Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has given a pep talk to volunteers staffing a Phoenix phone bank for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign
Schultz planned to tell volunteers at Saturday's evening's event that the president's policies have added 4.5 million jobs in the past 29 months. She planned to share his plan to focus on creating a strong middle-class and what she called an economy built to last.
Democrats have said they think they can be competitive in Arizona even though the state hasn't voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton in 1996.
Republicans have called such talk a "mirage" and pointed out that Arizona is solidly in the red column.
Schultz is a congresswoman from Florida who is close friends with former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
chatmandu002 posted at 9:27 pm on Sun, Aug 19, 2012.
Calling all liberal/progressives, the Tax and Spender-in-Chief wants another four years to run this country into bankruptcy. Follow him FORWARD over the cliff.
Slabside posted at 10:39 pm on Sun, Aug 19, 2012.
I wonder if the phones have telemonitors installed.
Bluepoet posted at 7:57 am on Mon, Aug 20, 2012.
They are to have a phone bank? My, how quaint!
Then again, one has to target the demographics, and Arizona is probably in the top five states, when it comes to still clinging to land lines...
"Can't have the government telling us that we have to buy a cell phone..."
"First it's the light bulbs--now, they want my phone number? Where's my gun!"
At least the script, for the calls, can be read, with a straight face. That's more than I could say for a Republican phone bank...