Obama racking up Texas Newspaper Endorsments

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San Antonio Express 2/9/08
Editorial: Obama better choice for Democratic nod

Austin American Statesman 2/2/08
Time is right for his unifying vision: Yes, Obama can

El Paso Times 2/10/08
It's Obama: Illinois senator is better choice

Add more to the thread as you find them.


Thanks

Sonia

[PDittie]

1. Pete Gallego for Obama

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4519712&mesg_id=4519712

That's HUGHEHH!!!11.

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2. That's is HUGHEHH!!!11.

Story on Daily Kos too.

Daily Kos diary 2/9/08
Chairman Mex-Am Caucus Texas endorsed Obama

Go give it a recommend and comment if you have a DK account!

"Si se puede!" "Yes, we can!"

:woohoo:

Sonia

[WolverineDG]

3. Rep. Juan Garcia from CC is also in the Obama camp

The San Antonio rag had a couple of articles about the primary in it today, including one on Obama, Clinton, & the Latino vote.

dg

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4. In Texas, Obama gets assist from former classmate

I was just reading both of those at DMN. Good articles. I knew that about Juan. He think he took his kids, the whole family, to watch the Iowa caucuses with him.

Representative Rafael Anchia has also endorsed him.

DMN 2/10/08
In Texas, Obama gets assist from former classmate
Harvard friend, state legislator could be vital in Texas campaign


AUSTIN – As a young law student at Harvard in the late 1980s, Juan Garcia was once the only man standing between classmate Barack Obama and victory.

Their court? The Hemingway Gym, guarding each other as power forwards on opposing sides of an intramural league that "nobody is going to mistake for the Dallas Mavericks," the Democratic state representative from Corpus Christi recalled.

"We kind of had similar long, lanky, slow frames. We were both power forwards without the power," Mr. Garcia said with a laugh.

Twenty years later, the two are on the same team, as Mr. Garcia will play a pivotal role in Mr. Obama's full-court press to reach Hispanic voters and the South Texas establishment before the state's March 4 Democratic presidential primary.

DMN 2/10/08
Obama, Clinton have two versions of history with Texas Hispanics
(snip)
Mr. Obama's background as the son of an immigrant, his life experiences abroad, his work in civil rights and his appeal to younger voters might resonate "in the Latino community in Texas, is one of the youngest communities in the country," Mr. Anchía said, adding that the average age of Texas Latinos is "somewhere around 25 years old."

"There's going to be sort of a generational split," he said. "He may not win all of them, but he's going to run very competitively."

Mr. Anchía also noted that there are more Latino voters in Houston, El Paso and Dallas – urban areas where Mr. Obama tends to do well – than in South Texas.

The lawmaker said he has told the campaign that Mr. Obama will need to make personal appearances and hammer on his support of comprehensive immigration reform, as well as his positions on affordable health care and tuition aid for universities and community colleges that resonate with the Latino community.

:dem:

Sonia

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5. Dallas Morning News

DMN 2/7/08
DMN editorial board recommends Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination


Sonia

[sonias]

6. Charlie Gonzalez endorses Obama

San Antonio Express 2/11/08
Gonzalez endorses Obama

WASHINGTON – Illinois Sen. Barack Obama picked up a key endorsement Monday from Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio, who said he backs the Illinois senator for the Democratic nomination for president.

"Senator Obama brings all these new fresh faces,’’ Gonzalez told the San Antonio Express-News. "He has a wider audience. He has the greater potential to engage a greater number of people.’’

The endorsement by Gonzalez comes one day after Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., announced a presidential campaign swing through South Texas that will include San Antonio, Corpus Christi and McAllen.

Sonia

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7. Senator Kirk Watson for Obama

Endorsing Obama this morning.

From his Watson Wire newsletter
I am proud to support Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States.

Senator Obama offers this nation a new beginning. His leadership will tap our potential and give us hope.

He will help us to reject the poison politics of the past, and he will demand the solutions that will chart our future. Following his lead, we can shed the labels that divide us and unite for change.

Make no mistake, this is a movement rooted in policy as much as spirit. And in Senator Obama, we have found our leader.

Senator Obama will seize opportunities for a strong 21st Century America. He will create a foreign policy that strengthens and protects us. He will advocate for universal health care that works and makes sense. He will invest in the purest form of economic development – our teachers, schools and universities. And he will support clean power and technologies that will save our planet and our economy in this new century.

At this unique moment in our history, Senator Obama is focused on possibilities, not politics. He offers solutions that will unify our country and lead us into the future.

Perhaps most of all, he knows that hope matters.

Senator Obama offers hope – for peace, for security, for unity, for real solutions that address real needs, and for a nation that honors and fulfills the value of every one of us.

That hope is real, and it is important. It matters and has always mattered, but it has never mattered more than it does now.

So please join me, and millions more like me, in supporting Barack Obama on March 4.

Kirk Watson

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

Sonia

[FrenchieCat]

8. Wow.....this is great!

Obama will do well in Texas.

He has enough time to get over Hillary Clinton's automatic name recognition that too many folks oftentime vote for in the larger states!