world who believe he was wrongfully convicted, including his sister kimberly davis and pastor derrick johnsonnied him to turn himself in. i spoke with him not long ago. >> caller: i am feeling wonderful and me and my family are holding our heads high. i actually spoke to troy about 4:00 this afternoon and you know, he was just so amazed. like when he called me on thursday, we were talking about the 50,000 petitions that were turned in to the parole board and he had watched the marched yesterday on the news. he said it was so amazing to have so many supporters and he just wants to thank all of his supporters. thank everyone that believes in him and also that believe in justice. >> what has your brother told you about the case, kimberly? >> caller: i'm sorry, i didn't hear you? >> what has he told you about the case? >> caller: well, he's always maintained his innocence and he told us he was not the one that shot the police officer. we stand behind that innocence and stand behind his word. >> even with the shell casings that were found at another crime scene that matched the crime scene from th

derrick johnson. >> it's hard coming behind judy and anita when they write my scripts.tives and those folks. we are the solution. naacp has the only infrastructure in our communities that goes from coast to coast and every little town. positioned toest do something that many civil organizationsthed other cannot do because they do not have people on the ground. we need to gravitate more towards the substance of our work, develops strategy and away from the pomp and circumstance and the big speeches. what has happened over the past 20 years is the naacp becoming too lax with the way we operate during an election process. as a result, other organizations swoop into our community, raise money on our units, and they claim work we do because we have no way to measure our work. so we have to change and shift the paradigm of how we function. every state is at play. this election cycle. there are no states not at play in 2012. in 2007, everyone was talking about whether or not, which political party would win ohio, pennsylvania, and florida. nobody talked about north carolina. i

derrick johnson. >> it's hard coming behind judy and anita when they write my scripts. what's the solution? we have heard over and over about the tea party and the conservatives and those folks. we are the solution. naacp has the only infrastructure in our communities that goes from coast to coast and every little town. positioned toest do something that many civil organizationsthed other cannot do because they do not have people on the ground. we need to gravitate more towards the substance of our work, develops strategy and away from the pomp and circumstance and the big speeches. what has happened over the past 20 years is the naacp becoming too lax with the way we operate during an election process. as a result, other organizations swoop into our community, raise money on our units, and they claim work we do because we have no way to measure our work. so we have to change and shift the paradigm of how we function. every state is at play. this election cycle. there are no states not at play in 2012. in 2007, everyone was talking about whether or not, which political

[applause] >> and our own derrick johnson who are leading our legislative agenda. folks, they did this to you and they brought this to us along with our chief operating officer and the leadership of this naacp support. this is my vote. you voted for it today and go out and tell folks about it. .. >> next we take you to denver for the annual western conservative summit holded by colorado christian university centennial institute. you hear a speech by blogger kevin jackson. the author of two books, the big black lie, and sexy brilliance and other political lies. which is about barack obama. the speech runs about 30 minutes. >> they were credentializing who is the biggest victim. i will put my shot n my mother died when i was five years old and prior to that she had divorced my dad who is a perpetual criminal. he was a resident of san quentin, as you find out in my book, if you decide you want to get that. so to compare myself to dennis and arthur, sorry. white guys all look-alike. [laughter] i don't think there is much comparison to a black kid growing up in poverty

derrick mason's guilt. today the state of georgia, about half a day after they killed troy davis, set their next execution date on october 5th for marcus ray johnson for a murder he committed in 1994. marcus ray johnson contends that he had bad legal representation in the trial that got him the death penalty. but here, again, there's no basic question about his guilt. is the justice of the death penalty fundamentally about the goodness or badness of the person who is to be killed? is it about their guilt or innocence? or is it an intrinsic question about whether or not the governments that we build for ourselves are governments that should kill prisoners? to the extent that killing prisoners is one of the jobs we ask of state government employees, it's not an abstract thing. it is a physical job to be done. tools. is a job that requires set of tools to kill troy davis last night. thstate had its supply of sodium pentothal seized by the federal government earlier this year under suspicion that the state had imported it illegally from a fly by night drug distributor based out of the back of a driving school in west london. so instead of sodium pento