Happy New Year! This new year should be one of the happiest we have had in seven years.

But before you ring in the new year, maybe you can help me reach a very important fundraising goal? The last fundraising quarter of 2007 ends tonight at Midnight. I am $145 away from reaching our goal set for this quarter, $415 away from reaching an important mark for the campaign, and just over $800 away from reaching the same mark for money on hand.

Can you help?

Simply visit the contribution page and make a very secure credit card donation.

Thank you all so much. Happy New Year… And while we’re on that subject, my resolution for 2008 is to go to Tallahassee as your new Democratic State Representative in Pinellas!

The New Year will soon be rung in and from Carl Zimmermann’s entire campaign staff, we hope you all have the most joyous of holiday seasons.

Of course, with the new year comes the true start of the campaign season for local and federal offices. We’d like to pass on an announcement by local candidate Jack Killingsworth:

IOWA CAUCUS PARTY!
– FOR DEMOCRATS –

JOIN US THURSDAY NIGHT
FOR A PINELLAS ELECTION PARTY & FUND RAISER

January 3rd at 8:30 pm (± till it’s over)

COME WATCH THE IOWA CAUCUS AT THE BEACH THEATRE
315 Corey Ave . St. Pete Beach . 727-360-6697

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$10 Admission
A suggested donation of $10 in a sealed envelope will go to your favorite candidate

Join Your Fellow Democrats & Progressives, VOTE for your favorite Democratic Candidate
while we watch CNN Coverage of the Iowa Caucuses on the Big Screen in Hi Def and Dolby Sound!

Meet Campaign Volunteers & Local Candidates
Come see how HIGH your candidate BOUNCES out of Iowa!

It promises to be an evening of Great Fun, with Live Music, Comedy and Democratic Camaraderie! Candidate t-shirts, pins and signs welcome.

Cheering sections encouraged! One person/one vote (hands will be stamped!) —
Our winners will be announced at the end of the evening.

Enjoy Live Entertainment, Concession Drinks & Snacks
Beer & Wine, Cold & Hot drinks, Hot Dogs, Pop Corn, Candy, etc. on sale.

(Real dinner is available at nearby Corey Ave. restaurants like Mangia, and Madelina Cottage, or the Blue Parrot)

For more information contact:
Bill Bucolo 727-347-1829

Co-sponsored by the Pinellas Democratic Executive Committee and the Beach Theatre

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Carl asked me to repost this invitation to tonights North Pinellas Democratic Club meeting at the Countryside Library:

Dear Fellow Democrats,

This week’s meeting (tonight) is scheduled to feature Beau Zimmer, a reporter from WTSP, Channel 10 News. Beau is the youngest reporter on staff, but very experienced. He began his career at Channel 10 when he was 8 years old. He will be discussing how reportersare assigned stories, how stories develop, what makes it newsworthy, how much freedom he has in telling the story as well as answering your questions about the media.

There is a possibility though that Beau could be called to a story. Channel 10 is short one reporter. Since I just spoke to him Tuesday evening, he is pretty certain he’ll be there.

However, should he not be able to attend, we will view an extremely interesting and certainly eye-opening video titled OutFoxed. This documentary is about how Fox News tells their version of the news and how that differs from almost all the other media. It is funny, upsetting, and all too true.

The meeting starts at 7:00 PM at the Countryside Library

See you there.

Ladies and gentlemen, the following is an invitation from from Carl Zimmermann:

Dear Fellow Democrats,

I believe you will find the next North Pinellas Democratic Club meeting this Wednesday to be very interesting and different. Unlike most meetings, we will be watching a documentary titled American Blackout. I first saw this movie at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006. It’s about the 2000 Presidential election and what took place in Florida to assure that George W. Bush’s victory. I believe you will be shocked at what is revealed.

There are many “documentaries" made these days that can often be careless with facts and amount to not much more than propaganda pieces. I think you will agree with what you see.

It also covers the Cynthia McKinney campaign. You may remember Cynthia was a congresswoman from Atlanta who the Bush administration ordered to be "taken out" and the strategy the Republicans used to take her out of a heavily Democratic area.

Visit American Blackout’s official site.

The meeting starts at 7:00 PM at the Countryside Library this Wednesday (September 12). See you there.

Carl Zimmermann