Anthony Woods, as many of you know, is running in the CA-10 special election. He is a Progressive Dream Candidate and MUST win this primary. Why?
- Anthony Woods is a brave, noble and courageous young man. He served in George Bush's Iraq war and earned the Bronze Star for leading platoons in dangerous battles, and helping Iraqis build their nation.
- He was raised by a single mother who was a housekeeper. He is not the son of priviledge, as are so many of the people in Congress, he comes from very humble roots.
- He had not had health insurance for most of his life. Woods would lend a personal voice to the health care debate.
- He earned a Congressional appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and graduated from there on the Dean's List.
- Working hard to afford his education, he was able to go to Harvard University where he was awarded a master's from the Kennedy School of Government.
- He was given the Robert Kennedy Public Service Award.
- He organized aid for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
- While on leave from his military service, he travelled the country raising money for Habitat for Humanity.
- Because of the despicable and disastrous Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Woods was forced to leave the military or be thrown out, despite all of his hard work and sacrifice for our country.
- Woods is running against the same old establishment Sacramento politicians, all of them conventional Democrats, and none of them particularly exciting. Woods IS.
- If elected to Congress, Anthony Woods would make history by becoming the first black gay congressman and the first gay soldier to be elected to Congress. He would become a face for so many issues – health care, low-income families, our soldiers overseas, the GLBT community, and minorities.
- Anthony Woods' candidacy personifies what it means to be a Obama Democrat, and he will no doubt become a strong supporter of our President.
- Anthony Woods will have one of the most progressive voting records in the House.
- If elected, Anthony Woods will become one of the youngest members of Congress, and the first Democrat elected to have been born in the 1980s. He is a needed young voice since most of the youngest members of Congress are right-wing Republicans. It's time that we had a young voice that actually represented the views of our young people.
Anthony Woods needs your help. Let's all contribute to his groundbreaking campaign so that he may win the Democratic primary, scheduled for September 1, 2009.
Woods is 3rd on the list of highest contributions at ActBlue, the progressive online clearinghouse. With all of our help, we can win.
I unfortunately cannot campaign for him, but if I lived in CA-10, I would be right out on the streets going door-to-door. He is truly a candidate progressives can really get fully behind and support.
If you live in CA-10, please – we only have a month left – it's a matter of weeks really. CA-10 includes the East Bay cities of Fairfield, Antioch, Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, and Livermore.
So please think about it, just imagine what his victory would mean, especially since what happened last year in California. Woods would be a way for us to say NO to Prop 8 all over again. He is symbolically everything a progressive party should be, and that is why we must so energetically support him.
He really needs our help. This is a candidate to get passionate about!
is appalling. Thanks for writing this up and giving us some info, I had no idea anyone else of note was even running besides the Lt. Gov. and that state senator. We focus so much of our energy on incumbents, often incumbents in difficult districts, and yet we ignore golden opportunities like these…say what you will about the Club for Growth’s track record in moderate districts, they NEVER ignore an open seat in a safe GOP district.
We spent so much time and effort trying to knock off Lieberman back in 2006 and we let districts like these just fall to machine candidates.
I am a volunteer with the Anthony Woods campaign and it’s actually really easy to volunteer.
Send an email to volunteers@AnthonyWoodsforCongress.com. They can set you up with an Virtual Phone Bank account. It’s super easy and you can do 15 minutes a day. I think everyone can squeeze in 15 minutes a day to get an amazing candidate elected to Congress.
Also, he has Facebook and Twitter accounts. If you want to contribute, you can go to my ActBlue page at: http://www.actblue.com/page/coachoster
Mr. Woods’ position on the continued occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is clearly status quo.
http://www.anthonywoodsforcong…
I read somewhere that Mr Woods isn’t fully committed to EFCA, but I can’t find anything about it in the issues section of his website – anyone know his position?
The CA-10 candidates had a debate Thursday night and by all accounts, Woods was the winner. Both the Sacramento Bee and the Vacaville Reporter said Woods had the most support and were rather glowing in their coverage. The Vacaville Reporter described him as the “hometown candidate” and said he “had the majority of the crowd on his side”.
Source: http://www.thereporter.com/new…
The Sacramento Bee article was actually titled “Crowd Turns Out for Hometown Candidate” and is basically all about Woods and how awesome he is. Seriously, it was so positive methinks the reporter wants a little sexytime with the candidate. Get in line, pal.
Quote: “During much of the debate, however, the Woods show took over, and seasoned political pros such as [Lt. Gov.] Garamendi and [State Sen.] DeSaulnier were left playing the spectators.”
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“Like Obama, Woods is a handsome, tall black candidate billing himself as an outsider and placing his bets on young, tech-savvy voters.”
Source: http://www.sacbee.com/static/w…
Man, I’m glad I’ve already given him money. Have you? He could use it against the establishment players….