Obama to address donors and volunteers of new political machine

President Barack Obama (Jason Reed/Reuters)How will President Barack Obama use Organizing for Action, the advocacy group built from the machinery of his groundbreaking campaigns? Obama will shed some light on how he views the organization?s mission when he speaks to OFA donors, strategists and volunteers on Wednesday night.

Obama?s speech, first reported by Politico and confirmed to Yahoo News by an OFA official, will come as he wages pitched political battles on issues like immigration, gun violence and reducing the nation?s long-term deficits and debt. OFA?s role in those struggles has yet to be clearly determined, though the group?s core mission is to advance the president?s second-term agenda.

His remarks will be the highlight of a two-day OFA summit at a tony Washington hotel. Other speakers will include Jim Messina, who managed Obama?s 2012 re-election campaign, former top White House adviser David Plouffe, and former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson. Obama has broadly signaled that he aims to take action to battle climate change in his second term.

Among the subjects the group will tackle on Wednesday and Thursday is the challenge of recruiting and keeping volunteers?a harder task in a nonelection year. Portions of the two-day gathering will be open to reporters, the OFA official confirmed.

The organization recently announced in the face of public pressure that it will not accept corporate cash and will make public the list of donors who give more than $250. That came after a news report that people who gave $500,000 or more to OFA would get quarterly meetings with Obama?a report disputed by the White House.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-address-donors-volunteers-political-machine-140937014--politics.html

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