Dean Assures Democrats Will Be Ready For Legal Challenges In 06 Elections

[KittyWampus]

Dean Says Dem Report On Election Fraud Coming Out & We'll Be Ready For 06 Elections.

Just reporting something from fellow DU'er GettysbergII who went to Rainbow PUSH Town Hall meeting where Dean spoke.

This is the first time I've felt as hopeful about 06 in a while. Perhaps Dean & Democrats ARE on top of Election Fraud.

PLEASE read down to last 2 paragraphs and thanks to GettsbergII.


GettysbergII (546 posts) Mon Jun-13-05 02:17 AM
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74. My wife and I were at there at the Sunday morning Rainbow PUSH Town Hall


Meeting and while Dean certainly did make those witty statements there was a lot more 'meat' to the meeting than just Dean cracking wise to Faux News ass lickers. Here's a few other nuggats that went unreported.

Jesse Jackson Jr did a wonderful job of historically framing the case and the need to not only renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965 but to also enact a constitutional amendment legalizing our right to vote so there will be legal grounds to contest future elections as he pointed out there surely will be a need to and that this will be a battle that will go on every election year. He also stated he was sick of hearing "old folks" recalling the hard fought civil rights battles won in the past when they needed to get off their asses and start fighting the ones in the present. Eternal vigilance is what's called for. He also stated it time to stop supporting Democrats that vote like Republicans. He was actually the most commanding speaker there.

Jesse Jackson Sr came up with a delightful metaphor about the two party system comparing it to the two tracks of L ( Chicago subway) but that its the third rail that we're always told to watch out for that provides the juice to run the train. In keeping with this the next ten PUSH programs will deal with constitutional issues. Of course at the start of the press conference he lapsed into his used car salesman persona, shamelessly waving his son's new book at the cameras (with a big picture of of Jr on the cover) throughout his introductory speech.

The most important statement I believe Dean made was to tell us to be prepared for a bombshell of a report the Democrats should be releasing in the next 10 days or so that documents the widespread voter suppression and fraud last November in Ohio particularly and the country in general.

Many other very astute voter rights advocates participated on the panel pretty much echoing the complaints and remedies you'd find here at DU in the 2004 Election Results and Discussion section (sans the Exit Poll stuff) including castgating Kerry for not challenging the vote ('pre-emptive surrender'as Penda Hair of the Advancement Project called it)and outrage at the paperless trail and rightwing owned voting machines. Dean assured everyone that the Democrats will be ready for a serious legal tussle if necesary in 2006.

[chalky]

1. I'm waiting with baited breath (and believe it or not,that WASN'T sarcasm)

This should be good.

[sam sarrha]

2. Finally !!!

[kansasblue]

3. This sounds good.

We better fight in advance. No more 'special funds' that never get spent.

[KittyWampus]

4. We Don't Know For Certain That The Kerry Lawyers Did Nothing

but I need a reason to feel some optimism... and this helps.

[Gothmog]

5. I was on the Kerry Edwards Legal team in Florida

The concept there was to have attorneys at each voting precinct to watch for voter intimidation and to assist voters vote. I was stationed in Ft. Lauderdale in a heavily democratic precinct. We had over 600 attorneys in Broward County alone. The concept was that having someone on the ground could prevent what happened in 1000 in Palm Beach in that we would have knowned about the problem with the butterfly ballot and had flyers to be handed out to voters.

In minority voting precincts we had teams of people to watch for voter intimidation. There were a large number of eyes on the ground for this process and if there was voter intimidation, it was documented.

The framework and volunteers for the Kerry Edwards legal volunteers has been incorporated into the DNC for 2006 and 2008.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Right

I'm patiently waiting even though I really am curious. :popcorn:

[FredStembottom]

6. BTW...Where DID that money go?????

Has there benn DU discussion or investigation into where that Legal Team money went?