»Rev. Jackson Briefs GCI staff

Rev. Jesse Jackson briefed GCI canvass directors during a national training in Washington, DC. Here is an excerpt of his remarks…

So if you expand a military budget on the one hand and cut taxes on the other, all you have left is deficit and debt. And the poorest people fall in that hole. That's why we need a new President friends, we need a new President.

My friends, America deserves better leadership. We must go in a new direction. I hope that in these coming days ahead as we work diligently, we'll go campus by campus town by town and raise the right issues. When enough of America comes alive, the whole world gets better.

The good news is that your generation has the power to change the course.
There are more youth than seniors, but more seniors vote than youth. The numbers don't matter, your voting matters. YOU have the power to stop a war. You have the power to protect a woman's right of choice. You have the power to raise minimum wages. You have the power to reinvest in our children. You have the power to take America out of isolation. You have the power to stop the marginalization of people whether they are black or white or gay or straight. You have the power to create one big tent.

With equal protection under the law, equal access, equal opportunity in one big tent America. And we'll send George Bush back to Crawford, Texas.