BECAUSE OF THE STORM AND RESULTING LACK OF POWER, THIS EMAIL HAS BEEN DELAYED AND COVERS BOTH THE WEEKS OF JULY 2ND AND JULY 9TH. THE NEXT CAMPAIGN EVENTS EMAIL WILL BE SENT ON JULY 16TH.
DREAM ACT
Monday, July 16
Educating Maryland Kids Dinner Reception in Support of the MARYLAND DREAM ACT
New Fortune Restaurant, 16513 South Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg
7 - 9 p.m.
Join Governor O'Malley and Lt. Governor Anthony Brown for a dinner reception in support of the DREAM ACT that has been petitioned to referendum in the November election. Tickets are: senior/student: $50; community supporter: $100; friend: $250; benefactor: $500; sponsor: $1,000; host: $2,500. Contributions should be made payable to Educating Maryland Kids, P.O. Box 8034, Hyattsville, MD 20787 or made online at www.educatingmarylandkids.org. For additional information, send an e-mail to bel@asianamdems.org or agapero@asianamdems.org.
MARYLANDERS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY
Wednesday, July 4
Takoma Park 4th of July celebration
Tuesday, July 10
Phone Bank at Service Employees International Union (SEIU) headquarters in D.C.
1800 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC (close to the Dupont Circle metro)
5:30 - 8 p.m.
For more information, please contact John Michael Watkins at 704-560-8737 or johnmichael.watkins@mdfme.org.
OBAMA CAMPAIGN EVENTS
POST CARD PROJECT Every Friday thru August
Club House II, Leisure World Boulevard, Silver Spring
1 - 3:30 p.m.
Postcard writing to battleground state voters. Please bring 32-cent stamps for the cards you write. Walk in. For more information, contact Martha Robinson, mnr.rer@gmail.com or 301-288-7322.
OBAMA TEAM ACTIVITIES
The Obama campaign in Montgomery County has formed neighborhood groups to increase our power for re-electing the President. If you have not yet joined your Obama neighborhood team, click here to view the list of teams.
If you are a team captain or member of a team, please send any upcoming plans to wsdc44@gmail.com to be included in future e-mails.
OFA OFFICE IN KENSINGTON
3750 University Boulevard, Kensington (at corner of University Boulevard & Farragut)
Parking behind building off of Farragut
Phone banks every Wednesday and Thursday from 1 to 8:30 and every Saturday from 10 to 2. Please bring cell phone and charger.
TEAM BETHESDA
Team Leader: Emily Wurtz (ewurtz@ofamd.org or 301-652-4749)
Every Saturday
Children-in-the-Shoe Preschool, 4401 East-West Highway (lower floor of brick building immediately east of B-CC High School
10 a.m. to noon
Phone bank to identify and enlist Obama supporters in northern Virginia and Maryland. Bring your cell phone and charger.
TEAM FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS
Team Leader: Maryl Levine
Participate in weekly phone banks, monthly canvassing in Virginia, and other campaign events to help re-elect President Obama. To join TEAM FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS, please contact Maryl Levine at mlevine@ofamd.com.
Thursday, July 5
Phone Bank
Home of Janet Lowenthal, 5807 Deal Place, Chevy Chase
7 - 9 p.m.
Wednesday, July 11
Phone Bank
Home of Janet Lowenthal, 5807 Deal Place, Chevy Chase
7 - 9 p.m.
Wednesday, June 27
Phone Bank
Home of Emily Wurtz, 4907 Cumberland Avenue
Team Friendship Heights includes Somerset and there is a weekly phone bank in Somerset on Wednesday evenings, 7 to 9 p.m. THERE IS AN EXCEPTION THIS WEEK; IT WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY, JULY 5. Please remember to bring your cell phone, charger and a pen. Contact Emily Wurtz at Emily.wurtz@gmail.com or 301-656-7666.
FREE SPACE NEEDED in FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS for WEEKEND PHONE BANKS: CONFERENCE ROOM, LARGE OFFICE AREA, or a PRIVATE ROOM IN A RESTAURANT needed for regular Saturday (and Sundays if space is available). phone banks. While not everyone has the time to volunteer regularly for the campaign, this is a wonderful way to contribute to the President's re-election. If you have a space that can be used, please contact Maryl Levine, Team Leader, 301-229-0227 or mlevine@ofamd.com. Phone bank times can be adapted for the space available. Callers will use their own cell phones and TEAM members guarantee that they will leave the space as clean and neat as they find it.
TEAM GLEN ECHO/SUMNER/CABIN JOHN
Team Leader: Joan Riggs
Every Sunday at 3 p.m.
Participate in their weekly phone banks to recruit volunteers in Maryland and Virginia. For further information, please contact Joan Riggs at jriggs@ofamd.org
The team also needs your assistance in finding space (at no charge) for team meetings and phone banks. They have a terrific group of volunteers who have opened their homes for phone banks, but the team is growing quickly and they expect to greatly expand their grassroots structure in coming weeks. Do you know of a space they can use for phone banks and team meetings in the evenings or on weekends? Please contact Joan Riggs at jriggs@ofamd.org
TEAM POTOMAC
Team Leaders: Ginger Macomber (macginger@aol.com or 301-340-0171) and Gael Cheek (gaelcheek@yahoo.com or 301-294-3538)
Tuesday, July 17
Phone Bank
9901 Aldersgate Road, Potomac
5 - 8 p.m.
Please bring your cell phone and charger. For further information, please contact gaelcheek@yahoo.com.
