Busy with much this morning, so just a few quick notes for the moment.
– I’ll be on Radio Left at 4:20pm ET (1:20pm PT) to discuss VR’s “Divestiture for Democracy”. You can listen live online, and we’ll otherwise try to get a link to the recorded appearance later. For media who’d like more info on the campaign, and to discuss appearances, etc., please write to DV4D@VelvetRevolution.us.
– For media folks who’d like to participate in next Tuesday’s BlogCall conference call that I’ll be doing, along with Clint Curtis, to discuss developments in his story, please email me and I’ll try to get an invitation out to you for the call.
– The great John Conyers (aside from smartly endorsing VR’s campaign yesterday!) today has forced the issue of Election Reform onto the floor of Congress during debate of the House’s bill to determine what happens to ensure continuity of government during a terror attack.
He used a surprise maneuver to do so known as a “Motion to Recommit”. As Will Pitt explains in his TruthOut article an hour or so ago…”Rep. Conyers finds it ridiculous that the House is spending so much energy (and acting with such speed) to solve a hypothetical problem, about a hypothetical election, when there are so many real problems with our real elections.” Pitt has the details, and Conyers official statement on the floor. Good on Conyers again!
– A task force assembled by Gov. Christine Gregoire in Washington state “has found that public trust in Washington state’s election system was damaged by last year’s tight gubernatorial race that took two months to resolve.” Do ya think? The AP story is here. What a shame it takes governmental action for anything to happen on Election Reform. Wouldn’t it be lovely if the press reported on the problems and the government followed with reform (the way it used to be) instead of vice versa? That is, when the press even bothers to report at all, even on governmental action…which they do, but only when it’s Republican governmental action it seems. And so it goes…
Conyers is one brave, intelligent man who knows what needs to be done and is trying with everything he has to do it. I wish there were a whole lot more like him!
Good luck this afternoon, Brad.
Go get ’em, Brad – we all have to add up to one mother of all terriers on the vile trouser cuff of the oiligarchy, and not let go until it’s all finally done and we can have our party at last! I sure hope someone’s watching Mr. Conyers’s back. He deserves all of our backing. Clint Curtis too! You too, Brad! And, sure, let’s have a revote in Washington, and one in Ohio too! Let’s examine the counting process in Washington, etc. The fact is, we have nowhere to go but up…
Rep. Conyers is one of a kind. They broke the
mold after he was made. Imagine his life, one
battle after another. Makes my heart hurt.
Conyers kinda reminds me of Morgan Freeman in the sense of kindness and dignity.
I emailed Conyers at his website a few days ago, telling him how grateful Americans are to him. Seems a bit slender, what with all the balls he’s juggling, but what more can we do? Stay in the trenches, I guess. This battle means more to him that comfort or his own individual life.
I’m beginning to see something amazing and truly special about this Conyers chap.
I am not one to believe in politicians, but this might change my hardheaded opinion.
He is a lone wolf, though, and I think that’s what it takes. Back to Freebird and Henry D. Thoreau, and their comments about nonconformity.
This is what I always want to see. People standing up for principles, for no other reason than that they can’t possibly do otherwise.
And Brad, what a spokesman for the disenfranchised you are.
I still like radio.
Thanks, Teresa. I like radio too 🙂
Is anybody going to Selma, Alabama for the march this weekend?
Details in the third paragraph
Off topic.
There is a funny article about Gannon (link here).
brad: if that is your real name:
You are a FRIGGIN LOSER!
Dear Brad,
Thank you so much for the work that you are doing for our great Country. If “We the People” keep the pressure on Bush and his Band of Fools we can take back our precious White House. If possible do you think you could ask all of our anti-Bush groups to have petitions for impeachment ready to be signed on the day of the protest? If we have signed petitions to impeach Bush and are ready to go, we at this time would be ahead of the game. Your web site would be a great place to have such a notice. Let’s do this.
Who would Jesus bomb?
Hatred paralyzes life; Love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; Love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; Love illuminates it.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
God Bless America, and those who reside in her Heart! bkh
Be good to yourself, and your world around you will be good to you! bkh
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" Mahatma Gandhi
Create Love, Know Peace, Understand Happiness! bkh
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God is Watching bkh