speaking of the Dem primaries

[donsu]

remember when we watched the funny business at the '04 dem primary that c-span carried?

the longer I watched the more I noticed the funny business and how the count was phoned in to some other place.

how much funny business will turn up at the '06 dem primaries?

(there was a woman and two men that I particularly noticed)

[blm]

1. There is no way to rig LIVE CAUCUSES, donsu. Why pretend there is?

Why don't you claim who you believe won and why they were unable to say so in front of the LIVE CAMERAS that were trained on Iowa that night.

[donsu]

2. I'm not pretending - I was watching what the live cameras showed

if the video is around, watch it again and watch the people

[blm]

3. I watched every second of it - - there is no way to rig a caucus that uses

LIVE BODIES to count. Any type of rigging would be too easily caught by the candidate who was harmed.

So - tell us who was supposed to have won through your eyes, since your eyes tells you things that my eyes and the representatives on the ground for the harmed candidate didn't see?

[donsu]

4. I didn't say 'rig' , I said funny business

three people didn't act like the rest of the people

they scurried from group to group and occasionally conferred with each other

don't know how to describe it

and then there was the unexpected results

[blm]

5. Unexpected to WHO? The media had been under-reporting Kerry's strength

on the ground in Iowa since November. Some DUers who traveled to Iowa for the big Dem dinner event there, said there was way more support for Kerry there than the media was reporting and that Kerry was even popular at the college campuses there. Yet media kept portraying a whole other picture.

So - why was the media doing this? They hoped to kill off Kerry's campaign by declaring it dead for months, and drying up all his national donations - remember, he had to finance the last 2 mths himself.

Why did they pull most of their campaign reporters off Kerry so early in the primary?


Kerry Seeks to Reverse FCC's "Wrongheaded Vote"

Commission Decision May Violate Laws Protecting Small Businesses; Kerry to File Resolution of Disapproval

Monday, June 2, 2003

WASHINGTON - Senator John Kerry today announced plans to file a "Resolution of Disapproval" as a means to overturn today's decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to raise media ownership caps and loosen various media cross-ownership rules.
Kerry will soon introduce the resolution seeking to reverse this action under the Congressional Review Act and Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act on the grounds that the decision may violate the laws intended to protect America's small businesses and allow them an opportunity to compete.

As Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Kerry expressed concern that the FCC's decision will hurt localism, reduce diversity, and will allow media monopolies to flourish. This raises significant concerns about the potential negative impacts the decision will have on small businesses and their ability to compete in today's media marketplace.

In a statement released earlier today regarding the FCC's decision, Kerry said:

"Nothing is more important in a democracy than public access to debates and information, which lift up our discourse and give Americans an opportunity to make honest informed choices. Today's wrongheaded vote by the Republican members of the FCC to loosen media ownership rules shows a dangerous indifference to the consolidation of power in the hands of a few large entities rather than promoting diversity and independence at the local level. The FCC should do more than rubber stamp the business plans of narrow economic interests.

"Today's vote is a complete dereliction of duty. The Commissioners are well aware that these rules greatly influence the competitive structure of the industry and protect the public's access to multiple sources of information and media. It is the Commission's responsibility to ensure that the rules serve our national goals of diversity, competition, and localism in media. With today's vote, they shirked that responsibility and have dismissed any serious discussion about the impact of media consolidation on our own democracy."