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Email message voices support

1/12/2016

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The following message was received by a STARPAC supporter and posted with her permission...On Jan 7, 2016, at 12:34 PM, [name withheld]

I am the woman who manned the sign-in desk a few weeks ago in Des Moines (and my husband carried chairs around), and want to thank you for supporting O’Malley.
 
I don’t know if you are already on the MoveOn email list, but if you are, I hope that you will bother to vote for them to endorse & support O’Malley (see below).  I don’t have to tell you why – I want to thank you for your endorsement.  I learned a lot from the Q&A at your forum about the way that he thinks about keeping American – and the world – strong.  Which I agree is the only thing that will work (except that the MI complex will have to find new jobs in the Clean Energy sector, which doesn’t bother me at all.)
 
I have officially supported O’M as a county chair here in Iowa (very small county), and the more I research his time as Mayor and then Governor, the more I realize that he is the one person who might actually be able to get government to work.  He’s not the orator that Bernie is, and certainly not as slickly packaged as HC, but he finds a way to get to solutions. 
 
Hope that you all are well, and prepared for a Wonderful New Year. 
 
Hi!

I just cast my ballot in MoveOn's 2016 Presidential Endorsement Vote. This is a big decision, and I hope you'll vote, too.

You can vote here right now:
moveon.org/2016prezendorse

Voting is open to all MoveOn members--meaning, anyone who has ever joined MoveOn's email list member prior to the start of the voting period, which was 9 a.m. PT on Thursday, January 7. MoveOn has been around since the late 1990s, so if you're into progressive politics like I am, or if you've signed progressive petitions before, odds are you've joined their list before and can vote.

Voting is open until 11:59 pm PT this Sunday, January 10.

Be counted now!
moveon.org/2016prezendorse

Thanks.

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STAR✦PAC Endorses Martin O'Malley

12/14/2015

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​Des Moines, Iowa --  STAR*PAC, Iowa’s Stop the Arms Race Political Action Committee, today announced its endorsement of Martin O’Malley for the Democratic Party nomination for President.  STAR*PAC’s Central Committee voted unanimously to endorse Governor O’Malley for new foreign policy leadership.

“Martin O’Malley will bring the new leadership our country needs to wage peace in the world as well as here at home,” said STAR*PAC chairperson Tom Leffler.  “We urge citizens to attend Democratic Party caucuses Feb. 1 and caucus for Martin O’Malley. “

Leffler said STAR*PAC selected Martin O’Malley for his effective record as Governor of Maryland, and for his advocacy of fresh thinking and a new approach on foreign policy. 
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“O’Malley supports the means of waging peace that STAR*PAC stands for,” Leffler said. “Governor O’Malley knows the peril of beating the drums of war, and would adopt a more far-seeing foreign policy approach to peacefully elevate America’s strength at home and abroad.”

​... [Click on button below to view/print the entire release.]
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Rand Paul answers several questions in Altoona

11/12/2015

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Senator Rand Paul answered several peace related questions posed by us and others at a meet-up in Altoona, November 12.  Click on each button to hear his responses.
On modernizing nuclear weaponry
On military spending levels
On arming Syrians
On opposing Israeli settlements in Palestine
On opposing wars generally
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O'Malley answers our Key Questions

11/12/2015

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The Martin O'Malley campaign has responded to our Key Questions with specific answers.  Compare his answers to those of Bernie Sanders found elsewhere on this page.
View/Print O'Malley Answers
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O'Malley answers some of our questions

10/31/2015

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Martin O'Malley answered questions before a crowd today at his "Meet and Treat" event at Inspired Grounds Café in West Des Moines.  Among them were four that addressed topics on our list of key questions.  We captured his comments as voice recordings.

What do you propose to address the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis?
Listen to O'Malley's response
What are your views about military spending?
Listen to O'Malley's response
What is your overall foreign policy framework to address Middle East conflicts?
Listen to O'Malley's response
Can we overcome the hateful comments made about immigrants by some Republican candidates?
Listen to O'Malley's response
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Rand Paul advocates peaceful engagement

10/23/2015

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At a rally held at Drake University October 14, Rand Paul made a few comments and took two questions. In his initial comments, he spoke against military involvement in the Middle East asserting that the US has no direct strategic interest engaging in a conflict among various factions there.  He also countered critics about whether he is an isolationist, saying he advocates active diplomacy with hostile nations; while his critics often oppose that approach.  "Those who refuse to engage in diplomacy are the real isolationists."

One of the questions posed from the students pertained to how we can manage the influence of transnational corporations. Paul responded in terms of limiting influence of corporations. While he supports the United Citizens ruling, which pertains to election spending, he surmised that it would be constitutional to have a condition of any federal contract with a corporation that they would not be able to spend any money lobbying the federal government. 

As reported by the AFSC Governing Under the Influence project, Paul indicated he was unfamiliar with legislated mandates to detain undocumented immigrants including quotas for private detention facilities, nor with the proposed legislation to remove the quotas.​​
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Interview features STAR✦PAC

10/1/2015

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Attached here is an edited interview prepared for broadcast on The Torch, FM Radio 98.3, Saturday, October 3, in host Sarah Beckman's 9:00 a.m. program. 
Play recording
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Martin O'Malley responds to questions

9/29/2015

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The following recordings captured responses at the Latino Festival in Des Moines, September 27.

Q - Would you support a reduction in military spending?​
O'Malley Response
Q - Would you work to overcome legislation that sets a 34,000 per day immigrant detention quota and pays corporations that operate private detention facilities, regardless of whether those beds are filled?
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O'Malley Response
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Jim Webb answers two questions

9/29/2015

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The following dialogue was part of a radio interview with Alan Comes, September 28, addressing the role of troops in the Middle East and a US role in addressing refugees.

WEBB: The mistake that I believe we made in Syria and some of these other places in the Arab Spring is to be drawing some of these red lines that were unenforceable in reality.

COLMES: So when the President said there was going to be a red line, that was a mistake. Is there anything that we should be doing now?

WEBB: I’ll tell you what we shouldn’t be doing is putting troops on the ground over there and I warned about it beforehand and I was saying Syria is going to be Lebanon on steroids. When I was a journalist in Beirut, you could see the divisions, the historic thousands of year old divisions in that part of the world. So we should be calling on, particularly, the Sunni nations in that region to step up and to do more, and also on the refugees situation in Syria, to do more. They’re not doing more, they’re simply trying to drop this on us and I think it’s appropriate for the President today to have said that he will work with the Russians in an attempt to stabilize the situation.

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COLMES: Do you believe we should take more refugees in? They say 10,000, is what the White House is saying, should we take more?

WEBB: I think the Saudis should take more. I think people in the region should step up to try to stabilize Syria. And we should be very careful about bringing a large number of refugees here. I say that as someone, my wife is an immigrant and a refugee from the Communist takeover of South Vietnam. We have a large problem in our country right now in terms of resolving the immigration issue. So for those who are truly political refugees in some way affiliated with what we’ve been doing, we should consider that.

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DM Register publishes STAR✦PAC Op Ed

9/17/2015

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Here's our message published 9/17.  Click to read:  Press Candidates on Issues of War, Peace
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