Liberals Form Fund to Defeat President*

Aim Is to Spend $75 Million for 2004

Labor, environmental and women's organizations, with strong backing from international financier George Soros, have joined forces behind a new political group that plans to spend an unprecedented $75 million to mobilize voters to defeat President Bush in 2004.

The organization, Americans Coming Together (ACT), will conduct "a massive get-out-the-vote operation that we think will defeat George W. Bush in 2004," said Ellen Malcolm, the president of EMILY's List, who will become ACT's president.

ACT already has commitments for more than $30 million, Malcolm and others said, including $10 million from Soros, $12 million from six other philanthropists, and about $8 million from unions, including the Service Employees International Union.

The formation of ACT reflects growing fears in liberal and Democratic circles that with Republicans likely to retain control of Congress, a second Bush term could mean passage of legislation, adoption of regulations and the appointment of judges that together could devastate left-supported policies and institutions.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31042-2003Aug7.html

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...for mandatory auditable voting systems, ASAP!

Count me in!

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in the coming election season.
I have had any luck finding a website, does anyone else have any luck?

I went to www.americanscomingtogether.com and it took me to a site that says it is under construction but will be coming soon.

will NOT be advertised on web sites...these jobs will go to people who are already showing initiative and interest in Democratic areas for the upcoming elections...and my bet is that everybody working in Democratic efforts knows where these jobs are at....

so, may I suggest that you get to work on Democratic issues for the upcoming campaigns...once you get voluteering for Democrats (which provest that you are not some kind of damaging mole), then ask about these opportunities....

here's where you can contact your LOCAL or National areas of Democratic activism....

http://www.democrats.org

... and not on conspiracy theories and ultra left-wing propaganda....

We'll win in a walk.

I love EMILY's List. They get cash from me every year. Good choice for a President.

"get-out-the-vote" is what we need. The GOP have the Democrats beat like Hell on this because of corporate funding.

but if I understand it, the almost overlooked issue is that we need to focus not just on the presidential race, but in gaining Democratic majority in the House, Senate etc. nationwide. Let's go for the whole ball of wax and show them the meaning of compassion.

Are O'Reilly and Scarborough truly as hideous as I perceive in their hateful bigoted irresponsible intolerance?

After the mess these repigs have gotten us in, the House and Senate should be VERY much in play.

I usually go back a bit later to see what dumbass thing I've said.

:)

Getting rid of Bush is a more reachable goal in this election season. And more important, imo.

If your house has termites and is also on fire, you deal with the fire first.

Their agenda is to get a right winger into every legislative, judicial, legal, civic, media, intelligence, lobby, weapons, bank, military, arts seat all over the country at every level.

If the lose the WH, they still have plenty of ammunition at the federal and state level if they go Repub (or repig as someone just said).

They realized this a long time ago and have steadily groomed people for these jobs - just witness the media and media owners if you doubt me - then extrapolate.

The Green Party erred in going after the highest office and not start at the lower levels first.

It is fool hardy to concentrate on one office...Clinton wasn't successful in everything - even in the first four years.

Observe the right wing carefully - read between the lines - observe your neighborhood and your state. Observe YOUR Election Officials!

...the more of the lower offices will be won by us.

That's the way it works. That's why my state (Georgia) is being taken over by Rove's cronies. We have more Dems, but they have more cash for grassroots.

Bush is vulnerable and must be our number one priority. Other offices will come with him.

I can remember that it was a stated goal of Falwell's "Moral Majority" to get sympathizers on school boards, local councils, and into state houses all over the country. They succeeded and are still succeeding very well in this endeavor. From these low-level positions, they are not only advocating their own agenda (prayer in schools, teaching of creationism as science, etc.), but also getting a local "bully pulpit" to get their message out to the community.

This is a brilliant, although insidious, tactic: even though the audience in each case is relatively small, every contest is tailored to the community in which it is waged and develops a high level of emotional response because it personally affects a significant number of people in the audience. One change to the right wing in one community is not a big deal, but when there are small victories in thousands of communities, all following a theme set at the national level by people such as Falwell, Wildemon, Kennedy (of Coral Ridge), and their ilk, the result is indistinguishable from a single national victory.

These people had patience and the luxury of time to infest our local institutions and work their evil. We, however, are faced with a crisis situation. Now that the "moral majority" has placed bush, ashcroft, et. al. in the highest offices in the nation, our freedoms and even the electoral process itself is at such risk that change MUST come quickly and pervasively.

Your point is critical. We must unseat bush and begin the purge of all the ideologues he has salted throughout the federal government. But, we must also expend a significant part of our energies on the local offices. And this is the hard work. It is a real kick to boost Sharpton, or Kerry, or Dean, or Mosley-Brown for the highest office in the land. But it is also vital to get our John Jones's and Mary Smith's elected to school boards and civic councils.

Characteristic of right-wing tactics are black/ white arguments, either/or propositions, and the denial of paradox and complexity.

I say we try like hell to make sure our voting system is bullet-proof, and force the powers that be to come up with checks and balances that will stick since this problem will be with us from here to eternity as HAVA is asking for all computerized voting.

And we have to take on the task of repaing the p.r. damage done by the Florida debacle and Choicepoint, etc., so that more people actually WILL vote. Minoritites have far less confidence in the voting system than non-minorities do, and this is only going to get worse as things get more computerized.

In short we need to do both, and probably more, to make sure we win in 04. One thing I love about being a Democrat is you are allowed more than one choice, one reality, one fact to hold to your chest and beat back all the others with. One thing I hate about being a Democrat is watching other liberals fall for repuke mental brainwashing and then repeat it by rote without even being aware of it.

I have been wondering what the best place to
send money for fights in battle ground states.

I would love to see congress retaken.

the left is starting to get mobilized. we need to stop letting ourselves get kicked around.

"ACT plans to concentrate its activities in 17 states, all of which are likely to be presidential battlegrounds: Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio and West Virginia."

YES!

to be a likely presidential battleground state?

Since 1968, the only Democratic presidential candidates who have won Arkansas have all been southern governors (including George Wallace, the former Democratic governor of Alabama, who won the state in '68 on the American Independent Party ticket).

The minority population puts it well within our reach. And if Clark is somewhere on the ticket, I'd be willing to wager that it'll be in our pocket.

I, too, contribute to Emily's List and I think this is a great idea! Soros' backing is not to be discounted. There's a lot of $$$ there.

This is wonderful, encouraging news!!!

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Do they have a website yet? I'm in Minnesota and want to help...