A request to Rep Conyers regarding Senator Boxer's exceptional act.

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Sun Jan-08-06 12:19 AM
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A request to Rep Conyers regarding Senator Boxer's exceptional act.

The request to Congressman Conyers is inspired by a post here at DU by FULL_METAL_HAT entitled 1 Year Ago Today -- History Made WITH NO NEWS REPORTING -- Vote this up!

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2354129

As many of you know, on January 5, 2005, Senator Boxer wrote the following letter to Congresswoman Tubbs Jones:

January 6, 2005

The Honorable Stephanie Tubbs Jones
1009 Longworth H.O.B.
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Representative Tubbs Jones:

I am in receipt of your letter that spelled out concerns about the election irregularities in Ohio during the November 2004 election.

The fact that you are from Ohio and that you are a former judge gives great weight and much credibility to the points you cited and to your plea that these issues be addressed by the Congress.

I was particularly moved by your point that it is virtually impossible to get official House consideration of the whole issue of election reform, including these irregularities.

I have concluded that objecting to the electoral votes from Ohio is the only immediate way to bring these issues to light by allowing you to have a two-hour debate to let the American people know the facts surrounding Ohio�s election.

I will therefore join you in your objection to the certification of Ohio�s electoral votes. Attached is my signature on a copy of your written objection.

Sincerely,

Barbara Boxer
United States Senator

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0106-02.htm

I have written the following to Congressman Conyers:

Good evening Congressman Conyers,

I will be calling your DC office and the office of your colleague, Rep. Tubbs Jones, on Monday, 9 January 2006, to request that the two of you and all honorable Members of the House of Representatives join you on the day the House reconvenes to offer your statements of gratitude to Senator Barbara Boxer.

What Senator Boxer did, in supporting Rep. Tubbs Jones, you and your colleagues and every American citizen, on January 6, 2005, should never be allowed to be forgotten.

In the coming months the wisdom of her patriotic actions and all of yours will become ever more obvious to our fellow citizens.

January 6, 2005, must mark the day that we began to ensure that every citizen has equal access to a ballot and that NO VOTE IS EVER COUNTED IN SECRET.

Thank you for your exceptional and persistent leadership, Congressman Conyers,
Bob

Link: Comment #12: UL said on 1/8/06 @ 12:05am ET... http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000346.htm#comments

I plan to call both Rep. Conyers and Rep. Tubb Jones district and DC offices on Monday to follow-up on my request.

I suggest all of you do likewise (and call your own reps and Senators, as well).

It would be appropriate that on the day that war criminal and neoconster-in-chief Bush is to deliver his SOTU and the House is to reconvene that the first actions in on the floor of the House, for all those with C-SPAN to see and record, would be a stream of our representatives extolling the wisdom and patriotism of Senator Boxer and those members of the House who realized that, once again, the will of the people had been suppressed by the traitors who serve totalitarian George.

Peace.