MoveOn's Molly Ivins memorial Virtual March on Washington: Call Count

[patrice]

http://pol.moveon.org/virtualmarch/reportback_thanks.html?id=9823-5896412-KdfAjaIk4vi6XoZlWrV62A

Actually, that would be MoveOn and True Majority.

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[jarnocan]

1. thanks will pass it on nt

[jarnocan]

2. even if a day late NOT too late- contact info more to do

http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/dbq/officials/ http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/home/

[patrice]

3. I will definitely be following up with more calls and some faxes.

Need to know who the leaners are.

[bonito]

4. WOW K&R!!!

[EFerrari]

5. Over 1000 callers in my district!

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[patrice]

6. Almost 200 in mine! Pretty good for Kansas.

I noticed those states with only one district calling; that single district in Montana had over 300 callers! Those organizers should be nominated for sainthood!

[EFerrari]

8. My mom and I were just talking about Montana! They are

awesome in that district!

[burrowowl]

7. K&R!

[tbyg52]

9. 65 from the former DeLay land! nt

[tbyg52]

10. I am disappointed

not to have more relpies and recs for this.

Over a million people called. That's one in 300. THAT'S A LOT! (Considering that most people do not act on their opinions.)

THIS SHOULD BE HUGH NEWS!!11111

Where can we get it reported to the masses......? (In hopes that they will act.)

[Breeze54]

11. Virtual March on Washington Great Success!

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2007/02/01/virtual_march_o.html

Virtual March on Washington

By Scott Shepard | Thursday, February 1, 2007, 11:44 AM

MoveOn.org, the Internet-based community of activists, staged a virtual March on Washington
Thursday to protest President Bush’s plan to increase the level of U.S. troops in Iraq.

Members of MoveOn went to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Senate offices protesting the 21,500-troop escalation.

But the more significant part of the protest was MoveOn’s attempt to flood the telephone
of Senate offices with calls from one million people opposed to the president’s troop “surge.”

The organization also devoted a part of its website for participants to go on-line to sign up
and to keep track of the calls to the Senate. The site, http://pol.moveon.org/virtualmarch,
featured a map of the United States pinpointing the origin of the calls to the Senate and a
running tally of the number of calls.

MoveOn dedicated the protest to the late newspaper columnist Molly Ivins, who died this week.
Ivins’ last column was entitled “Stand Up Against The Surge.”

The “virtual” protest is the latest pioneering effort by MoveOn. Last year, the organization
used “virtual” primaries to decide what candidates to endorse in key congressional races,
most notably, in Connecticut, where the organization endorsed anti-war candidate Ned Lamont
over Democratic incumbent Sen. Joe Lieberman. Lamont won the nomination, forcing Lieberman
to run in the general election as an independent. Lieberman won.

The Virtual March was a huge success!
With reports still coming in we think we hit our goal and then some!

Here's who called Congress (mouse over the pins):
MAP
http://pol.moveon.org/virtualmarch/?id=9830-2919065-nG7Mv0cxMZDfkTz4JHgz5A&t=2

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