More RNC scare tactics

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I found this on http://politicalwire.com

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Republican National Committee is warning television stations across the country not to run ads from the MoveOn.org Voter Fund that criticize President Bush, charging that the left-leaning political group is paying for them with money raised in violation of the new campaign-finance law.

The RNC charges that because the ads are designed to help defeat President Bush, the group cannot pay for them with unlimited "soft money" contributions but only with contributions raised in amounts less than $5,000.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/06/moveon.ads/index.html

Moveon says they've raised the money in mostly $25-$50 contributions.

This is really low, and the RNC should be called out. They're trying to ice any dissent (as usual), and they've picked moveon because they've been the most successful grassroots campaign to do it.

First they go after Howard Stern, and now they go after moveon.

Unbelievable. Just when I start to think it's callous to compare BushCo to Hitler, they pull something like this!

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1. the RNC is VERY scared of the 527s

Moveon, ACT, NDN, TMF. The neocons expected a broke and bleeding dem to emerge from the primaries. They got neither. Kerry has unlimited spending abilities, he isn't bleeding, and the 527s are fighting the trench war until Kerry raises enough money.

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4. And it's about time

There's a lot of organization from these peripheral groups, since the stakes are so high with this election. the RNC should be scared, because they aren't the only dogs on the block anymore.

But to come right out with this hardly-veiled statement is deplorable.

Desperation, I suppose.

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2. A Thought

“First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me.”

Pastor Martin Niemoeller
(Nazi Concentration Camp survivor)

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3. Moving

I used to walk by that quote etched in granite at the Holocaust Memorial everyday when I lived in Boston. I've thought of it often.