Vote for Dallas Braden: Outstanding Public Service
by ZigFan31 on Aug 7, 2009 2:35 PM PDT
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Dallas Braden has been nominated for the national Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service by an Athlete, presented by All Stars Helping Kids, a national nonprofit founded by NFL Hall-of-Famer Ronnie Lott.
Fans can "get in the game" and help Dallas win by voting on the All Stars Helping Kids website (www.allstarshelpingkids.org) and via text message beginning in August and running through November 15th.
Braden's profile page: Vote here!
A's Release on Braden's Service
All Stars Helping Kids was founded by NFL Hall-of-Famer Ronnie Lott in 1989 with the goal of promoting a safe, healthy, rigorous learning environment for disadvantaged kids in low-income communities. All Stars achieves this mission by pooling the resources of athletes, corporations and individuals to support high-performing academic and physical enrichment programs.
The Jefferson Awards for Public Service is a prestigious national recognition system honoring community and public service in America. The Jefferson Awards were established in 1972 by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. Senator Robert Taft, Jr. and Sam Beard to establish a Nobel Prize for public service. Today, their primary purpose is to serve as a "Call to Action for Volunteers" in local communities.
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I love Dallas Braden, but there’s just no way that I can vote against Nnamdi Asomugha.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Aug 7, 2009 2:38 PM PDT reply actions
Well, you can vote more than once!
BTW-Did you ever send me an email like you implied?
Bring Jerry back!
No, but what was the e-mail going to be about?
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Aug 7, 2009 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I received an email from a sender I didn't recognize.
It contained porn and well…I never get that stuff in my email box.
Bring Jerry back!
It wasn’t me.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Aug 7, 2009 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
My bad.
"I’m Joey Devine, I’m what Joba Chamberlain would be if he was good and nobody had ever heard of him."
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Aug 7, 2009 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
well, at least you made it the right size.
Twitter went down today--if only there were some short, shallow, self-indulgent way to express my horror.-Stephen Colbert
by Leopold Bloom on Aug 7, 2009 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
3 votes submitted
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