Plan B: 'October/November Surprise
Plan B: 'October/November Surprise'
By Robert Parry,October 27, 2004
With the polls tightening, the Bush campaign has resorted to Plan B,
an "October/November Surprise" aimed at depressing the Democratic
vote in key battleground states, such as Ohio. Unlike earlier Republican
"October Surprise" gambits, however, Bush's scheme is right out in
the open.
Thanks, Steve.
http://www.awolbush.com/kerry-vs-bush.asp
The 9-11 Families are really angry today. Oh, are they making noises of disgust!
I am listening to CSpan right now. Be prepared for the headlines. I will get the CSpan connections of this to you when I can.
YAHOO NEWS is not allowing me to email and store their articles for some reason. I don't know if this is a global issue and is effecting everyone or if they are pissed at me (this I doubt) but I am not able to get to you the juicy yahoo news today. This is how I find the articles. I do to yahoo news, sign in and then rate articles. From that rating results page, I go to highest rated articles and view them.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102704C.shtml
Bush to Request $70 Billion More
By Jonathan Weisman and Thomas E. Ricks
The Washington Post
Tuesday 26 October 2004
The Bush administration intends to seek about $70 billion in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year, pushing total war costs close to $225 billion since the invasion of Iraq early last year, Pentagon and congressional officials said yesterday.
White House budget office spokesman Chad Kolton emphasized that final decisions on the supplemental spending request will not be made until shortly before the request is sent to Congress. That may not happen until early February, when President Bush submits his budget for fiscal 2006, assuming he wins reelection.
But Pentagon and House Appropriations Committee aides said the Defense Department and military services are scrambling to get their final requests to the White House Office of Management and Budget by mid-November, shortly after the election. The new numbers underscore that the war is going to be far more costly and intense, and last longer, than the administration first suggested.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=BKLJBKQ0CM5T3QFIQMFSM5WAVCBQ0JVC?xml=/news/2004/10/27/wus27.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/27/ixworld.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=29434
Bush feels the heat as rural heartland goes cool
By Alec Russell in Washington
(Filed: 27/10/2004)
President George W Bush campaigned up and down a small rural stretch of the heartland yesterday, desperately seeking to shore up his position in a once safe region where Republicans are registering the first prickles of concern about his record - and his chances.
With just a week to go before voting, Mr Bush focused his fire on Wisconsin and Iowa, two mid-western states that have become pivotal to his chances. He lost both narrowly to Al Gore in 2000 but now badly needs to win them as an insurance policy, given the state of play in Ohio and Florida, two of the three key swing states, where he is in a dead heat with his rival.
Preparing for a fight: George W Bush rolls up his sleeves
Sitting on the banks of the Mississippi, the focus of a blitz of campaigning by the two presidential candidates, two Republican businessmen in their mid-30s aired the anxieties that go to the heart of jitters among Bush supporters.
"People are worried about Iraq," said Eric Dragne, in a display of candour remarkable in a partisan climate that tends to allow for no self-doubt on either side. "Many people here know people who have lost their lives."
"People also talk about the financial side of Mr Bush's record," said his companion, Steward Sandstrom. "And maybe that we should be committing money elsewhere."
For Mr Bush's campaign, just a week before polling such conversations are troubling - and a guide to why he was in Dubuque, Iowa, the businessmen's home town, for a rally last night pumping out his message to shore up his support.
Mr Dragne and Mr Sandstrom are still planning to vote for Mr Bush but not, it seems, with great gusto. Their confidence in the President has been dented by the continuing turmoil in Iraq and an un-Republican splurge in spending.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=14237
Taking prisoners in the war on journalism
Inside the First Amendment
By Paul K. McMasters
First Amendment Center ombudsman , 10.24.04
Follow this closely because the logic gets tricky:
Someone in the White House leaked the name of a CIA operative to several journalists, apparently to punish the husband of the covert agent for taking issue with the administration.
All of the journalists declined to participate in the apparent retaliation, with the exception of syndicated columnist Robert Novak, who revealed the name of the agent in a column published on July 14, 2003.
Attorney General John Ashcroft appointed a special counsel to investigate the possible federal crime. The special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, assembled a large staff armed with all the investigative tools of the Justice Department. Under orders from the president to cooperate fully, White House personnel produced telephone records, e-mail logs and other material.
Now, after more than a year of investigating, the special prosecutor, backed by a federal judge, is ready to send someone to jail. But not the two “senior administration sources” cited by columnist Novak. Nor, as far as we know, has the columnist been subpoenaed, questioned or threatened with contempt of court. Instead Fitzgerald has focused his prosecutorial zeal on Time magazine correspondent Matthew Cooper, who wrote about the leak several days after Novak published his column, and New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who didn’t write about the story at all.
TAKE ACTION!!
From: Matt Howes, National Internet Organizer, ACLU
To: ACLU Action Network Members
Subject:
Act Now to Ensure Creation of a Critical Government Civil Liberties Watchdog
1) Act Now to Ensure Creation of a Critical Government Civil Liberties Watchdog
2) Let your Representative know how you feel about his or her vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment
At this very moment, leaders from the House and Senate are engaged in heated negotiations over what could become the most dramatic restructuring ever of our nation's intelligence agencies. One of the key sticking points is the creation of a robust Privacy and Civil Liberties Board to ensure that government actions do not infringe on our liberties.
The 9/11 Commission endorsed the creation of a strong board. Yet in its version of the legislation to implement the commission's recommendations, the House rejected the creation of a board, a position that the Bush White House has endorsed. Fortunately, however, the bipartisan Senate version of the legislation included a strong board.
Take Action! Tell Congress that we can be both safe and free and that the final intelligence reform bill must include the creation of a powerful and independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to act as a watchdog over our civil liberties.
http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=16886&c=24
2) Let your Representative know how you feel about his or her vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment
Last month, your Representative had a chance to fight against discrimination by voting against the Federal Marriage Amendment. You can thank them if they voted the right way - or tell them how disappointed you are that they voted the wrong way.
The proposed amendment aims to amend the U.S. Constitution to deny the right to marry to same-sex couples in committed relationships. It could also invalidate all state and local domestic partnership laws and nullify civil rights protections based on marital status.
No one should deny the most basic right of two adults to marry simply because they are gay or lesbian. Now, some want to write that discrimination into the U.S. Constitution.
Take Action! Let your Representative know how you feel about his or her vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment.
Click here for more information and to take action!
http://www.aclu.org/LesbianGayRights/LesbianGayRights.cfm?ID=16841&c=23
Again, the Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank of which I am becoming highly appreciative:
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: BACKGROUND ON THE NEWS
* Wednesday October 27, 2004
* Featuring the full text of past essays that are relevant today,
plus occasional postscripts newly written by the authors.
>->>>-> TRICK OR TREAT? <-<<<-<
The Bush administration surprised many last year by pressing for and
winning unprecedented funding for combating the spread of HIV/AIDS.
In an article for the January/February 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs,
Holly Burkhalter credited President Bush's Christian evangelical
supporters for galvanizing Congress against the pandemic. But she also
warned that their ideology, especially their objection to the use of
condoms, could undermine the best-known prevention strategies and
treatments. In a new postscript, she examines how both points are still
valid today.
*NEW* Click for a postscript by the author:
http://m1e.net/c?33182130-KQg/8q7XK1LN6%40703109-TCKp7ZxLtJqY2
* Click for the full essay text:
http://m1e.net/c?33182130-Ot4W3ZcP0fEB6%40703110-4HqIapnv2iY/k
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 -- GLOBAL SECURITY NEWSWIRE
Today’s Global Security Newswire is now available: http://www.nti.org
QUOTE OF THE DAY
================
It would be a good thing if somebody could detonate some sort of weapon of mass destruction in Washington, D.C., while both the U.S. Congress and Senate were in session. --
--Demetrius "Van" Crocker, demonstrating what not to say to an undercover U.S. federal agent, during the investigation that led to his arrest yesterday for attempting to acquire chemical weapons.
FULL ISSUE
==========
TERRORISM
City Officials Say Information Lacking to Secure Toxic Chemical Shipments Through U.S. Capital http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#86C12C88
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Japan Hosts Multinational WMD Interdiction Exercise http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#FACC9272
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Iran Considers Halting Some Nuclear Activities http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#552870C4
Kerry Blasts Bush Over Missing Iraqi Explosives http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#1C91E3A4
Powell Finds Support From Key Asian Nations on Resuming North Korea Nuclear Talks http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#0CBFF75B
Bush Administration Achieves Mixed Success in Facing Variety of Nonproliferation Crises http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#AA7C6E7F
Indian, Pakistani Prime Ministers to Meet Next Month http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#F6087DAA
CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Man Charged With Attempt to Acquire Chemical Weapons, Attack U.S. Government Buildings http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#B4B3BE6A
Iranian Cabinet Advances Domestic Rules for Complying With Chemical Weapons Convention http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2004_10_26.html#808912F0
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002072746_intel26.html
Leaders of 9/11 panel tell Congress to rescue intelligence overhaul
Seattle Times Tue, 26 Oct 2004 0:21 AM PDT
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M. WASHINGTON — Leaders of the Sept. 11 commission warned lawmakers yesterday that the nation will hold them partly responsible if another terrorist attack occurs before Congress restructures the government's intelligence community.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20041026/pl_washpost/a62727_2004oct25
Unprecedented Peril Forces Tough Calls
Tue Oct 26, 1:21 PM ET
By Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer, Washington Post Staff Writers
In the tumultuous first year after Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush confronted a deluge of classified threat reports about the spread of nuclear weapons technology to unfriendly hands.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=ap/edwards
Edwards Chides Cheney on Iraq 'Success'
Tue Oct 26, 5:31 PM ET
By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
MINNEAPOLIS - Sen. John Edwards on Tuesday assailed Vice President Dick Cheney for claiming Iraq was "a remarkable success story" and argued that the Bush administration is out of touch with the reality of the failure there.
http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=102504111643
CIA Officials Face Action For 9/11 Intelligence Failure: Report
New York, Oct. 26 (NNN) : The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is keeping the lid on a hard-hitting report about agency officials who might be held accountable for 9/11 intelligence failures, Newsweek has reported in its latest issue.
The report identifies a host of current and former officials who could be candidates for possible disciplinary procedures imposed by a special CIA Accountability Board, the weekly magazine said in its "Periscope" column, quoting sources familiar with the document.
The report by the agency's inspector general's office was completed last June. But it has not been made public or sent to the two congressional oversight committees, which first asked for the review more than two years ago.
Officially, Newsweek said, the agency's position is that more work needs to be done. In a recent private letter to CIA Director Porter Goss, House intelligence committee chairman Peter Hoekstra and ranking Democrat Jane Harman contrasted the CIA's failure to turn over the report with the Pentagon's ability to provide an exhaustive investigative report on the far more recent Abu Ghraib scandal. But Goss shows no inclination to release the document any time soon, the magazine said.
When an account of the suppressed report surfaced on the Los Angeles Times op-ed page last week, according to Newsweek, Goss's top aide ordered the agency's Office of Security to conduct a leak investigation.
"Everybody feels it will be better off if this hits the fan after the election," an unnamed agency official was quoted as saying. The 9/11 Commission was refused access to the report, Philip Zelikow, the commission's executive director, was quoted as saying. But the panel's staff was allowed to review the inspector general's investigative files.
"The inspector general's report -- which, sources say, is more pointed than the 9/11 panel's report -- is not the only critical intelligence report that won't be seen by the public until after Election Day", the magazine said.
Two Senate intelligence committee investigations -- into whether the White House misused prewar intelligence about Iraq and whether a special Pentagon unit manipulated intelligence about Iraq-Al Qaeda links -- won't be finished until the end of the year at the earliest, according to committee sources.
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,207~12044~2491102,00.html
Article Published: Monday, October 25, 2004 - 11:53:20 AM PST
'Wild cards' could make the difference in White House race
By Morton Kondracke
WHAT do the Rev. James Dobson, George Soros, Fallujah, Doyle McManus, the CIA, John Zogby, Osama bin Laden, Justice Antonin Scalia and I have in common?
We all represent wild cards in the presidential race specifically, turnout efforts among Republican and Democratic voters, events in Iraq, late-breaking campaign developments, polling confusion, possible terrorism in the United States, post-election challenges in the courts and undecided voters. That last category still includes me.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2493869,00.html
Waxman: Flu shot shortage papers stalled
By Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON -- A senior House Democrat charged Tuesday that the Bush administration was refusing to release documents about the flu vaccine shortage until after the election.
"What is happening is obvious," said Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Government Reform. "The administration is trying to delay the release of the vaccine documents until after the election. These documents should be released immediately."
Waxman and Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, a Republican and chairman of the committee, asked the Food and Drug Administration two weeks ago for documents related to the vaccine shortage.
Among them were reports and correspondence related to a 2003 inspection of Chiron Corp.'s flu vaccine plant in England.
British health authorities temporarily shut down the plant this month because of contamination problems, which left the United States without nearly half of its supply for the coming flu season. Chiron is one of only two flu vaccine suppliers for the United States.
In a statement, the acting FDA commissioner, Lester Crawford, said that Davis had assured him that taking more time to meet the document request would not slow the committee's investigation. He said the agency was "actively and diligently" trying to gather the documents.
Robert White, a spokesman for Davis, said the chairman had given the FDA more time because the agency was busy trying to come up with more sources of vaccine.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/nation/10022329.htm?1c
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=97457
Posted on: Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 02:00 CDT
Forget Politicizing Science. Let's Democratize Science!
Science advising in government is unavoidably political, but we must make a concerted effort to ensure that it is democratic.
Since the publication last year by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Ca.) of a report alleging that the Bush administration has been inappropriately manipulating scientific reports and advisory committees, science policy has become an issue with surprisingly long political legs. The administration dismissed Waxman's report as a partisan distortion and a politicization of science in its own right. But this charge became somewhat harder to sustain with the publication of a like-minded report by the Union of Concerned Scientists and a letter, signed by a left-leaning but still bipartisan group of scientists, again alleging that the administration has inappropriately played politics with the findings of government scientists and with appointments to federal scientific advisory panels.
John Marburger, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, eventually responded with his own defensively toned report. The political right also took aim with a critique of leftist science in Politicizing Science, published by the conservative Hoover Institution. Without close examination of each allegation, it is hard to judge whether one side is engaging in the more significant distortion or whether both sides are merely viewing business as usual through a lens fractured along partisan lines.
Regardless, such allegations that science has been politicized are unproductive. I also suspect them of being somewhat insincere, in the same way that Louis, the Vichy Prefect of Police in Casablanca, was "shocked, shocked" to find gambling in the back room at Rick's, even as he collected his own winnings. From the $120 billion for scientific R&D that the government provides, to the petty power plays that plague departmental governance, science is deeply political. Asking whether science is politicized distracts us from asking. "Who benefits and loses from which forms of politicization?" and "What are the appropriate institutional channels for political discourse, influence, and action in science?" Arguing over whether science is politicized neglects the more critical question: "Is science democratized?"
Democratizing science does not mean settling questions about Nature by plebiscite, any more than democratizing politics means setting the prime rate by referendum. What democratization does mean, in science as elsewhere, is creating institutions and practices that fully incorporate principles of accessibility, transparency, and accountability. It means considering the societal outcomes of research at least as attentively as the scientific and technological outputs. It means insisting that in addition to being rigorous, science be popular, relevant, and participatory.
From Jules:
Subject:
[A libbie's take on today's events] Crazy Cheney Comment du jour
[http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showtopic=103997&hl=]
>From the Kerry-Edwards Online Forum
"If our troops had not gone into Iraq, that is 400,000 tonnes of weapons and explosives that would be in the hands of (former Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein, who would still be sitting in his palace instead of jail," Cheney said.
As opposed to where they are now?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041026/ts_nm/campaign_cheney_dc&cid=564&ncid=2043
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Posted by lawnorder to A libbie's take on today's events at 10/26/2004 06:18:10 PM
And another from Jules, Thanks so much!:
Subject: Terrorists Thank Allah For G. W. Bush
[http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=37138469&tid=apcampaignrdp&sid=37138469&mid=300172&um=50&.sig=TQIO9E2zR8zI6KzdT7eHhA--]
Yahoo! News Message Boards Politics News
"Terrorists Thank Allah For G. W. Bush
by: jack_cough_bush 10/26/04 07:21 pm
Msg: 300172 of 300258 , 20 recommendations
What a blessing Bush has been for the fanatics.
He allowed Bin Laden to escape
He attacked Hussein who Bin Laden hated
He alienated 95% of the Arab world
He alienated 74% of the rest of the world at large
He allowed the looting of artifacts from the cradle of civilization thus alienating scholars who may have helped
He left the Iraq borders wide open allowing every nutbag fundamentalist funded by his friends the Saudi to pour in and surround our troops
He left a small mountain of easily disguised, highly explosive matter unguarded so the terrorists can blow us up for the next ten years.
Not bad (hard) work for a lifelong underacheiver who slunk into office without a majority of support. "
--
Posted by lawnorder to A libbie's take on today's events at 10/26/2004 06:43:11 PM
Following is Inter Press Service news agency's weekly bulletin on the aftermath of war in Iraq and the ongoing Middle East conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. These IPS news stories are received by journalists, diplomats, government officials, political leaders, and by NGOs and civil society leaders, helping them to track the complex issues of a troubled region.
http://ipsnews.net/new_focus/iraq/index.asp
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IRAQ-U.S.: Veterans' Voices Rise in Protest
By Dahr Jamail
SAN FRANCISCO - With the news that members of a U.S. Army reserve platoon have been arrested in Iraq for refusing a "suicide mission," dissent among veterans of the U.S.-led campaign in that country continues to grow.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26008
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ENERGY: Dependence on Mideast Oil to Grow - Report
By Emad Mekay
WASHINGTON - At a time when rich nations, especially the United States, are trying to break their dependence on Middle East oil, a global agency is predicting that fuel imports from the area will keep rising unless buying countries adopt "radical" technological changes.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26025
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U.S. ELECTION: Fear of Military Draft a Growing Factor
Analysis - By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - With the presidential election coming down to the wire, the possibility of a revived military draft is looming as a potentially decisive factor in the outcome.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25952
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POLITICS: U.N. Terrorism Treaty Deadlocked
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which was on the verge of adopting a new international convention against nuclear terrorism, has been forced to shelve the proposed treaty because of opposition from Islamic states.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26026
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MEDIA: Kidnappers Showtime
By Samuele Gabbio
ROME - Kidnappers' tape tactics in broadcasting footage of victims has won them international attention. But are the media right to broadcast the tapes? Or are they serving criminal propaganda?... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25985
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POLITICS: U.N., Iraq Clash Over Elections
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is at loggerheads with the U.S.-installed interim government in Iraq over national elections scheduled to take place in that strife-torn country in January 2005.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25973
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POLITICS-U.S.: Bush Backers Steadfast on Saddam, WMD
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Three out of four self-described supporters of President George W Bush still believe pre-war Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or active programmes to produce them, and that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein gave "substantial support" to al-Qaeda terrorists, according to a survey released Thursday.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25967
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U.S.: Muslim Support for 'War on Terror' Plummets
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - While the Bush administration expresses frustration that its motivations in the "war on terrorism" are questioned throughout the Islamic world, it has a similar problem with Muslims at home, according to a major survey of nearly 2,000 followers of Islam across the United States.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25950
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IRAQ: Plight of Christians Provokes Calls for Special Protection
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - While the successful penetration by suicide bombers, who killed 10 people, including four U.S. nationals, of the carefully guarded ''Green Zone'' in downtown Baghdad grabbed headlines here this week, another measure of the deteriorating security situation in Iraq came from a more surprising source.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25948
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FINANCE: Church to Cut Dollars to Firms Aiding Israeli Occupation
By Emad Mekay
WASHINGTON - The U.S. branch of a global church that threatened to stop investing in companies whose actions support the Israeli military's occupation of Palestinian land says it will go ahead with the plan despite an outcry from Israel, some Jewish groups and members of the U.S. Congress.... (continue)
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25951
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Latest news from the Middle East: http://ipsnews.net/middle.asp
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102804Z.shtml
New Florida Vote Scandal Feared
By Greg Palast, BBC
Wednesday 27 October 2004
A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.
Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list".
It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida.
An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day."
Ion Sancho, a Democrat, noted that Florida law allows political party operatives inside polling stations to stop voters from obtaining a ballot.
I like this site (am furthermore88):
http://www.e-thepeople.org/poll/21296/view?s_a=res
What is the best medication for Bush, and his delusions of grandeur? (173 votes)
(Furthermore88, 10/19/04)
Anti-acid, to calm Bush's gut instinct. 4 %
Neuroleptics or anti-psychotics 18 %
Alcohol, because Bush is more fun drunk. 10 %
Nutrasweet, because it causes an specific insanity all it's own 3 %
All but the choice on slant. 14 %
I don't like the slant of this poll. 51 %
Total Votes: 173
http://www.e-thepeople.org/poll/21205/view?s_a=resc
Do you feel this country has been made safer from terrorism while Bush has been in the Oval Office? (143 votes)
(Furthermore88, 10/11/04)
no, because I can think for myself, and I can clearly see we are not safer because of Bush. 64 %
I don't like the slant in this poll !! 27 %
I DO like the slant in this poll !! 10 %
yes, because Bush told me I am, preferring to let Bush do my thinking for me. 8 %
I don't know 3 %
I don't care 0 %
http://www.e-thepeople.org/poll/21310/view?s_a=res
Don't you think that the pro-life movement would be more effective if they:------? (132 votes)
(Furthermore88, 10/19/04)
Worked on social failures that lead to unwanted pregnancies? 23 %
Worked on education to prevent unwanted pregnancies? 18 %
Worked to distribute good contraceptive methods? 5 %
Were more concerned with and assisted the traumatized family who may require such a procedure? 3 %
All the choices but the slant option 23 %
I don't like the slant of this poll. 29 %
Total Votes: 132
ROBERTS, BROWNBACK OUT OF SYNC WITH KANSAS
TALKING POINTS:
1. The Kansas Legislature has struck down a ban on gay marriage TWICE. If the issue comes up again, it will happen a THIRD time.
2. Both Roberts and Brownback, the ghastly co-sponser of a dubious bill to ban gay marriage, support a gay marriage ban.
3. How do the two talking points synch?
4. Basically what we have is two Senators in DC who have decided that they are not going to represent the wishes of the voters in Kansas and are going on their own agendas.
5. Kansas has little, little voice in DC, and now we have NONE, due to an agenda that goes against the wishes of Kansans.
6. It is high time to replace the present Senators who represent us in DC.
7. The gay marriage ban goes against the GOP values of commitments to limited government, individual liberties, and constitutional restraint.
In essence, Roberts and Brownback have moved to diminish the GOP values that made the party so great.
I AM ANGRY!!
FIRE BUSH 2004
I am getting this out on message boards in Kansas. I am having some trouble with Topeka Capital journal tho. If someone else wants to post it, go ahead.
posted by lawnorder at 3:11 PM
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