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Health Care for America Now

10/22/2012 Nativegrl77

Health Care Supporter

Will you contribute $10 to help us reach undecided voters in key states?

This election is about more than political parties. When it comes to health care, it is about truth and lies.

There are only 18 days until the presidential election, but some people are still undecided about whom to vote for. To reach these undecided voters Health Care for America Now will be running a targeted online ad campaign in key areas.

Will you contribute $10 to help us deliver our message to undecided voters?

In front of a national audience, Mitt said he cares about 100% of Americans. With wealthy donors, behind closed doors, he said he didn’t care about 47% of Americans. He claimed pre-existing conditions are covered under his health care plan, but he conveniently skipped the fact that it’s only for people whose coverage hasn’t been interrupted. That’s the exact policy we already had under laws in effect before the Affordable Care Act was enacted.

It’s simple. Romney’s a liar. He’ll say whatever he thinks it takes to get elected.

Please make a contribution of $10 to help us deliver our message to undecided voters. America can’t afford Romney’s brand of dishonesty in the White House.

Thanks,

Will O’Neill Health Care for America Now

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Ocean Conservation …

10/22/2012 Nativegrl77

Obama Administration Progress on Oceans Conservation

Posted by Julie Randall:

Obama Responds to Ocean Letter

On August 15, Blue Frontier Campaign put together a letter to the presidential candidates signed by 60 ocean leaders calling on them to pledge to protect our ocean by moving forward in four action areas. On September 24, the Obama campaign responded with the following statement:

“President Obama is committed to ensuring that our nation’s vast natural resources are used responsibly, and that we maintain healthy oceans and coasts. By establishing a National Ocean Policy, he made it a priority of the federal government to ensure a proactive approach to improving the conservation of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes.”

President Obama is directing additional funding to Gulf Coast restoration to further bring back the fisheries and coastal ecosystems that are still recovering in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill. He kicked off the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the largest investment in the Great Lakes in two decades, which is targeting ecological problems such as invasive species, toxic hot spots, and pollution runoff. And his administration is cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, establishing a “pollution diet” for the Bay that will help restore the natural habitat for fish and other wildlife. They have also invested over $1.4 billion in Everglades’ restoration, helping restore tens of thousands of acres that will serve as a sanctuary for native Florida plants and wildlife. Under President Obama, we have created or enhanced more than 540 public coastal recreation areas, protected more than 54,000 acres of coastlines and restored over 5,200 acres of coastal habitat. The administration is also investing more in monitoring our fishing stock in coastal areas in order to have the most accurate data possible on the health of our fisheries. These are significant steps that are helping us improve the health of our oceans and build more robust fisheries.

Read the Executive Order — Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes

Read the Final Recommendations

Visit the National Ocean Council website

Read the FAQs

Read the press release

You can read public comments on the Task Force here.

Read the President’s Proclamation on National Oceans Month

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The Ad That Could Decide The Election

10/19/2012 Nativegrl77

The Ad That Could Decide The Election

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The 2012 election is just a few weeks away. As the polls tighten, it’s becoming increasingly clear that this election might be decided by just a handful of voters! Two of the states in which we have been focusing our efforts are the swing states of Nevada and Colorado. Latinos make up approximetely 15% of the voting population in these states. Our community will have a powerful and deciding voice.
Contribute $8 to help us get our powerful video ad on Latino networks in Nevada and Colorado.
This is why now more than ever, we must do our part to make sure our community comes out in droves and votes in Colorado and Nevada this November 6th.
In partnership with the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Campaign For a Strong Colorado and other on-the-ground organizations we have created a powerful video ad that features Latino students, families and workers giving viewers the clear choice of what is truly at stake in this election.
Please donate $8 today and help us get this video on the air and into the homes of Latinos in Nevada and Colorado.
Your contribution for this ad could make the difference in mobilizing our community to the polls. With an election this close every single vote counts!
As a token of appreciation, we will send you our commemorative Cuéntame sticker pictured below, so that you too can spread awareness about the power of the Latino vote this November! Donate Today!

Together we can make an impact.

Yours, Axel Caballero and the Cuéntame team.

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Mitt Has A Plan For Women

10/18/2012 Nativegrl77

by Care2 Causes Editors

During last night’s debate, Mitt Romney sure had a lot of opinions about women in the workplace. He seemed to think he was connecting with women voters. Do you agree?

Here’s the transcript of Romney from last night:

I had the — the chance to pull together a Cabinet and all the applicants seemed to be men. And I — and I went to my staff, and I said, how come all the people for these jobs are — are all men?

They said, well, these are the people that have the qualifications. And I said, well, gosh, can’t we — can’t we find some — some women that are also qualified?

And — and so we — we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. I went to a number of women’s groups and said, can you help us find folks? And I brought us whole binders full of — of women. I was proud of the fact that after I staffed my cabinet and my senior staff that the University of New York in Albany did a survey of all 50 states and concluded that mine had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America.

Now, one of the reasons I was able to get so many good women to be part of that team was because of our recruiting effort, but number two, because I recognized that if you’re going to have women in the workforce, that sometimes they need to be more flexible. My chief of staff, for instance, had two kids that were still in school. She said, I can’t be here until 7:00 or 8:00 at night. I need to be able to get home at 5:00 so I can be there for — making dinner for my kids and being with them when they get home from school. So we said, fine, let’s have a flexible schedule so you can have hours that work for you.