Twenty-nine legislators endorse Obama


Barack Obama earned the endorsement of 29 state legislators today.

Led by Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand and former Speaker of the House Dan Blue, the lawmakers repeated the same lines as endorsers who have backed Obama before — that the Illinois senator can bring people together and ignite change across the country.

Blue also challenged the Clinton campaign to keep it positive in North Carolina, saying he had seen nothing but negativity so far in Pennsylvania.

"I hope this is not what we can should expect to come to North Carolina in the next two weeks," Blue said. "Tired old political tactics aren’t going to bring about the kind of change we need."

Blue and Rand said their support comes in part because Obama will help Democrats down the ticket, and because he has committed to win in North Carolina in November’s general election.

Rand said the group will raise money and stump for Obama if members are asked.

Rand also praised Obama’s ability to raise millions of dollars in part on the strength of $100 donations.

"We're prepared to do whatever. I mean, I'll give him a hundred," Rand said.

After the jump, the list of endorsements.

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N.C. Senate

Tony Rand, Senate Majority Leader, Cumberland
Doug Berger, State Senator, Franklin
Charlie Dannelly, State Senator, Mecklenburg
Katie Dorsett, State Senator, Guilford
Anthony Foriest, State Senator, Alamance
Linda Garrou, State Senator, Forsyth
Malcolm Graham, State Senator, Mecklenburg
Clark Jenkins, State Senator, Edgecombe
Edward Jones, State Senator, Halifax, Perquimans
Eleanor Kinnaird, State Senator, Orange
Vernon Malone, State Senator, Wake
Floyd McKissick, State Senator, Durham

N.C. House of Representatives

Dan Blue, State Representative, Wake
Alma Adams, State Representative, Guilford
Angela Bryant, State Representative, Nash
Jean Farmer-Butterfield, State Representative, Wilson
Becky Carney, State Representative, Mecklenburg
Bill Faison, State Representative, Orange
Richard Glazier, State Representative, Cumberland
Larry Hall, State Representative, Durham
Ty Harrell, State Representative, Wake
Pricey Harrison, State Representative, Guilford
Sandra Hughes, State Representative, New Hanover
Marvin Lucas, State Representative, Cumberland
Grier Martin, State Representative, Wake
Annie Mobley, State Representative, Bertie
Henry Michaux, Jr., State Representative, Durham
Edith Warren, State Representative, Pitt
Michael Wray, State Representative, Warren

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Re: Twenty-nine legislators endorse Obama

If we are to take your "The Associate" argument to its full conclusion, that means that John McCain should be President since he has been there the longest and not an up-start junior Senator from New York.

Re: Twenty-nine legislators endorse Obama

I agree but the voters have to see through obama's major advertising Glitzkrieg like they did in Pennsylvania.

Re: Twenty-nine legislators endorse Obama

The tone of your post reflects DIRECTLY on Obama. Feminism is not a matter of backlash. It's a matter of a MAJORITY of which every black woman is a member.
Obama recalls the smartly dressed antagonist in that Whoopee Goldberg film The Associate. Whoopee Goldberg plays a hardworking female executive who gets "passed up" by slickly tailored junior male assistant. Female voters should take a good look at that movie before voting for the 2-year junior senstor from Illinois.

Re: Twenty-nine legislators endorse Obama

Hi,
I'm an out of towner from Illinois.
I don't know much a about your state, but I do the difference between Clinton and Obama. Clinton is not an agent of change.
She is running a covert racist campaign(Rev Wrigh, Farrahkan, Bill Ayers) patterns,espousing feminist back lash, and anti-elitist comments. I think these issues should be examined. If you are to look at Hillary's pattern of associations....Mark Penn, the person trying to lobby Columbia for jobs, NAFTA approval as stated by the released White House documents, Hu and the Lincoln bedroom, no healthcare, 200,000 jobs promised in New York never gotten, Whitewater, and now the Peter Paul campaign fraud against Hillary http:www.hillcap.org/.
It is important to note that after the Million Man March, Minister Louis Farrakhan was seated at the White House with Ronald Reagan and recognized for using his influence in the Muslim world to secure the release of Lt. Robert O. Goodman on January 4, 1984. He was invited to Philadelphia by then Mayor Rendell to speak and help heal the racial divide; holding hands, singing and lavishing praise on April 15, 1997. On May 5, 2005, former President Bill Clinton praised Minister Farrakhan and the Millions More Movement describing it as a positive idea.
The American peoples’ issues: Jobs, healthcare, social security, and education should be the focus and not listen to Clinton's insidious, hit squad which is now employed by the republicans.
Also she really got 9.2% of the vote; and after signing a pledge that Michigan and Florida's votes would not count, because she’s losing she now wants them to count. In addition, she's telling voters it's Obama's fault (another lie). Actually it’s not his; the DNC has said No.
Good luck voters, if it were me I would not choose a proven liar.
Obama is neither separatist, nor Muslim (so what if he is); if he were a terrorist the government would know.

Whoever is supporting Obama indicates that person knows who is the untrustworthy one; in addition, to one be being a liar!

Re: Twenty-nine legislators endorse Obama

UNChockeygirl, Mark Penn's main job is union-busting. She also leads in donations from the health care industry. Neither candidate looks great when you look at their donors.

Re: Twenty-nine legislators endorse Obama

That claim of $100 donations supporting the Obama campaign is bogus. His primary source of funds is corporate executives and lobbyists who are running his fund raising, bundlers they call them, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars each. The average Obama cites is based on his claim that everyone who bought a t-shirt or a bumper sticker or paid to see a celebrity at one of his events was making a donation.

Where does Obama's money come from? One of his bundlers is Scott Blake Harris, the managing partner of the Washington, D.C., firm Harris Wiltshire and Grannis, which handles such legislative issues as Communications/Broadcasting/ Radio/TV, Science/Technology, Telecommunications, and Trade (Foreign and Domestic), as well as representing the Computing Technology Industry Association. As an Obama bundler, Harris raised $200,000+

Another one of Obama's bundlers is Thomas J. Perrilli, managing partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Jenner and Block, a Chicago general practice law firm, which includes among its clients the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and Time Warner Inc. As an Obama bundler, Perrelli raised $200,000+.

And look who funded his campaign for the senate.

2003-2004
Listed among the top 50 contributors to Barack Obama 2003-2004 are found the following political action committees:

AT&T PAC IL
Allstate Insurance PAC
Credit Union PAC
Community Banc PAC
Zack PAC
AIA IL PAC (American Insurance Assn)
IL Road Builders PAC
MCI Midwest Employees PAC
Peoples Energy PAC
Spirit PAC
ICTA-PAC
IL Manufactured Housing Assn PAC
IL Mortgage Bankers PAC
ACPAC (Automobile Club PAC)

Another one of his bundlers is "lobbyist on leave" Emmett Beliveau. Clients such as Oshkosh Truck and Pinkerton Consulting paid more than $700,000 for Emmett Beliveau and his colleagues at Patton Boggs to represent them during the first half of 2007.

PINKERTONS????????

CWA members wake up!!!! Obama has been bought and paid for by the communications industry.

Vote for Clinton. She's the only one with a chance to beat McCain.

Re: Twenty-nine legislators endorse Obama

Just the ones voting as superdelegates, JJ.

Re: Twenty-nine legislators endorse Obama

And I suppose that the people who voted for Obama also got money from his Hope PAC too?

Re: Twenty-nine legislators endorse Obama

I wonder how many of these got money from Obama's Hope PAC. Anyone know how to check? He's used it that way in other states, and he's paying superdelegates with it too.