Bradley Whitford ("The West Wing") Premieres YouTube Video Condemning the "Dirty Trick Initiative"
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CONTACT: Sibahn Epps, Courage Campaign
sepps@couragecampaign.org
310-860-1307
Today, Courage Campaign launched NoDirtyTricks.com, with an online video by Bradley Whitford, underscoring the importance of defeating the so-called Presidential Election Reform Act.
Whitford, a classically trained and highly acclaimed actor, is an icon in progressive circles for his Emmy Award-winning portrayal of “Josh Lyman” on The West Wing long-running television series.
In a nearly two-minute video posted on YouTube, Whitford expressed the consequences if PERA passes.
“I don’t know about you, but my children cannot afford another Republican president,” Whitford said.
Whitford penned the script himself, which was filmed at his house. Surrounded by his children’s toys and books, Whitford’s words were all the more poignant.
The Presidential Reform Act is a ballot initiative currently in circulation in California. If it qualifies and is passed on the primary election ballot in June 2008, it will have result in at least twenty electoral college votes being given to the Republicans — as many as Ohio.
“This is not democracy. It is simply another in a long line of right-wing dirty tricks designed to steal the White House,” said Courage Campaign chair and founder Rick Jacobs. “NoDirtyTricks.com is the primary vehicle to educate and engage the netroots and grassroots communities about this partisan power grab.”
NoDirtyTricks.com is a dynamic web site that includes YouTube videos, nearly every newspaper article and blog post on this cynical scheme, and an impressive list of national leaders and bloggers endorsing NoDirtyTricks.com.
In addition to Whitford, today’s conference call will Rick Jacobs, Jane Hamsher, founder of Firedoglake.com, one of the leading the progressive political blogs in the country, John Amato, founder of CrooksandLiars.com, and Ben Tulchin, head of the California office of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, the nationally acclaimed polling firm.
All are available for interviews.
Courage Campaign is an independent political committee founded and run by netroots and grassroots activists to build a permanent progressive majority in California.
DOWNLOADS AVAILABLE:
The online video of Bradley Whitford is on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JbjMGKgZrc
It is also available for downloading from an FTP server in two formats, a compressed MP4 (40MB) and a full resolution DV/DVCPRO-NTSC file (360MB) version.
Contact Sibahn Epps “sepps ATcouragecampaign DOTorg” for the FTP server location, username and password.
WHAT:
Conference call with netroots/grassroots activists and the media to unveil first in a series of videos featuring Bradley Whitford on the subject of the Republican dirty trick initiative also known as the “Presidential Election Reform Act”:
WHO:
Bradley Whitford, Emmy Award-winning actor (“The West Wing”) Jane Hamsher, founder of firedoglake.com, nationally acclaimed political blog, and producer of “Natural Born Killers” John Amato, founder of crooksandliars.com, nationally acclaimed political blog Ben Tulchin, Vice President and California Director of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, one of the nation’s leading public opinion research firms Rick Jacobs, Chair and Founder, Courage Campaign, former California Chair of Howard Dean’s presidential campaignWHEN:
Today, Monday, September 24, 2007 at 4:00 PM PDT.
To join the call, please RSVP to Sibahn Epps at “sepps ATcouragecampaign DOTorg”
Courage Campaign is an independent political committee founded and run by netroots and grassroots activists to build a permanent progressive majority in California.
www.couragecampaign.org
www.nodirtytricks.com