HEADS UP: You're gonna want to keep an eye on Conyers today

[WilliamPitt]

http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/3/3/113728/5055

Full statement by Conyers coming shortly.

[gkhouston]

1. Thanks for the tip, Will.

Boy, Conyers is a bulldog on this. They sure picked the wrong man to piss off. He is just not gonna let go of this. Yay, Conyers!!

[KansDem]

20. Conyers is THE BULLDOG!!!

not that other guy...

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Thanks for the tip...

[Daphne08]

3. Watching now. Thanks, Will.

[demodonkey]

4. Thanks Will, C-Span fired up here now... hope they show it all! nt

[bleever]

5. Thank you.

[meganmonkey]

6. Did it happen already?

I just turned on C-Span and they were voting on an amendment....was it his thing?

[WilliamPitt]

7. IT IS ABOUT TO BE ON

[Melissa G]

14. Thanks for FYI for those of us without cable n/t

[meganmonkey]

8. LINK:

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[meganmonkey]

9. Conyers spoke first, now Maxine Waters

[meganmonkey]

10. This is interesting

It is definitely related to the topic at hand (special elections) but he just got called out by Candice Miller (R) saying that this is really about his bigger Election Reform bill- that this issue should be debated in it's proper context later on...

She kinda has a point, but she also kinda an asshole (I'm from Michigan, she is former SOS here).

[meganmonkey]

12. btw

Conyers main point was that in the case of these special election there needs to be enough good, functioning voting machines and he explained what happened in OH (i.e. unequal distribution of machines)

Now Hastert is talking blah blah blah boring, not really addressing the Conyers message

Threat, terra terra after 9/11 , bipartisan, terrorists hate us and our democracy - i swear to god these people need to get the fuck over it.
Same old shit

[Wilms]

11. Here's the bill HR 841

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-841

[mod mom]

13. Did I miss it? what c span? I thought it was to be at 2pm. nt

[Wilms]

16. You missed the debate. They're voting now.

Conyers got them to do a "record vote". So we'll see who did what.

[meganmonkey]

15. Ha - Conyers is a bulldog!

He is demanding a recorded vote! Even thought the verbal was pretty obvious nay.
LOL

[mod mom]

17. this vote makes me sick, we can no longer work through established channel

[msongs]

18. we have to start local, at the bottom, as Dr. Dean has stated:

take the country back at the grass roots level (a paraphrase, not a quote).

I have no influence over repubs in congress, except to write my local prostitute loving congressman, who ignores all critical suggestions.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/liberaltshirts.htm

[mod mom]

19. all the grassroot efforts are worthless unless we get to the bottom of the

2004 election. We need answers about the machines and source code. We need a way to bring those, like Blackwell to justice when equal protection has been violated.

As an Ohioan, the past election brought out the largest grassroots effort of all time. Without a fair election it was for naught.

[Peace Patriot]

21. Yeah, Mod Mom, I'm with you! Biggest heartbreaker I've ever been...

...involved in. We get everybody out to vote, and that they do, they vote in droves--we oust the Cartel--and they steal it, with their paperless, secret source code whizdings.

But, of course, there is a reason they hacked this fabulous, new democracy movement to pieces. And I don't think we can let Democrats off the hook either. Democratic leaders permitted an obviously fraudulent election SYSTEM to be put into place (BushCons owning the secret source code, I mean, come on...). And we need to weed them out.

I think this vote today might help. Conyers is such a smart man! Getting a recorded vote.

We've found out a couple of things about Calif. Democrats recently, re: Diebold, and the witch hunt against Kevin Shelley (good Sec of State). I've had it with complicit Democrats. I'm on the warpath. We have got to cleanse this Party and make it responsive. SOMEONE has to represent the MAJORITY in this country!

But I agree with msongs, and with Dean--re: RESTORING OUR RIGHT TO VOTE. Congress just isn't going to do it. It has to be done at the local/state level.

[Last Lemming]

25. Well said!

or rather written...

[ClassWarrior]

26. WRONG. NO grassroots effort is worthless.

People working together for Progressive values is what it's all about. I agree about the vote-munching machines, though.

NGU.

[Peace Patriot]

22. I want that vote roster! Anybody know the url to get it? How quickly...

...does it go up? I haven't searched for a vote roster since the Iraq war vote (125 votes against!!!). (Heard the votes on Rice & Gonzales on the radio and wrote them down.)

[Coexist]

23. Try these...

http://www.congressvoting.com/

http://www.vote-smart.org/

http://www.citizen.org/congress/voting/

The first one is a paid service

[teddyk23]

24. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll051.xml

[Wow]

27. Glad things are still rolling

I'm glad to hear that the heat continues to stay on. Thanks for keeping us up to date.

[seito]

28. Thanks for the info

:thumbsup:

[buddysmellgood]

29. kick