This is an opportunity to rattle that tree. The only remaining scheduled Gore appearance this month has to be TREMENDOUS!!!!!!!

I'll be there and I hope all the regional groups plan to be there as well.

IN HIS FACE is the idea.

PLAIN AS DAY is the idea.

NO QUESTION ABOUT IT is the idea.

VIGILANT is the idea.

VOICE OF CHOICE is the idea.

HELP US DO IT is the idea.

When?
Wednesday, October 17, 5:00 PM
Where?
Hyatt Regency Chicago
151 East Wacker Drive
IL 60601

Learn more here:
http://draftalgore.meetup.com/48/calendar/6417733/

Good luck! :D

Al Gore arrived in Chicago this morning.

The best of luck to you! Chicago would be a great place to make that golden announcement...great city in a midwestern Democratic state. Any info on media coverage?

What
Al Gore Economic Club Meetup OCT 17

When
Wednesday, October 17 at 5:00PM

Who
At least 14 Al Gore Supporters.

Where
Hyatt Regency Chicago
151 East Wacker Drive
IL 60601

Singh T. Junior
Organizer of The Chicago Draft Al Gore Meetup Group

Event Description
Al Gore will be addressing the Economic Club ( http://www.econclubchi.org/) of Chicago at 6:45 PM on Oct 17, following a dinner. The event will be at downtown Hyatt Hotel. Al Gore meetup group of Chicago has been working on large signs, each one is 42x36 inches letter. The message is "AL GORE 2008" -- therefore, there are 10 signs. At least ten people are required to hold the signs at any given time. We will be positioned on the sidewalk opposite to the Hyatt on Wacker Drive, from 5 pm to 8 pm. It is a higly visible spot. Our meetup group needs more that 10 people so we can rotate after people get tired. We will also be collecting signatures for Al Gore's name to be included in the Illinois Primary. We will be handing out buttons, hats, bookmarks, and taking signatures.

This will be first Al Gore's public event after upcoming nomination to the Nobel Prize for contribution to the universal awareness of Global Climate Change. This is very important event and I hope to see all of you. John Burros has worked very hard in creating these large signs. This effort is likely to be a tipping point in changing the course of this nation.

We are also doing a Bill-Board Bike drive. The bill board bike will carry two Al Gore signs that are 4 x 5 foot long. The bike will circulate around Hyatt Hotel from 4:30 pm to 7:30pm during the night of event. The total cost of this is $470. . We will appreciate any donation that you can bring during the event. Many enthusiastic Gore supporters have pledged to contribute.

Oh I don't think there is any significant media or Democrats in the Chicagoland area. :lol:

His arrival was on the morning news...

Just PLEASE be careful everyone... after hearing that Randi Rhodes was brutally attacked two nights ago by two men who bashed out several of her teeth and put her in the hospital (when she had no purse or jewelry on her)... we NEED to watch our collective backs and by all means, AL'S too!!!

Dear Lord, please keep that man safe!! Sorry, I just watched Bobby the other night.... then I heard about Randi... :unsure: :(

UPDATE: Well, interesting indead, the NYT link is reporting now that Randi's attorney says she wasn't assaulted... hmmm.... something going on here??? It says she doesn't know what happened but fell down while walking her dog and is in a lot of pain. Hmmm... <_<

What! ?I'm turning on her show now. Please update us if you get more information about this, Goracle Fan.

I hope Randi Rhodes is well and recovering. Can someone find out where to send get-well cards?

It seems like there is something weird going on but here's a link Randi Rhodes diary where you can follow what's going on.
Regardless of what the media or attorneys are saying, just PLEASE keep safe in Chicago & say a little prayer or chant or burn some sage or something to keep Al safe too, okay??? :wub: :cop:

Remember Bobby's famous last words
"Now it's on to Chicago, and let's win there"

Be careful.

And WTF :wtf: :wtf: is with the Randi story?
Sounds like not only was she beaten, but she also got so scared she went silent on it...(just another day in Bushworld07 if you ask me, but no one is)...

So please be careful.

Remember too, the Dem convention of 1968 was in Chicago

The Chicago metropolitan area, including Cook County and the surrounding five counties (Lake, Kane, McHenry, DuPage, and Will) dominates the state with 65.5% of the population. Winning this region goes a long way towards adding the state's 21 electoral votes to one's column. With the well-documented rural-urban split of support between Republicans and Democrats, Illinois poses a particular challenge for Republicans to overcome the heavily urban Chicago area.

ILLINOIS PRIMARY March 21, 2000
Gore, Al D 682,932 84.35
Bradley, Bill D 115,320 14.24
LaRouche, Lyndon H., Jr. D 11,415 1.41

ILLINOIS 2000
Gore, Al D 2,589,026 54.60
Bush, George W. R 2,019,421 42.58
Nader, Ralph GRN 103,759 2.19
Buchanan, Pat I 16,106 0.34
Browne, Harry LBT 11,623 0.24
Hagelin, John REF 2,127 0.04
Phillips, Howard W 57 0.00
McReynolds, David W 4 0.00
Total State Votes: 4,742,123

COOK COUNTY 2000
Albert Gore Jr. Joseph Lieberman Democratic 1,280,547 68.63%
George W. Bush Richard Cheney Republican 534,542 28.65%
Ralph Nader Winona LaDuke Green 42,068 2.25%
Other (+) - - 8,750 0.47%

2000 Overview
Illinois remained solidly in the Democratic column as the Gore-Lieberman ticket won with a plurality of 569,605 votes (12.02 percentage points). Gore carried a total of 24 counties to Bush's 78. Cook County, which accounted for 39% of the votes cast in the race for president (1,865,907 of 4,742,123), provided a plurality of 746,005 votes for Gore.

"Florida on Lake Michigan"
It is scarcely conceivable that almost one out of every 16 voters in Chicago skipped the top of the ticket.

Florida was not the only part of the country to experience voting problems. In Chicago and Cook County, where nearly 2 million people turned out to vote, more than 120,000 ballots did not record a vote for president. In the City of Chicago, 7.04 percent of ballots did not record a vote for president (72,366 of the 1,027,627 voters), and in the 30 townships comprising suburban Cook County, 5.2 percent of ballots did not record a vote for president (49,833 of the 954,729 voters). A post-election study of voting in the City by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners stated, "[T]he number of votes not recorded for President was alarming." Fall-off rates reached 12.6 percent in the largely Hispanic 12th Ward and 12.4 percent in the mostly African-American 37th Ward. Three precincts in Ward 29 had a fall-off rate of 30.0 percent or higher. Improperly punched chads -- hanging, dimpled, indented and otherwise not registerable -- were the leading problem; overvotes were the second biggest category. The study concluded that "persons in disadvantaged social-economic areas, where the education level is lower, had the most difficulty in executing a properly cast ballot." In suburban Cook County, according to a report by the county clerk's office, "Higher fall-off rates were more likely to occur in less affluent townships with large Hispanic and African American populations and less likely in more affluent, predominately white townships." The highest fall-off rates occurred in Cicero Township (8.8 percent), Calumet Township (7.2 percent) and Leyden Township (7.1 percent); a sampling of precincts found one precinct with a fall-off rate of 21.2 percent.

Yes, I want to know more about what happened to Randi. She was ranting for Gore on her shows the end of last week. :?:

I did a bit of checking around and some articles say she was mugged or attacked as in a hate crime, others say it was an accident. So right now I don't know what to believe.

But if it's true she was attacked, it sounds like something some thug republicans would do. :bad:

So do I. Randy is pretty open about some of her private life activities and more than once I've heard her mention that she walks to the studio etc...it wouldn't be hard for someone to follow her without her knowledge. And I do imagine she could have some non-fan listeners with a gripe. I'd hate to think of other possibilities as in a pre-meditated political "warning," but she has also spoken out about impeachment as well as spoken up for Gore most recently.

There are just too many what ifs here and we might never know if something or someone has scared her.


wish you well Randi and a quick recovery...as Malloy used to say, "watch your back."

Hope you'll give us a run down after...I'm anxious to hear how it goes. I'm too far away to attend, but I wish you all the best of luck. Stay safe.




courtesy of Diogenes2008 (DKOS)

Is there any word on the topic of Gore's talk? And do you think he will announce? (this is the last event on his schedule until the filing deadlines).

Good luck in Chicago tomorrow to all participants! Please give us a full report :read: , with pictures if possible.

:Y:

Does anyone know if it is being televised and/or recorded so we can see it? Please let him announce tomorrow!!!

On Randi's show Thursday or Friday, she talked about where she lives, within a few blocks radius. So if some wingnut was listening to that, knowing she has a dog she has to walk, it wouldn't have been too hard to find her. She was obviously attacked (how often does a person just fall down and knock out several teeth?), then afterward for some reason her attorney backpeddled and said she doesn't remember seeing anything. The reason for that is what's puzzling to me. Did these two men threaten her so they have to keep things quiet for safety sake or maybe it was two right wing wackjobs & Randi just doesn't want to give them the satisfaction... instead she says nah, I just fell down, no biggie. Who knows??? :wacko: :blink:

Valadon, I hate to say it but I had the same thought about somehow possibly being related to her outspoken support of Gore... Now, of course this is complete and utter speculation here, but I mean really, to the Repub's in this administration, there really is no more threatening or "dangerous" person to them than Gore. If someone were trying to send a message to shut her up & punish her for her part in the increased Draft Gore media, bashing her in the mouth would surely seem to fit as an attempt to keep her quiet. Oh, I don't know maybe I'm just getting paranoid :unsure: I knew I shouldn't have watched Bobby!! :banned:

You folks know there is a Randi Rhodes thread here, right? .... :
http://z8.invisionfree.com/Al_Gore_Support...?showtopic=7883

Watch your cable TV news outta Chicago tomorrow for coverage. I'll be getting photos plus maybe some video.

Mike Malloy said on his show tonight that the stories weren't true about Randi, that she fell down and that is how she got hurt. That no one mugged her.

I just heard that on the radio but don't know anything more about it, was gone all day out of town.

c'mon folks, marla, don't highjack this thread when you know and posted on the one I linked here. Decorum folks, decorum! :)

CHICAGO TOMORROW!

CHICAGO TODAY

http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/new...,0,229020.story

In today's Chicago Tribune:

HEY CHICAGO!!!!

We desperately need some good news here. Come with it soon, please. :bow:

My thoughts exactly.

The Chicago Draft Al Gore event was exceptional.



AlGoreFan will be getting more pictures and a video for all of you. We had outstanding news coverage by all local channels and radio stations.

Here are more pictures of the event.

http://draftalgore.meetup.com/48/photos/

In other words, people have returned from the event without hearing Gore make any statements contradicting the report that he's ruled out a presidential bid.

What did Gore say?

Just got back. Didn't hear a word of what Gore might have said. I demonstrated outside with the Gorester contingent. Here's a pick of the bike billboard going in front of the hotel, the large sign line we had across the street, and Singh and I.

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I am making YouTubes of video I shot which includes statements from everyone there.

All the network TV stations were there covering us as were the major papers. NPR too. You couldn't miss us!

I did go inside the hotel to use the rest room which was directly across from the room where the reception from Gore was. Very "black-tie" and rich! They all streamed out while I was standing there waiting with my Gore pin and hat on. Received a lot of thumbs up and smiling nods. Ha!!!

:clap: :dance: :clap: :laugh: :good: :good: :good: :good:

FANTASTIC!!! more, more, more, more........

How did the public react?

Lots of positive stuff, beeping horns, waves, thumbs up, shouts of encouragement.

Did I mention it rained on us most of the time?

We chanted "RUN AL RUN" and did the old back and forth "AL" .......... "GORE"........ "AL".......... "GORE"

Lots of people saw us and only one drove by and yelled "GORE????? You COMMUNISTS!" :laugh:

another trio showed up separate of us:

Funny, I never heard Gore say "he's ruled out a presidential bid." Have you?

I did an NPR interview and one question was "what are you going to do if Gore doesn't announce he is running?"

"Draft him of course," was my reply. "Would you like a DRAFT GORE button?"

GREAT JOB, ALL OF YOU GUYS IN CHICAGO! KUDOS TO YOU!
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:


But what did Gore say?

Yes, what did Gore say?!?!?!?!?!?

Just there to make a scene and we did that.

Maybe they have no idea since they were outside. I'm getting really pissed that it's all over the news that "Gore has ruled out..."

I checked the web sites of a couple of Chicago TV stations and found that wonderful news. I sure hope this doesn't slow the momentum that took so long to build.

p.s. To AL: If & when it's really over, please look US in the eye and tell us so. I just sent more $$ to Dylan. Tell me in no uncertain terms to stop. Then I'll go get a massage instead.--Thank you kindly.

watching the local news stations now........