Organizing For America and College Democrats to work Closer together

Bumped. --Mike

This past Friday, I had the opportunity to listen in on a conference call, along with college democrat leaders from across the state, as the leadership of the College Democrats of America and Organizing for America made a joint conference call.

The Political Director of OFA started with a recap of the achievements of the organization during the election season, along with the purpose of their organization. Accordingly, the purpose of OFA is to help promote President Obama's agenda, as well as expand their organization. During the election season, the Obama campaign set up Students For Barack Obama chapters (SFBO) which worked with college democrat chapters to help get Barack Obama elected. Once the election season ended, David Plouffe and Organizing for America worked to transform those SFBO chapters to Organizing for America chapters (OFA).

In one of the most pressing issues that OFA college groups will be focusing on, is the new college tuition proposal that President Obama announced last week, which aims to drastically increase the amount of money that students will get to pay for college.

In the coming days and weeks ahead, both OFA and the College Democrats across the country will be putting pressure on our legislators to accept the Obama adminsitration's new proposal.