http://samspencer.org Representing Maine on the Democratic National Committee Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:30:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When President Obama came to Maine on April 1, 2010, I decided to bring along my handy flip camera for another session of Sam Spencer 'Live'. I got to talk to all sorts of interesting Democrats, including an elementary school student from Waterville, Portland Lawyer Harold Pachios' on LBJ's 1964 ... http://samspencer.org/?p=73 January 18, 2009 I’m thrilled to be heading to Washington to attend the Inauguration of Barack Obama as President. So many Maine Democrats worked so hard to elect Obama and I want those who won’t be there to share the experience. ***You can see my ‘live’ video updates on the Inauguration happenings ... http://samspencer.org/?p=70 We are days away from election day. From now and until November 4th, I would like to introduce you to some of the events and people in Maine as we lead up to to election day. Stay tuned for interviews and behind the scenes footage with political leaders, candidates, volunteers, ... http://samspencer.org/?p=68 I'm really excited to be heading to Denver to attend the Democratic National Convention. This year's convention is probably one of the most important of our lifetime. You can see my 'live' video update on convention happenings here and on Facebook every day from August 25th through the 29th. Please ... http://samspencer.org/?p=46 Tonight, I announce my support for Senator Barack Obama’s candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President. My decision, in part, is based on the fact that Senator Obama has won a majority of pledged delegates and tonight will have attained a majority of all delegates. Senator Obama was the majority ... http://samspencer.org/?p=45 REFLECTIONS ON FOUR YEARS OF CHANGE AND ‘SUPERDELEGATES’ By Sam Spencer, Democratic National Committeeman When I was first elected to the DNC in 2004, my goal was to help rebuild our party from the ground-up and to do a better job connecting our party with its activist roots, rather than just Washington ... http://samspencer.org/?p=31 Preserving yesterday for tomorrow, today: support a State Historic Tax Credit — By Sam Spencer, DNC committeeman When I’m not representing Maine on the Democratic National Committee, I’m doing my day job as a real estate developer. Since returning to Maine in ... http://samspencer.org/?p=16 DNC REPORT TO MAINE DEMOCRATS: OLD FASHIONED ORGANIZING IS BACK By Sam Spencer, Democratic National Committeeman While all of us our transfixed on the day to day battle among the Democratic Presidential candidates to secure the nomination, the DNC is working on the next steps in Chairman’s Howard Dean’s “50-state strategy” to ... http://samspencer.org/?p=23 REPORT TO MAINE DEMOCRATS ON WINTER DNC MEETING Tyson’s Corner, VA, November 29th –December 1, 2007 By Sam Spencer, Democratic National Committeeman With just thirty-two days until the Iowa caucuses on January 3rd and just seventy days until our caucuses here in Maine on February 10th, this past weekend’s meeting of the Democratic ... http://samspencer.org/?p=27 REPORT TO DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 23, 2007 BY SAM SPENCER, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN JENNIFER DECHANT, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEWOMAN Continuing Calendar Chaos Chair Howard Dean has threatened to strip Florida of all its delegates if it does not comply with DNC rules and move its contest back from January 29th to February 5th or later. ... http://samspencer.org/?p=22