A week ago, I told you about Energize Clinton County, a grassroots organization run by two recent college graduates (Mark Rembert and Taylor Stuckert) who want to turn their economically devastated community of Clinton County into a Green Enterprise Zone (an idea created by Obama green jobs czar Van Jones).

Mark and Taylor's non-profit organization is currently one of ten candidates for five $10,000 Energize Your Community grants administered by Mountain Dew.  They have one week left to win this grant, which is awarded based on which of the ten community organizations get the most online votes.  I'll let Taylor and Mark take it from here, from an e-mail they sent me this evening:

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Our candidate could use some help in this online poll:

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/20 07/12/21/straw-poll-dec-21-jan-4/

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Chris included Tom Daschle to his straw poll lineup this month, but he has once again found reasons to skip a rather popular, if not the most popular, potential candidate (you know who I am talking about, right :)).

So, here is a version of the poll making amends to the glaring omission.
Popular IRV Version (Feb'06): Vote Here!

Enjoy!

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Kos put his straw poll up. So its time for a couple more in our "Inclusive 2008 polls" series.

I request you to not promote these polls in any candidate specific blog or forum. Thanks.

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