Should get favorable interview from Tweety, who usually has a hard-on for military service.

Don't we all though.

Will the NRSC ad buy be positive on Schmitt or negative on Hackett?

Also, is Hackett running many ads.

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I really think that a strong showing in OH-02 will do a lot of psychological damage to Republicans. There may even be a few Republican Congressmen out there considering retirement or Democrats considering a run for higher office who might be prodded into action.

In the past week Mark tackled the tough issue of trying to determine how much money Erie County has...or doesn't have. Deadlines have passed and the public has still not seen the county's final 2004 year-end audit from its independent auditor, Deloitte & Touche. Mark held a press conference at Erie County Hall to call for the audit, saying we need to know the 2004 budget deficit numbers in order to have a grasp of the budget for 2005 and 2006.  While Mark's primary opponent was in the news for receiving improper campaign contributions from a major contributor, Mark was talking about the issues that really matter to Erie County residents.  Please click here to read the news release.

http://www.poloncarz.com/pr072205.html

Mark is continuing to reach out to voters, going door to door and talking with voters at community events about his vision for new leadership and fiscal discipline.  In recent days he attended a retired steel workers picnic in Blasdell, the Masten Jazz Festival at Martin Luther King Park in Buffalo, Canal Fest in Tonawanda as well as other community events throughout the region. He also spread his message of new leadership and fiscal discipline in Amherst, talking to supporters who gathered at Loughran's Restaurant in Amherst Monday night for a fundraiser for Mark.

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VOLUNTEER FOR THE CAMPAIGN      
With less than 7 weeks until primary day September 13, this is the time for more people to join the campaign. You can really make a difference now in getting Mark's message of responsibility, accountability and common sense out to the public. Here are a few of the ways you can help out:

PHONE BANKS

We are starting to make calls to voters to tell them about Mark and remind them about the decisions we have to make at the polls on September 13. Volunteers can come to our headquarters in Cheektowaga or several other convenient locations. You will be given a list of people to call and a "script" to help you along. Please call headquarters at 683-1828 to sign up for a shift for making calls. We will be doing this from now until election day, and we'll need your help any time!

TALK TO VOTERS DOOR TO DOOR

Every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. or ANYTIME that you have available

This is a critical part of the campaign and a key to winning the election. We will be going door to door in districts across the county telling voters about Mark's vision for reform in county government.  Please consider knocking on doors to talk to voters for a few hours this week or weekend. Even if you have never done it before, your help will be greatly appreciated. We canvass only prime Democrats in each district, who regularly vote in each election, so the response should be very receptive. In addition, we have instructions, information and maps printed out to help.  

We will also be doing larger "lit drops," delivering literature about Mark door to door.

Please meet at campaign headquarters Saturday at 10:30 a.m. If Saturday mornings are inconvenient for you call headquarters and let us know a date and time that you are available. We have volunteers going out every day of the week. To volunteer, call our headquarters at 683-1828.

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UPCOMING EVENTS
COMPTROLLER CANDIDATES' DEBATE

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27

8:00 PM

J.P. Bullfeathers

1010 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo

The Frontier Democrats Club is hosting a debate, where Mark plans to debate fellow primary candidate Robert Whelan on the issues. Spectators are welcome, and encouraged!  Please come out to see Mark show why he is the best man for the job,

DOWNTOWN PROFESSIONALS PARTY FOR POLONCARZ

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9

5:30-7:30 PM

La Luna Restaurant & Night Club

52 Chippewa Street, downtown Buffalo

$99 per person

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Shadow Lounge

1504 Hertel Avenue, North Buffalo

More Information to Come Soon!

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Remember, it is only 48 days until Primary Day on September 13.
Please mark your calendars and let us know the days you can come out to support Mark Poloncarz for Comptroller by contacting us at the below numbers, so that he can help restore responsibility, accountability and common sense to Erie County government.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Mark Poloncarz for Erie County Comptroller Headquarters:

2789 Union Road Cheektowaga, NY 14227

Take the I-90 to the William St. Exit, head east on William St. then left onto Union. The headquarters is just ahead on the right.

Phone: 683-1828

Fax: 683-1838

E-mail: volunteer@poloncarz.com

Donate: www.poloncarz.com/contribute.htm

Web: www.markpoloncarz.com

"It's a positive thing [his military service] for him," Mr. Hartman, a substance-abuse specialist with a nonprofit group, said after meeting Ms. Schmidt. "But we're not at war here."

This quote could just be the opinion of one conservative, Republican, mid-western, small-town voter or it could reflect the the feelings a vast group of people throughout this country who haven't been personally touched by the war and therefore don't consider us to be at war.  It's as if the only way the war really matters is if it's being fought in southern Ohio.  I was born 30 years after World War II ended and right at the end of the Vietnam war but I always thought that the people who lived through both, whether they believed in the cause as most did during WWII or didn't as with Vietnam, always thought that WE were at war as a nation during both.  If this gentleman's opinion - that the war is something being fought by "them" in a place called "over there" - reflects those of large segments of the population then it becomes a difficult issue to use against those who started it.