[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: Just One Senator... An Open Letter to the U.S. Senate from Michael Moore

[Paul Etxeberri]

>
>Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
>
>Dear Members of the U.S. Senate,
>
>Welcome back! The 109th session of Congress has just begun. I'm 
>watching you on C-SPAN right now and you all look so snap-happy and 
>clean-faced. It's like the first day of school all over again, isn't 
>it?
>
>I have a favor to ask of you. Something isn't right with the vote 
>from Ohio. Seems a lot of people didn't get to vote. And those who 
>did, thousands of theirs weren't counted.
>
>Does that seem right to you? I'm just asking. Forget about partisan 
>politics for a moment and ask yourself if there is a more basic 
>right, in a democracy, than the right of the people to vote AND have 
>ALL their votes counted.
>
>Now, I know a lot of you wish this little problem of Ohio would just 
>go away. And many of you who wish this are Democrats. You just want 
>to move on (no pun intended!). I can't say I blame you. It's rough 
>to lose two elections in a row when the first one you actually won 
>and the second one you should have won. And it seems this time 
>around, about 3 million more Americans preferred to continue the war 
>in Iraq and give the rich more tax breaks than those who didn't. No 
>sense living in denial about that.
>
>But something isn't right in Ohio and more than a dozen members of 
>the House of Representatives believe it is worth investigating.
>
>So on Thursday at 1:00pm, Rep. John Conyers of Detroit will rise and 
>object to the vote count in Ohio. According to the laws of this 
>land, he will not be allowed to speak unless at least one of you -- 
>one member of the United States Senate --  agrees to let him have 
>the floor.
>
>A very embarrassing moment during the last session of Congress 
>occurred in the first week when none of you would allow the members 
>of Congress who were black to have the floor to object to the 
>Florida vote count. Remember that? You thought no one would ever 
>notice, didn't you? You certainly lucked out that night when the 
>networks decided not to show how you shut down every single member 
>of the Congressional Black Caucus.
>
>No such luck this year. Everyone now knows about that moment of 
>shame. Thank you? You're welcome.
>
>But this Thursday, at 1:00pm, you will have a chance to redeem yourself.
>
>Congressman Conyers and a dozen other members of Congress have some 
>serious questions about how the Republican secretary of state in 
>Ohio (who was also the state's co-chair of Bush's reelection 
>campaign) conducted the election on November 2. The list of possible 
>offenses of how voters were denied access to the polls and how over 
>a hundred thousand of their votes have yet to be counted is more 
>than worthy of your consideration. It may not change the outcome, 
>but you have a supreme responsibility to make sure that EVERY vote 
>is counted. Who amongst you would disagree with that?
>
>If you would like to read more about the specific charges, I ask 
>that you read these two links: 
><http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse04.html>"Senators 
>Should Object to Ohio Vote" -by Jesse Jackson and 
>"<http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1065>Ten 
>Preliminary Reasons Why the Bush Vote Does Not Compute, and Why 
>Congress Must Investigate Rather Than Certify the Electoral 
>College". I am asking everyone on my mailing list to send you a 
>letter joining me in this call to you to do your job and investigate 
>what happened before you certify the vote.
>
>It only takes one member of the House and one member of the Senate 
>to stop the acceptance of the Electoral College vote and force a 
>legitimate debate and investigation. Do you know why this provision 
>is set in stone in our nation's laws? I mean, why would we allow 
>just two officials in a body of 535 members to throw a wrench into 
>the works? The law exists because nothing is more sacred than the 
>integrity of the ballot box and if there is ANY possibility of fraud 
>or incompetence, then it MUST be addressed. Because if we don't have 
>the vote, what are we left with?
>
>C'mon Senators! Especially you Democrats. Here is your one shining 
>moment of courage. Will you allow the gavel to come down on our 
>black members of Congress once again? Or will you stand up for their 
>right to object?
>
>We will all be watching.
>
>Yours,
>
>Michael Moore
><http://www.michaelmoore.com/>www.michaelmoore.com
><mailto:mmflint at aol.com>mmflint at aol.com
>
>P.S. My whereabouts this week: I will be on the Today Show Thursday 
>morning, Jay Leno on Friday night. And... the People's Choice Awards 
>are this Sunday night, live on CBS at 9pm! Can we defeat the 
>superheroes Spiderman, Incredibles and Shrek for best picture? A 
>documentary??? Whoa... tune in...
>
>
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Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand
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