Conyers urges the Kerry-Edwards campaign not to drop Ohio recount, etc.

[MelissaB]

Busy Day Supporting Cindy, Treasongate, Making Every Vote Count

An unusually busy day for August, but with all of the GOP abuses, there never seems to be a shortage of things to post about.

First, as the top entry of the Conyersblog indicates, today we launched our effort to enlist at least 1000 individuals to write their local papers supporting the efforts of Cindy Sheehan to meet with the president. With Rush Limbaugh and others in the right wing moving into full a full scale Plaming of Cindy, I think it is important we show our support however we can. Just go to my web site to compose and email and have it sent, and to use the various resources in my new Crawford Action Center. And don't forget to ask your friends and family to write also.

Second, as indicated last evening, today Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and I wrote to the Justice Department Inspector General, asking him to review whether former AG Aschroft violated ethical requirements in initially supervising an investigation into alleged misconduct by Karl Rove -- his friend and political ally -- regarding the outing of Valerie Plame. Rawstory has the full text of the letter. I was interviewed about this development by Tony Trupiano this afternoon, and will speak to the issue on the Amy Goodman show on Radio Pacifica tomorrow. I will try to get you the audio links to these interviews as soon as possible.

Third, today I wrote to the Kerry-Edwards campaign, urging them not to drop out of the Ohio recount case. The case is at a crucial juncture, and while we know the case will not alter the outcome of the election, their involvement is needed to allow us to establish important legal principles and precedents that will help insure that every vote is counted in future elections. The Ohio Election Fraud Blog has the letter.

So it was a busy day even before I learned that according to Rasmussen, Bush has hit a new low in his popularity, and that for the first time in history, a sitting Governor in Ohio was indicted on criminal charges.


Blogged by JC on 08.17.05 @ 09:56 PM ET

[Independent_Liberal]

1. Kick!

[leesa]

2. As though Kerry gives a shit.

What did he conclude not too long ago, "Nothin' to see here, move along..." or words to that effect

[Mass]

3. Care to give a source?

[LiberalUprising]

5. It's fairly obvious isn't it?

Just the fact that we have to read this is more than enough to know where Kerry's loyalties lie.

Conyers urges the Kerry-Edwards campaign not to drop Ohio recount

[Mass]

10. Which means primarily that the campaign is still in the recount.

So what is the source of whatever the previous poster says?

[O.M.B.inOhio]

6. Remember he even had the audacity (irony?) to ask, "How far would you go..

... to ensure fair elections?" (paraphrasing). When I first saw Kerry, I gave $ to Dean right away, thinking, "this Kerry guy's got Dukakis written all over him. He sounds half-dead, but just up the alley of the timid Dem leadership." Then his convention speech rocked. Then the watering down of the message and the passion. (Still I volunteered for him.) Then the betrayal: premature concession. It wasn't an echo of Dukakis; it was Judas. I hope Conyers has an angle to make it more embarassing for Kerry to withdraw than to stay involved in counting every friggin vote.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Thank heavens for you, Mr. Conyers!

[DanCa]

7. I second that as though as I admire Senator Kerry's war record

I strongly suspect that the RC church made him back off his claim to the white house in t he wee hours of the morning because he is a candidate who went against the churches social teachings. Look at the recent article on boston commons to illustrate what I am talking about here.
In othere words kerry knows he won ohio but he is being black mailled by the rc church by not pursuing it. At least my thats my theory. That's wy am backing General clakr this time.

[KoKo]

8. Conyers says the case is at a "critical juncture" so why does he have

to "ask, urge, plead" with them not to pull out. I think that's really sad. Why do our leading Dems want to distance themself from Election Fraud, disenfranchisment, irregularities. Why? They didn't want to talk about Gore vs. Bush in 2000, they didn't want to talk about mid-terms, they don't want to talk about 04 and they don't want to talk about Iraq, or Corporate Crime or Abramoff or anything that's important to the people. Only the Black Caucus and a handfull of others seem to care about what's happening to their country. :grr:

[roguevalley]

9. kerry does this, there can be no forgiving. Why is Jon Conyers, an

old man with the love of country so deeply ingrained, having to ask this at all? Damn them.