Nag-A-Thon 2006 Continues!

Today’s object of our affection is Congresswoman Maxine Waters. There are several ways that Waters can and should help Lamont, campaign appearances being just one example. Here is today’s sample letter, please use it as the basis for an email, fax or call of your own!!

Dear Congresswoman Waters:

We have learned of Joe Lieberman’s unlawful use of a $387,000 “petty cash” slush fund and we’re very concerned about the impact of that slush fund on the democratic process in Connecticut. Lieberman’s slush fund is a glaring example of the kind of DC corruption that Democrats are supposed to be fighting. If we quietly tolerate Lieberman’s slush fund, clean campaigns and combatting the “culture of corruption” will be nullified as Democratic principles.

We consider you to be a champion of progressive causes, and someone who is willing to fight for democracy in America. There is no greater opportunity and no more important task this year than defeating Joe Lieberman in Connecticut.

Even though we live in the southwest, we have responded to Senator Reid’s call to Democrats and Americans everywhere to unite in the fight against Lieberman and the culture of corruption he has brought to the nation. We are making major financial sacrifices for the Lamont campaign, and doing everything we can to get the word out about the Democratic nominee in Connecticut.

We greatly appreciate everything you did for Lamont during the primary camaign, but more sacrifices are needed now from all of us. You can help more than most. Please take another quick trip to Connecticut and campaign with Lamont to help get democracy back on track there. Make advertisements with Lamont, and do anything you possibly can to help him defeat Lieberman. It’s the right thing to do.

Yours sincerely,
name withheld

Congresswoman Maxine Waters:

DC Phones:
Voice: (202) 225-2201
Fax: (202) 225-7854

LA Phones:
Phone: (323) 757-8900
Fax: (323) 757-9506

Westchester, CA Phones:
Phone: (310) 642-4610
Fax: (310) 642-9160

To whoever is doing this – THANK YOU for the effort. I can’t speak for everyone but I will try to help.

thanks for the info. & your tenacity.

we have some similar things going on in OH. Sometimes even well-intentioned people just can’t seem to get their act together, sigh.

(e.g., early on, Dems. here printed up some nice neat, readable candidate endorsement lists – but forgot to include one incumbent Supreme Ct. candidate’s name, and misspelled another candidate’s name. So some valuable volunteer time was wasted having to write in/correct all the misprinted materials. So much simpler to take a min. or 2 to proofread!?!)

Phoenix Woman @ 87

Alan Schlesinger was on MSNBC this morning saying that his internal polls had him in the mid-20s.

If that’s true (which may or may not be the case), it means that the Republicans that Lieberman wooed are starting to go back into the OFFICIAL party fold.

And if that happens, then Lieberman is toast. If Schlesinger manages to retain even half of the GOP base in the state, Lieberman drops well below 40% and Lamont wins.

I’ve always thought that there is no way a major party candidate is going to poll less than 20%. We’ll see.

Why would the Republicans who voted for Lieberman when he was a fake Democrat — but on their ballot too — vote for him now that he is a fake Republican?

I would like to thank Joe Lieberman without whose duplicity, backstabbing, and general mealimouthedness this would not have been possible.

Morning all!

The beautiful sun-rise/-set thru that glorious float, right on the the heels of TRex’s & Carol Burnett’s magnificent Scarlet … well … a much needed, highly therapeutic LOL! JUST what the doctor ordered ;->

Been gone all week, and returned to the mess that is OH electioneering (fraud AGAIN anyone????!!!!!). They just CAN’T do it again, can they?!?

Special thanks to carolyn urban for providing some wonderful links to me yesterday eve, in re: fighting election fraud. With yer indulgence, I’ll list them on this thread also, in case others can make use of them. [the notes beside links are carolyn urban’s]

Thanks again, cu. I left you a lil note EPU’d on tailend of the “Torches & Pitchforks” thread.

Links for fighting against election theft:

http://www.solarbus.org
on this site, go through the Peace and Justice tab and then scroll down to Election Justice Center.

Citizens Alliance for Secure Elections
http://www.caseohio.org

http://www.votetrustusa.org
on this site I’d click States. They list organizations on the left but I checked them out and the only one that looks promising is the Citizens Alliance, above. But if you click on Ohio on the right hand list it catches you up on all the latest – well, I don’t know how latest – but news.

http://blackboxvoting.org
has lots of stuff, including a citizen toolkit that might be useful.

http://voteraction.org
the “watch the vote” page looked good.

There was a great ad in today’s NY Times, funded by the Women Donors Network, a group of women philanthropists who give to progressive causes. They listed a website, StopCountHackula.com, but the site doesn’t have anything useful [it says to revisit the site to find out how you can help]. But the ad itself listed a number of really good ideas, so I’ll quote the ad:

1. Worried about your registration? Call your county election board before election day and confirm you’re registered.

2. If you confront long lines at your polling place, complain to a poll worker. Poll workers are paid by you. Their job is to help you vote. If they won’t help, take names. Use the toll-free Election Protection hot line, 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

3. If your voting machine doesn’t work right, demand an emergency paper ballot—NOT a provisional ballot! Then demand that the offending machine be taken out of service.

4. Any voter or poll-watcher who witnesses what appears to be a crime can call the whistle-blower’s hot line: 1-888-VOTETIP. Remember you can create a photographic record on your cell phone.

These are all good suggestions, but the Women Donors Network needs to be sure that all of their campaign is up and functioning ASAP. I was irked to find out their was no information on their own website, and the StopCountHackula website had no practical info [I’m sending an email to the address listed in the ad: info AT women donors DOT org]