This is confirmed, Sen. Barbara Boxer has signed the challenge to Ohio's electors and Congress will have to meet in separate sessions for two hours before they can vote for Bush again.
THANK YOU SENATOR BOXER!
CSPAN will have the action starting sometime around 1:00. As usual it's really hard to find out what will be on when...
I'm so glad to see someone at least make a tiny little bump in the road for the marauding Republicans.
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I heard that there could be as many as 8 senators standing up for the challenge.
And it could involve more than Ohio...
And it could involve more than Ohio...
QUOTE(InAWorldGoneMad @ Jan 6 2005, 10:19 AM)
I heard that there could be as many as 8 senators standing up for the challenge.
And it could involve more than Ohio...
And it could involve more than Ohio...
Yippee, yippee, yippee! I don't care if it changes this election, this is a step forward for our democracy, a sign that we won't take it any more (election inconsistencies and fraud!!!).
Bless the Democratic hearts of these Senators and Representatives. This restores my faith in the process.
QUOTE(SaveAmerica @ Jan 6 2005, 09:16 AM)
This is confirmed, Sen. Barbara Boxer has signed the challenge to Ohio's electors and Congress will have to meet in separate sessions for two hours before they can vote for Bush again.
THANK YOU SENATOR BOXER!
CSPAN will have the action starting sometime around 1:00. As usual it's really hard to find out what will be on when...
I'm so glad to see someone at least make a tiny little bump in the road for the marauding Republicans.
THANK YOU SENATOR BOXER!
CSPAN will have the action starting sometime around 1:00. As usual it's really hard to find out what will be on when...
I'm so glad to see someone at least make a tiny little bump in the road for the marauding Republicans.
thank you thank you thank you thank you... I do think that Kerry's letter yesterday made some difference, but the real difference has been all the people who have kept this issue alive. So, thank you Cobb, thank you Conyers, thank you Jesse Jackson, thank you Fitrakis and Arnebeck, thank you Sheila Jackson-Lee, thank you Greg Palast,thank you everybody for all the information gathering, legal help and forums, calls, e-mails, being there at demonstrations.
Now the real work begins, because this two hour debate may or may not give the results of even a formal hearing into the matter. There needs to be some Republicans on board for this; some who care about the right to vote, because in a formal hearing the truth can come out, but they can vote down a hearing into it. So, we need to re-double our efforts, and call those Republicans who believe in freedom... some don't, but people probably know whether or not to call the ones in their state (if their Senators are Republican). Ohio has two Republican Senators, DeWine and Voinovich; I wouldn't feel afraid of calling them, but DeWine called this investigation "frivolous" and Voinovich was just re-elected Nov. 2nd (but by a large margin), so they would need a complete conversion to support a hearing. I'm ready to read them chapter and verse...
I got this in my inbox this morning:
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PDA has received a tremendous amount of feedback regarding the Democratic Party's lack of concern for adequately protecting our electoral rights. We have also heard from many supporters who say they will not vote Democrat in the future if the Party leadership does not fight for us today. Now is the time to tell that to our representatives. Call your Senators, especially if they are up for re-election in 2006 (see below) and let them know how important today's vote is to you. Call Minority Leader Reid and tell him how the Party's future is on the line. Act now, we can still make the Democratic Party our party, but we have to work for it. This is an important step. The Senate switchboard opens at 9:00 A.M. EST. The vote is at 1:00 P.M. EST. Call early and often.
Sen. Harry Reid- Phone: 202-224-3542 Fax: 202-224-7372
Democratic Senators up for Re-election in 2006
* CALIFORNIA: Dianne Feinstein (D)
* CONNECTICUT: Joe Lieberman (D)
* DELAWARE: Thomas R. Carper (D)
* FLORIDA: Bill Nelson (D)
* HAWAII: Daniel K. Akaka (D)
* MARYLAND: Paul S. Sarbanes (D)
* MASSACHUSETTS: Edward M. Kennedy (D)
* MICHIGAN: Debbie Stabenow (D)
* MINNESOTA: Mark Dayton (DFL)
* NEBRASKA: Ben Nelson (D)
* NEW JERSEY: Jon S. Corzine (D)
* NEW MEXICO: Jeff Bingaman (D)
* NEW YORK: Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
* NORTH DAKOTA: Kent Conrad (D)
* WASHINGTON: Maria Cantwell (D)
* WEST VIRGINIA: Robert C. Byrd (D)
* WISCONSIN: Herbert H. Kohl (D)
For more PDA information visit our website.
In Solidarity,
Tim Carpenter, Director
Progressive Democrats of America
email: info@pdamerica.org
phone: (877) 368-9221
web: http://www.pdamerica.org
Sen. Harry Reid- Phone: 202-224-3542 Fax: 202-224-7372
Democratic Senators up for Re-election in 2006
* CALIFORNIA: Dianne Feinstein (D)
* CONNECTICUT: Joe Lieberman (D)
* DELAWARE: Thomas R. Carper (D)
* FLORIDA: Bill Nelson (D)
* HAWAII: Daniel K. Akaka (D)
* MARYLAND: Paul S. Sarbanes (D)
* MASSACHUSETTS: Edward M. Kennedy (D)
* MICHIGAN: Debbie Stabenow (D)
* MINNESOTA: Mark Dayton (DFL)
* NEBRASKA: Ben Nelson (D)
* NEW JERSEY: Jon S. Corzine (D)
* NEW MEXICO: Jeff Bingaman (D)
* NEW YORK: Hillary Rodham Clinton (D)
* NORTH DAKOTA: Kent Conrad (D)
* WASHINGTON: Maria Cantwell (D)
* WEST VIRGINIA: Robert C. Byrd (D)
* WISCONSIN: Herbert H. Kohl (D)
For more PDA information visit our website.
In Solidarity,
Tim Carpenter, Director
Progressive Democrats of America
email: info@pdamerica.org
phone: (877) 368-9221
web: http://www.pdamerica.org
I've been emailing and mailing and calling my two Republican senators daily. I don't even get automatic responses, but it makes me happy that someone has to take my call, or log the voicemail, or at least throw away the email and mail. Maybe, just maybe, when enough people do that, there will be some sense that we are serious about not taking election injustice anymore!
In assertiveness training, the "calm, broken record", repeating over and over, calmly, but consistently, is one of the most effective techniques for effecting change.
It sure makes me happy to be doing it!
In assertiveness training, the "calm, broken record", repeating over and over, calmly, but consistently, is one of the most effective techniques for effecting change.
It sure makes me happy to be doing it!
Am I the only one who notices they're talking about it on CSPAN2 right now?
Keep us posted, at work and can't really watch.
They're switching back and forth between the Education Secretary confirmation hearings. EWWWWW its Richard Burr now---grrrr I hate that man. Anyway, they're not talking election anymore--maybe in a few.
QUOTE(xyzse @ Jan 6 2005, 10:56 AM)
Keep us posted, at work and can't really watch.
The one time that being a social studies teacher comes in as a benefit
C-Span 1 cut back to Gonzalez' hearing, so we're back to talking about WW1 - but the topics in our chapter involve the draft, Loyalty Leagues, changing names of food/families, and Loyalty & Sedition Acts. Needless to say, we've been digressing quite a bit today.
QUOTE(xyzse @ Jan 6 2005, 10:56 AM)
Keep us posted, at work and can't really watch.
Boxer on C-Span 2 NOW!!!!
QUOTE(Noonan @ Jan 6 2005, 10:17 AM)
Boxer on C-Span 2 NOW!!!!
missed that but heard her on Air America.......Stephanie Tubbs rep Ohio on now
Have to go to work now... first time in over 2 months the sun is shining and birds are chirping... I am going to work with the biggest smile on my face... my boss is going to see me and wonder what I am so happy about... "It's been such a long cold lonely winter... Here come the sun..."
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