Ten Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Draft Al Gore

[helderheid]

And one thing you can do later to help:

Below are 10 simple things you can do right now to help out. If you wish to become more actively involved with the movement, please sign up as a volunteer or join a chapter in your state (see the Get Involved section on the left).

1. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/algore2008/signatories.html">Sign the Draft Gore petition, now over 110,000 strong.

2. http://www.ipetitions.com/tell-a-friend.html?id=fd60595f">Tell all your friends about the petition and gather signatures for the petition on a http://www.libertyconcepts.com/gore2/PaperPetition.pdf">paper version. (Please http://www.libertyconcepts.com/gore2/[e-mail]">send us an email if you gather signatures.) There are millions of us out there. We rely on you to get word to them.

3. http://www.libertyconcepts.com/gore2/donate.asp">Make a contribution to Draft Gore. Our expenses are great and our only source of funding is you. We need to advertise in the mainstream media to let people know about this movement. We can't do it without you.

4. Purchase bumperstickers, buttons, or our new collector http://www.libertyconcepts.com/gore2/poster.asp">poster.

5. Write a letter to Al Gore TODAY and ask him to run:

The Office of the Honorable Al Gore
2100 West End Avenue, Suite 620
Nashville, TN 37203.

6. http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contact">Write an email to the Democratic National Committee telling them you will support no one but Al Gore in 2008.

7. Have a website or blog? http://www.libertyconcepts.com/gore2/buttons.asp">Add our link buttons and promotional ad to publicize our movement.

8. http://www.libertyconcepts.com/uploads/DG_Flyer.pdf">Download a Draft Gore flyer off our website and post it or hand it out in Democratic-friendly areas.



9. Add a signature line to your email (and make sure to include our URL: draftgore.com).


10. Host a party. Watch "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore's Oscar-winning documentary, now available on DVD. Or organize your own event, fundraiser, or party. Then post it on our boards.

Here is #11 for later (and this I've added to their list):

BECOME A DELEGATE. First choice, an uncommitted delegate. In case there is a brokered convention (see below), you can propose Al Gore as a nominee. Second choice, as a committed delegate to your second choice candidate. That way if there is a brokered convention, you can join the uncommitted delegates in supporting Al Gore.

From http://mydd.com/story/2007/2/27/93023/1076:

Re: The seemingly inevitable brokered convention (2.00 / 1)


This is the only path to Gore.

Really... Hillary has 40% of the delegates, Obama/Edwards/other have the rest.

Let's say Hillary has 40, Obama has 30 and Edwards has 20.

Theoretically Obama and Edwards could come together as some sort of ticket. Given their similar credentials that would be unlikely and perhaps unwise.

Its impossible for Hillary to run with Obama, and similarly unlikely Edwards would be Hillary's choice, given her need for more experience on the ticket.

In other words- the big three are all mutually incompatible on a ticket (unlike, say, Reagan/Bush, where Bush added some foreign policy gravitas and moderate credentials for Reagan, or Kennedy/Johnson, obviously!)

The power player here is whoever is in 2nd. If its Obama or Edwards, either one could call Al Gore and say "I'm in for Veep if you open yourself for a draft" knowing a third of everyone else's support could easily be harnessed for Gore. What's more-- the two tickets--

Gore/Obama or Gore/Edwards make a ton of sense strategically.

Gore/Obama-- African American turnout would be almost as high as if Obama were at the top of this ticket.

Gore/Edwards-- bonus for the dems- no swiftboating this time around- both are well-known quantities and there is really nothing left to say about either from a scandal/ethical standpoint that people don't already know or haven't heard - unlike, say, Guiliani.

A brokered convention is the road for Gore.
And he knows this.

Would you hire George W Bush to be YOUR latex salesman?
by jgkojak on Tue Feb 27, 2007 at 10:04:47 AM EST

ONWARD!

[porphyrian]

1. I'll kick that. - n/t

[AtomicKitten]

2. Re-elect Gore 2008.

Thanks.

[kimmerspixelated]

3. Thanks, Helderheid!

This is very helpful! Kicked!

[northzax]

4. so your strategy is...

use rules machinations at the convention to get a candidate who has not spent a minute on the campaign trail, shown any interest in running for President, or recieved a single vote in 4 years? oh, that will work well. If Gore wants to be President, he needs to get his ass to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and the rest and start asking people to vote for him. That's how it works. I won't support a presidential candidate who can't be bothered to actually run for President, sorry.

by the time we get to the Convention, 50 million Americans will have expressed a preference for the Democratic candidate, and you think it's perfectly acceptable for the 4,364 delegates in Denver to pick someone who not a single voter has voted for? you're really cool with that? how, well, democratic.

[proud patriot]

5. I'm a volunteer for Gore in Calif...

just printed a flyer

[cali]

6. I've gotten to the point where I find this shit offensive

It's almost October. It's clear he's not running. If he does run it's HIS decision. This desperate search for a savior reflects poorly on those putting it out there. And I'm someone who would have voted for Gore if he'd entered the race.

[SlowDownFast]

12. There is a 'hide thread' feature here on DU. n/t

[cali]

14. I prefer to comment, but thank you for the sage advice n/t

[SlowDownFast]

16. Anytime. n/t

[tabasco]

17. Bill Clinton didn't declare until October 3rd, 1991.

Your post is stupid.

[cali]

21. I hate to break this to you, but it's not 1991

Unfortunatey the time table for announcing in MUCH earlier now than it was 16 years ago.

[monmouth]

18. I find it pathetic, sounds like the FReepers for Fred, only change the names....

[trumad]

26. FReepers---- :LOL---hell it's cali

[cali]

37. My goodness. I really do get under your

skin. This isn't the first time you've called me out.

[Blue Belle]

28. Thanks for that PSA...

Does Hillary pay you by the line or the word?

[xiamiam]

45. unfortunately campaigning for president is now a 2 year endurance race...good thing the deadline

has not yet arrived...at that point, i suggest one can pick a candidate...

[Stuckinthebush]

51. There is always hope, Cali

He'd be the best in the field we have right now. One can hope.

[KharmaTrain]

53. Let 'Em Hope For A Pony

Maybe wishes will be ponies...

:hi:

[Blue Belle]

73. We know... you find this shit offensive on every Draft Gore thread...

yet here you are again with your one trick pony.

[helderheid]

7. How to become a delegate:

http://www.demconvention.com/a/2007/03/how_to_become_a.html

[xiamiam]

46. you are such a great source of info helderheid...thank you...always appreciate your posts...nt

[Pastiche423]

8. Thank you, helderheid!

[DesertRat]

9. K&R

[Kurovski]

10. Thanks, helderheid.

K&R.

[Control-Z]

11. Are you posting this in all the state forums?

I'd be willing to stand on street corners to get Al drafted. I know there are other DUers in my area. It would be great to get organized.

edit: to k&r

[helderheid]

13. that is a great idea!

[helderheid]

20. Done!

[Control-Z]

22. Thanks!

I've signed up to volunteer with california4gore.org. I hope we can do more on a local level.

[helderheid]

23. Excellent!

[Uncle Joe]

15. Thank you for the list, helderheid.

:thumbsup:

[Kurovski]

19. Kick for all the good info calling us to action. (nt)

[helderheid]

24. thanks!

:hi:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

25. K, R, bookmarked, and thank you. We do what we can do.

:kick:

:toast: MKJ

[Blue Belle]

27. Vigilance!

Kicked and recommended!

[stlsaxman]

29. link for paper version won't open as pdf...

is there a website i can grab it from?

if so i'll print out bunches and HIT THE STREETS!

:bounce:

[ISUGRADIA]

30. Edwards doesn't have the money to compete and will be

hampered by state spending caps he's forced to accept now. With the top loaded primaries we're not going to have a deadlocked convention. Hillary wins, Obama wins, those are the choices unless Gore enters the race in the next 2-3 weeks before filing deadlines pass. Delegates who are elected under the current system are believers in the candidate. No one would let Gore come on in through a draft and win.

[MazeRat7]

31. I appreciate the sentiment... but he is not going to run...

Sorry,

MZr7

[helderheid]

32. Read #11 - that has nothing to do with him running

[helderheid]

33. Go become a delegate and goodnight. :)

[johnaries]

34. I haven't heard any of the candidates talk about global warming.

This is something we should point out to President Gore. None of the candidates seem serious or even talk about global warming.
The only way to address it is for him to run.
And thank you for all your work, Helderheid!

[Pierogi_Pincher]

35. THX for the 'to do' list.

He's been on my heart quite strongly lately. I believe that this initiative should be followed thru regardless of any campaigning precedence. (Hope my expression was understandable.)
P_P

[helderheid]

36. I understand ya!

[helderheid]

38. Happy Monday!

[defendandprotect]

39. Al Gore is one of the co-founders of the DLC . . . . selected Liebermann as VP . . .

and didn't fight back in Florida -- in fact, he called off the protests over the butterfly ballot.

Do you want to go thru that kind of nonsense again?

Kerry was also a DLC member --

We don't wasnt DLC candidates -- !!!!

[helderheid]

40. Gore is a transformed man who knows the system is rigged.

[renie408]

43. Does he say that? I have never heard that. n/t

[defendandprotect]

47. He knows better now . . . "too late smart" . . . ????

[Stuckinthebush]

52. Well we are going to get one anyway - Hillary

DLC to the bone.

[hootinholler]

41. So how does one become a delegate? n/t

[defendandprotect]

48. $ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ --

I was a delegate for Jerry Brown but didn't get to go to the convention --

That was an opening you didn't generally find in the Democratic party --

When you volunteer and talk with people you quickly see that the most worthwhile people are
the people you're working with -- and that most in office are betraying us --

You can only move forward in Democratic Party with $$$ ---

You've got to break that lock on it --

Also, you can work with Greens and run for office quite easily --
I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to break the Dem/Repug lock on government --
and we certainly need GREENS at the local levels/State --
though the one Green we had in NY Assembly was attacked severely --

They want to keep their HOLD on things -- status quo!!

Nature is delivering a different reality -- who do you trust?
Capitalism or Mother Nature?

[helderheid]

50. here

http://www.demconvention.com/a/2007/03/how_to_become_a.html

[hootinholler]

55. Thanks for a helpful reply. n/t

[defendandprotect]

61. Didn't mean to not be helpful . . ..

Sorry for my perhaps shorthand and flip response --

There are procedures, of course, as you note from the website, but I think you might ask those here who have volunteered in campaigns before and what opportunities they saw for moving into a delegate position?

Where you have an underdog challenger -- maybe like Kucinich -- coming on you might find an opening -but generally they're looking for people with some power to help them -- via friends or money.

Ask yourself what you'd be looking for -- ???

[hootinholler]

65. Thanks.

Sorry, I'm usually more direct, but I'm out of form today.

I find the delegate structure confusing, so there's more research I don't have the time to do.

-Hoot

[defendandprotect]

67. Whatever the stated procedures, I think you have to investigate real EXPERIENCES . . . ...

and I'm sure that at DU you will find people who have been involved in campaigns and can give you an idea of what they experienced --

[bring_em_home_bush]

42. k&r

and bookmarked.

Please, please run again, President Gore.

[renie408]

44. While I understand enthusiasm about Gore

I don't understand all this 'draft Al' stuff. Either he wants the job or he doesn't. If he wants the job, he'll run no matter how many people send him letters or sign petitions. And if he doesn't, he isn't going to run no matter how many people send him letters or sign petitions. In the interest of full disclosure, I sent him a letter over the summer. But by now, I figure he is going to do what he is going to do. If he hasn't delcared yet, but really intends to, he is doing it because of some campaign strategy he and his people have figured out. The thinking there could be that as soon as he announces, he is going to get a lot of FREE attention and there will be a lot of people jumping on his bandwagon. I don't think he'll have as hard a time getting a campaign up and running as other think because just the timing and way he would have to announce will offer a huge burst to interest in him. He may also know something we don't (which I think is HIGHLY likely on many fronts) and is waiting for...whatever it is. Now that Hillary's health care initiative is taking some hits would be a good time. Maybe he is waiting for her to really shoot herself in the foot so he will look like a White Knight. I dunno. But he doesn't have much more time to wait if he intends to run.

But I gotta tell you...it is looking less and less likely to happen. He has put out a press release stating that he will be in India running a global warming symposium in December. That doesn't sound like anybody with campaign plans to me. It is October 1. He needs to get on the stick if he is going to do this thing.

[defendandprotect]

49. Why not try to draft Russ Feingold -- ???? THAT would make some sense . . .

[Michael101]

56. No Al Gore Draft

I think our time could be better spent on backing one candidate that is already running. I've heard Al Gore on many stations and TV and he says he is "sick" of politics. Leave the man alone, if he wanted to run he would've done it by now. Obviously we are dissapointed in the big threes. Lets show those 3 how dissapointed we are by backing the candidate that is willing to fight for our rights and issues. Don't be sad, be mad. Show them we mean business. I urge you to look at the other candidates.

[defendandprotect]

60. I've looked -- and I think a Feingold/Kucinich ticket wouldn't be bad . . ..

Now that's just based on my enthusiasm for Feingold's shock at what's not happening ---
the lack of movement -- the lack of effort to enforce accountability ---

I like Edwards -- but I don't want to vote for a DLC candidate --
and Gore was also a huge disappointment in every way --
from Liebermann to lack of return fire on attacks on him -- and especially the GOP fascist run at election 2000 --

We're trying to elect a Democrat -- but they have to provide encouragement/confidence in voters --
PLUS, lots of issues not covered by candidates -- from black boxes to ending the Drug War --
and, of course, Global Warming and more realistic responses -- like electric cars and taking back control of our natural resources -- OIL -- from a few private families!!!

[Kurovski]

54. Kick. (nt)

[gateley]

57. I posted a response in the NC forum, but would like to post it here as well.

I commend your post in support of Gore, BUT I'm not of the same mind (Gore for President) and I want to tell you why.

I think Gore has a greater gift to give to the WORLD that's needed more than his presence in the WH.

If he were to become President, his focus would by necessity become fractured to address the myriad of domestic, international, foreign relations, etc. issues.

None of those issues or areas will be of any importance if the current state of our earth continues on the current path. (Not stated well, but I know you know what I'm trying to say.)

Gore has the ability and capacity and intelligence and desire to help all of humanity. Can you feel how enormous that is? He can literally help save the world. I can't think of another person who could perform in this role. And we need his help in that area desperately.

It's my fantasy that he would be appointed by the President in a capacity which would allow him to continue his passion with the added presence of the US behind him. Of course, in my fantasy, the President gives Gore free rein, absolute autonomy, because this is more than just a political problem. (And I have to insert here I see Biden as willing to do that -- my opinion only, of course.)

Why even drag him into Washington's embrace? Why not just stay with the current situation and let him carry on his crusade as he is now?

I heard Madeline Albright respond to a question when asked if she encountered difficulties in Muslim countries as a woman SOS: "It's easy to get people to listen to you when you arrive in a large white jet with The United States of America in huge letters emblazoned on the side."

As a rep of the US Gore could have access to any heads of state and spread his message far wider than he can now.

So I think the President needs to focus on getting our country back on track, and leave it in Gore's capable hands to help get the EARTH back on track.

You can tell I'm passionate about Gore, too -- just with a different opinion on how he can BEST help us all.

[marlakay]

58. I just did a few more of them..

sent the petition to about 20 email addresses and wrote dnc although I couldn't just write about Al I had to tell them how I felt in general about the way they are running the party. I guess that won't help them want Al but I am so pissed at them I couldn't just write nicely to them.

[RestoreGore]

59. Al Gore Has Found His Calling

He is inspiring people around the world to change their lives and to see the peril we are in if we continue on the course we are on. He is an effective messenger and statesman for the scientific community which has been proven by An Inconvenient Truth, and his training through The Climate Project that is now travelling to China and India and eventually to South America in order to train more climate messengers how to deliver the slideshow in other languages which is imperative to this cause.

He is inspiring businesses to change the way they do business in order to see the shift in public opinion that will pass them by unless they become more cognizant of the changes we are creating in our world and the steps that must now be taken by the business community not only to mitigate their effect on our planet, but to serve customers who also see that effect and look to business to offer the changes necessary to bring us on a path of morally ethical business practices combined with environmentally sound business practices that not only increase profit, but increase sustainability.

He is forging a new look to television with Current tv and revolutionizing how telelvision is done by allowing the people to have the chance to be the imput rather than just be the recipient of one sided spoon fed corporate media slop.

He is also inspiring political leaders globally to take a new look at this crisis to see the moral imperative that must be present for change and the grassroots demand that is building that will tip the political scales regardless of their wishing it or not.

He is a teacher, a statesman, a visionary, a businessman, an author, and most importantly to me, a Global Environmental Ambassador who has done more for this world in the last year than any president has done in the last thirty years regarding the climate crisis who now has the freedom of conscience to continue that work. And he has and is doing it HIS way on HIS schedule and terms, with HIS resources, and with HIS passion having the chance to show itself as it has always been.

And Live Earth, the launch to a three year plan through The Alliance for Climate Protection so many seem to have forgotten now was the lynchpin in his securing for himself a place in history as one of the greatest statesman of our time for our country and for our planet in doing what needs to be done most: educating, informing, and inspiring the people to action.

And in doing so he has proven that you do not need the toxic Washington DC political machine to make a difference in this world. He has proven that if you truly feel a passion in your heart strong enough to overcome fear, that your voice can be heard... and others like myself have been inspired by his words and actions to do things we never thought we would have the courage to do before. To me that is the mark of a great man and a great leader who has now reached the pinnacle of the destiny he has always been heading for with still many places to go.

And that to me does not include a "horserace" wrapped in the mire of sound bites, pretention, and spending money on worthless ads that do nothing to further the cause he is so right to see as the most challenging crisis we have ever faced as a civilization. He is the leader of a worldwide mass grassroots movement to change this world for the better and answer the call because WE WILL FAIL by ignoring it, and to me you don't get much higher than that when it comes to being a true catalyst for real change which cannot wait for titles.

That is why we need him now to continue his work for our planet. We need him to continue to inspire people across the globe to finally get up and join in this mission to save ourselves and our only home for future generations. And I stand with him. He is being the change he wishes to see in this world, and it is now our turn.

It may be hard for some to think of him as anything but president in their own idea of what it is or because they are just political junkies who want a "fun" campaign, but I believe that is because their scope is limited to titles. What he is now doing so far surpasses anything that any president could do or has done, and is in my view the right approach now considering the circumstances and the times we live in.

The past is the past, but the future is ours to make and for me I choose to make my future myself, and look to Mr. Gore as an example of what can be accomplished when you put your mind, heart, and soul to it in a common cause without the same stuck inthemud status quo tactics. There is no more greater a man than he who can inspire worldwide change selflessly by inspiring others to action, and I for one thank him. He is running for this planet and right now there is no greater campaign.

[Occulus]

69. You forgot to use the first paragraph, too

http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2007/7/22/95355/1772

Al Gore Has Found His Calling Email Print

By LadyInBlack
07/22/2007 09:09:17 PM EST

It would appear to me that there are those who are so wrapped up in their "presidential fantasies" that they are missing the greater picture behind what Al Gore is now accomplishing that will have a longterm effect that will last far beyond the next four years. I think it is time to focus on that because when put in context it is truly what great statesmen are made of.

He is inspiring people around the world to change their lives and to see the peril we are in if we continue on the course we are on. He is an effective messenger and statesman for the scientific community which has been proven by An Inconvenient Truth, and his training through The Climate Project that is now travelling to China and India and eventually to South America in order to train more climate messengers how to deliver the slideshow in other languages is imperative to this cause.

He is inspiring businesses to change the way they do business in order to see the shift in public opinion that will pass them by unless they become more cognizant of the changes we are creating in our world and the steps that must now be taken by the business community not only to mitigate their effect on our planet, but to serve customers who also see that effect and look to business to offer the changes necessary to bring us on a path of morally ethical business practices combined with environmentally sound business practices that not only increase profit, but increase sustainability.

And so forth. This behavior is also present in the forums of the blog your DU profile links to- entire articles from various locations, copied and pasted wholesale. I link to them separately http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1955396&mesg_id=1964003">here.

Are you also known as, respectively, Jan, Patriotess, and LadyInBlack?

Just curious.

[helderheid]

62. It's about time you showed up, Ignored! I was feeling neglected!

:rofl:

[wildbilln864]

63. but I don't want Al Gore!

:shrug:

[helderheid]

64. Then don't do any of the above. :)

:shrug: :P

[Kurovski]

66. Kick. (nt)

[Kurovski]

68. Kick. (nt)

[mod mom]

70. 1-9 done, but I have a question about becoming an uncommitted delegate

Is this something different from the state party delegates?

and btw..house currently under construction, but I will gladly host a house party soon.

[Kurovski]

71. Kick. (nt)

[helderheid]

72. My state party just sent me the information to become a delegate!

:woohoo:

[SlowDownFast]

74. I am petitioning in Michigan right now.

We need over around 16,000 sigs by Oct. 23rd.