[Peace-discuss] Fwd: 20 Days Countdown. Can we raise a million today?

[Jay Mittenthal]

>Date: 17 Oct 2002 01:01:05 -0000
>From: "Wes and Eli, MoveOn PAC" <moveon-help at list.moveon.org>
>To: "Jay Mittenthal" <mitten at life.uiuc.edu>
>Subject:  20 Days Countdown.  Can we raise a million today?
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>Dear MoveOn member,
>
>Our fundraising effort for heroes in Congress has been wildly
>successful, with almost $900,000 raised in under 48 hours from
>more than 25,000 individual donations.  You folks are amazing.
>Let's make it a cool million.  Just go to
>
>  http://www.moveonpac.org/moveonpac/viewcandidates.phtml
>
>Now that the Iraq resolution has passed, we believe we need to
>put 100% of our focus on the upcoming election.  The American
>people are smarter than politicians and pollsters think.  If
>Bush loses Congress through his cynical use of war for election
>year politics, this will be a watershed moment.
>
>For each of the next twenty days, until election day itself,
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>Firstly, help us compile a list of important reasons to act
>in this election -- to donate, to volunteer, to vote.  We've
>got to help people get energized -- to give up their
>comfortable cynicism and to fight.  We've mounted a reader-rated
>discussion group on reasons to act at:
>
>  http://www.actionforum.com/forum/index.html?forum_id=250
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>The question of the day:  Why is it crucial to wrest control
>of Congress from Bush and the right wing?  Our contribution
>for the day is to state the obvious:
>
>     - We cannot let war win elections.
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>Read and rate this comment online and make your own contribution.
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>We'll highlight top rated reasons in our coming election
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>on just one issue or reason, so it will fit into our countdown
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>pithy summary of the issue, that will fit well into a top 20 list.
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>Thanks for everything.  The countdown begins,
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>  October 16, 2002
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