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Recent Actions of VR Founders
Here is a partial list of some successes of VR founders over the past
eight months:
- Instrumental in getting out a massive youth vote in Colorado which
resulted in a democratic sweep by the candidates representing the state
in the House, Senate and Statehouse;
- Founding member of a coalition to promote the Downing Street Memos
and demand a Resolution of Inquiry by Congress, the first step toward
Impeachment, gathering over a half million signatures in support;
- Registered over 100,000 new voters for the 2004 election and worked
with scores of other orgs to get out the youth vote;
- Distributed lots of merchandise for get out the vote campaigns in
targeted swing states, including tens of thousands of free CDs featuring
20 famous bands urging youth to get involved, and had GOTV PSAs in 40
million households;
- Wrote to all TV networks and affilates demanding that they
institute policies against the use of government propaganda and
government paid journalists;
- Posted a $200,000 reward for information about vote fraud,
which resulted in the discovery of Clint Curtis, the computer
programmer who was asked by Republican Congressman Tom Feeney to
create a vote software to rig the vote in favor of Republicans;
- Met with Congressman John Conyers' staff in December and
presented evidence about vote fraud and asked that he hold hearings
about the matter which he did the following week, which helped to
begin the election reform movement;
- Brought Clint Curtis to Washington to meet with the House
Judiciary Committee and Senators regarding voting irregularities;
- Brought Clint Curtis to Ohio to testify before a House
Judiciary Committee about vote rigging;
- Caused massive numbers of calls, letters and emails to
Senators to oppose the certification of Bush on January 6th,
met with dozens of key Senators, and convinced Senators Obama
and Kennedy to speak out in support of Senator Boxer;
- Created and manufactured a voting irregularity CD-ROM for
all US Senators for opposition to the January 6th certification
of the President.
- Exposed bias on Fox's Hannity & Colmes show that resulted
in policy changes;
- Caused massive emails against Sinclair Broadcasting that
resulted in its change of a program attacking John Kerry;
- Immediately after the election began a campaign to
investigate voter irregularities nationwide with a focus on
Ohio and Florida;
- Broke the story about White House scrubbing of documents;
- Broke the story about Clint Curtis and Rep. Tom Feeney;
- Broke some of the Downing Street Memos in the USA;
- Broke the story about Ohio Secretary of State and Ohio
Bush/Cheney Campaign Director Ken Blackwell violating federal
law, which resulted in a request for a Special Prosecutor to
investigate him and his activities with regard to vote fraud.
- Demanded a constitutional right to vote for all citizens,
without exception;
- Helped coordinate the January 21-23rd Progressive Summit
in Washington to bring together more than 50 national organizations
to oppose the Administration
- Founded the BradShow on the IBC Radio Network with plans
to go daily;
- Co-founded the weekly BlogCall putting together the top
investigative blogs with the mass media and breaking stories such
as GannonGate and FeeneyGate
- Launched the Divestiture for Democracy Campaign against
the nine major vote machine companies that has forced them to
institute paper ballots and other changes;
- Sent over 70,000 emails to the Baker/Carter Commission on
electoral reform to force them to meet with John Conyers and work
with him and VR for real electoral reform;
- Pressured the Election Assistance Commission with thousands
of emails to listen to American citizens rather than the vote machine
companies when adopting standards for elections
- Reported and supported stories from House Members that were
not being picked up by the mass media;
- Launched Youth Revolution on Justice Through Music to inspire
youth to see that peaceful revolution for democracy is cool;
- Appeared on dozens of radio and TV programs nationwide discussing
issues and news that was being ignored by the mass media;
- Exposed a phony GOP voting right org;
- Supported the Downing Street Meetups around the country on July 23, 2005;
- Supported the Voting Rights Authorization March on August 6, 2005;
- Launched a hard-hitting ad campaign to Take Back America.
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