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If we can deliver a quarter million signatures and comments to Congress this week, we can help push Schumer's bill over the top and show Bush that putting obedience to his corporate cronies over the law and the security of our nation just won't fly.

Please sign today:

http://www.moveon.org/pac/ports

Thanks for all that you do,

Ben, Matt, Marika, Joan and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Wednesday, March 1st 2006

P.S. If you have any friends or family members who have expressed concern about this issue, please consider forwarding this alert along to them. Winning this fight will require their voice, too.

Sources:

1. "Review of Port Deal will Leave Decision to Bush," New York Times, February 26, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/politics/27ports.html

2. The Library of Congress records 5 Republicans as on record co-sponsoring S. 2333, the "Foreign Investment Security Improvement Act of 2006." They are Senators Coleman, Snowe, Coburn, Santorum, and Collins.
http://thomas.loc.gov/

3. "9-11 report detailed possible associations between UAE, bin Laden," Newsday, February 23, 2006
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj ports-binladen0223feb23,0,3688533.story

4. "U.S. agrees to review Arab deal over ports," Washington Post and Associated Press, February 27, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1496

5. "Coast Guard had Concerns About Ports Deal, Papers Show," The New York Times, February 28, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1500

6. "Ports and a Storm," Washington Post, February 24, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1501

7. "US, UAE to resume free trade talks in March," Reuters, February 24, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1502

8. "US groups fear ports uproar may hurt UAE trade deal," Reuters, February 22, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1503

9. "Treasury Secretary may be fall guy in port flap," US News and World Report, February 24, 2006
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060224/24snow.htm

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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