For LTTEs, please consider these talking points...
...or any topic that particularly captures your reason and passions! Tell them why you support Obama, and what motivates you to keep speaking out on his behalf.
Please write...it helps! You can write the same letter, just address it "to the Editor", and put the addressees in the "BCC" (blind cc:) field. That way, the recipients will think the letter was custom-tailored for their paper.
First:
Here are a few newspaper outlets in particular that the Hillary campaign is officially asking their supporters to target. Please be sure that you include the following newspaper outlets in your media communications for Pennsylvania:
Pennsylvania: York
York Daily Record
Susan Martin Metro Editor (717) 771-2039
susan@ydr.com
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York Dispatch
Beth Lefebvre City Editor (717) 854-1575 x426
blefebvre@dispatch.com
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Pennsylvania: Harrisburg
Patriot-News
Skip Wachter News Editor (717) 255-8100
swachter@pnco.com
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Pennsylvania: Philadelphia
Philadelphia Daily News
Kurt Heine City Editor (215) 854-2000
heinek@phillynews.com
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Pennsylvania: Phoenixville
Phoenix
Jason Feather Managing Editor
(610) 933-8926 x627
editor@phoenixvillenews.com
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Pennsylvania: Sunbury
Daily Item
Leonard Ingrassia Editor (570) 286-5671
lingrassia@dailyitem.com
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Pittsburgh Post/Gazette
34 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
letters@postgazette.com
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Philadelphia Inquirer - Blog
Philadelphia Inquirer - Letters to the Editor and OpEd
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Letters to the Editor
(guidelines for submission)
Pittsburgh Tribune Review - Letter to the Editor
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PA Politics blog
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And here's a list of garden-variety possibilities for letters to the editor:
info@pghcitypaper.com
gcurry@montgomerynews.com
cenews@penn.com
pnstaff@pn.microserve.com
jaheilig@aol.com
editor@swarthmorean.com
sentinel@acsworld.net
montcotime@.com
news@readingeagle.com
newsroom@poconorecord.com
mklein@phillynews.com
staff@phillynews.com
republic@pottsville.infi.net
news@gburgtimes.com
altmirror@aol.com
dnews.pdn@phillynews.com
letters@postgazette.com
news@eveningtimes.com
writestar@aol.com
info@thederrick.com
rliberman@brandywine.net
spirit@penn.com
bspice@post-gazette.com
jfetter@prolog.net
ksmith@calkinsnewspapers.com
brennan@newsgleaner.com
editor@dailyitem.com
susqtran@epix.net
nieditor@ptd.net
dgoldsmith@phillynews.com
dmichelmore@post-gazette.com
eagle@isrv.com
vlinn@post-gazette.com
amullig@tribweb.com
mnewman@post-gazette.com
sachetti@enterpe.com
webplus@ghplus.infi.net
sonews@tribweb.com
75530,131@cis.com
dbear@post-gazette.com
jseverson@phillynews.com
mflannery@phillynews.com
newsroom@i21.com
nieditor@prolog.net
sentinel@epix.net
tony.gnoffo@phillynews.com
gamba.pib@phillynews.com
conradl@phillynews.com
tbickert@calkinsnewspapers.com
republic@pottsville.infi.net
paje@epix.net
LGoodlin@EveningSun.com
writeus@newsrecord.com
marmstrong@phillynews.com
mteagle@eagle1.microserve.com
getter@phillynews.com
msokolove@phillynews.com
info@accuwx.com
dbrown@phillynews.com
wto@penn.com
webmaster@titusvilleherald.com
sunnews@lnpnews.com
newsdesk@timesnews.com
dailynews@nchoicemail.com
tnonline@postoffice.ptd.net
williaj@phillynews.com
recherald@innernet.net
tnonline@prolog.net
wendy.warren@mcally.com
dailycourier@tribweb.com
wendy.warren@mcall.com
csnews@ptd.net
real_estate@readingeagle.com
valley@tribweb.com
drive_time@readingeagle.com
ghatza@readingeagle.com
cpaone@readingeagle.com
swglobe@aol.com
mberres@readingeagle.com
review@epix.net
corryjournal@tbscc.com
rocket@epix.net
uds@epix.net
vicoa@vicoa.com
cbarron@patriot-news.com
cmcnamara@patriot-news.com
weeklyedit@aol.com
jmcginley@patriot-news.com
gazedit@indianagazette.net
nwoodward@patriot-news.com
newera@lnpnews.com
berksmont1@aol.com
hsnews@hhs.net
gateway@ghplus.infi.net
somnews@shol.com
info@fultoncountynews.com
McDRE@cobweb.net
news@ydr.com
fcnews@nep.net
paul.willistein@mcall.com
intell@lnpnews.com
diane.stoneback@mcall.com
rkirkwood@patriot-news.com
heimers@phillynews.com
landerp@phillynews.com
brasch@planetx.bloomu.edu
fleiscb@phillynews.com
rocket@peach.epix.net
reneeherb@hotmail.com
tsnwire@aol.com
penews@enterpe.com
allisonw@leader.net
standard@epix.net
sjnews@uplink.net
joeb@leader.net
jeanl@leader.net
edit@mail.microserve.net
bradera@penn.com
HamburgItem@HotmaiL.com
etedit@mail.prolog.net
release@tribune-review.com
marka@citizensvoice.com
tribune@metromead.com
cburger@readingeagle.com
jbastel@calkinsnewspapers.com
lebnews@leba.net
news@dailylocal.com
phambke@theclarionnews.com
news@mcall.com
jweaver@readingeagle.com
mojoe1@aol.com
jsmith@readingeagle.com
editorial@citypaper.net
jsilva@brandywine.net
intellj@lancnews.infi.net
mjones@chestnuthilllocal.com
5 comments:
Names?
Which media are these names from?
Are there phone numbers?
these contacts would be better if we were sure the contact was an obama supporter already if we are going to discuss obama. The chances of anything you write to them being published or story ideas you may send are best sent to someone who agrees with you.
Erin,
They're emails of editors of PA newspapers.
Yep, it's best if you can real the online versions of those newspapers first to get a lay of the land.
Just emailed this out to every one of those mail addresses that worked:
"Recently US House Rep Steven King of IA expounded on what will undoubtedly be the Republican/Bush/McCain line of attack against Barack Obama in the coming months. It's the same old "defeatocrat" theme we've been hearing for years that says leaving Iraq will be a victory for the terrorists.
Six and a half years after 9/11 we still haven't killed or captured Osama Bin Laden. Numerous government reports from the DoD and elsewhere say that AQ has not only regrouped in Pakistan but is stronger now than they were in 2001. The Taliban once again control vast swaths of Afghanistan. All while the Bush Administration ineffectually funnels billions to Musharraf's military. The Pakistani dictator uses those funds not to route out these foreign fighters from his northwest territories but to maintain his increasingly weak grip on power and to expand his conventional and nuclear threat against Israel and India. It's the height of insanity to sell him F-16 fighter bombers that can be used to deliver nuclear weapons.
It's widely known that anger about the occupation of Iraq aids Al Qaeda recruiting all over the world. Our marines and army are being crippled there. Tens of thousands of young officers and non coms, who should be the backbone of our military for decades to come are leaving those services. Forty two percent of our equipment is worn out from use and abuse in the Iraqi desert. We're borrowing $190 billion a year that we can't afford refereeing a civil war where all sides agree on one thing: they'll dance in the streets when Americans leave. Occupying Iraq isn't the solution to the problem, it IS the problem.
Senator Obama has it right. We should end the occupation of Iraq, support efforts to build democracy there, in Pakistan and Afghanistan and redeploy our forces judicially to destroy once and for all any organized threat posed by those in Pakistan and Afghanistan who planned and executed the 9/11 attacks. Anything else is a misguided foolish waste of our resources, our soldiers' lives and American power.
It's an eminently sensible position that's been sadly lacking in DC for too long. He's shown the judgment it requires to be president, much more so than Hillary Clinton and her misguided call for "coercive diplomacy". She seems to think it's still 1992. Somebody should tell her that the Iranian mullahs, Putin, the Red Chinese, Hugo Chavez and Saudi princes all believe in political blackmail too. Our military, economic and diplomatic power have been squandered so badly by President Bush over the last eight years that against all but the weakest adversaries coercion will not work. We're more likely to be the target of such efforts if she or McCain become president. Now is no time to elect a candidate who increasingly sounds like she wants to prove how tough she is instead of how smart she can be.
John McCain is a bona fide war hero but he wants to continue the occupation of Iraq like he's Ahab pursuing his own personal great white whale. That kind of stubbornness should be rejected. Regardless of how long we stay in Iraq, be it a month or 100 years in the end we are and will be propping up a corrupt government that has shown it's more closely aligned with Iran than the United States. That's not worth one more American life, limb or dollar.
We need to get out of Iraq, restore our economy and alliances, and kill or capture Al Qaeda's leadership once and for all. We need to wean ourselves off foreign oil
and dry up the swamps of anti American hatred Bush's wrongheaded foreign policy has increased exponentially. Jihadis may be dancing in the streets when we leave Iraq like they've scored a touchdown but those cheers will stop when they call the bosses in Pakistan and nobody is left to pick up the phone.
I urge the people of Pennsylvania to take these facts into account and vote for the only candidate who isn't bound by failed policies and positions of the past: Barack Obama."
Beth Lefebvre no longer works at The York Dispatch -- hasn't for about 3-4 years. I'd suggest addressing your comments to just "Editor"
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