THE JOB OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS TO ELECT DEMOCRATS.  What are you doing this year to help us achieve this goal?

Democratic Values are American Values -- Support the United States Constitution!


Content:     
-  Democratic Vision
-  Democratic Party Values and Principles
-  North Fulton Democrats Mission Statement
-  One Vote Makes A Difference
-  Do you know what it means to be "Liberal"? Be Proud!
-  Want to help the North Fulton Democrats?
-  Georgia Democrats Deliver -- See what Georgia Democrats have Accomplished



DEMOCRATIC VISION

1. Honest Leadership and Open Government
We will end the Republican culture of corruption and restore a government as good as the people it serves.
2. Real Security
We will protect Americans at home and lead the world by telling the truth to our troops, our citizens and our allies.
3. Energy Independence
We will create a cleaner and stronger America by reducing our dependence on foreign oil.
4. Economic Prosperity & Educational Excellence
We will create jobs that will stay in America by restoring opportunity and driving innovation.
5. A Healthcare System that works for Everyone
We will join 36 other industrialized nations by making sure everyone has access to affordable health care.
6. Retirement Security
We will ensure that a retirement with dignity is the right and expectation of every single American.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY VALUES AND PRINCIPLES

• We are Pro-Constitution of the United States of America: 
  • As horrific as 9/11 was, it did not repeal our constitution
  • The Patriot Act is impeding our constitutional civil rights
    
    
• We are Pro-Democracy:
  • Even as we impose Democracy in foreign lands, we should not forego our own
  • Every Citizen should have the right to vote, and the right to have their vote counted
    
    
• We are Pro-Civil Rights:
  • Equal Opportunity and Dignity for ALL Americans, without biases
    
    
• We are Pro-Free Speech:
  • Putting down debate and discourse is unpatriotic!
    
    
• We are Pro-Small Business and Individual Opportunity:
  • While maintaining an environment for ethical large corporate profitability
    
    
• We are Pro-compassion and dignified assistance for the disadvantaged:
  • Do not preclude helping the needy because a few abuse the system
  • Help enable the disadvantaged to become self sufficient
    
    
• We are Pro-Inclusiveness, and Anti-Divisiveness:
  • Strength of the Nation AND Strength of the Community
    
    
• We are Pro-Religious Freedom and Separation of Church and State:
  • Following the guidelines of our founding fathers
    
    
• We are Pro-International Leadership, lead by example and via “international alliances”:
  • Better through UN and NATO than aggressive unilateralism
    
    
• We are Pro-Strong Military and Defense:
  • Support the people who defend our values with their life and limb
  • Develop military solutions in balance with the threats
    
    
• We are Pro-Homeland Security:
  • Train, equip and fund our “first responders”
    
    
• We are Pro-Fiscal Responsibility:
  • Mortgaging our future by uncontrolled deficit spending is bad policy
    
    
• We are Pro-Women's Health and Pro-Planned Parenthood:
  • Respect women’s rights
  • Respect the right for women and doctors to make health decisions without legal intervention
    
    
• We are Pro-Civil Unions:
  • Dignity, Respect and equal opportunity without judgment
    
    
• We are Pro-Environment:
  • For our health safety and enjoyment; our children’s health safety and enjoyment; and the rights of future generations!
    
    
• We are Pro-Gun Control:
  • Controlled access to guns for self defense and sporting needs
    
    
• We are Pro-Education:
  • We support a strong Public School system and access to higher education
    
    
• We are Pro-Workers' Rights:

  • We support the right to organize and negotiate for fair wages and a healthy and safe workplace, without the fear of losing your job
    
    

NORTH FULTON DEMOCRATS MISSION STATEMENT

• To create an active, prepared and engaged grassroots field operation to drive voter turnout, residents’ participation and interaction , and elect Democrats.
• To provide broad visibility in the community to the existence and activities of the North Fulton Democrats, and where applicable, the Fulton County Democratic Party..
• To provide a forum for people with similar values to share their thoughts and efforts.
• To support the campaigns of local and national Democratic Party candidates who share our values and principles.

ONE VOTE MAKES A DIFFERENCE

If there is one enduring lesson the presidential election of 2000 should have taught us, it’s that every vote is important. With the presidency hanging on election results in Florida, George Bush and Al Gore ended up separated in that state by just a few hundred votes out of nearly 6 million cast.

An exception? No. History is full of instances proving the enormous power of a single vote:

• John F.  Kennedy's margin of victory over Richard Nixon in 1960 was less than one vote per precinct..
  
• Marcus Monton was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1839 by one vote out of 102,066 cast.
  
• In 1996 Ron Wyden won election to the U.S. Senate from Oregon to replace former Senator Robert Packwood. He won by one percent of the vote.
  
• One vote gave statehood to Texas (1845), California (1850), Oregon (1859), Washington (1889), and Idaho (1890).
  
• One vote saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment in 1868.
  
• One vote elected Rutherford B. Hayes to the presidency in 1876, and the man in the Electoral College who cast that vote was an Indiana Congressman elected by one vote.
  
• In 1950, a State Senator from Garrett County, Maryland was elected by one vote. The winner had 3,080. The loser, 3,079.
  
• One vote kept Aaron Burr from becoming President. That one vote elected Thomas Jefferson in 1800.
  
• Women won the right to vote in 1920 by passage of the 19th amendment to the Constitution. Tennessee, the last state needed to pass the amendment, ratified the amendment by one vote.
  
• In the 1974 New Hampshire Senatorial race, Louis Wyman appeared to be the winner by 542 votes. But after a recount, John Durkin was certified the winner by 10 votes. Still later, the decision was reversed and Wyman was declared the winner by two votes. After a year of court battles and controversy, a special election was held and Durkin won.
  
• In 1923, one vote made Adolph Hitler head of the Nazi party.
  
• Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1916 by carrying one state by less than one vote per precinct.
  
• In 1978, a tie vote in a race for the Pennsylvania Legislature resulted in neither party having a majority. A recount broke the tie and gave control of the House to the Democrats.

On election day, it’s easy to let a busy schedule keep you from voting. It’s easy to think that one vote won’t make a difference. It does, though. On election day, the vote you cast, or the vote you don't cast, will mean the difference between having a Democratic President or 4 more years of the dreaded Bush!  You decide...

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT ?
Be proud of what it really means to be LIBERAL !!!

1. 1. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
   2. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
   3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
   4. Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
      
2. 1. Tending to give freely; generous:  a liberal benefactor.
   2. Generous in amount; ample:  a liberal serving of potatoes.
      
      
3. Not strict or literal; loose or approximate:  a liberal translation.
   
   
4. Of, relating to, or based on the traditional arts and sciences of a college or university curriculum:  a liberal education.
   
5. 1. Archaic. Permissible or appropriate for a person of free birth; befitting a lady or gentleman.
   2. Obsolete. Morally unrestrained; licentious.

Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines the word liberal this way:  "Not narrow or contracted in mind; not selfish" and "not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in political or religious phiosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the institution or administration of government...."  Liberal is also defined as generous, and "implies largeness of spirit in giving, judging, acting, etc."  
-- Michael Moore in Dude, Where's My Country?

"What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."   -- President John F. Kennedy


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You are the one you've been waiting for. -- Jim Wallis

Outside of a person's love, the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. -- James Carville

We rise as one nation and one economy, and fall as separate and unequal interests. -- John Edwards

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

George Bush wanted to go to war in Iraq in the WORST possible way -- and he did. -- Nancy Pelosi

Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? -- Special Counsel for the Army Joseph N. Welch, to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy  

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. -- Joseph Goebbels



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