Reply #30: Ah, DEMActivist called the Atty General's office early on [View All]

[Eloriel]

They sent her to the SoS, which had already been blowing her off.

I've since heard he's basically a nothing, as is the Lt. Genl (another Dem), who also blew her off.

And I can't tell you how many lawyers we tried. And organizations -- ACLU, Voting Rights Project of the ACLU (HQ'd in Atlanta), PFAW, on and on and on and on. Some were EXTREMELY discouraging. The guy at the Voting Rights Project had the bald-faced nerve to whine, "Do you know how expensive expert witnesses are? It would take too much money."

Sigh. It's just up to us citizens to do this thing. Somehow.

I don't remember if I mentioned this, but I met with a woman (a Dean supporter) Saturday who had worked really hard on the FTC issue and was largely responsible for getting one of the public hearings held in Atlanta, said she estimated it would take 2 million people working on this.

I think we need to get busy!!! Another thing I did tonight was take names and email addresses for an email list, and I got quite a few. I see this as an adjunct to BBV.org discussion forums. The forums are great - esp. good for keeping records of things and having focused, all-in-one-place conversations on discrete topics. But there's something about email arriving in your inbox -- harder to ignore. I know I'm signed up for about 20 different yahoo groups, but NOT to receive email, and so I hardly go read them. The very small handful of email lists I receive directly in my email get looked at. Daily. Not always read, but ALWAYS looked at.

Too, emails are much easier to pass along to others, hopefully to educate / get them involved.

Eloriel