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No More Dirty Tricks
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This message was written by Rick Jacobs and the Courage Campaign team.

Unless we act now, the White House -- and our democracy -- will be hijacked by a Republican "elaborate dirty trick" in June 2008.

So says a powerful editorial from the New York Times titled "Stacking the Electoral Deck".

Last Thursday, we told you about an unbelievable ballot initiative proposed for June 2008 in California -- a right-wing power grab straight out of Karl Rove's "dirty tricks" playbook. If passed, it would dictate that California divide up its electoral college votes by congressional district -- resulting in the Republican theft of at least 20 electoral votes in November's general election.

Game over. You might as well give the keys to the White House to Rudolph Giuliani, Mitt Romney or John McCain right now.

Will you take one simple action now to stop this dirty trick from being pulled on the American public?

Click here to stop the dirty tricks.

In a scathingly powerful editorial, the New York Times is blunt in describing how this cynical scheme by a "shadowy group" of California Republicans will "do serious damage to our democracy."

Remember when Karl Rove stole Florida from Al Gore in 2000? What about Tom DeLay's single-handed theft of five congressional seats in Texas?

If California loses its winner-take-all system, the consequences for America will be catastrophic. Iraq. Health care. Global warming. The future of every single issue we care about will be decided in California on June 3, 2008.

But you can stop it. Now. It only takes a second to click this link and sign the "No Dirty Tricks" pledge.

This is becoming a national scandal. As the Times said, if the GOP succeeds in this "elaborate dirty trick posing as reform" then they will have rigged the 2008 election to virtually prevent a Democrat from being elected to the White House in 2008. No matter the popular vote.

Click here to sign our pledge to oppose the GOP's plan to steal California's electoral votes.

http://www.couragecampaign.org/nodirtytricks

After you've signed, please forward this email to your friends.

In November 2008, we will be voting for a new President in the most important election of our lifetime.

But your vote won't matter if the Republicans steal the California election in June 2008. Please stand up right now to the GOP's dirty tricks and say "No" to this cynical power grab.


Reader Comments
  
Voter Turnout
By Judy Aug 23rd 2007 at 12:40 pm PDT
Another way to stop this ballot initiative is to actually VOTE! The voter turnout in the 18 - 24 cohort is very low. Make this a high turnout election. Register to vote now if you aren't registered; vote by absentee ballot if you can't actually get to the polls.
Re: Voter Turnout
By Erik Love Aug 23rd 2007 at 1:37 pm PDT
I could not agree more, Judy. Thanks for your comment.
  
Low Vote Turnout
By Bernard Watkins Aug 23rd 2007 at 2:13 pm PDT
Another thing is to lost listen to the news media touting a possible low voter turnout as they do at every election.
  
Another way
By Brent Turner Aug 23rd 2007 at 3:21 pm PDT
Another way to keep this out is to actually COUNT the votes properly. This attempt to change the game is great evidence our transparency movement is getting their attention. The bad guys want to get this done while we are still using secret software machines. One more reason to expedite open source syetems- Brent Turner
  

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