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Writing against Tom Delay;
Use a strategy the Deaniacs did in the primaries to oust
Tom the Sleazoid DeLay
by Rob Kall
www.OpEdNews.com
- Back during the Democratic presidential primaries, I went to
Dean meet-up, half to support Dean and half to check out the
Deaniac phenomenon. We were all give post-cards and an address
list of democrats living in New Hampshire, and we were asked to
write to the people who could potentially vote in the primaries,
explaining why we supported Howard Dean.
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- This weekend, flying from Dallas to Austin, not knowing the
map, I thought maybe we were flying over Sugarland, and had this
urge to spit. It ends up I was wrong, it was another stretch of
redneck rural Texas we were flying over that had the
cuspidor-response effect on me.
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- But I did have an idea that still applies. Why not send
letters to ALL the people in Tom DeLay’s district. Let them know
what we think of them and their district for afflicting our nation
with the lowest, sleaziest, most dishonest slime-ball (to borrow a
George Bush Sr. term.)
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- This will take a little bit of organization, but it’s very
doable.
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- If every resident of Sugarland gets one or two or three
postcards or letters, all telling them how bad an opinion the rest
of the country has of Sugarland, or letters asking them why they
keep sending such a horrible person to Washington, maybe it will
make a difference.
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- This is a project that will take some volunteers. It will
require some organization to host the list of addresses and a
programmer who can create a website that will track which
addresses people are taking responsibility for mailing to.
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- If the enough people in DeLay’s district get letters and
postcards, maybe a percentage of them who have been on the fence
will decide that they don’t like the effect of Tom Delay on their
real estate. Maybe, while we’re at it, we should also put up
billboards on the main roads in his district.
Here's a sample letter.
Dear ..........
I have to ask
how you, as a resident of Tom DeLay's district, can allow
yourself to be represented by the man known as the most corrupt,
sleazy dirty politician in the US. As a patriotic American,
it is disturbing to think that thinking, honest citizens can
consciously choose to send a man of his despicable qualities to
represent them in congress. Please find a better candidate among
your community to represent you.
Now.... let's figure out how to get that mailing list, how to
organize putting it up on a website and sorting out how to dole out
the names so each voter in DeLay's district gets a few snail mail
letters.
Rob Kall rob@opednews.com
is editor of www.OpEdNews.com You can
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