Amazingly, we are going to have a 24 hour progressive/Democratic/labor friendly radio station on the air in Jacksonville, Florida for the rest of 2008! It will be run by a great Democratic talk show host and my friend Andy Johnson.

For those of you who followed the 2000 Florida Election mess, Jacksonville was key! Republicans pulled every dirty trick in the book there and invented some new ones. With a fair, honest vote in Jacksonville, our entire nation would have been spared the Bush-Cheney disaster of the past 8 years.

I urge everyone to listen by streaming the station on the Internet.

Buy ads if you can and urge others to do so. If you have a website, you might want to buy a 30 second ad for $25 to promote it. If you belong to a union, please consider asking your union at every level to buy some ads..... especially issue ads promoting fair trade, the Employee Free Choice Act, healthcare reform, higher minimum wages and general union ideas like "Unions- the folks who brought you the weekend" or "unionize to preserve the American middle class." All Democratic clubs and progressive organizations everywhere can help Democrats carry Florida by financially supporting the station and get national exposure for their club in the process.

Here is the press release I received from Andy:

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Andy Johnson, former member of the Florida House, has now taken over AM 1460 WZNZ in Jacksonville, turning it into the only progressive talk station in North Florida, starting up on Monday, January 14. People in North Florida can tune in at AM 1460. People anywhere can tune in on the station's http://www.1460.us website which is rapidly being tweaked and improved. Johnson will feature Ed Schultz, noon-3, the most famous antidote to Rush in America, and then Johnson's own show, Down to Business Andy Johnson, 3-6 p.m. Throughout the day Johnson will load up 1460 with more hours of live local talk than any other station in North Florida. It is important for progressives to show support for people willing to take the risk of offering Progressive Talk."

Thanks,

Stephen Crockett

Co-host of Democratic Talk Radio http://www.DemocraticTalkRadio.com
Editor, Mid-Atlantic Labor.com http://www.midatlanticlabor.com

Here is an important resource site on the subject http://www.medicareforall.net .

Hello:
     My name is Michael Tiffany from Festus Missouri, and I wanted to post this blog to get to know people in the groups of the Democratic Partybuilder. In some ways I am just a guy from Missouri, but there are a few things about me you may find interesting as you will see later in this blog. I am not a woman, African American, Hispanic, Native American, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, gay, handicapped, veteran, or a whole host of other things, but what I am is someone that has seen a lot of people that have been oppressed. I have seen the greatest country on Earth barely lift a finger to do much about it, but I think that the Democratic Party has learned that they have to start doing the will of the people. This is why I got involved with the Democratic Party, and I have joined groups from all 50 states to reach out to people across America.
     I love this country of course, but I am not one of those love it or leave it types, because I understand that we all love this country in our own way. I also know that if the people of the United States do not get the system under control we are going to have serious problems, and that we have to make changes for not just for ourselves, but for future generations that may not be able to change it for themselves. We have to see that all citizens are not oppressed, and that our children can grow up in a safe environment. That when they grow up that they can have good futures and that they are not stuck in a system that could careless about them.
     Since I cannot be in all places at all times to help all of the group, so I plan to blog some opinion, and also links to news, politicians, and other resources that I come across on the Internet that I think could be valuable. I have been trained to do things like this over the last few years as you can see in the paragraph below, and I realize that information is power that Democrats can use to change the United States. I cannot post text links or active hyper texts links on this website for some strange reason even though I do not have any problem anywhere else on the Internet, and since I know how to make banners I will use them to link with in my blogs. They are descriptive in what the content is right there before you click, and allow the blog reader to decide if this is something they wish to view. I think that the eight Democratic Presidential candidates that are running here in 2007-2008 are all exceptional, and I will post several series of blogs with Banners for all of them. I will use the blog as an interface that lets the reader to access these sites easily. I believe in free speech for all including the candidates, and far too long people have complained that candidates do not talk about the issues. They felt they had little choice of candidate to choose from, and that the candidates just say catch phrases with no real position on the issues. This time it is different with the Internet being a place that you find more information on the candidates position on issues than has ever been seen by the human race, and that we have some of the best candidates seen here in the Democratic Party since John Kennedy. I know that some groups are specifically for a particular candidate, but free speech would dictate that all people should inform themselves to all of the candidates to truly decide who is best for this country. You should know why you like one candidate over another, and why you do not like other candidates, but certainly inform yourself to all the information that is available on the information superhighway that you are able. We should be taking advantage of the technological abilities that the Internet offers to inform people politically, and all someone has to do like me is point the way to this information to easily navigate this information. I will do this fairly and as evenly as possible for all of the candidates, and then move on to other subjects of relevance over time. If any group manager does like my blog postings they are free to take them down even though I hope that they will not do that, and if they do not want me in their group they are free to cancel my membership no hard feeling, but I hope that this will not happen either. All I can do is the best that I can do for the Democratic Party, and hope that people like what I am doing, or hope that it helps in someway.
     I was the press director of two small unions for pizza delivery drivers, and I have about 3600 E-mail addresses for NBC, ABC, CBS, and other assorted reporters. I am offering them to all groups at the Democratic Partybuilder, and if you want a copy please e-mail me to send you a copy. These e-mail addresses have put the union and its officers on TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines, and depending on what your news story is it may generate lots of e-mails and phone calls from reporters. The E-mail addresses are a few years old at this time, so you will get a percentage of them that will bounce, and I have never taken the time to sort them out. If anybody wants a fresh copy they would have to do what I did in the first place, and that was to go to hundreds of website through thousands of pages to collect the E-mail addresses then enter them into an address book. You need to remember that many E-mail servers have limits on how many E-mail addresses can be entered into a BCC line, because of spamming rules that they had to impose since spamming became such a hot topic. AOL will not let you send more that 30 BCC E-mail per a single E-mail, and Yahoo has a limit of 100 per hour per Yahoo account, but if you have more than one Yahoo account then you can send 100 per hour per account. I would advise that anyone keep the E-mail addresses separate in different accounts otherwise they are unmanageable, and you will loose track of which network you are dealing with. You can create user names something like mygroupforNBC@gmail.com or mygroup4ABC@aol.com as an example, and load the E-mail addresses into the right account for what they are labeled as which network they belong, or make sub files in a single address book. Please do not spam these reporters if you choose for me to send them to you, but they are public E-mail addresses that they have posted for the public to send possible news stories. If you would like a copy of the reporters E-mail addresses E-mail me, and in the subject line copy and paste "Reporters E-mail Address Request" for me to know exactly what you are E-mailing me about.
     I have been using computers for ten years, and have been online for seven years, so I have gotten a pretty good idea of how to use computers to accomplish goals. I have been attending ITT-Tech for three quarters for Computer Networking, and I am working towards at least a Bachelors degree. With my dealings with the APDD and AUPDD I have learned that a few good computer nerds can move Internet mountains, and can actually bring real world changes, so I know that some very committed people can bring changes to our political system. I will be happy to help in this process anyway that I can time permitting, so feel free to contact me directly if you have any ideas? I have joined several other groups at the Partybuilder that I think will be helpful to people and I will be looking them over further shortly to recommend them to others in future blogs.
     I am a member of the Grassroots Event Performers group at the PartyBuilder, and if you are a politician looking for entertainment for an event, or a group looking for entertainment for an event please check it out? As well, if you are a band looking to perform at political events please join the group, and John will work with you to get performances for your band at available events?
     I am also a member of the Blue Blaze Graphics Irregulars group at the PartyBuilder, and if you need any graphic work done please contact them. I will also place some banners below that you can click though for these groups and for the American Union for Pizza Delivery Drivers, the pizza drivers petition, and the Association Against Aggressive Driving that is my new website. I hope that you will take a look at them, and that you will take a few minutes to join in where you wish?
     I should also mention that I have a dial up Internet connection, and working online can be a slow process. I hope to have a high speed Internet connection some time after the first of the year, and will be better able to participate in more activities then.

                              Thank You.
                            Michael Tiffany
                            E-mail: voltagerocks@sbcglobal.net

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