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Wednesday, September 28
Statement of Commissioner Michael J. Copps on Broadcast Localism
by
Trish Nelson
on Wed 28 Sep 2005 05:59 AM CDT
 Statement of FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps on Broadcast Localism
In
2003, the FCC voted to relax ownership rules, paving the way for
increased media consolidation. In 2004, the courts rejected these
rules. The FCC then announced a Notice of Inquiry to investigate
further. The following is an excerpt of Commissioner Copps'
dissenting opinion arguing that the issues are clear, and it is time
for action.
[July 1, 2004]
From the earliest days of broadcasting,
we have obligated licensees to serve the needs and interests of their
local communities. The principle of localism is at the heart of
the public interest. I support the Commission’s renewed interest
in promoting localism, although we should have examined these issues
prior to loosening our media concentration protections, not after those
rules were gutted.
During
the hearings and forums on media ownership that Commissioner Adelstein
and I attended across the country, we heard time and again from
citizens about the detrimental impact that consolidation has already
had on localism and diversity and we heard their fears about where
still more concentration will lead. Localism is one of the
fundamental goals of our ownership rules and of the public
interest. I believe that it is impossible to divorce localism
from ownership. With the consolidation genie out of the bottle,
it will be too late then to stem the tide.
Enhancing political and civic discourse: From 1996 to 2000,
coverage of the Presidential race on the network evening news
dropped by one-third. The average Presidential candidate sound
bite in 2000 was 8 to 9 seconds. Local newscasts fared no
better. In the 2002 election, over half of the evening local
newscasts contained no campaign coverage at all. What coverage
there is tends to focus inordinately on the latest tracking polls and
handicapping the horse race rather than on the serious issues the
nation needs to be discussing. And when you get down to the
Congressional and local races, the situation is even more dismal.
We also see less public affairs programming. One survey found less than one half of one percent of programming is devoted to local public affairs. We have studies. We have comments. We don’t have action.
Community-responsive programming and License Renewals:
Broadcast stations have an obligation to air programming responsive to
the needs and interests of their communities of license…As one part of
the effort to ensure that licensees are serving their local
communities, we desperately need to establish an effective license
renewal process under which the Commission would once again actually
consider the manner in which a station has served the public interest
when it comes time to renew its license. One thing is certain:
the current system of postcard renewal for licenses is not serving the
public interest.
Communication with Communities:
As local stations come under the control of far-away media
conglomerates, it is time to move forward and act. ..When the issue is
how to hold Big Media accountable to the local communities they serve,
we are stuck at the starting gate. The better part of good
government here is to move ahead and act on those matters where we
already have compiled a record or where the statute has long since told
us to be about our job of protecting the public interest.
(click here to read the entire opinion)
(click here to learn more about localism)
Tuesday, September 27
Why You Should Care Who Serves on the FCC
by
Trish Nelson
on Tue 27 Sep 2005 04:00 AM CDT
 Why You Should Care Who Serves on the FCC
NicholasJohnson.Org
The following appeared as a guest column in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
by Nicholas Johnson
It’s election time. School board? Nope, done that. City council? Not yet. U.S. senators? The president? Members of congress? None of their six-, four- and two-year terms are up this fall.
The election I’m talking about only comes round every eight years — and this is the year in Iowa. Mark Oct. 5 on your calendar.
Given
the attention this election receives, you’re excused for not knowing.
But the outcome may have more impact on you, your family and community
than many of the other elections combined.
I’m
talking about who gets to control the most powerful mass communications
medium humankind has ever unleashed upon itself. Who gets to use the
local airwaves that we, the public, own.
With
TV sets running seven hours a day, children spending more time with
television than teachers, each of us will have spent 13 years of life
watching TV before we die. Indeed, TV watching has become ‘‘life’’ for
many. So how do we vote?
Like
elected officials, broadcasters have limited terms. When I was a
commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, TV licenses
lasted three years. Now they’re eight.
Most incumbent officials get re-elected and most TV owners get renewed.
But neither has a right to get re-elected or renewed. They both have to
‘‘run on their record.’’
All TV licenses in a given state expire on the same day. Iowa’s
TV licensees file for renewal Oct. 1. Audience members have from
October through December to file comments with the FCC. Feb. 1 is
renewal day.
What’s unique this year are two FCC commissioners, Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein, who think Washington
should come to us. They sided with the millions of Americans who
opposed the FCC’s giveaway to big media. Now they’re about to hold what
may be the first-ever FCC hearing in Iowa. Sponsors include the national media reform organization Free Press, the University of Iowa’s Lecture Committee, Iowans for Better Local TV, and numerous other groups.
The hearing will be in Iowa City at the Pomerantz Center (at the corner of Market Street and T. Anne Cleary Walkway) at 7 p.m. Oct. 5.
Park in the Iowa Memorial Union or North ramps. This may well be
one of the fall's biggest events after football.
And
before the forum, Iowans will have a chance to find out about how media
policy affects broadcast ownership and content, and get help preparing
a two-minute statement to present at the forum.
Workshops will take place at:
7 p.m. Wednesday at the Community of Christ Church, 1500 Blairs Ferry Rd., Hiawatha;
10:30 a.m. Saturday at the LULAC Club, 4224 Ricker Hill Rd. in Davenport;
2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, in Room A of the Iowa City Public Library;
6 p.m. Oct. 4 at the AFSCME Office in Eastdale Plaza, 1700 S. First St., Iowa City.
For details, click here.
Why should we care?
It’s
said humans are no more conscious of the mediated environment in which
we live than fish are conscious of the water in which they live. Yet
polluted media is no better for us than polluted water is for fish.
Numerous studies document that violence in TV programs increases real-life violence in our communities.
Walter
Lippmann and Noam Chomsky speak of the media’s ‘‘manufacturing
consent.’’ Even when TV isn’t telling us what to think, it’s telling us
what to think about. Except when, druglike, it’s designed to obliterate
all thought.
Time
for ‘‘local news’’ can become so consumed with commercials, national
stories, weather, fires, commentary and sports that viewers are left
unaware of the most serious problems — and opportunities — they
confront. Such as Iowa’s employment challenges, trends in land ownership, high school student achievement, and polluted waterways.
The
FCC requires TV stations to provide programs that serve children’s
educational needs. Are they doing it? Or are they telling our daughters
‘‘success’’ requires they reshape their bodies to look like starved
models?
Contrary
to all the world’s great religions, TV preaches — with programs,
product placement and commercials — that happiness, indeed our very
identity and life’s purpose, is to be found in hedonism and conspicuous
consumption. We will be known by the companies we keep.
Meanwhile, the FCC is permitting licensees to control more and more stations and other media. When I was there, the limit was 7 AM,
7 FM and 7 television stations. Today, five corporations control most
of our country’s media. One operates 1,200 radio stations.
They’re your airwaves. Oct. 5 is your opportunity to speak up. Be there.
_______________
Nicholas Johnson of Iowa City is a former FCC commissioner who teaches at the University of Iowa College of Law. Click here to visit his website.
(Link to the article)
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Monday, September 26
Letter to Sinclair Broadcasting: 37 Cents. Taking Back Our Airwaves: Priceless
by
Trish Nelson
on Mon 26 Sep 2005 06:00 AM CDT
 Letter to Sinclair Broadcasting: 37 Cents. Taking Back Our Airwaves: Priceless
Ted
Remington (above) is seen by many as a pioneer in the campaign to expose
Sinclair Broadcasting’s corporate excess. This guest opinion,
which appeared in the Iowa City Press-Citizen on June 4, 2004, made
many eastern Iowans aware for the first time that a local station,
KGAN, was owned by a huge media conglomerate, the already-notorious
Sinclair Broadcasting - the company that refused to allow its
local stations to air Ted Koppel’s “The Fallen.” To start off Blog
for Iowa’s Focus on the Media Week, here is Ted’s landmark piece.
~~~
Individual and PAC contributions by Sinclair Broadcasting Group executives to Republicans: Nearly $250,000.
The opportunity to foist off canned editorials on eastern Iowans from half a continent away: Priceless.
If you
flip by KGAN at about 10:30 on any given night, you’ll see someone
named Mark Hyman delivering his daily editorial, “The Point,” at the
tail end of the nightly newscast. Hyman is not a
journalist. He’s not a KGAN employee. He’s not even an
Iowan. So why is he prattling away on our airwaves?
The
simple answer to that is because he can. Hyman is the vice
president of Sinclair Broadcasting Group Inc., a Baltimore-based
company that aims to do to local news what Wal-Mart did to local
shopping: offer low-cost, low-quality products in homogenous
outlets across the country to maximize profit. Sinclair owns or
operates 62 local television stations across the country, including
Iowa stations KGAN, KFXA, KFSB and KDSM.
Part of
Sinclair’s modus operandi is to gut local news operations and replace
them with a one-size-fits-all broadcast. In many markets, much of
the “local” news is actually created in Sinclair’s studios in
Baltimore, beamed to its stations, and presented as homegrown product.
No longer homegrown
Thus
far, Iowa viewers have been spared the worst of Sinclair’s excesses,
but we’ve hardly gone untouched. If you’ve noticed that Tiffany
O’Donnell anchors not only KGAN’s 10 p.m. news but also the 9 p.m.
newscast on KFXA and KFXB, you’ve seen Sinclair’s handiwork. And
if business takes you to Des Moines and you feel a little homesick,
just tune in to KDSM’s nightly newscast, hosted by your “local” news
anchor, the indefatigable Tiffany O’Donnell.
Has
O’Donnell conquered the laws of time and space in order to hold down
three anchoring jobs simultaneously? Not exactly. Sinclair
uses its stable of KGAN talent to create a generic newscast that
is shown on KFXA, KFXB and KDSM. The good people of Dubuque have
suffered most from this news cloning. The city no longer has a
newscast of its own but must do with the generic Sinclair-cast that
pays virtually no attention to stories of particular interest in
Dubuque. For all intents and purposes, KFXB no longer is a local
station.
Once
upon a time, Sinclair could not have pulled this off. Media
ownership regulations ensured that no single company ran multiple
television stations in the same market. But the current
incarnation of the Federal Communications Commission, with the approval
of anti-regulation crusaders in the White House and Congress, relaxed
these restrictions, delighting companies such as Sinclair, which can
now scoop up multiple stations at will.
And this
brings us back to the droit du seigneur that is “The Point.” Not
content to merely profit from owning scores of television stations,
Sinclair’s executives use the rights of ownership to compel stations
such as KGAN to run their prefab political editorials. Regardless
of how out of step such commentaries might be with the views and
concerns of local viewers in specific markets, all Sinclair-owned
stations must submit and provide Hyman access to their audience.
It’s
true that Hyman’s editorials are predictably conservative, far to the
right of the average KGAN viewer. But that shouldn’t surprise
anyone. Given that republican politicians and appointees
spearheaded media deregulation, one can understand why Sinclair’s views
(and money) support GOP concerns almost exclusively. But that’s
not the problem.
It’s
also the case that Hyman’s ramblings rarely rise above the level of
talk-radio blather, relying on name calling, hyperbole and shading of
the truth to create what passes for an “argument.” But that’s not
my primary concern, either.
Not an Iowa Discussion
What
should concern all of us in eastern Iowa is that Sinclair, a corporate
conglomerate based on the east coast, is exploiting a local
resource. If KGAN wants to take a right-wing editorial stance,
that’s fine. If KGAN decides to allot precious minutes of airtime
to the musings of a mid-level management type rather than a bona fide
journalist, that’s its prerogative. But “The Point” isn’t a KGAN
product. It’s the brainchild of a corporation as far away from
eastern Iowa in temperament and values as it is in geography.
We the
people own the public airwaves, not KGAN, Mark Hyman or Sinclair
Broadcasting Group. I, for one, would welcome greater use of
local broadcast time for the discussion of topical issues, but let it
be a truly local discussion. Let’s talk about school board
elections, local referendums and proposed city ordinances. Let’s
talk about who we want to represent us in Des Moines and
Washington. And when we discuss national and international
issues, let’s do it with an Iowan accent.
“The
Point” represents a misuse of a public resource, a resource too scarce
to be given away. Certainly, there are larger issues of media
conglomeration that bode ill for truly local news, and these issues
need to be addressed.
But
let’s begin the fight here. Write KGAN (Sinclair Broadcasting
Group Inc., 10706 Beaver Dam Road, Hunt Valley, Md., 21030) and ask
them to stand up for their viewers by standing up to their bosses in
Baltimore. Better yet, write directly to the Sinclair company and
tell it you will not watch its programming as long as it takes
advantage of their clients: us.
Sending a letter to Sinclair Broadcasting Group: 37 cents.
Getting back our public airwaves: Priceless.
~~~
Ted
Remington is an assistant professor of English and associate director
of writing at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
He holds a Ph.D. in communication studies from The University of Iowa,
where he specialized in rhetorical studies. He has written
articles and presented papers on a range of topics, including using the
Internet to teach writing, the political rhetoric of marginalized
groups, and the role of rhetorical critics as political activists. He
is also the author of the weblog "The Counterpoint," which features
near-daily refutations of "The Point."
Sunday, September 25
WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN HURT YOU
by
Molly Regan
on Sun 25 Sep 2005 11:00 AM CDT
 "WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN HURT YOU"
This is the title of a flyer being distributed by a group of people who
live close to Reynolds, Illinois. Seems there is someone who
wants to build a HOG CONFINEMENT near their town, and they are not
happy about it.
On Monday, September 26th at 6:30 PM there will be a public meeting
regarding this. ANGIE LITTERST is one of those neighbors.
Angie and 11 others have brought suit against the farmer, arguing that
this confinement will smell up their air and make them sick, pollute
their water, and cause too much traffic for their small area to
handle. Angie has written letters to the editor and has been on
at least one local radio station in the past several weeks.
One of the speakers at the public meeting will be KAREN HUDSON OF THE
GRACE FACTORY FARM PROJECT www.factoryfarm.org. She is also
president of FARMS (FAMILIES AGAINST RURAL MESSES).
Karen, a farmer from Elmwood, Illinois, is also a board member of the
Illinois Stewardship Alliance and is a member of the Illinois
House/Senate Joint Livestock Committee. She happens to live next
to a SMITHFIELD HOG FACTORY IN ADJOINING KNOX COUNTY.
The state of Illinois does not have a MASTER MATRIX implemented by
their Department of Natural Resources like the state of IOWA
does. Even though our Master Matrix is flawed, we do have
something basic to start with.
According to Karen Hudson, neighbors close to a Highlands LLC Murphy
Farms livestock factory have had problems. "Empty promises were
broken. The neighbors continue to suffer from an onslaught of
odors, gases, and particulates. We have even witnessed manure and
urine from its lagoons being pivot irrigated in 40 mph winds.
Neighbors' cars (have) been covered with this effluvium when driving on
nearby roads."
An over-application of manure in 2002 by the Highlands LLC killed at
least 10 species of fish on a 1 ½ mile area of French Creek in Knox
County, Illinois. Also according to Karen, INWOOD DAIRY, of
Elmwood in Peoria County (now called NEW HORIZONS - give me a break)
"deliberately pumped between TWO AND TEN MILLION GALLONS OF WASTE from
its brimming lagoon into dry dams on the property RESULTING IN THE
LARGEST WASTE SPILL IN ILLINOIS HISTORY. Despite its relatively
short existence, the Elmwood milk factory boasts a sorry history of
pollution problems. The milk factory's POOR ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD
EARNED IT NATIONAL EXPOSURE IN SPILLS AND KILLS, A REPORT ISSUED
BY THE ISSAC WALTON LEAGUE AND CLEAN WATER NETWORK IN AUGUST, 2000."
Hopefully this meeting will continue the public discussion that needs
to be going on IN EVERY COUNTY WHERE ANIMALS ARE CRUELY CONFINED FOR
CORPORATE PROFIT. While speaking in front of the Scott County Board of
Supervisors this past summer about 2 requested expansions, I was
reminded of several important things.
One, we need to spend time with lawmakers in IOWA to fix the MASTER
MATRIX. The IOWA DNR has too much control over placement of
confinement buildings. Local public input doesn't seem to matter
yet. It is just a formality, and no matter how your county
officials vote, yea or nay to the permit request, the DNR is still the
final authority.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO KILL OURSELVES LOCALLY TO FEED THE WORLD. Our
economy is important but not if IOWA is going to become like North
Carolina with no clean lakes, rivers, or streams.
So find out in your county where there is discussion about CAFO's
(CONFINED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS), do your research, and PARTICIPATE.
YOU KNOW THE DRILL…CPR = CONSERVE/PARTICPATE/RECYCLE
Friday, September 23
Rising Gasoline Prices Aren't Wholly Caused by Hurricane Katrina
by
Caroline Vernon
on Fri 23 Sep 2005 04:00 PM CDT
 Rising Gasoline Prices Aren’t Wholly Caused by Hurricane Katrina
by Public Citizen
www.citizen.org
What
is it going to take before the American people start demanding
accountability? Why should the people be the only ones to sacrifice in
tough times? While gas prices continue to soar, Exxon-Mobil is raking
in record profits! It stands to reason that these guys should also be
required to make the necessary sacrifices. If that means sacrificing
some of the billions of dollars in profits they make each quarter in
order to lesson the impact on the rest of the country - so be it!
Instead of doing that, our elected representatives are giving them
additional subsidies to pad their pockets at our expense!
The
word is, as soon as Rita makes landfall, the price at the pump will
double so make it a point to fill your tanks now while you can still
afford it! In the meantime, please, please, take a few minutes out of
your busy days to contact your elected representatives and demand an
end to this rampant price-gouging by the petrochemical industry. We may
live in a capitalist country, but what they are doing to us is immoral!
This is all the more reason to pursue renewable and environmentally
friendly energy sources.
Consumer Group Says Corporate Mergers Are Partly to Blame for Price-Gouging of Consumers at the Pump
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – High gasoline prices cannot be blamed entirely on natural
disasters, but rather on unchecked corporate behavior, Public Citizen
will tell a Senate committee today. At a hearing before the Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Tyson Slocum,
research director, Public Citizen’s energy program, said that recent
oil company mergers are partly responsible for gasoline price spikes.
He listed steps the government should take to alleviate high gasoline
prices. Slocum’s testimony is available at http://www.citizen.org/cmep/SenateOilTestimony.
The
government should restore competitive markets by enforcing antitrust
laws that make it illegal for companies to intentionally withhold an
energy commodity from the market for the sole purpose of creating a
shortage and driving up prices, Slocum said. The government also should
re-regulate energy trading exchanges, boost fuel economy standards and
force the divestiture of assets to remedy the problem of too few
companies controlling too much of the market.
Despite
Hurricane Katrina’s reported impact on gasoline prices, gasoline and
oil prices have been creeping up for two years, in large part because
of a wave of mergers in the oil industry. Last year, the top five U.S.
oil refining companies controlled 56.3 percent of domestic oil refinery
capacity. A decade ago, the 10 largest U.S. oil refining companies
controlled 55.6 percent of refining capacity — which means that, due to
mergers, the five largest oil refiners today control more capacity than
the 10 largest did a decade ago. This consolidation makes it easier for
oil companies to gouge consumers at the pumps. The five largest oil
refiners — ConocoPhillips, Valero, ExxonMobil, Shell and BP — have seen
profits of $228 billion since President Bush took office in 2001.
Despite
government reports issued in 2001 and 2004 that directly link corporate
mergers to high gasoline prices, no action has been taken to aid
consumers who are suffering from a volatile market where prices spike
day by day. Meanwhile, oil industry profits are at record highs,
largely due to record refinery profit margins. While in 1999, U.S. oil
refiners earned 22.8 cents for every gallon of gasoline they refined,
that profit margin increased 80 percent by 2004, to 40.8 cents per
gallon.
"We have
every meteorologist in the country monitoring hurricanes, letting us
know exactly when the next one is going to hit and where. But who is
monitoring the companies that are jacking up gasoline prices for
consumers under the guise of natural disasters?" Slocum said. "We need
the government to protect us from dangerous weather, but we also need
to be protected from price-gouging every day when we heat our homes,
drive our cars or fly somewhere."
(Source)
Monday, September 19
Media Consolidation is Threatening Our Democracy
by
Caroline Vernon
on Mon 19 Sep 2005 04:43 PM CDT
 Media Consolidation is Threatening Our Democracy
by Caroline Vernon and
Amanda Ballantyne - freepress.net
Do you want the media to do a better job of covering issues you care about? Do you want more quality journalism? Are you wondering whether a few giant media conglomerates will provide the diverse and independent viewpoints you need?
Right
now, 5 major corporations own and control the airwaves that reach most
of our citizens and they continue to lobby the FCC in an effort to
tighten their stranglehold on our media. Those corporations are General
Electric (NBC), Time Warner (CNN), Disney (ABC), Viacom (CBS), and The
News Corporation (Fox).
If this
happens, one company could control all of our local radio, television,
and print media. This does not reflect a democracy where a variety of
diverse viewpoints must be heard!
Now is
your chance to tell Federal Communications Commissioners Jonathan
Adelstein and Michael Copps how well your media are serving – or not serving – your community. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more and to make your voices heard!
Future of Media Town Hall Meeting,
Iowa City, Iowa
When: 7PM Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Where: University of Iowa
The New Pomerantz Center, Room C20
The building is located at the corner of Market Street
and the T. Anne Cleary Walkway, across from
John Pappajohn Business Building
Map, parking, and accessibility information: Click here:
For those residing in the Quad Cities and Cedar Rapids, transportation will be provided to and from this event.
Please come to our related workshops in Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and the Quad Cities:
Related Workshops:
Learn how media policy affects ownership and content control, and limits the information that we need to participate effectively in a democracy
Workshops will also give you the chance to consider your own hopes for a media system that would meet your community's needs as well as prepare a two minute testimony to present to the Commissioners at the Forum.
All Workshops are free and open to the public.
Iowa City:
Workshop sponsored by: FAIR!
2PM Sunday, October 2, 2005
Iowa City Public Library, Room A
For more information, contact:
Maureen Donnelly: 319-354-4169 or
Amanda Ballantyne: 413-585-1533 x 23
Workshop sponsored by: Iowa City Federation of Labor
6PM Tuesday October 4
AFSCME Office in Southdale Plaza
1700 South 1st Avenue, Suite 19
Right above the DMV
For more information, contact:
Maureen Donnelly: 319-354-4169 or
Amanda Ballantyne: 413-585-1533 x 23
Quad Cities:
Workshop sponsored by: Progressive Action for the Common Good
10:30AM Saturday, October 1, 2005
The LULAC Club, 4224 Ricker Hill Road
Davenport, Iowa
For more information, contact:
Caroline Vernon: 563-323-7852 or
Amanda Ballantyne: 413-585-1533 x 23
Cedar Rapids:
Workshop sponsored by: Community of Christ
7PM Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Community of Christ Church
1500 Blairs Ferry Rd, Hiawatha, IA
For more information, contact:
Larry McGuire: 319-393-5163 x 102 or
Amanda Ballantyne: 413-585-1533 x 23
For more information about this event, or to find out how your
organization can get involved, please contact Amanda Ballantyne
(amanda@freepress.net) or Maureen Donnelly
(Maureen.donnelly@mchsi.com).
Media is the issue.
Your voice is worth fighting for - Raise it now – or lose it!
Tuesday, September 13
Vote for Dave Loebsack for DFA Endorsement!
by
Trish Nelson
on Tue 13 Sep 2005 04:00 AM CDT
 Vote for Dave Loebsack for DFA Endorsement!
Democracy for America
Hey Bloggers!
Here’s
your chance to throw your weight around. Congressional Candidate
David Loebsack is running against Jim Leach in the Second District and
is seeking an endorsement from Democracy for America (DFA). You
can go online and vote for David Loebsack starting today, September
13th. You do not have to live in the 2nd District or even be from Iowa to vote in this election!
Below is an excerpt from the e-mail that was sent to the
candidates.
Dear Congressional Candidate,
Thank
you for applying for a Democracy for America endorsement. We help
elect fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates to all
levels of office - from school board to the United States Senate.
Earlier
this year Democracy for America endorsed Paul Hackett for Congress in a
special election in Ohio. We sent an email to our supporters urging
them to contribute online to Paul's campaign and we reiterated the
request through the Democracy for America website and blog. The
response was this: over $90,000 in online, small dollar contributions
to Paul Hackett in just 3 days. This money helped Paul go on the air
days before his special election. He finished just four points from a
victory in one of the most Republican congressional districts in the
country.
Democracy for America wants to do the same for your congressional campaign.
Democracy for America will host an online vote to determine
which congressional candidate will receive our first 2006 DFA-List endorsement.
The vote will be open to all challengers and open seat candidates. The
candidate with the most votes at the end of balloting will receive a
DFA-List endorsement and a national email appeal from DFA's Chair Jim
Dean.
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/housevote
Democracy
for America is committed to winning back the United States House and we
are excited about raising your campaign the resources to win.
Sincerely,
Chris Warshaw
Political Director
Democracy for America
(click here to vote for Dave Loebsack!)
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