| # | First Name | Family name | Title/position | Organization/business/affiliation (for identification purposes only) | Were you an active Obama supporter or donor? | US State (if resident) | Comments |
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| 1 | John | McAuliff | Executive Director | Fund for Reconciliation and Development | 01 | NY |
| 2 | Julio V | Ruiz, MD | Clinical Professor | SUNY | 01 | FL | |
| 3 | Kathleen | Hower | Chief Executive Officer / co-founder | Global Links | 01 | PA | An intelligent, moral, policy driven by the best interest of the Cuban and American people,rather than a punitive, ineffective one is long past due. In dialog and engagement will the goals of both of our peoples be met. Our Cuban policy should be more in line with other countries with whom we differ on important issues but continue to trade, pressure and engage. |
| 4 | Jeanne | Lemkau | Professor Emerita of Family Medicine | wright state university | 01 | OH | Please help liberate the US population from current travel restrictions. I want to be able to freely travel to Cuba and believe travel is a basic right to be affirmed by your administration. Thank you. |
| 5 | Rubén G. | Rumbaut | Professor | University of California, Irvine | 01 | CA | |
| 6 | armando | vilaseca | superintendent | Franklin West School District | 01 | VT | |
| 7 | Pamela | Martin | Vice President | Philadelphia/Cardenas Friendship Association | 01 | PA | It is time to build bridges with our Cuban neighbors. |
| 8 | Collin | Laverty | Program Associate | Center for Democracy in the Americas | 03 | | |
| 9 | Ivet | Wood | student | | 03 | WA | |
| 10 | José | López Padrino | Lecturer in Anesthesia | Harvard Medical School | 01 | MA | |
| 11 | Martha | Schmidt | attorney | | 02 | WA | |
| 12 | Miriam | Patterson | | | 01 | IA | |
| 13 | ken | burge | | | 01 | NY | |
| 14 | George | Chacon | EO | | 01 | NJ | |
| 15 | Kirsten | Elin | | | 01 | VT |
| 16 | Alex | Brooks | | | 01 | ME | The old Cuba policy is obsolete Eisenhowerlsm!
Let us finally end the Cold War. |
| 17 | moris | gonzalez | | | 01 | TX | |
| 18 | ellen | gabin | | | 01 | MA | |
| 19 | Mario | Rivera | | | 01 | FL | Normalize all relations with Cuba. |
| 20 | Romalue | Keith | MS | | 01 | FL | I cannot understand why we can go to places like Iran and Iraq, but we cannot go to Cuba. I think being from a "free" country we should be able to go where ever we choose.
Please abolish the restrictions when you take office. |
| 21 | mac | parsons | Judge | | 01 | AL | Go back to pre bush |
| 22 | esequiel vargas | zeke vargas | | | 01 | CA | |
| 23 | helen | raisz | teacher | u of hartford | 01 | CT | If obama could only see how beautiful Cuba is, he would lift the blockade immediately.
This will be a real test of whether he truly believes in change. |
| 24 | Gayla | McDowell | Retired librarian | | 01 | CA | |
| 25 | John | Ehrlich | | Mid Fairfield AIDS Project | 01 | NY | |
| 26 | Barbara | van Davis | | | 01 | IL | My parents visited Cuba when it was still legal for Americans to visit there, as mine did, on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. Mother brought home a brass birdcage with a singing toy bird, and Cuban music recordings. I remember those songs these 55 years later, and think to myself, "The sadness is in the absence of Cuban songs and rhythms. The lands whose people hear those songs are happier than ours, where a long, starved silence has reigned." In this way I have stayed connected to the Cuban people, in song and rhythm, and hope that you will let us meet again, someday soon. |
| 27 | Gloria | Calomee | | | 01 | CA | |
| 28 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | | 01 | CA | |
| 29 | Rosemarie | Sawdon | | | 01 | VA | It is time to end the embargo for ALL reasons. |
| 30 | yaneya | sanchez | | | 01 | NY | please we need cahnge on the politi to cuba,imagine my mother die and i can not go to my country i think is not fair .
thanks |
| 31 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | Catholics for Peace and Justice | 01 | WI | |
| 32 | Priscilla | Felia | | | 03 | NY |
| 33 | Micah | Landau | Labor Journalist | United Federation of Teachers | 02 | NY | |
| 34 | scot | smith | tech support | csu | 01 | CO | Eliminate all travel restrictions and open up trade relations. The 47 year embargo has failed to make any meaningful changes except to exacerbate Cuban suffering. |
| 35 | Sandy | Waters | | WILPF, NWC | 01 | DC | |
| 36 | Albert | Sargis | | | 02 | MA | |
| 37 | alberto | melian | | | 01 | NJ | please help cuban to travel to cuba anytime they want!!!!!! |
| 38 | Norman | Pearlmutter | | | 01 | NY | FULL NORMAL RELATIONS WITH CUBA. In addition to an early repeal of travel restrictions for Cuban-Americans, an early return to the pre-2004 people-to-people travel guidelines for all groups could serve as an early step in opening up full relations over time. These trips did so much for "diplomacy," so needed at this time. Also must loosen the cash-payment rules of trade, and repeal Helms-Burton. |
| 39 | Robert | Madorran | | | 01 | NY | I have family living in Cuba. |
| 40 | Anonymous | Anonymous | | | 01 | KS | |
| 41 | Ted | Buczek | Honorable | | 01 | OH | |
| 42 | Lis | Hansen | Retired | None | 02 | | Most of my family and many friends are U.S. citizens! Several friends were born in Cuba, some would love to go back for their first visit, and others would like to go back to visit family whenever they wish! And whenever an elderly family member or friend is ill!
I have always supported freedom for ALL Americans to be allowed to travel to Cuba, just as I, a Danish-born Canadian can!
And, I truly believe that ending the embargo is the best way to go! The people in Cuba have suffered for far too long....long before Castro took the reigns from Batista!
I also would like EVERY American to be allowed to send money and other goods to friends, as well as to family in Cuba.
I have been to Cuba, as have all my sons, grandson and other family & friends. The People in Cuba NEEDS to SEE that others care....not just hear that we do!
Cuban-born people and all others, living in all other countries can visti their families...Americans should too! |
| 43 | Elaine | Scheye | Principal | International Healthcare Advisory Services | 01 | IL | |
| 44 | Jonathan | McGrain | | | 01 | PA | |
| 45 | Kate | Cunningham | Retired Attorney | Witness for Peace | 01 | KY |
| 46 | Laura | Dyck | | | | | |
| 47 | Diane | Stradling | | | | NH | Americans must have the right to travel anywhere in the world. The embargo is useless, internationally embarrassing and downright stupid. End it now. |
| 48 | Georgina | Cruzado | | | 01 | NJ | Please end travel restrictions to Cuba. Please end the embargo. |
| 49 | David | Corcoran | retired | SOA Watch | 01 | IL |
| 50 | VIRGINIA | DWYER | | | 01 | MA | |