PUMA in PA will unite together!

• Do you live in or around Pennsylvania and believe the 2008 Democratic Primary was fatally flawed?
• Do you believe the Democratic Presumptive Nominee was selected and not elected by the people?
• Do you believe the Democratic party has left you?
• Do you find the thought of voting for Senator Obama in November unbearable?

If you answered yes to these question please come join us. This blog will be dedicated to providing information to citizens living in PA about PUMA. It will also be used to enlist and gather members of PUMA that live in or around the PA area. If you would like to become a member of PUMA’s in PA, please email PUMAinPA@gmail.com to join our growing group. You will be notified of activities and upcoming events in our area that will help us take back democracy!

When sending your email please provide atleast the following information:

*First Name/Last Initial
*City/State currently living
*Email Address

If you feel comforable providing a phone number, please do so.

Please invite your friends, family, and co-workers that also live in our area.

Did We Sleep through November 4th!

Last night when I went to bed it was September 5th.  At some point today we must have went through a time warp and November 4th came and went because Senator Obama thinks he is President Obama!

CALL OF ACTION ~ Donate to John McCain and show OUR PARTY how unified we are!

Today's Call of Action:

Show the Democratic Party how unified we are. Donate $20.12 to John McCain or whatever you can afford. On the Contribute Page, when it asks who referred you, enter one of these suggestion: The DNC, Democratic Party, Senator Obama, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, or Donna Brazile. When you get your "Thank You" email letter from Senator McCain, forward it to Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, and Donna Brazile! Include your own love letter to them. Email addresses are below. Feel free to post your letters in the comments.

Contribute to John McCain

• Email Nancy Pelosi
• Howard Dean Contact Form
• EmailDonnaBrazile

Adopt a State Campaign

Even though Senator Obama is unsure of how many states are in our Country, we sure know! We have 50 great PUMA states. Shame on you Senator Obama! See what happens when you are deprived of a proper American Elementary School education.

PUMA in USA has created PUMA websites for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. These sites are looking to be adopted by loving people that care about our country and want to keep Obama out of the White House. The only care your state site needs is to be visited once a day so you can feed it a post or comment on someone else’s post.

Some state sites are ready to be adopted while others are still waiting to be delivered. We will provide assistance with the site you adopt to help it grow into a success to keep Senator Obama out of the White House.

Please contact us by email or visit us at PUMAinUSA if you are interested in adopting a state website or with any questions you have. Writing a post is as easy as writing an email.

Lauding ‘cathartic’ effect of roll-call vote, Rendell to cast his convention vote for Clinton

Written by: Dan Hirschhorn

With devotees of defeated U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) relishing the chance to publicly back her one more time during a roll-call vote at the Democratic convention next week, Clinton's largest backer in Pennsylvania says that he too will take the opportunity to cast his vote for Clinton.

Gov. Ed Rendell, in an interview with PolitickerPA.com today, lauded the resolution reached last week that will allow Clinton's name to be placed in nomination, before U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) ultimately accepts the party's presidential nomination.

"I think Sen. Obama was extremely generous, and I think it's good not because it will display any disunity, but because it honors the hard work of so many people who supported Sen. Clinton," said Rendell, who was one of Clinton's most visible and vociferous campaigners during the run-up to the state's April primary. "Many of the Pennsylvania delegates worked their heart out for Sen. Clinton, and they're excited to cast a vote for her. From my vantage point, that will be closure for them.

"I think it will have the cathartic effect that both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama are hoping to have," he added.

Rendell, who was widely credited with helping deliver the almost 10-point victory here that Clinton enjoyed, said he would cast his vote for Clinton as part of that symbolic closure.
"Early on, I said I would cast my ballot for Sen. Clinton," he said. "I'm going to cast my ballot for her, and then the moment I cast my vote, I'm going to continue to enthusiastically support Sen. Obama. It's going to be a good release for all of us."

In the days leading up to-and during-the Democratic convention next week in Denver, PolitickerPA.com will continue to track how Pennsylvania delegates plan to cast their ballots.

Rendell Pressuring Delegates Not to Support Clinton Nominating Petition

This information is from PUMA PAC

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell (whose HOUND attempt to counteract the burgeoning Puma Movement flopped at the end of June) has instructed Hillary Clinton’s pledged delegates NOT to sign a petition circulating among some delegates to place Clinton’s name in nomination for a roll call vote in Denver. In an email we obtained yesterday, Mary Isenhour, executive director of the state Democratic Party in Pennsylvania, makes it clear that the message from the top is unequivocal: Shut up and don’t make a move until the big shots tell you what to do.

TO: All Clinton Delegates
FROM: Mary Isenhour
Executive Director
DATE: August 11, 2008
RE: Nomination

If anyone approaches you about
signing a petition to place Senator Clinton’s name in nomination at the Democratic National Convention, the Governor has asked me to ask you to refrain from signing such a petition until we know what Senator Clinton and Senator Obama have worked out. As always, please feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

The 300 Petition, as it has come to be known, is a delegate-led effort to follow provisions in the nominating rule book of the DNC that make it possible for delegates themselves, rather than the Party or Convention Chair, to nominate a candidate for President at the party’s national convention in Denver. Rumors have been flying since Clinton suspended on June 7th that Howard Dean and Barack Obama were trying behind the scenes to script a Unity Show in Denver in which Obama received the unanimous support of the delegates. Because of Dean and Obama’s vague allusions to “negotiations” around a Clinton roll call vote, it has become increasingly clear that the DNC and the Obama campaign would much prefer Clinton to efface herself again by conceding her right as the runner-up in the delegate race to ask the that her name be put in nomination by the Chair. If Clinton were to make such a request, it would be politically unpleasant for Obama or Dean to deny her the same privilege given to past candidates, like Shirley Chisolm, Jesse Jackson, and Ted Kennedy. The fact that Clinton received vastly more delegates than any of those past candidates would make the snub even more outrageous.

For close watchers of this quiet drama being played out by a battered Obama campaign and a flat broke DNC, it appears that Clinton’s hands are tied. Her future role in the party and the inclusion of her universal health care plan in the official party platform are likely being used to stay her hand in requesting a roll call vote. The maneuverings of late July, in which Clinton pledged delegates began to feel the pressure to fall in line silently behind Obama, led several of them to begin circulating the 300 Petition as a way to work around the loggerhead at the top.
DNC rules state that a petition to place a candidate in nomination at the Convention, signed by no fewer than 300 delegates, must be accepted by the Chair. Our contacts in the 300 Petition effort tell us they are quite confident they will meet and easily exceed the 300 signatures, all of which are notarized, in the likely event that the Obama campaign, following the lead of Barack Obama himself in his discrediting campaign against Alice Palmer in Chicago, will attempt to challenge the validity of the elected delegates’ signatures.

“We know how Obama operates. We’ve seen it in Chicago for years, and we’re not taking any chances,” says one of the delegates I spoke with who is organizing the 300 Petition.


Contact Ed Rendell

Governor Edward G. Rendell
225 Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120

Phone: (717) 787-2500
Fax: (717) 772-8284


E-mail the Governor's Office

Mary Isenhour's contact information
phone: 717-920-8470
e-mail: maryp1016@aol.com

My Back and Forth Correspondence with Mary Isenhour, Executive Director of the PA Democratic Party, Regarding Gov. Rendell and the Petition for HRC

I sent this to Mary Isenhour in response to learning that she had sent out a request for Ed Rendell to Hillary's delegates seeking those delegates' not signing on to a petition requiring 300 signatories so that Hillary Clinton's name can be placed in nomination at the Democratic National Convention at the end of this month.

Learn more about this issue here

• Email #1: From myself to Mary Isenhour (this email was CC'd to a number of media outlets):

Dear Ms Isenhour,

I came upon the memo you sent out as instructed by Governor Rendell:
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?p=280031&posted=1#post280031
...a memo that is seeking to thwart the efforts of Clinton's delegates to work to get the New York senator the 300 signatures that are required on a petition for her to have her name placed in nomination.

Similarly, I came upon this news story out of Denver regarding more 'muscling' of Clinton delegates: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_10170139 ...regarding delegate Sacha Millstone.

And who could forget Debra Bartoshevich, another victim of what appears uncomfortably like the silencing of people one would expect to have received if she lived in the Soviet Union: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/hillary-clint-5.html

And so I was left wondering here in Wilkes-Barre, PA:

What in the hell is going on with my party?

When did the Democratic Party become the party of Chicago thugs, and Pinochet? Which delegate gets 'disappeared' next if they support Clinton?

I like Governor Rendell. I voted for him. I was planning on voting for him in future elections as he stayed here in PA or if he moved up the political food chain. Now, that commitment to the Governor is in doubt if it is not shattered irrevocably. Why would I speak up for a man, with my ballot, who is going out of his way to silence myself and millions of others? Why is he seeking to overturn a tradition in the party's conventions that go back decades, and has gone on interrupted for 40 years? Why does he feel Obama is so fragile and frail that he can't even hold up to what would amount to a ceremonial roll call vote?

You people are seeking to implement party unity through heavy-handed discipline. Instead, you are ensuring Obama's loss in November.

I am beyond infuriated. You have insulted me, my intelligence and millions of others with your actions. You have gone Russia to our Georgia.

I am a PUMA, one of many who is disgusted to see what the party has become in the service of an inexperienced man from the most politically corrupt city in our great nation. How can the governor countenance this thuggery?

You failed, Ed Rendell.
Failed spectacularly.
And no one will forget this.

Paul F. Villarreal

• Email #2: Mary Isenhour to me

The Governor made a simple request in ASKING delegates to refrain from signing the petitions until Senator Obama and Senator Clinton have negotiated and the wishes of Senator Clinton are known.

• Email #3: Myself to Mary Isenhour

Mary,

Stop, please. I'm beyond sophistry and parlor tricks. We both know this is a stall tactic and an attempt to confuse and demobilize the effort to get Clinton the 300 signatures she needs. Couch it as you must, but no one is fooled.

You seem like a nice woman. I like the Governor. Which makes the kowtowing to Obama that much more upsetting.

We all get it, we all understand the terrain here. You guys are doing what you feel you have to do, as subtly and surreptitiously as you can. Rendell was one of the best people at pointing out the games Obama's crew was playing during the primaries. He understands what he's doing.

My problem is not with the soldiers following orders, primarily. It is that the general doesn't deserve the soldiers. I think you can tell I'm intelligent enough to not be a low information voter, and I'm sure as heck not racist.

Barack Obama is an example of the worst of Chicago politics, which is really saying a lot. He is trying to smile and play the race card into The Oval Office, and it is humiliating as a Democrat and an affront to the principles of Doctor King. Beyond this, he is a drag on down-ticket Dems and is not bringing anyone the money that he said he would. The thuggish, Stalinist tactics are completely out of control, and have been for months. It is sad to see our Governor aiding in such efforts, however half-heartedly he is doing so.

Rendell is better than this, as I'm sure you are as well. I know that I am, and that is why I cannot support Obama. When Obama joked about Rendell's check bouncing or whatever, I and others were very upset. Obama has no class and just expects people to lay down for him as he is coronated.

No.

This man should not be elected, or nominated. You do what you have to do, and I hope that I can support Governor Rendell in the future.

In the meantime, as the saying goes, please refrain from spitting in my face and telling me it's raining. I know what's being done here, and no amount of spin or framing is going to dispell that knowledge.

Thank you for your response. I appreciate your position and can understand that it is not fun to have to play the fall guy for the Governor's action and the Chicago chicanery which is being handed down the channel.

Take care,
Paul F. Villarreal
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As you can see, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party thinks we are fools and is trying to placate us with semantic games. The intent of Rendell's request is clear: Stop Hillary getting the needed signatures so that she can be entered into nomination at the convention.My friends, I urge you to contact Isenhour and the Party and register your outrage at Rendell's actions seeking to stifle our voices and Hillary's being put into nomination. All conventions since 1968 have had open roll call votes. There is NO REASON that this opportunity should not be afforded to Hillary Clinton and her supporters who constitute majority of the party.


Here is some contact information for Mary Isenhour and the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. Let these people know that you are outraged over Rendell's actions.

Contacting Gov. Rendell. Call all of these numbers:

Main Office, Capitol Building: 717-787-2500
Northeast Region: 570-614-2090
Southeast Region: 215-560-2640
Northwest Region: 814-878-5719
Southwest Region: 412-565-5700

Special Assistant to the Governor, Lance Simon: 717-787-2500

Here is Mary Isenhour's contact info: phone: 717-920-8470 e-mail: maryp1016@aol.com

Pre-Convention Puma Conference!

This information is written and provided by PUMA Conference Committee.

Wardman Park Marriott
Washington, D.C.August 8 – 10, 2008

Dear PUMAs,

The 2008 PUMA Conference Committee is ready to ROAR with this incredible conference deal! For the amazing price of $250, you will receive the following:

• Lodging at a FIVE STAR hotel – the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. for THREE nights (Thursday, Friday and Saturday)
• Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday
• Lunch on Saturday.
• AND it also includes the price of the conference itself.
  

Mind boggling, crazy good isn’t it?


WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU REGISTER:
After the first 250 people register at the $250 price, IT IS GONE.
As we are under tight time constraints with the hotel for numbers and commitment at this time, once you register there will be NO refunds. (Please reread that sentence before you register.)
If we do not have 250 registrants, we will be refunding monies MINUS the PayPal Fee (approximately $7.50).

We welcome anyone who is committed to working toward a plan for Denver. We welcome diversity of thought during the process. We do, however, reserve the right to protect the planning process from disruptive behavior.

1. YES we have a registration offer if you’re local or not planning to stay at the hotel. If you would like to attend without the hotel room, the price is $150 (or if you aren’t one of the first 250 to register).

2. YES we welcome vendors. If you would like to have a “vendor table,” you may do so (we reserve the right to determine if your organization is a good fit). We have 30 slots open for $100 per table.

3. YES we need sponsors. If you’re interested, please email us immediately at PUMAConference@yahoo.com.

4. YES you will have an opportunity to volunteer – you can do so during the registration process.

5. YES we are still working on how folks can participate via the internet and radio. Details will follow late next week.


For this first conference, we are not able to break out the conference fees for a per day pass. We will be accepting on-site registrants on a limited basis (once we have reached our 250 numbers before the event).

Email this address with any questions at pumaconference@yahoo.com.

READY? So are we! Meet you in D.C!~ PUMA Conference Committee