[IMC-US] Re: [Imc-us-editorial] Shall we break the story?

[Mike]

Her announcement was alleged at a public rally, so we are not breaking confidentialities.  The story below is clear its sources & disclaimers. So I say we break the story.

Also, viable isn't the right word. Stick to 'reliable'

 
> From: "Tribal Scribal" <valeoftheoaks at hotmail.com>
> Date: 2005/01/04 Tue PM 05:01:12 EST
> To: imc-us at ucimc.org,  imc-us-editorial at ucimc.org
> Subject: [Imc-us-editorial] Shall we break the story?
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> *******
> 
> 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 
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> 
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