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midnight

(26,624 posts)
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 02:03 PM Oct 2012

Siegelman's message:The next 90 days are crucial. More than crucial - pivotal!

Dear Friends,

You inspire us. Your creativity, your optimism, your dedication!

We still need a hundred thousand signatures at CHANGE.org/pardonDON. That means constant publicity, posting on blogs, Facebook, and Twitter, emailing to friends, co-workers, and organizational listervs. It means putting a bumper sticker on your car or making phone calls to your friends in the media to cover the story.

The next 90 days are crucial. More than crucial - pivotal! We are going to move mountains by inaugural day.

I'm going to be traveling around the country rallying support. I'm going to be raising money for ads, materials for distribution, and hopefully an agent to help with publicity! I don't want to give up on my dad; I want to give it my all!

Dad and I had a long heart to heart yesterday in Oakdale, LA. He is hopeful but cautious, positive but realistic, angry but oh so funny. He made me laugh and cry all at the same time!

I promised him I would say thank you for him, that I would write and encourage you to work hard over the next ninety days. We need your talents, your connections, and your resources. Everyone has something to offer.

We cannot forget that Dad was dragged away in handcuffs and shackles five years ago and taken into solitary confinement because some people really do not fight fairly. We have to fight back (but fairly)!

Please join me in this movement, over the next 90 days, to free Don Siegelman. Tell everyone you know.

THANK YOU!

Dana and family

The Siegelman prosecution: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3870545n

Bumper sticker/ Obama logo: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/89760651/Free%20don.pdf

To write my dad: http://www.donsiegelman.org/contact_home.html

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Siegelman's message:The next 90 days are crucial. More than crucial - pivotal! (Original Post) midnight Oct 2012 OP
President Obama's Supreme Court pick, Elena Kagan, OnyxCollie Oct 2012 #1
O boy.... This doesn't sound too promising does it..... midnight Oct 2012 #2
No, sadly, it does not. nt OnyxCollie Oct 2012 #3
 

OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)
1. President Obama's Supreme Court pick, Elena Kagan,
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 11:49 PM
Oct 2012

fulfilled her role as Conspiracy Entrepreneur during her stint as Solicitor General when she advocated that Don Siegelman receive an even stiffer sentence.

She protected Exxon Mobil and was nicely rewarded, not unlike Earl Warren, who, as California's Attorney General, provided "racially-fueled rhetoric" to Lt. Gen. DeWitt, upon which DeWitt made the decision to intern all people of Japanese ancestry living on the West coast. (This was a very profitable turn of events for the farm corporations.)

His prize? Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and chair (and Chief Conspiracy Entrepreneur) of the Warren commission, which was tasked to investigate the JFK assassination.

There's no pardon coming, Don.

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