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Africans for Deval Patrick Rally Worcester

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 Source: Charles Amponsah, African Beats fm Worcester

Masschusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Tim Murray campaign team will meet the

Governor's African Council for an aficans for Patrick-Murray football rally in


worcester on sunday, september 19th 2010 at mount carmel center 24 mulberry center


worcester masschusetts 01605,doors open at 2:00pm the event promptly starts at 3:00


pm. The leadership of the governor's african council will use the rally to endorsed


its campaign for reelection. Mr Richard Kwaku Boateng (Big Shoe) the owner of Anokye


krom african-american resturant in worcester cited Governor Patrick and Lt. Governor


Murray's strong leadership in passing real education reform giving all of our

students, not just some of our students, the opportunity for success, their


commitment to job creation, health care coverage for Massachusetts residents, and


clean energy policies that put our city and state on track to lead the nation out of


this economic downturn. Mr Kwaku


Boateng endorsement comes on the heels of a surge in momentum for the


Patrick-Murray campaign, including the opening of 21 regional coordinated campaign


offices, reaching a new grassroots milestone of over 7,300 organizers working

actively across the Commonwealth, and a huge lead in fundraising for the month of


August.


Under Governor Patrick and Lieutenant Governor Murray's strong fiscal leadership,


Massachusetts has seen six straight months of job gains, with 60,000 jobs added to


our economy since December 2009 and July seeing the largest monthly private sector


job gain in 20 years. UMass has reported the Massachusetts economy is growing twice


as fast as the rest of the nation. This is not by accident, but because the

Patrick-Murray administration has made job creation its top priority.


The Patrick-Murray campaign is gaining grassroots momentum throughout the state,


recently announcing 21 regional coordinated campaign offices up and running, over


7,000 grassroots organizers who have each committed to recruit 50 friends, family


members, and neighbors to support Deval Patrick and Tim Murray on Election Day, as


well as endorsements from organizations such as SEIU's State Council, the


Massachusetts Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Massachusetts League of Environmental

Voters, Massachusetts Clean Water Action, the Massachusetts NOW PAC, Oiste, Planned


Parenthood Advocacy Fund, Neighbor to Neighbor, the MassEquality PAC, the


Massachusetts Teacher's Union, the Governor's African Council and local elected


officials throughout the state.


Join Africans from all over masschusetts as we showcase the strenght of our


community in support of Governor Deval Patrick and Tim Murray 2010 elections,

Source: Charles Amponsah, African Beats fm Worcester