Why Won't Rush Holt Sponsor His Own Bills?

Nice, very nice (0.00 / 0)

That's a pretty stupid mistake from the MoveOn people.  I unsubscribed from their email because they send too much of it.  Now I find they send wrong information as well.

DBK

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by: DBK @ Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 16:04:21 PM UTC

in MoveOn's defense (0.00 / 0)

They probably just forgot to remove his name from the list. It's not SUCH a big deal. On the positive side, their phonebanking software is great.  They're surveying voters in CA-50th, Cunninham's district, where Francine Busby is running in a special election on Tuesday.  All you need is a computer and a phone and you can call from anywhere in the country, without having to work off a list.  After you've clicked through the screen the number is gone, so you're not sitting around with all those phone numbers in your computer or with a hard copy.  Maybe others had seen it before, but I hadn't and thought it worked remarkably well.

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by: kwilkinson @ Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 19:14:12 PM UTC

I think it's a big deal (0.00 / 0)

The reason I think it's such a big deal is that they have a huge mailing list.  So, where were they when some of us were trying to get signatures for Congressman Holt's petition in support of HR 550?  Nowhere.  But now, months after some of us put in hours and hours in support of HR 550, they show up and make a mistake like that.  Had it not been caught in time, it could have swamped the congressman's staff with phone calls.  Like I said, they have a huge list.  Who knows how many calls they Holt's staff had to deal with in the meantime.

I also, as I said, found them very annoying because of the number of emails they send out to the people on their list, which is why I unsubscribed.  I get enough unsolicited email; I don't need two a day from MoveOn, mainly asking me for money.

However, I will forgive them if they now email their list and ask their members to sign Congressman Holt's petition in support of HR 550, and include a link to the petition in their email to make it easy.

DBK

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by: DBK @ Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 19:30:32 PM UTC

Unfair criticism (0.00 / 0)

MoveOn has been drumming up support for HR 550 for months, if not years. They have even organized meetings with members of Congress to encourage them to sign on to HR 550. I still have some of the emails to prove it.

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by: Juan Melli @ Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 19:36:01 PM UTC

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That was my mistake then (0.00 / 0)

My apologies for implying that MoveOn was not involved in supporting HR 550, though I believe I remain technically correct regarding Congressman Holt's petition.

But whoever wrote that memo should have known about Congressman Holt being the primary sponsor.  Look, I know it was a mistake on their part and not malicious, but I think my point about the problem such a mistake causes is valid.  If I write something in error here in comments, maybe a few people read it and the effect is very limited.  MoveOn has a very large mailing list and their errors have wider repercussions.  I think it is a big deal.

Um, by the way, and I don't mean this in a snotty way, if they supported HR 550, then it wasn't for "years" since HR 550 was introduced in February of 2005, I believe.  I was blogging on its predecessor, HR 2139, also introduced by Congressman Holt, long before that.  The numerous verified voting organizations have likewise been around for a while and thank goodness for that, since they have had much success on the state level.

DBK

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by: DBK @ Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 19:55:02 PM UTC

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Holts bills needs modification (0.00 / 0)

It hands the running of Elections to the Feds. Just look at HAVA to see that in the hands of the wrong folks, HAVA has become a cash cow for the 3 voting machine vendors, ES&S Diebold & Sequoia.

Check out my 3 paragraph primer on Polywell Fusion.

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by: FogerRox @ Sat Apr 08, 2006 at 04:51:35 AM UTC