Just posted to the Clark08 web group by Randy's relative, Stan.....

Born July 28, 1951 in Wichita Kansas to Othur and Lola Risener, Randy passed
away on October 2, 2007 at the age of 56 years. He is survived by his
mother Lola, brother Stan, and two nieces, Leslie and Leah Risener. Upon
graduation from Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, MO, Randall
enlisted in the Army, where he served faithfully during the Vietnam conflict
attached to the Army Security Agency.

Arraignments are pending

Stan Risener

816-305-8009
www.kcautosource.com

Ladies & Gentlemen, Volunteers of all ages ~~

Recently, General Clark has asked for our help to not only change the debate from troops and tactics to strategy and diplomacy, but he has also asked, several times, for us to help several candidates get elected to Congress in 2008.

Tradition says an elephant in the room doesn’t get talked about, but tradition’s just another word for conventional wisdom, and CW until a few months ago said the U.S. Senate would stay under Republican control and George Allen was running for President. The elephant in the room can wait, let’s focus on an underreported donkey; General Wesley Clark.

Political pundits seem determined to talk right past Clark until he rears up and kicks them in the teeth. The beltway crowd is more tightly scripted than a corporate radio play list: “We’re about to play some back to back Spice Girl Hillary hits, but first here’s an Oldie but Goodie from Joe Biden, and don’t dare touch that dial , we’ll have some of that hot new Obama sound coming up for you shortly also!” Poor John Edwards isn’t the freshest face on the block anymore.

Calling all Clarkies!  We have seven days before we change the country for the better, but we need your help now, and all this next week, to do that. WesPAC needs you to volunteer some time to phone bank for the candidates listed below. We'll be adding more candidates in the days to come too. Whether you can make 10 calls or 100 calls or more - every call counts!

Please contact the state coordintors listed below each candidate, and they will get you set up to phone bank.  Thank you for everything you're doing to help General Clark and WesPAC get Democrats elected on November 7th!

Hello Everyone:

Below is some great news I just found out about that "Jim Webb surges past Allen in latest poll."

It looks like George Allen will have to stop running for President to start running a serious Senate campagn for a change! 

Please feel free to forward this on to help out Jim Webb and to make George Allen sweat even more than he is now!

Mitch Dworkin

http://securingamerica.com/

http://www.webbforsenate.com/ 

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Dear Mitch,

Massa for Congress

The schedule of the campaign trail will keep me from being able to liveblog today but I wanted to bring our team of netroots supporters up to date with a few sound bites from the campaign trail.

While some will say that the candidate is almost always overly positive, I have to relay that the momentum for this race is clearly on our side. My opponent has decided to make validation of President George Bush's war in Iraq the number one issue in this race. He decided to go to Iraq 100 days prior to the election and afterward he returned to announce that all is well and if only the press would report all the great things that are going on we would see that as clearly as he had. He stated that the Iraqi Army was as well trained as the American Army and that our taxpayer dollars are being well spent. In short, he got off the plane and read the talking points that the White House had given him. (link, link, link)

Attending the Eric Massa/Wes Clark event in Manhattan last night was almost like a homecoming. Jacques’ loft, where the event was held, was one of the home bases for the NYC Draft Clark movement and I have fond memories of being there and stapling Draft Clark business cards to mini Clark bars to hand out at a local Democratic Club dinner and making homemade Clark04 buttons on the night that Wes announced he was getting in the race. That night we later paraded out onto Broadway with bags full of mini Clark bars and huge Clark ’04 signs. We were jubilant. We’d successfully drafted our man.

Cross posted from Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com...

The fighting dem vets are alive and well. Here is the current count as best I can make out from the most recent survey. Anyone having information please let us know. You can check the latest "Fighting Dem "Muster Roll" here: Fighting-Dems.com. The main page has a chart detailing what is summarized below. Note that losses can be counted in two ways: 1) losses of individual candidates and 2) loss of a Senate or Congressional seat. If a vet withdraws to support another vet or losses to a vet, the district is not lost.