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Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 09:20 PM by Fly by night
One suggestion out of our third Gathering To Save Our Democracy yesterday (Sunday, 1/2/05) in Nashville was to stage simultaneous rallies in front of all local offices of Senators Alexander and Frist across the state on Wednesday, 1/5/05.
We would love to do this in every Tennessee city where these Senators maintain local offices, and to generate local press coverage for those rallies.
We already have the rallies organized for Nashville and Jackson but would like to have them happen in Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Blountsville and the Tri-Cities area also. So if you're a Tennessean and can take a long lunch break on Wednesday, please PM me with your email address and I'll send you the details and hook you up with others from your city who want to join with you.
Our plan is to show up simultaneously (at 11:00 am CST Wednesday at Alexander's offices and at noon CST at Frist's offices) with pro voting rights and anti-election theft-related posters, orange ribbons and with the local media in tow. We also want to come prepared to hand to the local offices signed petitions asking Alexander and Frist to stand against accepting the Ohio electoral college votes and supporting a full inquiry into the 2004 election theft. (I'll send you a copy of the petition to your private emails with other details when you PM me.) While we know that this is a LONG shot to get our Senators to do the right thing (particularly for Frist), the chance to get local and statewide media coverage for the election theft is well worth it. And I expect it would be a bit unnerving for the Senators' Washington offices to get calls and faxes from ALL of their Tennessee offices on the election theft at the same time on Wednesday.
So please PM me if you're up for a little statewide strategic street theater, and keep kicking this message so our fellow Orange Staters can get in on the action. We will have a big crowd in Nashville and a very savvy group are handling things in Jackson. How about it, eastside and westside -- let's do this thing up right, all across the Orange State!!
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