Fw: COBB 2004 RELEASE: KUCINICH SUPPORTS OHIO RECOUNT

Where are the funds raised by the DNC for this purpose?
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From: "RICHARD JOHNSON"
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> Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
> -- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
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> Dear Fellow Radical
> This is the lastest development in the Ohio Recount story.
> Also note that Keith Olbermann MSNBC news commentator whose show
> Countdown has been covering the story was NOT fired, contrary to
> internet rumors. He has an informative and humerous daily blog where
> you can read about all post election happenings. Just do a search for
> Blogermann.
> Go to Cobb's website below if you want to donate to the recount effort.
> The deadlines are the certification of Ohio electors December
> 7, voting by the electors December 13, and the joint session of
> congress January 6.
> In my opinion, Cobb is covering the Green Party with credit
> for leading the recount movement. Whatever shenanigans were involved
> in his selection as our candidate, and whatever the outcome of the
> recount, the Greens will emerge as a stronger national party for
> having taken on this challenge.
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> But the outcome of the election will not change unless Kerry
> himself gets a court to declare him the winner of the recount, and
> the timelines for doing that are just real tight. And is he the kind
> of person that would take that kind of a risk to save the nation?
> Fact of the matter is, if he were still "on duty" and not
> AWOL, he would have demanded the recount. His lack of courage has
> opened the door to Cobb and the friends of democracy to take his
> place.
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> >From: "Nancy Allen"
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> >Subject: COBB 2004 RELEASE: KUCINICH SUPPORTS OHIO RECOUNT
> >Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:11:12 -0500
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> >NEWS RELEASE
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> >For immediate release: November 17, 2004
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> >Contact: Blair Bobier, Media Director at 541.929.5755
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> >KUCINICH SUPPORTS GREEN PARTY DEMAND FOR OHIO RECOUNT
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> > Support for Green Party presidential candidate David
> >Cobb's demand for a recount of the Ohio presidential vote continues
> >to grow. Ohio Congressman and former presidential candidate Dennis
> >Kucinich has joined a growing list of individuals and organizations
> >calling for a recount.
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> > "I strongly support the request for a recount in Ohio,"
> >Kucinich said in a statement sent to the Cobb-LaMarche campaign.
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> > Kucinich said that a "recount is an appropriate response
> >to officials who tried to suppress the vote" and that the "highly
> >partisan activities of state election officials cast doubt on the
> >integrity of the elections process."
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> > Cobb and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik, who
> >intend to file jointly for the recount, have demanded that Ohio
> >Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican who chaired the
> >Ohio Bush campaign, recuse himself from the recount process.
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> > "We need an election system and election officials we
> >can trust. The problems in Florida in 2000 and the problems in Ohio
> >in 2004 will repeat themselves in 2008 unless we do something about
> >it. Our elections should be administered by an independent
> >non-partisan commission, and not by the state chairs of the
> >Republican presidential campaign," said David Cobb. The Secretary
> >of State in Florida in 2000, Katherine Harris, was also the state
> >chair of the Bush campaign and the person responsible for counting
> >the presidential ballots.
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> > Kucinich's support of Cobb's recount demand comes on the
> >heels of another prominent endorsement of this effort. On Monday,
> >Common Cause, the National Voting Rights Institute, Demos, the
> >Fannie Lou Hamer Project and People for the American Way Foundation
> >issued a joint statement in support of the Cobb and Badnarik demand
> >for an Ohio recount.
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> > Kucinich expressed his appreciation of the growing
> >movement demanding accountability for the 2004 election.
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> > "Thank you to the Greens and all others whose support
> >for a recount will rescue a shred of honesty in the conduct of the
> >2004 Ohio election," said Kucinich.
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> > The Cobb-LaMarche campaign is now in the process of
> >recruiting volunteers and raising funds for monitoring the actual
> >recount process which is expected to take place in early December.
> >Volunteers and donors should visit the campaign website,
> >http://www.votecobb.org, for more
> >information.
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