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Charlie Justice at Tiger Bay Club on Oct 12

Charlie Justice and Bill Young (Young invited but not confirmed)

Trading a Safe Legislative Seat for a Run at Congress

For most of Congressman Bill Young's 40-year career, he has had light opposition or none at all.  But 18 months ago St. Petersburg native Charlie Justice decided not to seek a third term in the Florida Senate and instead challenge the U.S. House's longest serving Republican.  The usually low-key and friendly Justice has taken a tougher tone during the campaign, accusing Young of "corrupting the budget process" with his legendary earmarks and practicing nepotism by hiring his future daughter-in-law.  The quiet race is heating up in the final six weeks.  Justice has youth on his side and deep local roots, cultivated during 10 years as a state legislator.  Young has a fund-raising advantage and a strong following of his own. Come to the den and decide for yourself whether it is time for a change. 

(Rep. Young is recuperating from back surgery.  He has indicated he will join the meeting for a debate if his recovery and schedule permit.)

RSVP DEADLINE: Friday, October 8th

Feather Sound Country Club
2201 Feather Sound Drive, Clearwater

Click here to RSVP online.

Charlie Justice - Community Video

Local HD50 Candidate Shelly Leonard attends kick off for the Milk Party...

"Shelly Leonard at MIlk Party kick-off  By Martine Powers, Times Staff Writer
CLEARWATER - Shelly Leonard, 37, came to the launch of the "Milk Party" campaign Monday afternoon to find out one thing. What will the Children's Movement of Florida do to help local children with special needs? Leonard, a Clearwater resident, has two sons with muscular disabilities. She couldn't find adequate...

The purpose of the "Milk Party," DavidLawrence (leader of the movement & former Miami Herald publisher)said, is to encourage business leaders and politicians to push for issues such as quality children's health care and parent education.

Meek is the REAL Democrat in this race (video)

Rep. Kendrick Meek on the BP Oil Spill at AFN Conference (with Video)

Rep. Meek gave a powerful speech at the America's Future Now conference in DC this week.   Here are some highlights of the speech:

 

Florida Race gets messy: WSJ chimes in on FL US Senate Race!

Democrat Kendrick Meek may stand a chance in Florida if Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio split the conservative vote

Some good quotes from the June 8, 2010 article by Stephen Moore

... Mr. Crist currently enjoys a slight lead, while Mr. Meek is a distant third with 20%, but that could change in a hurry. This is a state, after all, that went for Barack Obama in 2008, where Democrats have a voter-registration advantage of half a million, and where Democrats won three of the last four Senate races... ...Mr. Crist avidly sought the AFL-CIO endorsement, which may explain his veto several weeks ago of a common-sense teacher tenure reform bill. But Mr. Meek got the nod (and the union money sure to follow) and has followed up by continuing to attack Mr. Crist as a Johnny-come-lately liberal on issues like oil-drilling and stimulus spending...

Read full article

Meet Kendrick Meek - help spread the word

From an email sent by the Meek for Senate Campaign: 

We just released our new campaign bio video and need to get the word out about Kendrick. Take a few minutes to watch the video and help us promote it. There are a few things you can do that will really help us push this out to as many people as possible:

1. We've posted it on Daily Kos. If you are a member, please Recommend the article and comment on it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/8/133154/3434

2. Please give the video a rating on YouTube. The more people who give it a five-star rating, the more people see the video.

Full version: http://www.kendrickmeek.com/page/s/fullvideo 
Short version: http://www.kendrickmeek.com/page/s/video

3. Share the video on Facebook. Paste the following link in your status.

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.kendrickmeek.com/page/s/video

4. Share the video link on Twitter. Click the link below to set your status to our video link/message.

http://bit.ly/dd2M8b

5. Help promote it elsewhere. If you are a member of any of these blogs, please recommend the video:

Firedoglake: http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/39598 
Alternet: http://blogs.alternet.org/kendrickmeek/2010/04/08/my-story/ 
MyDD: http://mydd.com/dna/posts/69426 
Progress Florida: http://progressflorida.org/page/community/post/kendrickmeek/CLvR

It is also posted at our regular social bookmarking sites, so if you could "like," "recommend" or whatever at those sites, please do.

Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/boap2/my_story_kendrick_meek/ 
Digg: http://digg.com/politics/My_Story_Kendrick_Meek 
Yahoo Buzz: http://bit.ly/brYAvC 
BuzzFlash: http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1086373 
Current: http://current.com/news/92369721_my-story-kendrick-meek.htm 
Propeller: http://www.propeller.com/story/2010/04/08/my-story-kendrick-meek/ 
Mixx: http://www.mixx.com/stories/12794583/my_story_kendrick_meek

With your help, we'll introduce Kendrick to many new people today and it'll go a long way towards balancing out the special interest money that our opponents will be raising.

Sincerely, 
Kenneth

Charlie Justice qualifies for ballot by turning in petitions

Creative Loafing, March 29 by Mitch Perry:

Pinellas County Democratic Congressional hopeful Charlie Justice is officially on the ballot in Florida’s 10th Congressional District election, as his campaign manager Mitch Kates today announced that he had qualified by petition by gathering more than 6,500 signatures (he was required to turn in 4,443) to the Supervisor of Elections office

March 29th Press Release from Justice's campaign:

“I am very proud of the many volunteers who gave hundreds of hours towards the campaign’s efforts in our petition drive,” stated Charlie Justice. “While my opponent ‘mailed in’ his effort to collect petitions, our supporters went out and talked directly to voters throughout the Congressional district asking for their support. All their hard work paid off because not only were we successful in collecting petitions but we also had the opportunity to talk to voters about the race and my candidacy.” “We plan on continuing our grass-roots campaign by going door-to-door throughout the Congressional District talking to voters about this race and the need for new leadership in Washington,” stated Justice. “The incumbent continues to show how out of touch he is with the district, first by holding a ‘Town Hall Meeting’ by mail and then following that up by ‘mailing in’ his petition drive.”