Brent Budowsky - Against Corrupting the Next Election

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From BuzzFlash.com:

Common Sense Against Corrupting the Next Election: If Thomas Paine Were Here, Part 2

By Brent Budowsky

Let's begin today a national letter writing campaign sending hundreds of thousands of letters to every newspaper in America, calling for front page coverage of the dangers of another Constitutional crisis from another questionable election, and editorial campaigns to prevent this travesty while there is still time.

Amazingly, incredibly, unbelievably, six years after the Florida recount of 2000 America could well be facing a historic and profound election decided weeks after the vote, by courts counting votes, after voters finish voting.

This is unconscionable...

Every person who reads these words can make a difference today by joining a national letter writing campaign to every newspaper in America to put this issue on the editorial page of the paper, on the front page of the paper, and in letters to the editor...

I repeat my call from a week ago: We need to raise an urgent $25 million from leading financiers of the Democratic Party and the Progressive Community that would pour money into the people and infrastructure that will empower and motivate people to vote, and empower our people on the ground to fight for, and win, an honest election…

The battle for a voter mobilization, a voter turnout and an honest vote count could provide the golden moment for a live, 24/7 war room that combines the potential power of Air America broadcasts with the potential power of the blogosphere and grassroots democracy.

Imagine in the critical period from now until the votes are done being counted, Air America hosts are issuing the call to action and giving voice on a daily basis to the grassroots activists who are fighting on the ground, and the real Democrats are supporting Air America 24/7 as instant inter-active megaphone for the cause, and instant-reaction war room when abuses are revealed.

More on this theme soon, but imagine that on the first abusive poll closing in the poorest precinct in Cleveland on election day morning, the activists on the ground contact the party officials, who alert Air America, who report the bulletin and issue the call to action, then commucate it to the blogsphere, who mobilize thousands of people on site to get those polls re-opened and provide a morale boost to voters who will stay long enough to be counted, no matter how long it takes.

This would be low cost, high impact, easy to organize and in a close election that is now most likely, could provide the boost that will change the world.

The common sense is clear: the danger is real and the fight is now...

Paine said we have the power to remake the world. And we do. And we can. So let's roll.

The Democratic Party has a facility to write to your local newspaper editors and some national ones in its new Party Builder section. Click the title of this article for more inspiring words from Brent Budowsky. Click here to read Part I.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com