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Tuesday, November 23
Invitation to Ohio Recount: Please RSVP!
by
Trish Nelson
on Tue 23 Nov 2004 06:28 AM CST
 Invitation to Ohio Recount: Please RSVP!
From David Cobb and the Cobb-LaMarche team
Greens, Libertarians, Independents, Kucinich-Dean-Kerry Democrats and Republicans [are] ready to restore integrity to our voting system. We insist that the legitimacy of representative government be defended from the flagrant threats to the public's confidence that
this and the previous election have engendered. But a recount
without providing independent oversight of the process will not provide
meaningful feedback on the problems or improve public confidence in the
system or this year's result.
We're asking you to consider coming to Ohio with us.
We estimate we will need nearly 2,000 volunteers to monitor recount activities in all 88 Ohio counties. As I write this, we are still nearly $20,000 shy of our fundraising goal for the Ohio recount (even as we continue to consider the problems in New Mexico and other states). Please send your friends and family to our site and urge them to volunteer and /or contribute to this vital work.
We have asked Holly Hart, of Iowa, to lead our efforts to coordinate the participation of volunteers in this important historical effort to reclaim public confidence in our elections. She needs your help. So far, 600 volunteers have stepped forward. We will need at least 1,400 more before we arrive in Ohio. First she needs help communicating and coordinating with 2,000 people over the next few days.
If you can help organize within Iowa to mobilize volunteers to come to Ohio, and to help us raise this campaign's profile within your community and state, please contact Holly at saveballot@yahoo.com. Holly also needs someone to coordinate buses
to Ohio. Please e-mail your name, phone number, city or town where you live, and how you would like to help.
From an election protest in Denver Nov. 18
Our efforts are already well under way.
- On Monday, Common Cause, the National Voting Rights Institute, Demos, the Fannie Lou Hamer Project and People for the American Way Foundation issued a joint statement in support of the Cobb and Badnarik demand for an Ohio recount.
- In the past week, we have raised over $200,000 of the initial $250,000 our staff has budgeted for this effort.
- On Friday, November 19th, our attorneys delivered a bond to guarantee our $113,600 recount fee.
- We are organizing now to train, house and feed the folks on the ground in Ohio who will monitor the recount.
- Our efforts have now been endorsed by Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
The
corporate media is busy ridiculing our efforts to defend democracy in
Ohio and by extension in the rest of our nation as well. We need
your help to counter the attacks. We are inviting everyone who
has lent their support to this campaign to follow up with letters to
the editor explaining why you are supporting this recount effort.
Click here for ideas on what you might include in such a letter.
We need
an election system we can trust. The problems in Florida in 2000
and the problems in Ohio in 2004 will repeat themselves in 2008 unless
we do something about it. Our elections should be administered by
an independent non-partisan commission, and not by the state chairs of
presidential campaigns.
Again we thank you for your participation in this
Democracy Movement. We look forward to seeing you in Ohio.
Yours for a just, sustainable and democratic future,
David Cobb and the entire Cobb-LaMarche Team
Tuesday, November 16
Grassroots Finance Ohio Recount
by
Trish Nelson
on Tue 16 Nov 2004 07:27 AM CST
 Grassroots Finance Ohio Recount
t r u t h o u t
Green
Party Campaign Raises $150,000 in 4 Days, Shifts Gears to Phase II
WASHINGTON - There will be a
recount of the presidential vote in Ohio.
On
Thursday, David Cobb, the Green Party’s 2004 presidential candidate, announced
his intention to seek a recount of the vote in Ohio. Since the required fee for a
statewide recount is $113,600, the only question was whether that money could
be raised in time to meet the filing deadline. That question has been answered.
“Thanks
to the thousands of people who have contributed to this effort, we can say with
certainty that there will be a recount in Ohio,” said Blair Bobier, Media Director
for the Cobb-LaMarche campaign.
“The
grassroots support for the recount has been astounding. The donations have come
in fast and furiously, with the vast majority in the $10-$50 range, allowing us
to meet our goal for the first phase of the recount effort in only four days,”
said Bobier.
Bobier
said the campaign is still raising money for the next phase of the recount
effort which will be recruiting, training and mobilizing volunteers to monitor
the actual recount.
(click here to donate)
(click here to read entire story)
Monday, November 15
Save the Ballot
by
Trish Nelson
on Mon 15 Nov 2004 10:16 AM CST
 Save the Ballot
DFIA
members in Johnson County are gathering signatories for the following
letter which will be
sent to our senators and representatives in Congress on Nov.
19. If you would like to join Howard Weinberg (letter author),
Ellen Ballas, Trish Nelson and others in this effort to save the
integrity of our voting system, please
send an e-mail to saveballot@yahoo.com.
Please include your name, address, and phone number.
>
Dear Senators Grassley, Harkin and Representatives Boswell, King, Latham, Leach, Nussle:
We are writing to urge you to introduce and support two measures which
we believe will help to restore the integrity of the electoral process,
and so, perhaps, help to heal our gravely divided nation. First, we
advocate a law requiring elections to provide a transparent method of
verification of the vote by recount. Secondly, we want voter
intimidation to become a federal felony.
We believe civil society is largely a matter of trust among citizens.
When this trust begins to deteriorate, the consequences are not hard to
foresee: anarchy, inequity, fragmentation, resentment— ultimately,
perhaps, tyranny—certainly, the loss of freedom from violence and
dishonesty.
In our society, trust must reside in the ballot. Without a true ballot
there can be no democracy. The recent and widespread institution of
technology that does not permit verification of the vote count greatly
concerns us, and we believe faith in the integrity of the electoral
process is terribly at risk. Fortunately, there are many methods of
vote tabulation which provide all the ease and convenience of
electronic balloting, with the verifiability of other methods. To
illustrate the problems that concern us, we attach the recent letter
signed by Representatives Conyers, Nadler, Wexler, Scott, Watt, Holt.
In the last election there were many reports of attempts to intimidate
voters at the polls on election day. For all of us, but for minority
voters especially—Native American, African-American,
Hispanic-American—the freedom to vote without fear of intimidation and
reprisal is a fundamental element of the American promise. There can be
no question that even the appearance of such intimidation has a
corrosive effect on the trust among citizens. Therefore, we urge you to
recognize such bullying as a serious crime, and to specifically outlaw
it all over the nation.
We think these measures are elemental and necessary, and we urge you,
as our legislative representatives, to implement them as quickly as
possible.
Sincerely,
(names here)
cc: The Honorable John Kerry, 304 Russell Bldg., Third Fl., Washington, DC 20510; fax: 202-224-8525
The Honorable John Conyers, 2426 Rayburn Bldg., Washington, DC 20515; fax: 202-225-0072
(click here for Conyers et. al letter)
**Please pass this on**
Wednesday, November 3
Kerry Can Win Ohio: A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by
Linda Thieman
on Wed 03 Nov 2004 06:08 PM CST
 Kerry Can Win Ohio: A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
International Labor Communications Association
The media has collapsed and Kerry has conceded, but we don't have to.
According
to CNN, Bush is ahead in the count in Ohio by 136,221. According to the
Toledo Blade, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has said the number
of provisional ballots could be about 175,000. Blackwell also told the
Blade that in the last election 90 percent of the provisional ballots
ended up being declared valid and being counted, a figure also reported
by CBS News Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen.
There is
good reason to believe that the provisional ballots are
disproportionately for Kerry. This is because many of them are the
result of Republicans challenging voters at the polls.
Therefore, Kerry can win, and we need to demand that every vote be counted.
The
provisional ballots are expected to be counted in 10 days. Meanwhile,
state law allows Republican and Democratic challengers to examine the
envelopes and to challenge their eligibility to be counted.
We need
massive public pressure in Columbus, Ohio, to demand a fair count. If
you can't go to Ohio, call the Democratic National Committee at
202-863-8000 and tell them that you want the count monitored. Send them
an Email on this page:
http://www.democrats.org/contact
Write letters to the editors of your local newspapers.
Call your local radio and television stations.
Write or call your Congress Members and other elected officials.
Tell them all we want an accurate count.
In
addition, numerous possible cases of Republican wrongdoing in Ohio are
being investigated, and we must be prepared to act quickly and in great
numbers. Various such cases in Florida four years ago were discovered
too late.
There
are numerous complaints from Ohio of lines at the polls being longer in
heavily Democratic precincts, also a result of Republican challengers
and part of the Republicans' plan. Other complaints include rejected
registrations, polls not open on time, and voters turned away.
See: http://www.ilcaonline.org/
There are numerous complaints from Ohio of lines at the polls being
longer in heavily Democratic precincts, also a result of Republican
challengers and part of the Republicans' plan. Other complaints include
rejected registrations, polls not open on time, and voters turned away.
Go here at ILCAonline
and here:
http://www.alternet.org/election04oh/20384/
and here:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/electionwatch/state.php?state=OH
and here:
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/features/election_protests
Also watch for a related release from the Institute for Public Accuracy:
http://www.accuracy.org/
We may also need to demand investigation of the voting machines in
Ohio. A year ago the head of Diebold, the company that produced the
machines, boasted of his intent to help Bush carry Ohio.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm
Remember what happened in Florida in 2000.
For updates, watch http://ILCAonline.org
For questions or information, contact:
David Swanson
ILCA Media Coordinator
dswanson@aflcio.org
202-974-8037
Tuesday, November 2
Be A Media Watchdog: Help Stop Tonight's Dangerous Media Spin
by
Linda Thieman
on Tue 02 Nov 2004 02:00 PM CST
 Be A Media Watchdog: Help Stop Tonight's Dangerous Media Spin
by Timothy Karr, Media for Democracy
Click here for The Des Moines Register's list of tonight's television coverage.
Only hours remain before voting stations close across America.
Mainstream
media outlets are standing by with million-dollar, election night
extravaganzas ready to break news as it happens. Whether they'll get
the story right or fall victim to the election spin cycle depends not
only on their skills as reporters, but also on our vigilance as media
watchers.
You can help safeguard our democracy against media mishaps by taking part in Media for Democracy's MediaWatchBlog.
http://www.citizensmediawatch.us/blog/
MediaWatchBlog
is an interactive blogging tool designed to help every American become
an effective election media monitor on November 2.
Keep an
eye out for over-eager and partisan media - those who might be tempted
to disrupt the democratic process with premature victory projections,
biased reporting and oversight. MediaWatchBlog allows you to file
reports on suspicious media coverage in your community and over your
air.
http://www.citizensmediawatch.us/blog/watchdogs
Media
for Democracy staff will vet and post citizen reports for further
fact-checking by Media for Democracy's members. Other members are
invited to debunk media misinformation and to help us create a rapid
response to media organizations that cross the lines of fairness and
accuracy.
In cases
where media abuses merit special action, Media for Democracy will
launch a nation-wide alert that includes special grassroots action by
our 65,000 members as well as real-time releases to press that draw
attention to the ongoing abuses of our media system.
With your help, tonight we can safeguard our election against possible media abuses before the damage can't be undone.
Stay Tuned and Ready,
Timothy Karr
Media for Democracy
Monday, November 1
Connie Wilson: Cheney Draws Tiny Crowd in Davenport
by
Linda Thieman
on Mon 01 Nov 2004 04:06 AM CST
 Cheney Draws Tiny Crowd in Davenport
by Connie Corcoran Wilson
The King of the Evil-doers couldn’t GIVE away tickets – does anybody STILL think that Bush will take Iowa? Connie Wilson does a smashing job of pulling Cheney’s statements to pieces.
Click on "more >>" to see all the fine photos and to read about how Connie's book is being removed from bookshelves in the QC because of her political slant!
October 30, 2004
It was appropriate that Dick Cheney showed up in Davenport at Halloween. He’s certainly scary enough, even without the benefit of a costume. Cheney and company came from Columbus, Ohio; Nazareth, Pennsylvania; and Zanesville, Ohio…battleground states all.
Introduced by his wife of 40 years, Lynne, the Cheneys brought their three small grandchildren with them, and Mrs. Cheney shamelessly played the “fear card” that the Republican Party has been using to woo the female vote they need to win the election. Her words: “When I think of this election, I think of my kids and grandkids and their safety and security.” (And this is the same woman who complained, saying that John Kerry was “not a good man” because he mentioned the Cheney’s out-of-the-closet gay daughter, Mary, in a very tactful answer to a debate question.)
 A group of Deaniacs joined Billionaires for Bush to protest the
Cheney visit. One of their signs reads, "Health care is already
affordable." Another reads, "Education is NOT for everyone."
I love the "Thurston and Lovey" look of the couple in the front.
Connie captured this photo at Peabody's, down the street from
the Cheney event in Davenport.
Actually, no, Mr. Cheney. I am not “ready to rumble.” I think that “rumbling” is now and remains a very bad idea. The next song was “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor….another very old song to pump up the crowd.
In the spirit of Halloween, some of the scarier things I heard at the Cheney rally were these:
1) The prayer (by Pastor Carl Roberts of the Bettendorf Christian Church): “We’re thankful that we have servants like pResident Bush and Vice pResident Cheney. We believe that they are the best men for the job at this time.” (Speak for yourself, Pastor.)
2) “I’m sick of Democrats mocking our pResident, aren’t you?” Actually, it is more the entire world that is “mocking” our “pResident.” The reason? Aside from being voted the “scariest villain in a movie this year” by Europeans, (a nod to Bush’s appearance in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11”), he is quite possibly the worst pResident we have ever had. Most of the civilized world regards him as a loose cannon and the greatest threat to world peace (an actual poll result, in Europe, “greatest threat to world peace: 70% said “George W. Bush”). If you tried to script a president who appeared more foolish, uninformed and unintelligent (despite his legacy Yale degree), a movie audience wouldn’t believe that someone this ignorant, uninformed, arrogant and out-of-touch could be elected. (And, actually, class…does anyone really believe that he was elected in 2000?)
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