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...Rudy: Organize This! Joe Klein's "Passing the Torch" was a tonic for me [Nov. 17]. During the Republican Convention, when Rudy Giuliani sneered that he didn't know what a community organizer is and Sarah Palin made similar sarcastic remarks, the insult was personal and deep. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been gone for 10 years, yet her accomplishments in the communities she loved are still lauded and taught to a new generation. Klein's comment - "This is who [community organizers] are: they are the people who won this election" - was a balm. Julie Yugend-Green...
...Most informed people acknowledge that the financial mess began not with Republican deregulation but with social engineering by Democrats. It was exploited by Wall Street, to be sure, and the results went unchecked by Congress. A Republican House helped pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the most sweeping regulatory bill since the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt. If Democrats rule unconstrained, we won't recognize our country in 30 years. Lori Zimmerman, Red Bank, New Jersey...
...Rudy: Organize This! Joe Klein's "Passing the Torch" was a tonic for me [Nov. 17]. During the Republican National Convention, when Rudy Giuliani sneered that he didn't even know what a community organizer is and Sarah Palin - with sarcasm that made my skin crawl - remarked that she guessed that a "small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," the insult was personal and deep. For the first time in my life, I donated financially to a political campaign - Obama's. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been gone...
...McCain and we’ve got a few others,” Reid said. “I don’t expect much of a fight at all.” The effort in Congress has gained some bipartisan support from the start, with Utah Republican Orrin G. Hatch acting as one of the leading co-sponsors. The legislation stalled in the Senate late last year and was shelved, according to a Washington source, until after the 2008 elections. Heberto Alanis, Jr. ’12, a native of Roma, Texas, which is located just a few miles...
...voters has been on the rise since 1996 due to the re-engagement of American youth in politics, according to Levine. “I think college students were more enthusiastic for this election,” said Colin J. Motley ’10, president of the Harvard Republican Club. “Barack Obama energized the youth voters similar to Ronald Reagan back in 1980.” He added that he thought the high turnout was a good thing, though he would have preferred a different outcome. Joanna I. Naples-Mitchell ’10, the former...