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"Free Trip to Florida (Yes, I'm Serious)!!!!
"The League of Conservation Voters' Environmental Victory Project is scheduling one more bus trip to Orlando so YOU can help elect Kerry-Edwards, Oct. 22 -24 from Atlanta. Others are leaving from other cities, such as Washington D.C. and Philadelphia.
"The Environmental Victory Project needs your help to educate undecided (crunch time is close and turning out Kerry voters is fast becoming the objective) Florida voters on the deplorable Bush/Cheney environmental project, and that's why they are footing the bill for the entire trip! That means transportation and room & board.
"Reserve your seat today at: http://www.envirovictory.org/ga or envirovictoryfl@lcv.org (subject line: GA Road Trip), or you may call Riley Wells at (407) 420-4640."
I spoke with Riley today on the telephone. He's a college student here in GA and he grew up in our old neighborhood. He told me I don't have to wait until the bus trip; I could come anytime. He's taken the semester off and is working down there fulltime. His group is working every day along the I-4 corridor, St. Pete, Orlando, Daytona, where the effort promises the most rewards on November 2. They've registered and committed some 300,000 voters and are looking at 100,000 more. Mary and I will be there with them soon.
You can stave off the idiots, make a difference, make a future we can all live with and a democracy we can further. People like Riley Wells now in Orlando at (407) 420-4640 are today's patriots. Give him a call if you're serious about doing something meaningful.
Give it up for the artists
REM, loved the new song, "Leaving New York," Bonnie Raitt, who held it together leading sixties protest songs, put on a great show at the grand finale concert last night. The E Street Band rocked. John Mellencamp rocked. The fearless Dixie Chicks rocked! Robert Redford and Sundance Rocked! (Maybe that's why Bush is losing Colorado, if the bishop's influence doesn't take hold http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/12/politics/campaign/12catholics.html?oref=login&th ) They all rocked! In the Atlanta area you can see REM at the Gwinnett Arena October 28.
