[IMC-US] Shall we break the story?

[Tribal Scribal]

I've just cobbled together a piece for our WMass newswire (which may be 
moved over to the feature column, but since our system's funky we have to 
process via email) and am wondering what folks think about breaking this 
story on our US site?  The guy Scott is a friend of a friend and said to be 
reliable and the guy from ReDefeatBush.com IS saying on their website that 
some highprofile pol is about to announce ("We expect big news tomorrow 
about the challenge and who supports it. Expect a major story to break in 
the morning and for it to have hit California by mid-afternoon")

Read the piece and tell me what you guys think. I think it's beyond the 
rumor stage given that this guy David Lytel apparently already made the 
announcement in Boston. On the other hand, suppose it backfires on him? Will 
we have egg on our collective face?

d.o.

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http://wmass.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4166/index.php

Speaker at Fauniel Hall vote fraud rally claims Boxer will protest 2004 
election

by d.o.

04 Jan 2005
A viable source who attended last nights vote fraud rally in Boston reports 
that ReDefeatBush.com fouder announced that Sen. Boxer will "protest the 
vote".

"I just got back from the rally in Boston at Faneuil Hall. There were about 
400 people there and many fine speakers. Perhaps the most exciting news is 
that David Lytel, the founder of ReDefeatBush, said that senator Barbara 
Boxer said she WILL step up to protest the vote. This of course elicited a 
lot of cheering. You can report that I (and about 400 others) saw and heard 
David Lytel say this loud and clear. Whether it will actually happen remains 
to be seen, but he certainly seemed to believe it close to 100%.

Other exciting news is that Jonathan Simon, who has been in front of efforts 
to analize and publicize exit poll data, has said that a very telling 
analysis of the exit poll data conducted by Steven Freeman will be released 
tommorrow (probably - they are working under great pressure to finish it 
ASAP) and that it will be provided to congressmen."

(signed by Scott)

Here is the post-rally report from ReDefeatBush (note no specific mention of 
Boxer, but also the teaser in paragraph 3):

Mr. Adams is With Us

Boston 1/3/04 12:14PM "Patriotism is not enough," wrote Audous Huxley, "but 
neither is anything else. Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art 
is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is 
duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is 
contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do." I had the 
tremendously exhilerating feeling tonight in Fanueil Hall in Boston that we 
had before us the right measure of everything: skill, timing, luck and 
confidence. To Bostonians Fanueil Hall is a curious old building in the 
midst of Quincy Market, a place where the marketplace of stuff displaced the 
marketplace of ideas long ago. It is simply impossible not to be moved by 
the statues of the great orators who have spoken in this hall, from Adams to 
Frederick Douglas. A man can be free at Fanueil Hall, and stand and speak in 
a clear voice.

Tonight what was once the cradle of liberty -- where John Adams renounced 
his British citizenship and became an American -- was packed with people 
shouting "count every vote" as the speakers made a clear and compelling case 
that George W. Bush did not win a legitimate election on 11/2.

We expect big news tomorrow about the challenge and who supports it. Expect 
a major story to break in the morning and for it to have hit California by 
mid-afternoon.
Our first quarter page ad in the Washington Post will run. If we can gain 
support in the Senate here is our analysis of how things could go if this 
is, indeed, the great unravelling we all hope it can be.

Visit our briefing page to see some of what will be used in the 
Constitutional Challenge and join us for our online discussion of 
Constitutional interpretation, legislative strategies and parliamentary 
tactics.

Tonight in Boston we showed Linda Byrket film "Video the Vote" which we have 
on BetaSP tape for the news media. On Thursday we need you with us in 
Washington. We are now expecting Rev. Bill Moss, Rev. Jesse Jackson, David 
Cobb, Granny D, and musical guests the Swing States Road Show, Yikes McGee, 
and Jack Chernos and his Department of Justice. There will be stuff 
happening from 10 to noon -- including, if I can trust my e-mail, a 
spontaneously organized Sons and Daughters of Liberty Fife and Drum Corps 
that will be all drums, no fifes -- we moved the start time to noon because 
the actual joint session of Congress begins at 1:00. Since it may be a cold 
day and since we are not sure how long our outdoor vigil will last, we want 
to do whatever we can to ensure that there will still be a crowd with us at 
the end of the afternoon to welcome and thank the brave Members of Congress 
who carry forward our challenge. If you want to tune in we will be live on 
RadioLeft.com.

And if you are still not convinced to give us your financial support read 
this list of 30 things we have done for you since election day. If you want 
us keep doing more of what we're doing, please contribute to pay for the 
lawyers and stages and everything else.


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"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as 
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world."

- Thomas Jefferson
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more rebellion here:
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