Like so many of us here at Daily Kos, I was one of those early Obama supporters, someone who signed up at mybarackobama.com. In fact, I prided myself on being one of the fledgling members of the ORR group. Damned if we didn't do some mighty fine work in those first months. In fact, when I first met Senator Obama, he had the graciousness to act as if he was actually aware that the ORR team existed. He looked tinkled pink as he shook my hand and said: "Oh, we love the work you guys do."
President Obama, You should say no to the XL Pipeline! NOW!
The other day, I responded to the email from TarsandsAction to take the next steps in Phase 2 of the campaign. I volunteered to host an educational house party AND to take the message to my local OFA group. Then I got another idea.
For years now, I've done my damndest to get myself removed from all the Obama groups I was active with, to clean out my overloaded inbox. But when the organization shifted over to OFA, it became near impossible. So it turns out that unless you succeeded in being removed from these group mailing lists, they are still available for you to use, to touch base with the folks you worked with virtually during the '08 campaign. Folks from all across America. Remember those phone banks you joined? Those state groups, special interest groups, precinct captains and canvassers? (For example, among the 100-odd groups I joined, there was "Quit Smoking With Obama,""Citizens Strategy Think Force""Impeachers for Obama,"" Peace in the Middle East" and "SF Giants Fans For Obama.")
President Obama, say NO to the XL Pipeline! NOW!
What if we all take advantage of this exceptional and extensive online network, created by grassroots volunteers like you and me for the 2008 campaign? We could use these extraordinary existing online tools to ensure communities of Obama supporters across the country are informed about the XL pipeline.
President Obama, You should say no to the XL Pipeline! NOW!
We have a way to actually unite millions and millions of Obama supporters to put pressure on the President to listen to us RIGHT NOW!
President Obama, say NO to the XL Pipeline! NOW!
So, here's my plan.
1. Go to barackobama.com. You'll arrive at the 2012 Election Landing Page. You'll be asked "Are you in?
2. Enter your email and zip and click on "I'm in."
3. When you arrive at the donation page, click on the huge 2012 at the top to jump to your own page.
4. You'll arrive at what used to be your dashboard. It will have links to your groups, options to join groups, options to volunteer, etc.
5. Access your groups OR search through "most popular" or "most members" groups and join an few. (I actually created a group for 'No To Keystone XL,' which is awaiting approval AND joined the Environmentalists for Obama, which currently has close to 38,000 members.)
6. Once you have access to the group(s) page, click on Listserv.
7. Click on Send message to the group.
8. Type in the subject line:President Obama, You should say NO to the XL Pipeline NOW!
9. Copy and paste the following content into the text of your message: (Of course, feel free to write your own. This email pulls content from suggestions copied from our resident expert eco letter writer WarrenS)
A sample of the email I already sent out to about ten groups, consisting of over 67,000 members of mybarackobama.com is below the fold.
President Obama, You MUST say NO to the XL Pipeline! NOW!