Donate to Greg Palast to investigate 2004 election and get cd-gift.

[Eric J in MN]

Greg Palast brought to light the stolen election of 2000.

His reporting revealed that 94,000 legal voters in Florida were labelled "suspected felons" and prevented from voting.

Now he's going to investigate the 2004 election, and he needs our donations to help.

Donate $100 and receive a gift of "a 5-CD set of Al Franken, Amy Goodman, and Janeane Garofalo reading 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy,' Palast's New York Times bestseller ... each personally autographed by the author."

You can donate and get the gift at:
www.gregpalast.com/store.htm

If you can't afford to donate that much, you can receive other gifts with smaller donations.

MORE INFORMATION at:
http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_essay_2004_11_27_journalist_greg_palast_needs_donations.asp

[Paradise]

1. Please, let's put our money where our mouth's are! Thank you. n/t

[lenidog]

2. Wouldn't it be wiser

for him to ask us to donate and not waste money on the CD.

[Eric J in MN]

4. I f you prefer, you can choose "No Gift" in the dropdown and then

give $100, or $20, or whatever, without getting a gift.

http://www.gregpalast.com/store.htm

[livinbella]

3. That was Kerry's job!

Not one cent from me.

[Eric J in MN]

5. OK, but Greg Palast is an investigative journalist, and he's

as upset as we are that John Kerry conceded the next day.

"KERRY WON OHIO
JUST COUNT THE BALLOTS AT THE BACK OF THE BUS" by Greg Palast

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=393&row=0

It was heartening that, during his campaign, John Kerry broke the political omerta that seems to prohibit public mention of the color of votes not counted in America. "Don't tell us that in the strongest democracy on earth a million disenfranchised African Americans is the best we can do." The Senator promised the NAACP convention, "This November, we're going to make sure that every single vote is counted."

But this week, Kerry became the first presidential candidate in history to break a campaign promise after losing an election. The Senator waited less than 24 hours to abandon more than a quarter million Ohio voters still waiting for their provisional and chad-spoiled ballots to be counted.

While disappointing, I can understand the cold calculus against taking the fight to the end. To count the ballots, Kerry's lawyers would, first, have to demand a hand reading of the punch cards. Blackwell, armed with the Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore diktat, would undoubtedly pull a "Kate Harris" by halting or restricting a hand count. Most daunting, Kerry's team would also, as one state attorney general pointed out to me, have to litigate each and every rejected provisional ballot in court. This would entail locating up to a hundred thousand voters to testify to their right to the vote, with Blackwell challenging each with a holster full of regulations from the old Jim Crow handbook.

Given the odds and the cost to his political career, Kerry bent, not to the will of the people, but to the will to power of the Ohio Republican machine.

[Eric J in MN]

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