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City Dems Endorse Prop C – Renewable Energy

Comments 14 October 2008

Proposition C – The Missouri Clean Energy Initiative

www.missouricleanenergy.org

Last week, the St. Louis City Democratic Central Committee endorsed Proposition C – The Missouri Clean Energy Initiative.

Proposition C requires that Missouri’s investor owned utilities get 15% percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2021. Renewable energy is power generated from wind, solar, landfill gas, biomass, and small hydroelectric projects.

We now have an opportunity to make Missouri a national leader in clean, alternative energy – recharging our economy, creating good jobs and reducing energy costs.

Join the Proposition C effort by going to their website and signing up your support at www.missouricleanenergy.org.

Currently, 82% of Missouri’s electricity comes from coal at a cost of $9 billion a year, while only .01% comes from renewable sources.

Additionally, the emergence of clean renewable energy in Missouri is expected to create tens of thousands of jobs across the state and lead to billions of dollars in economic development while addressing climate change.  In fact, by 2021 the Clean Energy Initiative will have the same effect as permanently removing 2 million cars from the road.

Not only is this initiative going to start creating more jobs and jumpstart our economy in Missouri, this initiative is going to save Missouri energy consumers $331 million over a 20-year period.

Vote YES on Proposition C on November 4th!

Go to www.missouricleanenergy.org to find out how you can help bring renewable energy to Missouri. clean-energh-logo

Events

3rd Annual Halloween Party

Comments 10 October 2008

Join us at our 3rd Annual Halloween Costume Party!

Friday, October 24, 7:30 to 10:30 PM

Glazers Union Hall, 5916 Wilson Avenue

$10 in advance, $15 at the door, $5 for College Dems

Free Beer and Food compliments of Anheuser-Busch

Prizes for best costume

Co-sponsored with The Young Democrats of Greater St. Louis

For more information, email ydstlouis@gmail.com or call 314.809.5083

Voter Registration

Voter Registration Information

Comments 06 October 2008

Voter Registration Information

Registration Qualifications

  • 18 Years of age by Election Day
  • US Citizen
  • Missouri Resident

No person shall be entitled to vote:

  • While confined under a sentence of imprisonment;
  • While on probation or parole after the conviction of a felony
  • After conviction of a felony or misdemeanor connected with voting or the right of suffrage

Where to Register to Vote

Missourians can register to vote:

If you would like to request a mail-in post card registration please complete this form.

Voter Registration Solicitor Information

Registration Form for Voter Registration Solicitors PDF file

Missouri Voter ID Requirements

Registered voter will need ONLY ONE of the following acceptable forms of identification to vote:

voter ID card Missouri driver's license
Missouri non-driver's license u.s. passport
military ID school ID
utility bill - sample 1 utility bill - sample 2
out-of-state license or ID
  1. Identification issued by the state of Missouri, an agency of the state, or a local election authority of the state;
  2. Identification issued by the United States government or agency thereof;
  3. Identification issued by an institution of higher education, including a univeristy, college, vocational and technical school, located within the state of Missouri;
  4. A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check or other government document that contains the name and address of the voter;
  5. Driver’s license or state identification card issued by another state.

If you do not possess any of these forms of identification, you may still cast a ballot if two supervising election judges, one from each major political party, attest they know you.

* Pursuant to Section 115.427, RSMO Supp. 2006 – This information courtesy of the Office of Secretary of State Robin Carnahan.

Elected Officials

City/County Democrats

Comments 06 October 2008

The City of St. Louis isn’t in any Missouri county. However, the city does have county office holders. Below are our city and county officials for the City of St. Louis.

Mayor Francis Slay

City Hall, Room 200
1200 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63103

Phone:
314.622.3201

Comptroller Darlene Green

200 Market Street
City Hall, Room 311
St. Louis, MO 63103

Phone: 314.622.3588

Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed

City Hall, Room 230
1200 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63103

Phone: 314.622.4114

Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce

1114 Market St.,4th Floor
Mel Carnahan Building
St. Louis, MO 63103
Phone: 314.622.4941

Circuit Clerk Mariano Favazza

Civil Courts Building
10 N. Tucker Blvd., 1st Floor
St. Louis, MO 63101-2044
Phone: 314.622.4941

Sheriff Jim Murphy

Civil Courts Building
10 N. Tucker Blvd., 12th Floor
St. Louis, MO 63101-2044

Phone: 314.622.4851

Treasurer Larry Williams

City Hall, Room 220
1200 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63103-2874
Phone: 314.622.3434

Recorder of Deeds Sharon Quigley Carpenter

City Hall, Room 126
1200 Market Street
St. Louis, MO 63103-2881
Phone: 314.6224610

Collector of Revenue Gregory F. X. Daily

City Hall
1200 Market Street, Room 111
St. Louis, MO 63103

Phone: 314.622.4111

License Collector Mike McMillan

1200 Market Street, Room 102
St. Louis, MO 63103-2804

Phone: 314.622.4528

Blog

The Obama channel

Comments 01 October 2008

From Ben Smith @ Politico.

Channel 73 on the Dish Network is now The Obama Channel.

Obama’s media buying strategy has been marked by a willingness to work the angles, and to try to pick up a few votes at the margins. The decision to go to everything from extensive radio buys to odd-hour infomercials reflects the fact that the campaign media buyers spend a lot of time thinking about how much persuasion any given dollar can buy, and given a very cheap format — late night cable channels that need filler, for instance — will settle for a thimblefull of persuasion.

The satellite channel is the latest of these marginal gambits: Three readers from different parts of the country email that Channel 073-00 on the Dish Network is now labeled OBAMA. (”What is up with Sen. Obama having his own channel?” asks a St. Louis reader.) The channel plays his two-minute ad laying out his economic plan on a loop, over and over.

The only explanation: The media buyers think they can reach enough people per dollar to make it worth the odd buy.

The channel’s appearance has provoked scorn and alarm on conservative blogs, though, and some discussion on a forum for Satellite TV aficionados, where one user writes that a Dish Network executive emailed to reassure the user that  it “is paid advertising by the Obama campaign and is not an endorsement of Senator Obama by DISH Network” and will broadcast through November 4.

A spokeswoman for EchoStar, the Dish Network’s parent company, didn’t respond immediately to phone and email inquiries abotut the channel.


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