President Barack Obama’s new political action committee Organizing for America has hired a director to work in New Mexico, and the organization is kicking off its activity in the state with the first of several listening-tour events today in Las Cruces.
The event will be held at 7 p.m. at the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Doña Ana County.
The group, according to Wikipedia, is run by the Democratic National Committee and “seeks to mobilize Obama supporters to elect other political candidates and support President Obama’s legislative agenda.” The group uses the contact information of the 13 million Americans who signed up to receive information from Obama in 2008 during the presidential campaign.
“At Listening Tour meetings, you’ll get a chance to meet new state staff members, hear about some lessons learned during the general election, and offer your thoughts on how we can organize New Mexico going forward,” Luis Hernandez, the group’s state director, wrote in an e-mail to that list of people. “Your ideas will be used to write a New Mexico-specific plan for Organizing for America in 2009 and beyond.”
He wrote that the campaign “brought an unprecedented number of new voices into the process — we need to make sure those voices remain at the center of the debate as the President and Congress work on providing solutions for our economy.”