HEY! Palin! Here's some of the Community Organizers you belittle :

[pinto]

From one small county in Central California. Have you no shame? - pinto

San Luis Obispo County Community Foundation
2008 Grantee Roster

American Red Cross
To support VOAD, a coalition of non-profit, faith-based, and other
voluntary service organizations to work with government to ensure
vulnerable residents receive vital disaster response, relief and longterm
recovery services.

Assistance League of SLO County
“Operation School Bell” to support 100 low-income children
receiving new school appropriate outfits, back pack and books during
the 2008-2009 school year.

Atascadero Community LINK
To support continued operation of the Family Resource Center in
Atascadero, supporting over 300 families in the communities of
Atascadero, Santa Margarita, Creston, Pozo, and Carissa Plains.

Atascadero Loaves & Fishes
To increase organizational capacity through purchase of a reach-in
freezer and food for low-income families.

CASA/Court Appointed Special Advocates
To support continued provision of court advocacy services for abused
and neglected children.

Central Coast Assistive Technology Center
To support the Sensory Assistive Technology Demonstration Center
and Lending Library.

Children’s Health Initiative of SLO
To support annual health premium subsidies for 3 children between
the ages of 6-18 and match funding for an additional 3 children.

Children’s Museum at Paso Robles Firehouse
To support 50 class field trips to the museum and 50 in-class
presentations for children enrolled at Title I schools.

Community Counseling Center
To provide short-term, non-crisis, low-cost counseling services.

El Camino Homeless Organization
To support bus transportation vouchers and for client breakfasts and
sack lunches.

EOC of SLO County Senior Health Screening
To provide free preventive and maintenance health screening,
education and referrals for low-income seniors countywide.

EOC of SLO County-Martha’s Place
To support purchase of clinic management software to increase
efficiency and operational stability of the program.

Family Care Network, Inc.
To augment the Transitional Living Fund to provide necessary items
and services to underfunded foster youth who are aging out of the
system.

French Hospital Medical Center Foundation
To support development and implementation of a Chronic Disease

Hotline of SLO County
To support hiring of staff for after-ours call handling.

Nipomo Area Recreation Association
To support Board training and workshops for development of an
organizational strategic plan.

Pacific Wildlife Care
To engage a facilitator and conduct Board training, organizational
assessment and strategic planning.

Partnership for the Children of SLO County
“Clinica de Tolosa” to support the provision of dental visits for
uninsured and underinsured children

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
To increase presence in SLO County through hiring an SLO-based
Educational Outreach Coordinator.

Senior Nutrition Program
To support provision of meals to growing population of low-income
seniors.

Sierra Club Foundation
“Cool Cities Campaign” to create and implement a local global
warming solution plan.

SLO Children’s Museum
To support “Caring for Children” program through support for an
Early Childhood Education Coordinator.

SLO County Housing Trust Fund
To continue provision of technical assistance, project financing and
advocacy for affordable housing in SLO County.

SLO County Bicycle Coalition
To promote active transportation in SLO County via the Bike Valet
Program.

SLO Legal Alternatives
“Senior Legal Services” core operations to provide legal service for
low-income seniors

Transitional Food & Shelter, Inc.
“Motel Voucher/Apartment Program” for disabled or ill homeless

Transitions Mental Health Association
“Downtown Growing Grounds” a primary source of employment
training and experience for mentally ill adults in our community.

Wilshire Community Services
To raise community awareness and increase volunteer recruitment for
“Senior Peer Counseling” and “Caring Callers”.

Women’s Shelter Program of San Luis Obispo
To support core program costs for legal services.

PathPoint – formerly Work Training Programs
To expand the capacity of the Senior Community Service
Employment Program, serving low-income seniors.

[pinto]

1. I'm disgusted at your gutter attack on community service, while you tout your own local record.

In a town larger than 2 or 3 of our small towns. I'm ashamed of you and your party.

[cliffordu]

2. She just really fucked up. These people ALL vote. I used to work with a street

outreach alcohol and drug programs for homeless kids......


Lotsa VERY motivated voters/ STREET ORGANIZERS

[pinto]

4. I'm flabbergasted that she and her party would stoop so low. Smirking at grassroots work.

It honestly caught me off guard. I really didn't expect such low ball slime.

Should have known better.

[avaistheone1]

3. How about all those community organizers that help special needs children and families.

Is Palin going to slam them too?

[faithfulcitizen]

7. Let me tell you- No one hurt the children with special needs more than the repubs! Our funding was

slashed and burned. So mothers sure, you can count on HER. :sarcasm:

[vaberella]

19. Someone needs to talk about that. I want that known everywhere!! n/t

[faithfulcitizen]

5. what's so insane is that she compared being a community organizer to being Mayor, not State Senator!

His community organizer experience should be compared, if you will, to her PTA experience. HE WAS A STATE SENATOR FOR 8 YEARS! Someone please come up with a side by side resume, please! Perhaps one that includes the fact that as Mayor of Wasilla she garnered 617 votes! It would be great to see how many votes he won as State Senator compared to hers AS GOVERNOR. Would love to know...

[krkaufman]

22. And somebody needs to start asking McCain why he's afraid of comparing himself to Obama. nt

[Lisa0825]

6. I guess she is also dissing GHWB's "1000 points of light."

I mean, wasn't that a call for community service, and isn't that organized by, uh, community organizers? :shrug:

[mwooldri]

8. And what about them funds that Failin' slashed for community outreach?

Like the food bank?

Mark.

[zulchzulu]

9. Thanks for this...

[ampad]

10. They thought that shit was funny

You know, some kids are not as lucky as her kids. I know Bristol is pregnant yada yada yada but Bristol has a governor mother, a roof over her head and I doubt she is going hungry. So many kids rely on these programs to make it through the day. I know in my community quite a few kids would not have breakfast in the morning if it wasn't for community organizers. I don't see anything funny about that at all.

[pinto]

29. That's what got me. They thought it was cute, for crying out loud.

*shakes head*

[Errrica]

11. I CAN'T believe she said that!

Well, I mean, I can... but after she did I was like "can somebody really sink that LOW?"

She knocked something out of the park alright... All those Independent voters who weren't sure of who to vote for before tonight, knocked 'em straight out of the Right park & into the Left. Change or the same old hate? Hmm. Real tough.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

12. Man up and be a real Repig

Anyone who works for anyone's good but their own is a fucking sucker and probably a Jeebus hating Commie abortionist Islamofascist. Be a fukin real 'murkan.

[Undercurrent]

13. Is she dissing all those

faith based organizations?

[pinto]

14. She and her handlers were dissing community based service.

It's not *real* , or something. They implied it was phony baloney, second rate.

[Undercurrent]

20. Yes, I got that, but many

community organizations are faith based ones. The food bank in my area for example. I've also lived in towns where the jobs programs were run by a faith based organizations.

So she was dissing faith based groups along with all the other community organizations.

[pinto]

26. I guess so. And my list left out other faith based and civic non-profits.

[tammywammy]

15. Recommended!

[4_Legs_Good]

16. Woo hooo for San Luis!!

[pinto]

23. We don't have a bridge to nowhere, but we have a bridge to tomorrow.

cliche, I realize, but I'm furious.

[4_Legs_Good]

25. =)

I'm right there with you.

Love SLO, btw, as does everyone! My town (Lompoc) could learn a lot from you guys, and we'd be much the better for it.

David

[4_Legs_Good]

27. =)

I'm right there with you.

Love SLO, btw, as does everyone! My town (Lompoc) could learn a lot from you guys, and we'd be much the better for it.

David

[vaberella]

17. She's a republican. You can't talk social welfare programs with a republican..

Those are the organizations she'll try to shut down if she can.

[Cha]

18. palin stepped in Deep Shit with whomever wrote that speech for

her pitbull self and she's too narcissistic to realize it.

I knew the second I heard she was mocking Obama and his community organizing that she lost the speech.

[Mother Of Four]

21. Throw this at the media- Let them chew on it for a while

The Roles and Responsibilities of Community Organizers

Organizers challenge people to act on behalf of their common interests. Organizers empower people to act by developing shared relationships, understandings, and tasks which enable them to gain new resources, new understanding of their interests, and new capacity to use these resources on behalf of their interests. Organizers work through "dialogues" in relationships, understanding and action carried out as campaigns. They identify, recruit and develop leadership, they build community among that leadership, they build power out of that community.

Organizers develop new relationships out of old ones - sometimes by linking one person to another and sometimes by linking whole networks of people together.

Organizers deepen understanding by creating opportunities for people to deliberate with one another about their circumstances, to reinterpret these circumstances in ways that open up new possibilities for action, and to develop strategies and tactics that make creative use of the resources and opportunities that their circumstances afford. Organizers motivate people to act by creating experiences to challenge those feelings which inhibit action, such as fear, apathy, self-doubt, inertia and isolation with those feelings that support action such as anger, hope, self-worth, urgency and a sense of community. ...

Organizers work through campaigns. Campaigns are very highly energized, intensely focused, concentrated streams of activity with specific goals and deadlines. People are recruited, battles fought and organizations built through campaigns. Campaigns polarize by bringing out conflicts ordinarily submerged in a way contrary to the interests of the organizing constituency. One critical dilemma is how to depolarize in order to negotiate resolution of these conflicts. Another dilemma is how to balance the work of campaigns with the ongoing work of organizational survival.

Organizers build community by developing leadership. They focus on identifying leaders and enhancing their skills, values and commitments. They also focus on building strong communities: communities through which people can gain new understanding of their interests as well as power to act on them. Organizers work at constructing communities which are bounded yet inclusive, communal yet diverse, soladaristic yet tolerant. They work at developing a relationship between community and leadership based on mutual responsibility and accountability.35


http://www.nfg.org/cotb/12organizers.htm



Gee...sounds like just what we need to me.


PS - Can I get a network email list? I don't have one :(

[vaberella]

24. We need a network email list here!! n/t

[everything-bolt-up]

28. k&r - this is what our camp should hammer home - they just don't get it!

[JackBeck]

30. Hear ya' loud and clear, brother.

We were sitting here completely stunned that community service organizations were being ripped the way they were this evening.

[pinto]

33. I was talking to the effin' dog. "Can you believe that? They would stoop so low?"

:hi:

[JackBeck]

36. A total dig at anyone that has been involved in any type of community outreach.

The cats scattered as my voice yelled at the TV, "Excuse me?!?!"

Jon turned to me and gave me the look that said, "Are you going to take that"?

The office is gonna be buzzing tomorrow...

:pals:

[Chan790]

31. Not that I'm from So. Cal. but...

I used to be a community organizer. Most of my friends from college, both Democrats and Republicans, are or were community organizers for one NPO or another.

We have long memories because we remember who was helpful and who fought to make our jobs harder. I don't have to ask any of them, even the most strident GOPer among them, I already know that there is a better chance of her having a moose fall on her than getting a single vote from any of them after those comments tonight. Also, she can't do that job...and it's harder than being the mayor of Wassilla, AK.

[pinto]

32. Thanks. Well said.

[EmilyAnne]

34. I just copied and pasted and sent to friends and family!

Thanks!

[IamyourTVandIownyou]

35. From a party that started their convention with a www.causegreater.com,

makes them look in disarray.

[pinto]

37. A word on community service/organizing.

Anyone who has done the work effectively knows it's more than walking around talking as Palin and the Repubs seemed to imply tonight. It takes negotiation skills, a good political take, some compromise and the ability to keep your eyes on the prize. And, at times, the guts.

Is it hand to hand combat? Sorry, Republican TV watchers. No. You can change the channel now.

We're talking domestic, peaceful change here. It's a different ballgame. This *is* about us. Not them.

Please don't conflate foreign policy with a domestic agenda ever again. Thanks.