By all accounts the Party for the People held Tuesday night at the Pageant was a memorable night.  Nearly 800 proud Americans gathered to dance and celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as POTUS! In addition, almost a pick-up truck load of canned goods were gathered for the less fortunate in our community.  see links below for video and images from the event.  The City Dems give a big Shout Out to Cara Jenson, 8th Ward Committeewoman and Joe Palm, 26th Ward Committeeman for putting together such a great party!

http://stltoday.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=675985&CategoryID=38925

http://toastedrav.com/post/6181/trav_video#0

http://stlouis.metromix.com/events/photogallery/inauguration-for-the-people/906428/content

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 4^th!

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

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.

We are looking for letters from City Democrats expressing why this election is so important and why they intend to vote for Barack Obama and Jay Nixon on Novemeber 4th.  Some of these letters will be published in the election edition of the St. Louis Democrat Press which will be published in late October.

So if you want to share your thoughts on the importance of voting and voting Democrat this year, please send us an email at brian@citydems.org