground states now?>>

University of Florida political scientist Daniel Smith says, "It very well could be the Hispanic vote that saves Hillary Clinton in Florida."

Smith, who tracks voting trends in Florida -- the largest swing state that pundits call a "must-win" for Trump -- calls Latino turnout this year "eye-popping."

Our Latinos Vote! campaign is running some combination of radio, TV, and digital ads as well as calls and events to get out the Latino vote in Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania and all of the most important states for the outcome of the presidency and which party controls the US Senate. I'm in Pennsylvania this weekend, and Arizona right after that, helping out our door-to-door canvassers on the ground in those states.

Please dig deep and give today … and give even a little more than you normally would … because THIS is the work that's going to decide the election.

And you don't want to wake up next Wednesday regretting that you didn't do all you could and wishing that you did more…

Please make an urgent TRIPLE MATCHED donation to help us get out the Latino vote NOW>>

Thanks for all you do,

Lizet Ocampo, Director of PFAW's Latinos Vote! Campaign

 

 

From: Murshed Zaheed, Political Director, CREDO Action from Working Assets
Subject: Stand with Sen. Warren: Tell President Obama Mary Jo White must go
   

Stand with Sen. Warren: Tell President Obama Mary Jo White must go Petition to President Barack Obama: "Replace Mary Jo White as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission with someone who will stand up to Wall Street, and encourage her to step down immediately." Add your name: Sen. Elizabeth Warren just made national headlines by calling on President Obama to replace Mary Jo White as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a scathing recent letter, Sen. Warren detailed 19 times the SEC has failed to enact commonsense banking rules included in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law. The final straw for Sen. Warren was Chair White delaying and undermining the administration's efforts to protect investors by requiring corporations to disclose their political spending.1 Sen. Warren is the first elected official to join the independent watchdog organization the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) and tens of thousands of CREDO members in boldly calling on President Obama to replace White as the nation's top Wall Street cop.2 As long as White is chair of the SEC, Americans will never truly be safe from Wall Street deceit and lawbreaking. From her time as a U.S. Attorney giving financial criminals a free pass, to her lucrative stint as a private corporate defense attorney, White's entire career represents the worst of the revolving door between Wall Street and government. CREDO members have been at the forefront of this fight. But Sen. Warren is taking a risk to call for White's ouster, so it is more important than ever to show how many people stand behind her. Stand with Sen. Warren: Tell President Obama Mary Jo White must go. Click here to sign the petition. White has repeatedly stood with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other conservative lobbying groups desperate to keep investors in the dark by limiting corporate disclosure. In addition to delaying the SEC's rules, Sen. Warren noted that White's silence or even opposition to investors' requests for more information have fueled Republican attempts to block the rule that would force companies to be open about their Citizens United-style political spending. It is not the first time Sen. Warren has taken a bold stand. A few months ago, she attacked a pattern of failure and misleading statements by Chair White.3 Days after, the independent watchdog POGO made a convincing case that President Obama should demote White, noting that she has4:     ·         Backed "get out of jail free" cards for criminal banks, repeatedly voting to give big banks waivers allowing them to keep special perks despite breaking the law.5 White has even butted heads with reform-minded commissioner Kara Stein, who objects to these free giveaways to admitted criminals.6 As the fifth and tie-breaking vote on many issues, White regularly sides with Wall Street, not Main Street. ·         Overseen a paralyzed, Wall Street-friendly SEC. Reports describe White's SEC as plagued "by discord and paralysis."7 Rules have taken years to finalize, and her frequent need to recuse herself due to her background as a private defense attorney – and her husband's current job as a corporate lawyer – has empowered Republicans to demand lighter punishments for corporate lawbreakers.8 In fact, White's biggest fans appear to be Republicans.9 ·         Hired revolving door Goldman Sachs' managing director as her chief of staff. After overlooking Wall Street fraud as the Director of Investment at the SEC in the run-up to the financial crash, Andrew Donohue was later richly rewarded as managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he oversaw the firm's legal matters. In a disgusting example of the revolving door, he then returned to the SEC in 2015 in the highly influential position of chief of staff to White.10 On top of it all, the SEC has settled the majority of its cases without requiring companies to admit guilt, breaking a key promise Mary Jo White made in her confirmation hearing. We've given White enough time to prove her detractors wrong. Her time at the SEC should now come to an end. Stand with Sen. Warren: Tell President Obama Mary Jo White must go. Click here to sign the petition. President Obama has the power to name a new chair of the commission. He could promote Kara Stein, "Elizabeth Warren's ally on the inside."11 Chair White would then become a regular commissioner – or do the right thing and resign. The Securities and Exchange Commission, with its wide-ranging responsibilities for overseeing private equity, hedge funds, Wall Street banks, and big corporations, is simply too important an institution to leave in her charge. In the past, when Sen. Warren dared to criticize White, bank lobbyists took to the press to declare that Warren had finally gone too far.12 We need to show that CREDO members stand behind her as she takes on the fights that truly matter. Stand with Sen. Warren: Tell President Obama Mary Jo White must go. Click below to sign the petition: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/warren_mjw?t=7&akid=20385.10312106.6ZRUI3 Add your name:    Sen. Elizabeth Warren, "SEC Letter to POTUS," Warren.Senate.gov, Oct. 14, 2016. Project On Government Oversight, "POGO Asks President Obama to Replace SEC Chair Mary Jo White," pogo.org, June 8, 2015. Warren, "SEC Letter to POTUS." Project On Government Oversight, "POGO Asks President Obama to Replace SEC Chair Mary Jo White." Elizabeth Warren, "Letter to the Honorable Mary Jo White," Senate.Warren.gov, June 2, 2015. Patrick Temple-West, "Elizabeth Warren's ally on the inside," Politico, May 18, 2015. David Michaels and Robert Schmidt, "The Agency That Barely Moves," Bloomberg, May 21, 2015. Ben Protess and Peter Eavis, "Political Fights Throw Sand in Gears of S.E.C.," New York Times, May 28, 2015. Alec MacGillis, "Mary Jo White Doesn't Scare Anybody," The New Republic, May 4, 2014. Kevin G. Hall, "Goldman lawyer becomes SEC chief of staff," McClatchy, May 28, 2015. Temple-West, "Elizabeth Warren's ally on the inside." Patrick Temple-West and Ben White, "Did Elizabeth Warren go too far this time?," Politico, June 2, 2015.

 

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