Republican Voter Registration in Full Swing: "Reggie the Registration Rig"

[Kathy in Cambridge]

I receive emails from the enemy to see what they're up to. It really makes me ill that the Repukes are so desperate that they've put together a gas-guzzling, polluting 18-wheeler to get people to register Republican. I wonder if it is illegal somehow if they only allow people entering the rig to register Republican. Here is the nauseating letter I received from the smarmy Ed Gillespie:

Dear Rose,

I kicked off National Voter Registration Week Wednesday with a news conference from “Reggie the Registration Rig” --our 18-wheeler that was parked out in front of RNC headquarters. What an awesome machine!

The 56 foot, 80,000 pound, 18-wheeler, designed expressly for registering voters, is fully equipped with interactive multimedia capabilities, Xbox systems, a sound stage and the "E-shot," which allows you to have your picture taken with a famous person in a famous location. It's so good it looks real!

The first stop on Reggie's nationwide voter registration tour is today at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.

Reggie will stop at other college campuses, NASCAR and other
sporting events, parades, ethnic festivals, and all sorts of public events until Election Day 2004. (Check out Reggie's website.)

Turnout will win this election. That's why our goal is to register one million new voters during National Voter Registration Week alone. You can get involved, click here to find events in your area.

At these events we must register new voters, get our message out, and emphasize the need for them to get to the polls.

The Bush-Cheney Campaign has started airing its first campaign
ads today, shifting this campaign from a monologue to a dialogue.

And the RNC will continue to have something to say! President
Bush's record has been attacked with nearly $30 million dollars over 5 months. We will set the record straight. The President has delivered steady leadership in times of change.

John Kerry is the perfect nominee for the Democrat Party. And
he's the perfect nominee for the Republican Party.

There is a clear choice before Americans this November, and we
will happily highlight the Massachusetts Senator's 30-year history of making the wrong choices.

This election is crucial to the future of our country. This will be a long general election campaign. That bodes well for us. The more we spread the President's--and our Party's--positive, inclusive message and the more voters we register the more success we will have.

Our foundation is strong. I want to share with you what I told my staff when we gathered yesterday: We are coming off the best fundraising year ever and we have just had our best January and February ever in Republican Party history!

None of this is possible without you, and I thank you. It's time to dig deep because your efforts continue to make a difference.

Sincerely,
Ed Gillespie
RNC Chairman

[grannylib]

1. "It's time to dig deep...." Indeed. Time to dig deep and rid ourselves of

the SHIT these assholes have been dumping on this country for the last three years....

[frank frankly]

2. how aliterate! ugh.

the writing, unsurprisingly, is shit.

unless they steal it, they are losing big

[Qanisqineq]

3. I saw Gillespie interviewed

about this a while ago. The reporter asked about democrats registering and he said they would register all people but expected few democrats. It would be great to see his face if the majority turning out to register were democrats.

[Qanisqineq]

4. oops, dupe

[SoCalDem]

5. "Subliminible word"... RIG.. They are BOLD...

"Reggie" ( black man's "scary" name...)????

[sadiesworld]

6. I thought the name Reggie was a joke someone here at DU

had cooked up! These people are pathetic.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

7. it was on my campus last firday

I observed a bit of it. They had a horrible, horrible guy with long hair leading a joke of a band through bad steve miller and foghat covers ("Cuz nobody rocks like us republicans"). then they had a contest to win an x-box.

basically the message was: Vote republican and you might win fabulous prizes!

No one paid any attention to it, other than the college republicans who were out in full force. so they were just preaching to the choir.

[onehandle]

8. How many poor African-American neighborhoods...

...will they be stopping at?

Hispanic neighborhoods? No, not the very few affluent ones, but the other 99%.

How many manufacturing towns hit heavy by unemployment?

Will they make a stop at Ground Ze....I mean Steady Leadership Zero?

Enron Headquarters?

Halliburton?

Arab-American "ethnic" events?

[Journeyman]

9. A DU wit asked the other day, 'How do you Google this?". . .

"Republicans" "rig" "elections"



(Wish I could credit the DUer who originallly posted this. . . it's priceless.)

[SoCalDem]

11. Don't know who said it, but I just DID it ..:)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Republicans%22+%22rig%22+%22elections%22&btnG=Google+Search

Bush, House Republicans rig vote to pass Medicare bill
Bush, House Republicans rig vote to pass Medicare
bill. By Shannon Jones 26 November 2003. ...
www.wsws.org/articles/2003/nov2003/vote-n26.shtml - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

WSWS : News & Analysis : North America -- US Politics
... Bush, House Republicans rig vote to pass Medicare bill. ... 7 November 2003
US: Democrats lose two more governorships in off-year elections. ...
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How to Rig an Election
... The map has been rigged outrageously to favour the Republicans. Florida is gaining
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Democrats Must Unite Behind Dean to Beat Bush
... others seek to rob voters of their choices for Congress by stacking districts to
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Voting Machines
Voting Machines Devices to Rig Elections and to Destroy What's Left of Democracy
(And ... would best represent their interests and returned the Republicans with a ...
Description: Links to several articles discussing whether voting machines are being used to rig elections.
Category: Society > Politics > ... > Electronic Voting Systems
www.serendipity.li/jsmill/voting_machines.htm - 21k - Mar 11, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

02133.org
... rulings gave the Legislature the authority to settle disputed elections. ... Longmeadow):
"It's not right to rig an election." The Republicans called for ...
www.02133.org/issue.cfm?ID=96 - 39k - Mar 11, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Elections
... The Republicans hope to register 1 million voters with the vehicle named
"Reggie the Registration Rig." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci). MORGANTOWN, W.Va. ...
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Electronic Voting
... Republicans and Brits will count California's recall votes By Lynn Landes. Electronic
voting minus paper trails makes it easy to rig elections By Jason Leopold. ...
www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/ - 38k - Cached - Similar pages

www.dumpster-democracy.com GOP Fraudulent Elections
... How Republicans rigged the 2002 election: ... http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=16474
explains how computerized voting machines are used to rig elections. ...
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[Ruby Romaine]

10. there is also something called Declare yourself.com

traveling on campus trip-
funded by Norman Lear -good
Clear Channel -bad

i think there were instances of repukes tearing up applications in 2000 if they were from dems.

[gasperc]

12. and these guys are against gay marriage?

me not getting it