From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Mon Nov 1 17:06:06 2004 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:06:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Davis Democrats] 1 Week Reminder Davis Democrat Club board meeting on November 8th Message-ID: <20041102010606.882C4200009A@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us> This e-mail is from the Davis Democrat Club e-mailing list. Greetings all, FIRST: I know that all of you will be voting or have voted already. Go Kerry/Edwards! There will be an election day party, tomorrow, Tuesday, November 2, 7pm at Cantina del Cabo, 139 G Street, Davis ==================== This e-mail is to announce that there will be Davis a Democrat Club Board meeting in one week. I will send out an e-mail on Wednesday or Thursday of this week as to the place. DDC Board Meeting Time: 7 PM to 8:04 PM Place: TBA Preliminary Agenda -- this is only a preliminary agenda. The agenda will change as it is worked on by the President and Vice President. There is a note about the December DDC meeting at the bottom of this e-mail. Davis Democratic Club Meeting Agenda November 8, 7 pm - 8pm Place TBA I. Introduction (8 minutes -- usually takes 2 minutes) i. Approval of Agenda ii. Approval of Minutes for past meetings ( http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/min0409.htm ) iii. Minutes from other clubs and campus Democrats (usually no one shows up from these groups) II. Treasurer's Report (4 minutes) III. Campaign 2004 (15 minutes) i. Closing headquarters report and comments. ii. Yolo Beat Bush report and comments. IV. The DDC Holiday Party (10 minutes) i. Report from chairs on this event ii. Additional planning and requests V. The Winter General Meetings in January and February (7 minutes) i. Report on last year's event ii. Appointment of chairs for 2005 Winter events. VI. Content of the Next Newsletter (6 minutes) i. Update by Current Editor ii. Story ideas VII. New and Unfinished Business (12 minutes) i. New items ii. Announcements iii. Next Meeting Time/Location iv. Meeting adjournment Time: 62 minutes DECEMBER MEETING There has been some talk of paring down the Davis Democrat Club board. From the list of people that I have that have been expending their energies on 2004 campaign activities, the people that have been showing up to the board meetings match those that are extremely active in the community -- about 20 people. The average attendance of a board meeting has been 20 people with 2 additional guests per meeting for a total of 22 people. We currently have 26 Board member and there is talk of adding at least one more member. This agenda item will need to be discussed and should be done in December, when we have the Blanchard room reserved. Betty Weir insisted that we need to contact Rick Vulliet before we remove him from the DDC Board. If anyone knows his e-mail address or can contact him here in Davis or at his residence in Hawaii, please contact him and let him know that we will be discussing removing him from the DDC board in December. There were no other objections to the other two inactive names that will be removed in December. The DDC bylaws state that a person that misses 3 meeting in a row will be removed from the board. The people that were identified by Betty have not attended a board meeting in at least 3 years. There will be talk of paring down the board to a number where we can meet in the homes of board members. All of this is for the December meeting. From rjgruska at pacbell.net Sat Nov 6 12:59:33 2004 From: rjgruska at pacbell.net (Rhonda Anthony Gruska) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 12:59:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Davis Democrats] DDC Meeting on Monday Message-ID: <20041106205933.43420.qmail@web81104.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, The Davis Democratic Club E-board will be having an election follow up meeting on Monday, November 8th at the Headquarters at 7pm. For those of you who are involved in clean up, please leave the plastic white chairs that belong to the club. We will take care of these later. Best, Tony From jac07 at dcn.org Sun Nov 7 15:59:39 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:59:39 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: *What You Can Do About Election Fraud* In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20041107080226.00b361d8@pop.rcsis.com> Message-ID: ---------- From: jack Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 08:02:42 -0800 To: alderman at cwnet.com, annmariebenitez at hotmail.com, anntosaw at cwnet.com, garciaia at hotmail.com, will9362 at aol.com, sdakota at surewest.net, sherlockesq at msn.com, twpmgp at value.net, Obourne at surewest.net, Rulysses at winfirstcom, tommeeboy67 at yahoo.com, pncthiesen at aol.com, chasdbrown at hotmail.com, a23456cm at aol.com, go2momanddad at yahoo.com, dnegri at accessbee.com, dontosaw at cwnet.com, adumpster at yahoo.com, paconjoyce at lanset.com, ivann at surewest.net, J_Reeves_98 at yahoo.com, jeffy2k at postmark.net, jmartin5 at edd.ca.gov, jmiller at hq.dir.ca.gov, kay-farrar at excite.com, nivek53073 at yahoo.com, introliz at sbcglobal.net, corporaLallen at yahoo.com, obrienscrmnt at aol.com, sanjaya at ulink.net, delaney at starstream.net, maing at pacbell.net, albertsilva1 at covad.net, jigel at hotmail.com, jlrusselljd at aol.com, carolynr at mucnevas.org, jimp at paccorp.com, paulbat at comcast.net, govia at comcast.net, jackt at rcsis.com, jsl24 at pacbell.net, jeffy2k at postmark.net, elmone at rcip.com, aacosta30 at earthlink.net, zkwest at comcast.net, be_washburn at msn.com, EJArcher at aol.com, hmdrigl at aol.com, oggie at winfirst.com, thomas2258 at sbcglobal.net, rdavis9000 at aol.com, kmcarter at cwnet.com, pfelkner at sbcglobal.net, m.mallory at charter.net, douglasbrown6 at comcast.net, douglasbrown11 at comcast.net, hperry at csus.edu, michael1828 at sbcglobal.net, buckbow2 at juno.com, gladrock at hotmail.com, kah2523 at aol.com, leereed79 at hotmail.com, debarramd at surewest.net, estmil at cwnet.com, abridge at mac.com, arniegod at juno.com, Landscape_Vision at earthlink.net, sabino11 at mac.com, parky711 at starstream.net, Mlienmsw at aol.com, Ivann.Greene at cdva.ca.gov, trxn8r at msn.com, joannpen at comcast.net, dbjacob at aol.com, epecci at internet49.com, brian.mccarraher at comcast.net, jwilcox51 at aol.com, phjacobson at aol.com, Hildebrand at dstoutput.com, dale at winfirst.com, sstew at vfr.net, timothybrown at sac.sticare.com, tcbwriter at sac.sticare.com, jimr at surewest.net, ejeanniemc at sbcglobal.net, stillcrazy at calweb.com, speed262 at aol.com, martalynneg at yahoo.com, dladams at ucdavis.edu, kbrisin at surewest.net, oasisacres at surewest.net, 960mes at earthlink.net, tommy at snider.us, cod196 at hotmail.com, dennisrecondo2502 at yahoo.com, mwelsch at edd.ca.gov, 606646 at earthlink.net, ptsac007 at aol.com, pamelad21 at comcast.net, sbrewer at calstrs.com, buyunion at surewest.net, shaskala at aol.com, rraever at sbcglobal.net, ColonelDan at worldnet.att.net, roymesser at raidersfan.net, jtischer at go56.com, rmirel at comcast.net, beverage at rcip.com, bob644 at earthlink.net, harjam8 at aol.com, jac07 at dcn.org, snowlene at sbcglobal.net Cc: cmorris at sierracollege.edu, hellsword at earthlink.net, sinfulcat at aol.com, trtgrrl at hotmail.com, jimandgerry at goldrush.com, takman at compuserve.com, mdmeloy at cox.net, pat at sonicfrog.com, instrnsys at aol.com, mannpm at hotmail.com, richard.helt at nau.edu, bowenr at pacbell.net, samirazara at att.net, srbingen at jps.net, stephen at krofchok.com, tamedia at earthlink.net, nolimitation at earthlink.net, vdavis at fresno.ca.gov, quailholme at schat.com, wslotter at ucdavis.edu, bdurston at aol.com, hardywj at msn.com, wkohl at cwo.com, leereed79 at hotmail.com, cbaird at edd.ca.gov, ebuttler at inreach.com, mudfoot56073 at yahoo.com, leannahong at yahoo.com, wblang at earthlink.net, mankowski at citlink.net, morrisnme at aol.com, albertsilva1 at covad.net, katharinet at aol.com, civillib at cwnent.com, wwoolfenden at fs.fed.us Subject: Fwd: *What You Can Do About Election Fraud* Delivered-To: jackt at surewest.net From: "jaywalker" To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@stardustweb.net> Subject: *What You Can Do About Election Fraud* Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:54:39 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-TST: mx2 SNWK3 0.31-80 ip=66.81.80.130 I've already started writing, faxing and will start calling tomorrow. We all need to get involved in this, it could make a difference this time. We can't sit back and take it twice in a row. I AM SO PISSED!! Jill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *What You Can Do About Election Fraud* . by Susan Truitt, Co-founder, CASE Ohio, Citizens' Alliance for Secure Elections From: ILCAoNline Saturday, November 06, 2004 Thank you all for your supportive responses to the allegations of election fraud in the 2004 presidential election. Here are some concrete actions that you can take that will make a difference. Please keep your indignation alive and use that energy to raise the issue publicly until the mass media can use the "F" word - fraud. Please keep the energy going to help educate the public regarding the devastating truth that our electoral process is broken and is being taken over by right wing zealots and privatization. Send financial donations to: Black Box Voting, Bev Harris' site. She is doing a world of good with her tenacious and brave work. She sent out Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to every county in the country, and that type of effort requires funds. Read Black Box Voting, by Bev Harris, available on the web, to arm yourself with the sad facts of a broken electoral process. http://www.blackboxvoting.org Also, send donations to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been instrumental in all litigation across the country relating to e-voting (electronic voting). http://www.eff.org Send donations to VerifiedVoting < http://www.verifiedvoting.org >and VotersUnite < http://www.votersunite.org > and BallotIntegrity < http://www.ballotintegrity.org >. These organizations have done a lion's share of getting the word out about what is wrong in this country's electoral process. Contact TrueMajority < http://www.TrueMajority.org > and MoveOn < http://www.moveon.org > and CommonCause < http://www.commoncause.org > and tell them to help pursue a post-election challenge to the vote tallies. Donate money to these organizations. Write to your local newspapers to inform the public at large what is going on. Tell them to cover the election debacle and tell them to use the "F" word liberally. FAX Ralph Nader, 202-265-0092, and tell him to file for recounts and reexaminations of the tally in the states in which he was on the ballot. Write to John Conyers (D - Mich), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee on the Constitution, who has requested a Congressional Hearing on the 2004 election. Tell him you support the request and that you want him to push for the hearing to be held as soon as possible. Contact Information for John Conyers: * Washington DC E-Mail Address: john.conyers at mail.house.gov * Washington DC Web Address: http://www.house.gov/conyers; * Washington DC Web Mail Address: http://www.house.gov/conyers/letstalk.htm; * Washington DC Web Mail Address: http://www.house.gov/writerep; Washington DC Address 2426 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-2214 Phone: 202-225-5126 Fax: 202-225-0072 District Address - Detroit Federal Building, Room 669 231 West Lafayette Boulevard Detroit, MI 48226-2766 Phone: 313-961-5670 Fax: 313-226-2085 District Address - Southgate DCC Building 15100 Northline Road, Suite 257 Southgate, MI 48195 Phone: 734-285-5624 Fax: 734-285-5943 Campaign Address 19512 Livernoise Detroit, MI 48221 Phone: 313-864-3671 Write to George Soros and ask him to help fund litigation in Ohio and Florida to challenge the vote tallies. c/o Open Society Institute--New York 888 7th Avenue New York, N.Y. 10106 United States of America Telephone: +1-212-757-2323 Fax: +1-212-974-0367 E-mail: osnews at sorosny.org Web: http://www.soros.org/gsbio.html; Write to the DNC and ask why Senator Kerry capitulated so quickly - before the information on the vote tallies was even beginning to come in. Tell them that Senator Kerry needs to take back his concession. Democratic National Committee, 430 South Capitol St SE, Washington, DC 20003. Their phone number is 202-863-8000. Their web-site is: www.democrats.org . Contact the Kerry campaign and tell them that he has done a great disservice to the American people by capitulating so quickly - before information could be gathered. Tell him to reconsider in light of all that is coming to the surface. Contact National Headquarters Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc. P.O. Box 34640 Washington, DC 20043 202-712-3000 202-712-3001 (fax) 202-336-6950 (TTY) Stay in touch with CASE_OH at yahoogroups.com and CaseOhio .< http://www.caseohio.org > Finally, forward this to all of your friends, acquaintances, listservs, etc. Keep up the good fight. Thank you. Susan Susan Truitt Co-founder, CASE Ohio, Citizens' Alliance for Secure Elections www.caseohio.org 614-487-1759 614-270-5239 Read this at: http://radtimes.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are also links (at the above link) to the following articles: Stolen Election continues... . Fragmented, Underfunded System Continues to Frustrate Thousands of Voters The stolen election of 2004: welcome back to hell Broward machines count backward House Dems Seek Election Inquiry Enter, Mr. Blackwell: Was He Bush's Trump Card In Ohio? Computer Loses More Than 4,000 Early Votes Group tallies more than 1,100 e-voting glitches Palm Beach County Logs 88,000 More Votes Than Voters Too many votes Software error means recount of 81,000 Thurston County ballots Voting Machine Troubles Voting Machine Breaks, Holds Up Final Iowa Tally Voting machine problems reported Never Say Die-bold: So You Don't Think the Bush Campaign Stole This Election? Think Again Did Kerry Concede Too Soon? The Last Battle http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html >From another list. Four years ago when the election was stolen, Al Gore fought for more than a month all the way to the Supreme Court. And some people said he should have done even more! This time the election was rigged 100 times worse. There are mountains of evidence, as I'm sure you all know. Yet nobody is crying foul now. Kerry conceded within hours, and our "opposition party" is in complete retreat. Not a peep, not an investigation, not a the slightest outcry or show of outrage, not one protest against the voter suppression tactics or call for investigating the rigged voting machines. Nothing. You'd think this was a normal election lost by a landslide. But the DNC is asking for YOUR feedback. Please give it to them: http://www.democrats.org/feedback/ I gave it to them but good. Jill Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/democratsonline/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: democratsonline-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service . Jack Tracey Placer County Coordinator Veterans for Kerry Roseville, CA jackt at rcsis.com Title and Organization listed for identification purposes only. Contribute to Defeat Bush -- Elect John Kerry as President: http://volunteer.johnkerry.com/member/272189 From jac07 at dcn.org Sun Nov 7 16:04:46 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 16:04:46 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: Vets rally for Peace-Nov. 11-Thursday, 4-5 pm--outdoors--Pete McCloskey may speak In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ---------- From: Nancy Patterson Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 08:35:36 -0800 To: john chendo Subject: Davis Dems/rally Hi, John, Cynthia Rodriquez said she's interested in participating in a rally for Vet's Day. Haven't heard from Gretchen Muller, but I'll see the Woodland Dems tonight at the Next Chapter/Steve's Pizza, so I'll see if they're up for it. I know that you can't do too much this week, but i assume the Davis Dems would want to participate??? Do you know if anyone from Davis will be attending the discussion today at the Next Chapter? Did anyone save the Chickenhawks poster? It would be a nice thing to have for the rally. Also, what's the schedule for the Davis Dems meetings? I attend both Winters & Woodland meetings, so I may try to hit Davis, too. W.Sac would be good, too. Does anyone go to all these meetings, already? I mean, to act as a link, to connect all of Yolo Co. Thx, n. From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Sun Nov 7 18:39:03 2004 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 18:39:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Davis Democrats] 24 Hour Reminder Davis Democrat Club board meeting on November 8th Message-ID: <20041108023903.221082000097@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us> This e-mail is to announce that there will be Davis a Democrat Club Board meeting within 24 hours on November 8th. Rita Martin, who is on this e-mailing list as a club member, would like a decision or vote on her volunteering for the office of membership chair. It is my understanding that this club office's duties were being done by Lyle Smith and John Chendo during the 2004 campaign, but this will all have to be discussed, if this item is placed on the agenda. It was also my understanding that there were disccussions going on to pare down the board so that we do not have to rent the Blanchard Room for our meetings. Currently, there are 28 names on the Davis Democrat Club board list. Of these names, 25 of these people are active boardmembers that have been attending the meetings and were active in Campaign 2004. This is all slated to be discussed at the December meeting unless someone wants to discuss it at this meeting and place it on the agenda. Please note that if we add anything more to the agenda, the meeting will go on later than 8PM. Pam Nieberg has already informed me that she will not be able to make this meeting because of another meeting that is scheduled each month on the 2nd Monday of the month. DDC Board Meeting Time: 7 PM to 8:04 PM Place: The Davis Campaign Headquarters at 5th and L Street (The December meeting is tentatively scheduled to be at the Blanchard Room, Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library on December 6th.) Preliminary Agenda -- this is only a preliminary agenda. The agenda will change as items are added at the meeting to it. Please print this out and bring it to the meeting. I will bring about 15 copies of this preliminary agenda and 5 copies of the minutes from September. I will need to find out what happened to the minutes taken at the October meeting, which I missed. The minutes on the web are the following: http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/min0409.htm -- September 6, 2004 -- Not officially approved http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/min0408.htm -- August 2, 2004 -- Unknown status Davis Democratic Club Meeting Agenda November 8, 7 pm - 8pm The Davis Campaign Headquarters at 5th and L Street I. Introduction (8 minutes -- usually takes 2 minutes) i. Approval of Agenda ii. Approval of Minutes for past meetings ( http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/min0409.htm ) iii. Minutes from other clubs and campus Democrats (usually no one shows up from these groups) II. Treasurer's Report (4 minutes) III. Campaign 2004 (15 minutes) i. Closing headquarters report and comments. ii. Yolo Beat Bush report and comments. IV. The DDC Holiday Party (10 minutes) i. Report from chairs on this event ii. Additional planning and requests V. The Winter General Meetings in January and February (7 minutes) i. Report on last year's event ii. Appointment of chairs for 2005 Winter events. VI. Content of the Next Newsletter (6 minutes) i. Update by Current Editor ii. Story ideas VII. New and Unfinished Business (12 minutes) i. New items ii. Announcements iii. Next Meeting Time/Location iv. Meeting adjournment Time: 62 minutes From jac07 at dcn.org Mon Nov 8 14:00:07 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:00:07 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: Should there now be an election investigation In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20041107215929.00b7db48@pop.rcsis.com> Message-ID: ---------- From: jack Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:00:06 -0800 To: jack Subject: Fw: Should there now be an election investigation Delivered-To: jackt at surewest.net From: "jaywalker" To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@stardustweb.net> Subject: Fw: Should there now be an election investigation Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 19:07:39 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-TST: mx2 SNWK3 0.31-80 ip=66.81.80.130 I have already filled out the short form and signed it.and hope you will also. Jill > I am writing to you from the People's Email Network because I > had received a number of emails from you as a result of my > membership in various Yahoo groups. You may already be aware > of our latest issue page at > > http://www.thepen.us/e-fraud.html > > due to some postings there. We ask the question if the 2004 > election results should be challenged on the basis of black box > voting fraud. With one click the page sends your personal > message (not a form letter) to the Kerry campaign, the DNC and > the Government Accountability Office. By making the process as > easy as possible we are hoping to generate maximum > participation. > > I am asking you to feature a link to this page anywhere you can > in your own communications in the next couple days so the > people may speak in the loudest possible voice. > > Thank you for being an activist. > > Simply email me back if you want off the list. > > > > NEVER SEND SPAM. IT IS BAD. > > Jack Tracey Placer County Coordinator Veterans for Kerry Roseville, CA jackt at rcsis.com Title and Organization listed for identification purposes only. Contribute to Defeat Bush -- Elect John Kerry as President: http://volunteer.johnkerry.com/member/272189 From jac07 at dcn.org Mon Nov 8 14:03:51 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:03:51 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Thom Hartmann and Dick Morris : Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked In-Reply-To: <5934931721DCAE45AB4298C0345A35EE2893C4@chocsrv.CHOC.local> Message-ID: ---------- From: "Matthew Huerta" Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:16:11 -0800 To: Subject: FW: FOCUS: Thom Hartmann | Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked "This was no mere mistake. Exit polls cannot be as wrong across the board as they were on election night. I suspect foul play." Dick Morris -----Original Message----- From: Joaquin [mailto:jdgalvan at ucdavis.edu] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 9:21 AM To: Matthew Huerta Subject: FOCUS: Thom Hartmann | Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked share this. >From: "t r u t h o u t" >Subject: FOCUS: Thom Hartmann | Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was >Hacked >Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 06:45:40 -0800 > >FOCUS: Thom Hartmann | Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked >http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804Z.shtml > > >Click to REMOVE -> mailto:leave-one-to-72742D at news.truthout.org >Click to SUBSCRIBE -> mailto:join-three-to at news.truthout.org From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Tue Nov 9 14:06:53 2004 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:06:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Davis Democrats] test Message-ID: <20041109220653.E51BF20009AD@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us> test From jac07 at dcn.org Wed Nov 10 08:40:48 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:40:48 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: don't give up In-Reply-To: <25.520863ff.2ec3110a@aol.com> Message-ID: ---------- Subject: Fwd: don't give up << Trish, More excellence! I have listened now to 2 young Democrats who are cutting their teeth on politics: Barak Obama and Gavin Newsom. I like what I see. Not always, but a lot of the time. I have a fairly simplistic view: Democrats are the truly democratic party. We embrace all visions, explore all traditions, embody all cultures, and expound all ideas. We are messy thinkers who, by dint of our messiness, come out with something better than the individual elements. The Republicans tell us how to think, how to live, and how to act. Democrats ask us how we'd like to think, live, and act. Last Tuesday, the voters said they weren't ready to take on the responsibility of managing their own destiny. But in years to come, I think they will. Our job is to continue to ask people what they want. It's the only way to remind them that they have freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of choice -- until someone takes it away. Subject: RE: don't give up Trish, More excellence! I have listened now to 2 young Democrats who are cutting their teeth on politics: Barak Obama and Gavin Newsom. I like what I see. Not always, but a lot of the time. I have a fairly simplistic view: Democrats are the truly democratic party. We embrace all visions, explore all traditions, embody all cultures, and expound all ideas. We are messy thinkers who, by dint of our messiness, come out with something better than the individual elements. The Republicans tell us how to think, how to live, and how to act. Democrats ask us how we'd like to think, live, and act. Last Tuesday, the voters said they weren't ready to take on the responsibility of managing their own destiny. But in years to come, I think they will. Our job is to continue to ask people what they want. It's the only way to remind them that they have freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of choice -- until someone takes it away. Subject: don't give up To paraphrase the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan "Democrats lost an election last night, but we did not lose a tradition. For ours is the oldest political party on Earth. We have known good times and bad, while sometimes we have merely endured. But more often, we have prevailed because at heart we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people, that government can embrace great causes and do great things." Grid Iron Dinner 1981 From jac07 at dcn.org Wed Nov 10 19:34:31 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:34:31 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: Urgent Alert: Investigate Electronic Voting Machines In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ---------- From: "ActForChange" Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:44:22 -0500 (EST) To: jac07 at dcn.org Subject: Urgent Alert: Investigate Electronic Voting Machines ACTFORCHANGE ACTIVISM UPDATE: November 10, 2004 You are receiving this newsletter because you have previously taken action on ActForChange in support of progressive values. IN THIS BULLETIN: FEATURED ACTION: Investigate Electronic Voting Machines ACTIVISM OPPORTUNITY: Pass Meaningful Election Reform Investigate Electronic Voting Machines Now that November 2 has come and gone, some disturbing reports of problems with electronic voting machines have surfaced. Click here to take action! For example: In Columbus, Ohio, an electronic voting system reported that Bush received 4,258 votes while Kerry received 260 votes in a precinct where records show only 638 voters cast ballots; In North Carolina, a machine lost more than 4,500 votes due to a mistaken assumption about the memory capacity of a computer; In Youngstown, Ohio, and South Florida, numerous voters complained that when they tried to cast votes for Kerry, the machines instead recorded their votes for Bush. All in all, more than 30,000 complaints have been gathered from across the country. In the midst of such turmoil, it's crucial that an independent authoritative investigation be undertaken to sort this all out. Click here to take action! Please forward this newsletter to your friends and help spread the word about this important campaign! Pass Meaningful Election Reform While the 2004 election experienced an increased turnout that should be celebrated, the 2004 election was also flawed by far too many obstacles to full participation. Click here to take action! Our national elections are run via a mishmash of local, city and state regulations and agencies, so that voters in one state are subject to different rules than voters elsewhere. While Congress passed the Help America Vote Act as a first step toward election reform, November 2 demonstrated that much more is needed. Congress should make the passage of meaningful election reform the first order of business during the upcoming November special session. Click here to take action! Please forward this newsletter to your friends and help spread the word about this important campaign! Thank you for working to build a better world. 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PLEASE SEND QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS TO: info at actforchange.com. http://www.actforchange.com From jac07 at dcn.org Thu Nov 11 15:49:10 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:49:10 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Pass it on: Ask Congress to Investigate the 2004 Election In-Reply-To: <5934931721DCAE45AB4298C0345A35EE2D5BAF@chocsrv.CHOC.local> Message-ID: ---------- From: "Matthew Huerta" Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:39:14 -0800 To: Subject: FW: Pass it on: Ask Congress to Investigate the 2004 Election You may have done this already but just in case... mh UCD PAN, BS '01 Dear friend, Thanks for asking Congress to investigate the 2004 election. Please take a moment to invite your friends and colleagues to sign -- it's important that we deliver as many messages as possible to Congress by the end of the week. You can just forward the sample letter below. Spreading the word is critical, but please only pass this message along to those who know you, of course -- spam hurts our campaign. Thanks, for all you do. Sincerely, --The MoveOn.org Team Here's a sample message to send to your friends: Subject: Tell Congress to Investigate the 2004 Election Dear friend, Questions are swirling around whether the election was conducted honestly or not. We need to know -- was it or wasn't it? If people were wrongly prevented from voting, or if legitimate votes were mis-counted or not counted at all, we need to know so the wrongdoers can be held accountable, and to help prevent this from happening again. Members of Congress are demanding an investigation to answer this question. Join me in supporting their call, at: http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/ Thanks. From jac07 at dcn.org Thu Nov 11 16:24:10 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:24:10 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Tell Congress to Investigate the 2004 Election Message-ID: Dear friend, Questions are swirling around whether the election was conducted honestly or not. We need to know -- was it or wasn't it? If people were wrongly prevented from voting, or if legitimate votes were mis-counted or not counted at all, we need to know so the wrongdoers can be held accountable, and to help prevent this from happening again. Members of Congress are demanding an investigation to answer this question. Join me in supporting their call, at: http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/ Thanks. From jac07 at dcn.org Thu Nov 11 19:03:58 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:03:58 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE BUSH-from a gold star mother of Vacaville In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20041111182052.03727e50@pop.rcsis.com> Message-ID: ---------- From: jack Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:21:22 -0800 To: jack Subject: FW: AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE BUSH Delivered-To: jackt at surewest.net Reply-To: From: "Tiffany Craig Brown" To: Subject: FW: AN OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE BUSH Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:14:25 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-TST: mx1 SNWK3 0.31-80 ip=67.111.86.6 The following letter was written by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a young man and soldier killed in Iraq . . . . November 4, 2004 Dear George, You dont mind if I call you George do you? When you sent me a letter offering your condolences on the death of my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq, you called me Cindy, so I naturally assume we are on a first name basis. George, it has been seven months today since your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, my big boy, my hero, my best-friend: Casey. It has been seven months since your ignorant and arrogant lack of planning for the peace murdered my oldest child. It has been two days since your dishonest campaign stole another election&but you all were way more subtle this time than in 2000, werent you? You hardly had to get the Supreme Court of the United States involved at all this week. You feel so proud of yourself for betraying the country again, dont you? You think you are very clever because you pulled the wool over the eyes of some of the people again. You think that you have some mandate from God&that you can spend your political capitalany way that you want. George you dont care or even realize that 56,000,000 plus citizens of this country voted against you and your agenda. Still, you are going to continue your ruthless work of being a divider and not a uniter. George, in 2000 when you stole that election and the Democrats gave up, I gave up too. I had the most ironic thought of my life then: "Oh well, how much damage can he do in four years?" Well, now I know how much you have damaged my family, this country, and this world. If you think I am going to allow you another four years to do even more damage, then you truly are mistaken. I will fight for a true vote count and if that fails, your impeachment. Also, the impeachment of your Vice President. The only thing is, I'm not politically savvy, and I don't have a Karl Rove to plan my strategy, but I do have a big mouth and a righteous cause, which still mean something in this country, I hope. All of this lying, fooling, and betraying must be hard workGeorge. You really think you know what hard work is? George, let me tell you what hard workreally is. Hard work is seeing your oldest son, your brave and honorable man-child go off to a war that had, and still has, no basis in reality. Hard work is worrying yourself gray and not being able to sleep for 2 weeks because you dont know if your child is safe. Hard work is seeing your sons murder on CNN one Sunday evening while youre enjoying the last supper youll ever truly enjoy again. Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son&your first born&your kind and gentle sweet baby. Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday. Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body of their big babainto the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both. But, Dear George, do you know what the hardest work of all is? Trying to digest the fact that the leader of the country that your family has fought for and died for, for generations, lied to you and betrayed your dear boys sense of honor and exploited his courage and exploited his loyalty to his buddies. Hard work is having your country abandon you after they killed your son. Hard work is coming to the realization that your son had his future robbed from him and that you have had your son's future and future grand-children stolen from you. Hard work is knowing that there are so many people in this world that have prospered handsomely from your son's death. George, I must confess that I and my family worked very HARD to re-defeat you this time, but you refuse to stay defeated. Well, we are watching you very carefully. We are going to do everything in our power to have you impeached for misleading the American people into a disastrous war and for mis-using and abusing your power as Commander-in-Chief. We are going to scream until our last breath to bring the rest of our babies home from this quagmire of a war that you have gotten our country in to: before too many more families learn the true meaning of Hard Work. We know it is going to be an uphill battle, knowing how Republican Congress is, but thanks to you, we know the meaning of Hard Work and were not afraid of hard work at all. The 56,000,000 plus citizens who voted against you and your agenda have given me a mandate to move forward with my agenda. Also, thanks to you and your careless domestic policies, I am unemployed, so this will be my full-time job. Being your political downfall will be the most noble accomplishment of my life and it will bring justice for my son and 1125 (so far) other brave Americans and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis your lies have killed. By the way, George, how many more innocent Iraqis are your policies going to kill before you convince them that you are better than Saddam? How many more of their cities are you going to level before you consider that they are liberated? If you really had any moral values, or if you were an honorable man at all you would resign. My son was a man who had high moral values and true courage. Humanity lost a bright light on April 04, 2004. I will live the rest of my life missing Casey desperately. Thank you for that, George. Have a nice day. God Bless America!! We surely need it! Cindy Sheehan Broken hearted mother of a True American Hero: Spc Casey Austin Sheehan, KIA 04/04/04 Sadr City, Baghdad "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always." - Gandhi Jack Tracey Placer County Coordinator Veterans for Kerry Roseville, CA jackt at rcsis.com Title and Organization listed for identification purposes only. Contribute to Defeat Bush -- Elect John Kerry as President: http://volunteer.johnkerry.com/member/272189 From jac07 at dcn.org Thu Nov 11 23:53:20 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:53:20 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: VFP - Vet Day Protest In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20041111223952.04649498@pop.rcsis.com> Message-ID: ---------- From: jack Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:40:11 -0800 To: jack Subject: Fwd: VFP - Vet Day Protest Delivered-To: jackt at surewest.net From: "George Main" To: "VFP Sacramento" Subject: VFP - Vet Day Protest Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:39:21 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-TST: mx1 SNWK3 0.31-80 ip=66.163.170.80 Wow, what an incredible event. 75 dedicated stalwarts of peace standing for two hours in pouring rain. I was so impressed with the gathering today. This wasn't the ideal day for a protest at a remote location. Yesterday at 9:00 a.m. I received a call from Homeland Security about the protest. I said that I expected a couple of dozen protestors. This morning I was disheartened by more rain than I expected. I was hoping we would get at least a dozen hardy souls. 75 protestors and exceptional media coverage. MEPS is on the map and in the consciousness of Sacramento media. KCRA and The Bee both called me later to confirm that we will be back on a weekly basis for counter-recruiting and protesting in general. Major Donald M. Farnsworth, Jr. knows we were there. And he knows we will be back. Albert Silva, Secretary VFP#87, is coordinating the weekly lunchtime protest. His email is albertsilva1 at covad.net mailto:albertsilva1 at covad.net and his phone # is 375-0828. Volunteer some lunchtime. This is the frontline. The difference you make here is immediate and profound. Some of you know that I received a call when we were marching out to the corner. It was a young lady who had enlisted in the Marines and knew she had made a mistake. She was distressed and wanted our help in getting out of her enlistment. Krista is a 17 year-old JFK HS student and a victim of the poverty draft. Her contract is Delayed Entry Program. There is some work to be done but she won't have to become a Marine. Krista validated the oppressive examination and enlistment process at MEPS. She also validated what happens at lunch and the difference we could have made had we stepped in her path on her fateful day. George Again, please, forward this email. We need to get Albert's info to everyone who wants to volunteer. Jack Tracey Placer County Coordinator Veterans for Kerry Roseville, CA jackt at rcsis.com Title and Organization listed for identification purposes only. Contribute to Defeat Bush -- Elect John Kerry as President: http://volunteer.johnkerry.com/member/272189 From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Tue Nov 16 19:21:21 2004 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:21:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Davis Democrats] Davis Democrat Club board meeting on December 6 Message-ID: <20041117032121.9CC1820009BC@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us> Greetings Davis Democrat Club Boardmembers, Three Week Notice. There will be a Davis Democrat Club board meeting on Monday, December 6th at 7PM in the Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library. The address is 315 East 14th Street. Please note that any Davis Democrat Club member is welcome to attend the meetings. We normally have at least 1 to 2 guests per meeting. We have never had a meeting without someone from the public in attendance. Boardmembers need to come to this meeting. We will be voting to remove from our large board roster, people that have not attended meetings for over two years. We are trying to trim the board to 22 members. The club by-laws say that people cannot miss 3 meetings in a row without an excuse. Other items on the agenda are fundraising and organization for the coming year, 2005. An item that was not discussed, but needs to be discussed is the Winter general meeting that we have each year in either January, February or March. Some years we have had up to 3 of these, one each month and in other years we have only had one general meeting. That is all for now. I will e-mail once I have the minutes posted for the November 8th meeting. Please visit the web site for the old minutes. We need to approve the August and September minutes at the next meeting. The following is the list of DDC board members: Tony Gruska Rhonda Gruska Kingsley Melton Betty Weir G Richard Yamagata Barbara Slemmons Bob Bockwinkel Stephen Souza Rita Martin Dan Kehew Adrienne Kandell Ana?s Vayssi?res John Chendo Lyle Smith Pam Nieberg Arun Sen Mary Lou Hernandez Scott Lay Jerry Lester Jim Pollock Susan Peter-Thompson Max Rothe Julia Sanchez Mike Syvanen Joyce Wilson The following board members have not attended a board meeting in 4 years. Rick Vulliet Chris Blanchard Vonnie Crutchfield From adrienne at dcn.org Sat Nov 13 00:13:48 2004 From: adrienne at dcn.org (Adrienne Kandel) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:13:48 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Actions for election investigation - in one email. (If nothing else, do #1: sign petition) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 1. Moveon.org is collecting signatures calling for Congressional investigation. http://www.moveon.org/investigatethevote/ 2. Write to John Conyers (D - Mich), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee on the Constitution, who has requested a Congressional Hearing on the 2004 election. Tell him you support the request and that you want him to push for the hearing to be held as soon as possible. john.conyers at mail.house.gov, 202-225-5126. Fax: 202-225-0072 3. The Green and Libertarian parties have announced their intent to demand a recount in Ohio, as soon as they can raise the funds. Here's one website where the Greens are raising the fee required by the state of Ohio, plus other recount expenses. http://web.greens.org/c/cobb/supporters.cgi?function=donate You could send thanks to info at greenpartyus.org. 4. Blackboxvoting.org as always needs donations for its continuing investigation. It's made a humongous Freedomn of Info request for audit files from this election. http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ (And for a 1-minute entertaining video of a chimp (named Baxter) deleting audit files and thus destroying any electronic trail of voter tampering, see and pass on http://www.blackboxvoting.org/baxter/baxterVPR.mov) 5. Nader and Camejo are demanding a hand recount in New Hampshire, because as in Florida there were discrepancies between voter registration and Bush support in counties using Diebold optical scans. On their website they are accepting donations to cover (unspecified) expenses for that separately from their campaign expenses, if so earmarked. I don't see any email address to say Thank You for demanding the recount, but there's a phone number: (202) 265-4000 . 6. These organizations have also been active in verifiable vote protection, and could use your support: The Electronic Frontier Foundation , VerifiedVoting < http://www.verifiedvoting.org >, VotersUnite < http://www.votersunite.org > and BallotIntegrity . From adrienne at dcn.org Tue Nov 16 20:14:50 2004 From: adrienne at dcn.org (Adrienne Kandel) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:14:50 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] horrific civilian cost in Fallujah that I'm not seeing covered in mainstream media (What has it come to?) Message-ID: (forwarded from a friend): Red Cross Estimates 800 Civilians Dead in Falluja: http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/ US Forces in Falluja Indiscriminately Kill Civilians: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041114/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_esc aping_fallujah_1 US Forces Leave a City in Ruins: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=582915 US Forces Deny Aid to Civilians Trapped in Falluja Claiming There Are None: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=620 953?ion=news (NOTE: the translation of Marine Col. Shupp's remarks in this article is that anyone actually still in Falluja is actually a "terrorist" and can be killed on sight, having magically transformed the civilians by denying their existence.) Ongoing Collective Punishment in Falluja: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FK16Ak02.html US Occupation Forces Deny Water and Power to Cities Resisting the Occupation: http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11132004.html And, this note from Sam Smith's Progressive Review: [ACADEMICS FOR JUSTICE, UK - Tonight (11/15) on the radio the Red Crescent has managed to enter Fallujah by force and they said conditions are extremely bad. Many children dead and dying from waterborne diseases, as no clean water so drinking anything. No food and starving people eating leaves from the trees as they are starving. The hospital occupied by US troops will not allow it to be used by the people, so many many dying from awful injuries, spontaneous abortions due to the bombing, horrific burns, amputees just everything one could imagine. People burying their families in their gardens.] From jac07 at dcn.org Sat Nov 20 16:40:39 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:40:39 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: This is Your Call to Action-election reform In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ---------- From: Jennifer Hodges Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:10:09 -0800 To: Jennifer Hodges Subject: This is Your Call to Action Hello John Kerry supporters! You have worked tirelessly for over a year to elect John Kerry and other Democratic candidates. You?ve donated money, phone banked, registered voters, wrote letters to the editor, put up lawn signs, knocked on doors and monitored polls. You were there when they needed you. They still need you, perhaps now more than ever. But more, your Democracy needs you. We have been extremely cautious with respect to calling you to action because we are mindful of accusations of sour grapes or wild conspiracy theories. This caution has helped us as we now feel confident enough to reach out and share what we have learned. Regardless of whether this affects the outcome of this election when the electoral college meets on December 13th, it will affect all future elections: We believe there were irregularities in crucial voting precincts that may have influenced the outcome of the election in George Bush?s favor on November 2nd. We believe the only way to restore faith in the integrity of the electoral process is to investigate these irregularities. We believe this strongly enough that we ask you to investigate for yourself by reading the articles below. Then, we ask you to devote a few more days before you take your holiday vacation to call for an investigation. You will be joining a growing chorus of Democrats who suspect that the message of a fair shake for the middle class did, in fact, resonate with Middle America. That Americans really do vote rationally, the way they always have, and that exit polls tell the truth, the way they always have. Already, six congress people have filed for an investigation and John Kerry?s team of lawyers has been doing an independent investigation. We have been calling for electronic voting machines with a paper ballot for years because we know the alternative is an invitation for fraud. We need to know that fraud did not occur. The mainstream media is beginning to follow this story, led by Keith Olbermann at MSNBC, whose blog has frequent updates on the state of the election and the irregularities. Please send him a note at KOlbermann at msnbc.com thanking him for his journalistic enthusiasm and for staying on the story. This is no substitute for the work that needs to happen over the next years. Work on communicating our message, work on building a deep bench of qualified candidates, work reviving Democratic appeal to all, regardless of region or culture. But without these investigations, it is possible that no matter how much work we invest, we will never win. This is your call to action. Pass this on. Articles Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804Z.shtml Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml Kerry Won. . . http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php Ohio Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Votes http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_el_ pr/voting_problems&cid=694&ncid=1963&sid=96378798 Broward machines count backward http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/news/epaper/2004/11/05 /a29a_BROWVOTE_1105.html Sites to visit and support Black Box Voting http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=3D65najb44.0.ciy7jb44.d9spuyn6.8104&= p=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackboxvoting.org Votergate http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=3D65najb44.0.fiy7jb44.d9spuyn6.8104&= p=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.votergate.tv Verified Voting http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=3D65najb44.0.diy7jb44.d9spuyn6.8104&= p=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.verifiedvoting.org Election Protection http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=3D65najb44.0.foe8z7n6.d9spuyn6.8104&= p=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.lawyerscommittee.org%2Fhome.html Voters Unite http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=3D65najb44.0.eiy7jb44.d9spuyn6.8104&= p=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.votersunite.org%2Felectionproblems.asp People and media to contact A quick guide to each state?s democratic party. http://www.democrats.org/states/ Find contact info for all senators, representatives and Secretaries of State http://www.firstgov.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml The People?s Email Network http://www.thepen.us/e-fraud.html Contact info for state election directors http://cadca.org/CoalitionResources/ElectionGuide/EG-Appendix3.asp Great Congressional guide to local media by state. http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/ Also these journalists: ftn at cbsnews.com ; evening at cbsnews.com ;hardball at msnbc.com ; nightly at nbc.com ; MTP at NBC.com ;today at nbc.com ; niteline at abc.com ; ETAUDR at abc.com ;wnn at abcnews.com ; letters at msnbc.com ; 2020 at abc.com ; 60ll at cbsnews.com ; aaronbrown at cnn.com ; am at cnn.com ;cnn at cnn.com ; Colmes at foxnews.com ; Fox at foxnews.com ;imus at msnbc.com ; Jack.Cafferty at turner.com ;jconason at observer.com ; wolf at cnn.com ; Joe at msnbc.com ;LarryKingLive at turner.com ; Lateedition at cnn.com ;letters at charleskrauthammer.com ; liberties at nytimes.com; LouDobbs at cnn.com ; Norville at msnbc.com ;NYTDirect at nytimes.com ;PeterJennings at abcnews.com ;Public at nytimes.com ; sidney_blumenthal at yahoo.com ;Ted.Koppel at abc.com ; greg.ip at wsj.com ; editor at usatoday.com Sample Letter to Media (tailor this letter for election officials and congress people): Every journalist and news organization has a vested interest in investigating and exposing any possible fraud that may have damaged our democracy on November 2nd. Whether it is the kind of fraud that happened in 2000 or tampering with the vulnerable and republican-owned electronic voting machines that evidence suggests occurred. The House Judiciary Committee has asked the GAO to investigate numerous problems with the election process, and stories continue to point to irregularities that can no longer be ignored. The press declared a mea culpa one year after passively reporting the misinformation fed to it in the lead up to the Iraq invasion. You can restore your reputation by helping Americans restore our faith in the integrity of the election system and to declare that ?There are certain things that should never be privatized. Democracy is one of them.? If you have any doubt that what happened November 2nd was anything but a fair and square victory for the George Bush administration, it is your duty as a journalist to follow your instinct. You will be rewarded. You will have half the country rooting for you, and grassroots groups eager to support you as you call for an investigation. Please, step up to the plate! Jennifer Hodges California Grassroots for Kerry Director, Speakers Bureau & Constituent Groups p 310.289.5438 c 323.646.0632 I?ve been trying to write to you all for a few hours but nothing seems appropriate. I feel like I?ve been punched in the chest. Like I did after September 11th. Like I did when my mother died. But it?s not because of any self absorbed pity for us having put so much blood sweat and tears into this campaign. It?s because John Kerry should be President of the United States. And America will realize that only when it?s too late. John Kerry is a man of integrity, grace, strength and maturity. He embodies the America of my dreams and distant memories. I was honored and deeply transformed by participating in the massive mobilization to get this man elected. I was also honored and deeply transformed by working with, and getting to know and love all of you, my compatriots. Your dedication, humor, professionalism and goodness reassures me that this nation cannot and will not suffer for long. She will once again be a beacon to all who want to be shown the light. But it is up to us. I truly believe that in order to see our vision for this country realized, we must stay unified, energized, organized and positive. There is much work to do both locally and nationally, politically and culturally, physically and spiritually. Take the month to mourn, rest and regroup. Spend Thanksgiving truly giving thanks for a fight well fought, and a man worth fighting for. Then, I invite all of you to join me as we look to the future and begin that work. We here in Southern California will keep our structure, though we will shift our focus. To those elsewhere, please keep in touch, let me know how you are staying engaged. What groups you recommend, people you believe in that may need support as they run for office, issues and news that needs to be investigated and exposed. Help communicate our values and reframe the debate with those who have been misled by a political and media machinery that is broken and needs to be replaced. Continue to give of your talent, time, money and networks so the foundation upon which we stand will be the only dry, solid, high ground left when the flood comes. Thank you again, and God bless us all. Jennifer Hodges California Grassroots for Kerry Director, Speakers Bureau & Constituent Groups p 310.289.5438 c 323.646.0632 From adrienne at dcn.org Wed Nov 17 22:57:11 2004 From: adrienne at dcn.org (Adrienne Kandel) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:57:11 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] Evidence of vote-counting fraud in Florida - or why to help blackboxvoting.org with expenses Message-ID: [Adrienne Kandel] In the following log you'll find evidence of original voting records being disposed of, and replaced with voting records showing votes moved to Bush and Republicans. In one African-American precinct, hundreds of votes were so moved. Please alert your news media to these stories (hence testing the allegations that they've been told to not report them). BevHarris Volusia County election records just got put on lockdown Tuesday Nov-16-04 07:26 PM Dueling lawyers, election officials gnashing teeth, Votergate.tv film crew catching it all. Here's what happened so far: Friday Black Box Voting investigators Andy Stephenson and Kathleen Wynne popped in to ask for some records. They were rebuffed by an elections official named Denise. Bev Harris called on the cell phone from investigations in downstate Florida, and told Volusia County Elections Supervisor Deanie Lowe that Black Box Voting would be in to pick up our Nov. 2 Freedom of Information request, or would file for a hand recount. "No, Bev, please don't do that!" she exclaimed. But this is the way it has to be, folks. We didn't back down. Monday Bev, Andy and Kathleen came in with a film crew and asked for the FOIA request. Deanie Lowe gave it to us with a smile, but I noticed that one item, the polling place tapes, were not copies of the real ones, but instead were new printouts, done on Nov. 15, and not signed by anyone. I asked to see the real ones, and they told us for "privacy" reasons we can't have copies of the signed ones. I insisted on at least viewing them (although refusing to give us copies of the signatures is not legally defensible, according to our attorney). They said the real ones were in the County Elections warehouse. It was quittin' time and we arranged to come back this morning to review them. Lana Hires, an employee who gained some notoriety in a Diebold memo, where she asked for an explanation of minus 16,022 votes for Gore, so she wouldn't have to stand there "looking dumb" when the auditor came in, was particularly unhappy about seeing us in the office. She vigorously shook her head when Deanie Lowe suggested we go to the warehouse. Kathleen Wynne and I showed up at the warehouse at 8:15 this morning. There was Lana Hires looking especially gruff, yet surprised. She ordered us out. Well, we couldn't see why because there she was, with a couple other people, handling the original poll tapes. You know, the ones with the signatures on them. We stepped out and they promptly shut the door behind us. There was a trash bag on the porch outside the door. I looked into it and what do you know, but there were poll tapes in there. They came out and glared at us. We drove away a small bit, and then videotaped the license plates of the two vehicles marked 'City Council' member. Others came out to glare and soon all doors were slammed. So, we went and parked behind a bus to see what they would do next. They pulled out some large pylons, which blocked the door. I decided to go look at the garbage some more. Kathleen videotaped this. A man came out and I immediately wrote a public records request for the contents of the garbage bag, which also contained ballots -- real ones, but not filled out. A brief tug of war occurred, tearing the garbage bag open. We then looked through it, as Pete looked on. He was quite friendly. We collected various poll tapes and other information and asked if they could copy it for us, for our public records request. "You won't be going anywhere," said Pete. "The deputy is on his way." Yes, not one but two police cars came up and then two county elections officials, and we all stood around discussing the merits of my public records request. They finally let us go, about the time our film crew arrived, and we all trooped off to the elections office. There, the plot thickened. We began to compare the special printouts given to us with the signed polling tapes from election night. Lo and behold, some were missing. We also found some that didn't match. In fact, in one location, precinct 215, an African-American precinct, the votes were off by hundreds, in favor of George W. Bush and other Republicans. Hmm. Which was right? Our polling tape, specially printed on Nov. 15, without signatures, or theirs, printed on Nov. 2, with up to 8 signatures per tape? Well, then it became even more interesting. Lana Hires took it upon herself to box up some items from an office, which appeared to contain -- you guessed it -- polling place tapes. She took them to the back of the building and disappeared. Then, voting integrity advocates from Volusia and Broward, decided now would be a good time to go through the trash at the elections office. Lo and behold, they found all kinds of memos and some polling place tapes, fresh from Volusia elections office. So, we compared these with the Nov. 2 signed ones and the "special' ones from Nov. 15 given to us, unsigned, and we found several of the MISSING poll tapes. There they were: In the garbage. So, Kathleen went to the car and got the polling place tapes we had pulled from the warehouse garbage. My my my. There were not only discrepancies, but a polling place tape that was signed by six officials. This was a bit disturbing, since the employees there told us that bag was destined for the shredder. By now, a county lawyer had appeared on the scene, suddenly threatening to charge us extra for the time we took looking at the real stuff they had withheld from us in our FOIA. Other lawyers appeared, phoned, people had meetings, Lana glowered at everyone, and someone shut the door in the office holding the GEMS server. Andy then went to get the GEMS server locked down. He also got the memory cards locked down and secured, much to the dismay of Lana. They were scattered around unsecured in any way before that. We then all agreed to convene tomorrow morning, to further audit, discuss the hand count that Black Box Voting will require of Volusia County, and of course, it is time to talk about contesting the election in Volusia. Bev Harris Executive Director Black Box Voting Together with Andy, and Kathleen. From adrienne at dcn.org Fri Nov 19 01:51:49 2004 From: adrienne at dcn.org (Adrienne Kandel) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 01:51:49 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] U.C. Berkeley Statistical analysis shows 99.9% chance touch-screens gave Bush excess votes in FL (260, 000 or so) Message-ID: Wired News Researchers: Florida Vote Fishy By Kim Zetter 12:18 PM Nov. 18, 2004 PT Electronic voting machines in Florida may have awarded George W. Bush up to 260,000 more votes than he should have received, according to statistical analysis conducted by University of California, Berkeley graduate students and a professor, who released a study on Thursday. The researchers likened their report to a beeping smoke alarm and called on Florida officials to examine the data and the voting systems in counties that used touch-screen voting machines to provide an explanation for the anomalies. The researchers examined the same numbers and variables in Ohio, but found no discrepancies there Their aim in releasing the report, the researchers said, was not to attack the results of the 2004 election in Florida, where Bush won by 350,000 votes, but to prompt election officials and the public to examine the e-voting systems and address the fact that there is no way to conduct a meaningful recount on the paperless machines The analysis -- which hasn't been formally peer-reviewed, but was examined by seven professors -- showed a discrepancy in the number of votes Bush received in counties that used the touch-screen machines and counties that used other types of voting equipment. The researchers examined numerous variables that might have affected the vote outcome. These included the number of voters, their median income, racial and age makeup and the change in voter turnout between the 2000 and 2004 elections. Using this information, they examined election results for the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates in the state in 1996, 2000 and 2004 to see how support for those candidates and parties measured over eight years in Florida's 67 counties. They discovered that in the 15 counties using touch-screen voting systems, the number of votes granted to Bush far exceeded the number of votes Bush should have received -- given all of the other variables -- while the number of votes that Bush received in counties using other types of voting equipment lined up perfectly with what the variables would have predicted for those counties. The total number of excessive votes ranged between 130,000 and 260,000, depending on what kind of problem caused the excess votes. The counties most affected by the anomaly were heavily Democratic. Sociology professor Michael Hout, who chairs the university's graduate Sociology and Demography group, said the chance for such a discrepancy to occur was less than 1 in 1,000. "No matter how many factors and variables we took into consideration, the significant correlation in the votes for President Bush and electronic voting cannot be explained," he said in a statement. "There is just a trivial probability of evidence like this appearing in a population where the true difference is zero -- less than once in a thousand chances." The three counties where anomalies were most prevalent were Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade. In Broward, statistical analysis showed that Bush should have received 28,000 fewer votes this year than in 2000. In fact, he received 51,000 more votes than expected, for a net gain of 81,000 votes. In Palm Beach county, analysis showed that Bush should have received 8,900 fewer votes. But instead he gained 41,000. In Miami-Dade county he was expected to gain votes, but by much less than he actually did. According to the researchers he should have received only 18,400 more votes, but he actually received 37,000, a gain of 19,300 beyond the expectation. Both Broward and Miami-Dade counties use machines made by Election Systems & Software, while Palm Beach county uses machines made by Sequoia Voting Systems. No Florida counties used touch-screen machines made by Diebold Election Systems, the company whose machines have received the most scrutiny over the last year. A representative for Election Systems & Software called the study "hypothetical." "If you consider real-world experience, we know that ES&S' touch-screen voting system has been proven in thousands of elections throughout the country," said Jill Friedman-Wilson. "Based on this solid track record -- as well as the extensive testing process that is required before equipment may be used in an election -- we are confident in the security, reliability and accuracy of all of our voting systems." Susan Van Houten, cofounder of Palm Beach Coalition for Election Reform, was not surprised by the Berkeley report. "I've believed the same thing for a while that the numbers are screwy and it looks like they proved it," Van Houten said. Van Houten said her group had received a number of reports from voters who said that when they voted for Kerry on the Sequoia machines, the review screen showed that the vote had been cast for Bush. The review screen lets voters review their choices before casting their ballot. Van Houten said she was concerned that the same thing may have happened to many other voters who didn't carefully check the review screen before casting their ballot. "From the computer experts I spoke to, it?s relatively easy to program something into the system so that only every 50th vote would automatically go to Bush," Van Houten said. If this were the case, election officials would be less likely to think there was a problem with the machine if only a few voters noticed it. Jenny Nash, press secretary for the Florida Department of State, said she would not comment on a report that she had not yet read. She said Florida had been using its current voting systems since 2002 and had "delivered hundreds of successful elections using the systems." "Florida has one of the most rigorous certification processes in the nation," Nash said. "After a system is certified for use ... then every single voting systems is tested prior to the election, sealed, and then that seal is not broken until Election Day. We have never had any reports from supervisors of machines malfunctioning or of votes being lost." "I think that's a joke," Van Houten said. "As a poll worker in the primary (election), I personally witnessed three machines go down." Van Houten's group, which monitored polling places on Nov. 2, found that at least 40 of 798 machines they monitored were unable to print out a final tally tape at the end of the night. In Florida, poll workers are supposed to print out two tallies from each machine -- one for county officials and another for posting at the polls so that voters can see what the tallies were. "In around 40 cases that didn't occur," Van Houten said. "I personally observed that during the primary as well. A machine just went down and flashed a message that it needed service repair. It didn't print out a tally." Graduate students from Berkeley's Quantitative Methods Research Team launched the research project after following debates in the blogosphere about possible fraud in the election. After examining and discounting many other theories, such as ones involving optical-scan machines in Florida, they decided to look at counties that used touch-screen voting machines. Touch-screen machines became the focus of much debate last year when computer scientists who examined the systems released several reports showing that the machines were vulnerable to hacking and vote manipulation. The testing and certification process for approving voting systems has also been roundly criticized by computer experts and voting activists as being inadequate. The researchers would not speculate on possible causes for the vote discrepancies in Florida; they said they would leave it to officials to figure that out. [Adrienne Kandel] From jac07 at dcn.org Sat Nov 27 18:53:23 2004 From: jac07 at dcn.org (John Chendo) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:53:23 -0800 Subject: [Davis Democrats] FW: From Congressman Mike Thompson In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear fellow dems: An important action coming out of a large workshop today --write individual letters to Senator Barbara Boxer asking her to challenge the electoral votes from Ohio and Florida because of innumerable reports of computer irregularities, homeland security false alarms, and significant discrepancies with exit polls. There will be a rally outside her San Francisco office this Monday, Nov.29, at 11 am asking her to challenge the electoral process in these states. Our Congressman, Mike Thompson, is doing his part. The U.S. Senate is needed to insure a fair election count. Please write our senator, Barbara Boxer, as soon as possible. Thank you, John Chendo ---------- From: "Congressman Mike Thompson" Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:49:52 -0500 To: Subject: From Congressman Mike Thompson November 22, 2004 Mr. John C. Chendo Davis, California 95616 Dear Mr. Chendo: Thank you for your correspondence regarding reports of voting irregularities in the 2004 election. I appreciate you taking the time to contact me. Like you I am concerned about reports of problems with counting votes, confusion over casting provisional ballots, lost votes and long lines due to an inadequate number of voting machines. In response to this, I have written to the Government Accountability Office asking for a thorough investigation of these reports. Below I have attached a copy of the letter for your consideration. Please know that I consider this an important matter. Every vote cast in an election should be accurately counted. You may be certain that I will continue to work with my colleagues in Congress to ensure a proper investigation of voting irregularities and to produce new election reform legislation in the upcoming 109th Congress. Again, thank you for contacting me. Please continue to contact me on matters of concern to you and to our district. November 19, 2004 The Honorable David M. Walker Comptroller General United States Government Accountability Office 441 G Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20548 Dear Mr. Walker: I am very concerned about widespread reports of voting irregularities in the 2004 election. Therefore, I am writing to join other members of Congress to urge the Government Accountability Office to immediately undertake an investigation that considers the efficacy of electronic voting machines, how election officials responded to the difficulties encountered and what we need to do to improve our election systems and administration. The reported problems include over counting votes, confusion over casting provisional ballots, lost votes and long lines due to an inadequate number of voting machines. A sampling of complaints includes: ? Columbus, Ohio, where an electronic voting system reported that President Bush received 4,258 votes while Senator Kerry received 260 votes in a precinct where records show only 638 voters cast ballots; ? North Carolina, where a machine in Carteret County lost more than 4,500 votes due to a mistaken assumption about the memory capacity of a computer and; ? Youngstown, Ohio, and South Florida, where numerous voters complained that when they tried to cast votes for Senator Kerry, the machines instead recorded their votes for President Bush. There is concern that much of the evidence needed to evaluate these reports will not be preserved without immediate action. I urge you to take action quickly to help restore confidence in our nation's election systems. Thank you for your prompt attention to this inquiry. Sincerely, MIKE THOMPSON Member of Congress http://www.mikethompson.house.gov You cannot reply to this email. If you would like to email me, please visit http://www.house.gov/writerep From jac07 at hotmail.com Sun Nov 21 19:31:48 2004 From: jac07 at hotmail.com (John cC) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:31:48 +0000 Subject: [Davis Democrats] election fraud [eb4kerry-discuss] more about: is this true? Message-ID: with liberty for justice for all From: Marian Baldwin <ninety4steps at yahoo.com> Reply-To: eb4kerry-discuss at yahoogroups.com To: eb4kerry-discuss at yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [eb4kerry-discuss] more about: is this true? Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:20:12 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: ninety4steps at yahoo.com Received: from n15a.bulk.scd.yahoo.com ([66.94.237.32]) by mc11-f2.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:22:53 -0800 Received: from [66.218.69.4] by n15.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Nov 2004 19:20:28 -0000 Received: from [66.218.66.30] by mailer4.bulk.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Nov 2004 19:20:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 94015 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2004 19:20:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m24.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 19 Nov 2004 19:20:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web41824.mail.yahoo.com) (66.218.94.158) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 2004 19:20:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 45738 invoked by uid 60001); 19 Nov 2004 19:20:12 -0000 Received: from [64.6.176.34] by web41824.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:20:12 PST X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jH/GJKgpcHoI8xNqLR1uO9Q X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-email X-Apparently-To: eb4kerry-discuss at yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 66.218.94.158 X-Yahoo-Profile: ninety4steps Mailing-List: list eb4kerry-discuss at yahoogroups.com; contact eb4kerry-discuss-owner at yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list eb4kerry-discuss at yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:eb4kerry-discuss-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com> Return-Path: sentto-12296685-481-1100892028-jac07=hotmail.com at returns.groups.yahoo.com X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Nov 2004 19:22:53.0920 (UTC) FILETIME=[2ADE8600:01C4CE6D] here's the keith o. blog link..... and thanks, Robbin, for all of the telephone numbers..... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6368819/ Robbin Milne <rtmilne2000 at yahoo.com> wrote: Note: forwarded message attached. - Flowers grow out of dark moments.Corita Kent(1918-1986)Born November 20 test'; " type=text/css> Yahoo! Groups SponsorADVERTISEMENT --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eb4kerry-discuss/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: eb4kerry-discuss-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:11:11 -0800 (PST) From: Robbin Milne Subject: Fwd: is this true? To: rtmilne2000 at yahoo.com Well, I just got off the phone with Pelosi's office, and the Federal Elections Commission, both were good numbers, both got to live people. I gave my issue to Pelosi's and they took my name and address. The commission forwarded me to information and then she forwarded me to another number which i didn't call. So maybe this is an issue, but it will have to be for someone that can actually pick away at it, taking time to call, and recall. Hmmmmmm . . . . Change is so hard, so tedious, so thankless at times isn't it? I may end up writing to these people, all of them, and hope to see some sort of a response. Wonder if Pelosi will get my message? Worth a shot! Note: forwarded message attached. - Flowers grow out of dark moments.Corita Kent(1918-1986)Born November 20 test'; " type=text/css> > ATTACHMENT part 2.2 message/rfc822 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:57:40 -0800 (PST) From: Robbin Milne Subject: is this true? To: rtmilne2000 at yahoo.com I received this from a friend, and not sure it's a valid piece of info, anyone know about this??? It seems to check out the "smell" test, I haven't heard or seen much on voter fraud since the election on mainstream news or radio?? hmmmmm . . . . Robbin I am not sure of the veracity , but if one is concerned about possible electoral fraud, one could follow up and query elected representatives: Good references provided: From: WheresthePaper.org Posting of Nov 11,'04 Letter from a friend: On Friday I received a phone call from a good friend who works at CBS - I've known her for years and she is a Producer for some of the news programs, one well known one in particular. She tipped me off that the news media is in a "lock-down" and that there is to be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2nd. She said similar "lock-down orders" had come down last year after the invasion of Iraq, but this is far worse - far scarier. She said the majority of their journalists at CBS and elsewhere in NYC are pretty horrified - every one is worried about their jobs and retribution Dan Rather style or worse. My source said they've also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time but she was pissed and her journalistic and moral integrity as what she considers to be a government watchdog requires her to speak out, even if covertly, and she therefore asked me to "spread" the word...She said that journalism and the truth are at stake. She said another friend of hers, a producer at MSNBC, said that an anchor by the name of Keith Olbermann had brought it up on his show on Friday eve and the axe came down. He's at least fighting back and talking about it on his "Blog", but she said that people there are worried that he's going to be fired by higher ups. She said at this point the only way that the "real news" was going to be known is if the people started talking about it and made a big enough stink about it to our elected officials, the FEC, and "noise" to the international media, that our own media won't have any choice but to cover it. The only place you'll see this talked about right now is on the internet and on AirAmericaRadio. People and Agencies to Contact regarding this matter: 1) Your two US Senators & Congressional Representative - here is the main switchboard number for the House and Senate: 1-800-839- 5276 Although individual numbers are listed below, you can reach all Senators and Representatives via this 800 number 2) Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader: 202-225-4965 3) These members are allegedl/reportedly looking into the issue - urge them to introduce a bill to investigate voter fraud: Rep. Henry Waxman of CA - 202-225-3976 Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of OH - 202-225-7032 Rep. Dennis Kucinich of OH - 202-225-5871 Rep. Tim Ryan of OH - 202-225-5261 4) Democratic & Republican Members of the House Judiciary Committee: Rep. Robert Wexler of FL - 202-225-3001 Rep. Maxine Waters of CA - 202-225-2201 Rep. Chabot of OH (R)- 202-225-2216 Rep. King of IA (R)- 202-225-4426 5) Democrat & Republican Members (call both) of the Senate Judiciary Committee: Sen. Patrick Leahy of VT - 202-224-4242 Sen. Ted Kennedy of MA - 202-224-4543 Sen. Joe Biden of DE - 202-224-5042 Sen. Russ Feingold of WI - 202-224-5323 Sen. Charles Schumer of NY - 202-224-6542 Sen. Arlen Specter of PA (R) - 202-224-4254 (thank him also for having urged the Pres. to not choose anti-abortion judges and taking the body blows) Sen. Mike DeWine of OH (R) - 202-224-2315 Sen. Chuck Grassley of IA (R)- 202-224-3744 6) Federal Elections Commission: Audit Division Joseph Stoltz, Assistant Staff Director, Telephone: 800-424- 9530 (press 0, then ext. 1200) Inspector General Lynne McFarland, Inspector General, Telephone: 800-424-9530 (press 0, then ext. 1015) 7) The news media - we have to put pressure on them: NBC/MSNBC- http:/// & http:/// CNN- http:/// CBS- 212-258-6000 - http:///, http:///, http:///, http:/// 8) Call the Secretary of State's office in the state of OH and FL - Tell them that you demand under the HAVA law to have all votes counted - especially the absentee, military and all provisional ballots counted and verified - tell them you suspect foul-play. Phone to Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell's Office: toll free - 1-877-767-6446 or email: http:/// or phone 614-466-2585 Phone to FL Sec. of State Glenda Hood's Office: 850-245-6500 9) Donate $5 to Bev Harris at http:/// - she has been filing 1000's of information requests under the "FOIA-Freedom of Information Act" to account for the various voting machines across the country. 10) Email or Fax Ralph Nader - Yep, here's his opportunity to make up for any feelings of bad will after the 2000 election and the current one. Ralph has been a lifelong advocate for us, the consumer and little guy and he is actually in the unique position right now to do something since he was a Presidential candidate and has the ability to be listened to. He has actually already filed a challenge in NH (not that he is looking to overturn the results, but because he can prove there may have been bigger problems and he qualifies there as having been on the ballot). http:/// Urge him to do this across the board on a national level. The media seemed to love him before the election, could they possibly ignore him now? Contact Ralph at - 202-265-4000 11) Call/email Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center: http:/// or call at (800) 550-3560 Former President Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center are considered to be the most experienced in the election process and conducting fair democratic elections - urge him to get involved and investigate possible fraud and the unexplainable discrepancies throughout the election involving the computer voting machines, especially in swing states. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - -Mahatma Ghandi "If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government." - - Dwight D. Eisenhower "I'd rather be Don Quixote than another statistic." - -Douglas L. Wilson "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt -- "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."] ------------------- To reply to this message, go to http://www.fivecol-soc.net/corkboard.cfm If you no longer wish to receive these e-mails, set "Postings by e-mail" to NO here: http://www.fivecol-soc.net/edit_me.cfm You can also set which specific Corkboards you receive in your e-mail. ------------------- This opinion of this post is not necessarily the opinion of the FiveColleges website, nor are the facts contained therein checked. Please use your own discretion. - Flowers grow out of dark moments.Corita Kent(1918-1986)Born November 20 From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Tue Nov 30 13:34:03 2004 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata PhD) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:34:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Davis Democrats] Davis Democrat Club board meeting on December 6 Message-ID: <20041130213403.5D53B200009E@mx.dcn.davis.ca.us> Greetings Davis Democrat Club Boardmembers, One Week Notice. There will be a Davis Democrat Club board meeting on Monday, December 6th at 7PM in the Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library. The address is 315 East 14th Street. Please note that any Davis Democrat Club member is welcome to attend the meetings. We normally have at least 1 to 2 guests per meeting. We have never had a meeting without someone from the public in attendance. Boardmembers need to come to this meeting. We will be voting to remove from our large board roster, people that have not attended meetings for over two years. We are trying to trim the board to 22 members. The club by-laws say that people cannot miss 3 meetings in a row without an excuse. Other items on the agenda are fundraising and organization for the coming year, 2005. An item that was not discussed, but needs to be discussed is the Winter general meeting that we have each year in either January, February or March. Some years we have had up to 3 of these, one each month and in other years we have only had one general meeting. The suggestion has been made that we schedule one of these at the next meeting with Mike Machado as the keynote speaker. He will be thanking the Davis Democrat Club for their help and support in the last hard fought election. If you have any suggestions for the agenda, please send them to Kingsley, Tony, or me via the list. There should be a final agenda sent out on Sunday, December 5th. Please also be aware that someone will be telephoning the board members to remind them of the meeting, probably Betty Weir. I have already received some unofficial input from other DDC board members on this preliminary agenda. Please find below the location and time for the next meeting: DDC Board Meeting Time: 7 PM to 8:04 PM Place: Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library. 315 East 14th Street. Please find the preliminary agenda below. Preliminary Agenda -- this is only a preliminary agenda. The agenda will change as it is worked on by the President and Vice President. There is a note about the December DDC meeting at the bottom of this e-mail. Davis Democratic Club Meeting Agenda November 8, 7 pm - 8pm Place: Blanchard Room of the Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library. 315 East 14th Street. I. Introduction (8 minutes -- usually takes 2 minutes) i. Approval of Agenda ii. Approval of Minutes for past meetings The following have not been approved: August 2nd September 6th October 4th (if minutes exist, I was ill that day) November 8th minutes will be handed out. ( http://yvm.net/vme/democrats/newsletter.htm The Newsletter page ) iii. Minutes from other clubs and campus Democrats (usually no one shows up from these groups. Lyle Smith can be asked to speak about the other town Democrat organizations.) II. Treasurer's Report (5 minutes) III. The DDC Holiday Party (10 minutes) i. Report from chairs on this event ii. Additional planning and requests IV. The Winter General Meetings in January, February or March (7 minutes) i. Report on last year's event ii. Ideas for this year. (Suggested Thank You meeting with Mike Machado) ii. Appointment of chairs for 2005 Winter events. V. Content of the Next Newsletter (6 minutes) i. Update by Current Editor ii. Story ideas VII. New and Unfinished Business (24 minutes) i. New items a) Club support for the Yolo County Young Democrats (8 minutes) b) Other ii. Continued discussion about fundraising and events post "Beat Bush" (15 minutes) iii. Announcements iv. Next Meeting Time/Location v. Meeting adjournment Time: 60 minutes