Draft Gore USA

New Hampshire Gore Supporters Endorse Edwards

2008-01-07T19:48:00.000-08:00

January 7, 2007

CONTACT:
Farrell Seiler
(603) 568-4916
Farrell@DraftGoreNH.com

NEW HAMPSHIRE GORE SUPPORTERS ENDORSE
JOHN EDWARDS FOR PRESIDENT

Organization Cites Edwards’ Realistic, Sensible Solutions
to Tackling the Challenge of Global Warming

Littleton, NH – Today, on the eve of New Hampshire’s first in the nation primary, Draft Gore New Hampshire, a statewide group of Granite state voters concerned about the impact of global warming, announced its endorsement of Senator John Edwards.

Draft Gore New Hampshire is encouraging all its members and voters across the state sharing their strong environmental values to vote for Edwards in tomorrow’s primary election.

For six months, Draft Gore New Hampshire had been organizing an effort to encourage New Hampshire voters to write in Nobelist Al Gore’s name on the primary ballot.

“As an organization, we quickly came to realize that more aggressive national and worldwide leadership is needed to find workable solutions to the critical issues of global warming and climate change,” said Farrell Seiler, state coordinator for Draft Gore New Hampshire.

“The planet can no longer afford ‘politics as usual’ in Washington - where the nuclear and fossil fuel industries dominate energy policy."

The policymaking and legislative process are rigged to benefit large corporations who use their financial and lobbying muscle to exclude programs designed to develop energy conservation, energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, according to the group.

“We came to the unanimous decision that John Edwards has the courage to bring about fundamental changes in the way decisions are made in Washington,” says Seiler.

New Hampshire Gore Supporters Halt Primary Drive, May Endorse.

2008-01-06T05:48:00.000-08:00

For Immediate Release: January 5, 2005
Contact: Farrell S. Seiler, Chairman
Draft Gore New Hampshire
603-568-4916 -- farrell@draftgorenh.com
http://www.DraftGoreNH.com

New Hampshire Gore Supporters Halt Primary Drive, May Endorse.

(Littleton, New Hampshire) — January 5, 2007 — Active efforts
to “write in” Al Gore’s name on the New Hampshire primary on
Tuesday have been terminated by the only statewide organization
dedicated to putting the former vice president on the primary ballot.

In an email and telephone calls to more than 2000 Gore supporters
in the Granite State, Draft Gore New Hampshire recommends that
voters cast their ballot for the candidate who most closely
shares the values and global vision of Nobelist Al Gore.

A decision to endorse a primary candidate is under consideration.

Such a decision will be based in part on how the candidates address
the issues of global warming and climate change during Saturday’s
debate in Manchester.

After Tuesday’s primary, Draft Gore New Hampshire will continue
to promote opportunities to solve the crisis of global warming
and energy security through energy conservation, energy efficiency
and renewable energy.

Draft Gore New Hampshire is a 100% volunteer effort supported by
Granite State voters concerned about the future of our state, our
nation and our planet. It is not affiliated with, or authorized
by, Al Gore or any other candidate or political campaign.

http://www.draftgorenh.com

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Gore Supporters Organizing Primary Write In Campaign in New Hampshire

2007-12-13T10:21:00.000-08:00

Littleton, New Hampshire (December 13, 2007) -- After months of speculation, Al Gore will be on the presidential ballot in the nation's first primary.

A dedicated group of New Hampshire voters is organizing a grass roots campaign to write Gore's name on the official ballot on Primary Day, January 8, five days after the Iowa caucus.

"A vote for Al Gore in the New Hampshire Primary is a vote for aggressive leadership to stem global warming," says Farrell S. Seiler, Write-In coordinator of the non-partisan group, Draft Gore New Hampshire. (http://www.DraftGoreNH.com)

The world leaders gathering this week in Bali are looking to the Nobel laureate--not the Bush administration--for bold American leadership on global warming.

"But not one of the Republican or Democratic candidates actively campaigning in New Hampshire is seriously addressing the gravity of climate change and global warming," says Seiler, who is also chairman of the New Hampshire Wind Energy Association.

"New Hampshire can't wait for the primary candidates from either party to wake up and make climate change the organizing theme of their presidential campaigns."

Granite Staters are now discovering that the Republican and Democratic primary candidates simply lack the political courage to make climate action THE priority of the primary, according to Seiler.

In less than one month, New Hampshire voters have a unique opportunity to send a clear message to the world that the threat from global warming requires bolder plans from its political candidates, not scripted sound bites.

New Hampshire elections law permits any person's name to be written on the primary ballot on January 8. Any New Hampshire resident can register and vote on Primary day--same day registration and voting.

Opinion polls conducted during the past few months show Gore's popularity remains very high in New Hampshire. One poll shows him getting 32% of the primary vote.

In less than a week, the group has organized steering committees in each New Hampshire county. It already has active volunteers in 36 vote-rich towns and is adding more towns and volunteers every day.

Volunteers are identifying Gore supporters, compiling voter lists,
setting up telephone banks and targeting funding sources,
https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/18577.

With less than a month until the Primary, Seiler predicts that
"a passionate group of committed New Hampshire volunteers can
deliver thousands of votes for Al Gore in a short period of time
and at a fraction of the cost of other campaigns.”

Contact: Farrell S. Seiler - 603-568-4916 - Farrell@DraftGoreNH.com

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Whither Al Gore?

2007-11-18T13:15:00.000-08:00

Brent Budowsky, a Washington commentator, writes:

It is a damn shame that he (Al Gore) feels he has more important things to do than be president of the United States and leader of the free world with our country engulfed in divisiveness and our world threatened with a planetary emergency that will not be solved by prizes, awards or venture capital funds.

Those who believe in him the most are reduced to being virtual beggars (a position I will not take, which is why I have simply written him off for 2008 after my best efforts have come to naught).

In my view, no candidate was even remotely as right for the times as Gore in 2008, and no result is more tragic for the times than the fact that he concluded he was above participating in American democracy in the one way that matters the most.

Gore can win the Oscar, the Emmy, the Nobel and win every award except being named the manager of the New York Yankees, and join every venture capital fund and private equity fund and make important documentary films, but the planetary emergency, the crisis of $100 oil, the evils and dangers of this, are about power and powerful forces that create these dangers and corruptions. Those powerful forces are now laughing and mocking and feeling great relief that one more threat to their power structure, a president who understands the danger and solution the most, has chosen to watch from outside the one arena that truly matters.

How sad and symbolic: for us, for him, for our democracy.

Gore Campaign Gets Going in New Hampshire

2007-11-05T06:15:00.000-08:00

First, the bad news: Al Gore did not enter the New Hampshire Primary.

Now, the good news: Al Gore did not enter the New Hampshire Primary.

That's right. Al Gore’s name will not be printed on the Democratic Party ballot.

What an opportunity!

Supporters of Al Gore are planning a grassroots campaign to demonstrate that there is much support for the former vice president and Nobel Prize winner in New Hampshire.

Campaign? A citizen revolt is a better description.

New Hampshire voters are not impressed by big spending front runners of either gender or smooth talking candidates of any complexion. All the Republican and most of the Democrat primary candidates are long on biography and short on accomplishment.

Al Gore won’t be coming to New Hampshire. So, don’t expect him to show up at your house party or have coffee with you at a local diner.

There won’t be daily press announcements, no 30-second spots on WMUR nightly or full pagers in the Union Leader on Sundays. No sound bites; no contrived photo ops; no big campaign staff with local offices; no lists of endorsements from activists and politicians.

More importantly, Gore supporters won’t be dialing for those big dollars needed to finance an increasingly expensive primary process. And there won’t be the usual groveling to the insatiable demands of special interest groups, except for the only group which counts—you and me.

Refreshing, isn’t it?

So, how does New Hampshire convince Al Gore to seek the presidency?

In its wisdom, New Hampshire decided years ago to let ANY voter choose ANY candidate. That’s right. You and I and thousands of other New Hampshire voters have a rare (perhaps the last) opportunity to recall to public service a man who combines unique vision and political competence.

Here’s how to do it.

On Primary Day, take a Democratic Party ballot, grab a pencil, fill in the oval at the bottom and, on the line just to the left, write: G-O-R-E.

It’s quite easy, really. Progressive, too.

Gore Speaking Out on Major Domestic, Foreign Policy Issues

2007-11-01T10:41:00.000-07:00

Within 72 hours of receiving the Nobel Prize, former Vice President Al Gore began speaking out visibly on critical issues affecting all Americans.

In videos appearing on his company’s web site, Gore discusses Iraq, health care and the constitutional protection of our right to privacy.

“Al Gore has many concerns that touch the lives of all Americans,” says Farrell Seiler, State Coordinator of the draft Gore effort in New Hampshire.

Gore wants to get out of Iraq “as quickly as possible,”expand universal health insurance to cover all Americans as “a matter of right” and require that executive branch “follow the requirements of the Constitution.”

The complete text of Gore’s comments are available on the Draft Gore New Hampshire web site.

On Iraq:
“We are becoming a magnet We ought to withdraw as quickly as possible while keeping an eye on the obligation we have not to make an already terrible situation even worse in the manner of our leaving.”

On Health Care:
“Health care is a right. I strongly support universal, single payer, government provided or government funded, health care.”

On Protecting Privacy:
“Americans deserve more protection against the government being able to eavesdrop on our telephone conversations, on our email conversations and private conversations.”