Jesse Jackson | 'Kerry Won the Election'

[G_j]

I thought this needed a GD posting.
(please contact Senators!)


Jesse Jackson | 'Kerry Won the Election'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/123104V.shtml

Editor's Note | TO reported earlier today that Rep. John Conyers, ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will officially object to the Ohio Electoral votes being counted when Congress convenes to certify the election on January 6th. Rev. Jesse Jackson will be centrally involved in the effort to convince a Senator to join Conyers in this effort. TO will be reporting on the 6th from Washington D.C. on the hearings. - wrp


'We Will Not Faint'
By Susannah Meadows
Newsweek

Thursday 30 December 2004

Jesse Jackson on why he thinks John Kerry really won the election.

Ohio officials concluded their recount of the presidential vote last Tuesday-reaffirming President George W. Bush’s victory. But the state’s election woes aren’t over yet. As bloggers continue to spin conspiracy theories about a victory stolen from Democratic candidate John Kerry, the Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to lead a Monday rally in Columbus to protest alleged voting irregularities. He warmed up with Newsweek’s Susannah Meadows.



Newsweek: What’s the matter with Ohio?

Rev. Jesse Jackson: In Columbus, Cincinnati, Akron, Youngstown, Cleveland, where I was, you had blacks standing in line for six hours in the rain. That’s a form of voter suppression.

Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell says that machines were allotted based on turnout in past years, and that he didn’t realize they’d need more machines until it was too late.

He had to know it because registration was up. Blackwell may have had to deliver for Bush and Cheney and he got a lighter rap than Harris got. But Ohio may have been more stacked than Florida was.

So you think Blackwell stole the election for Bush?

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[CountAllVotes]

1. I agree with you Jesse Jackson!

and thank you for all of your hard work. Where do we go from here? What can we do next?

I'm admittedly discouraged. :(

KEEP HOPE ALIVE JESSE!

:kick:

[liberal N proud]

2. Go Jesse

[shadowknows69]

4. everyone and I mean EVERYONE

should show up in Ohio on the 6th..what say thee? The repubs want a recount in Wash? We have verifiable incidents of voter supression that should invalidate the entire Ohio electorate vote. Revote Ohio for the presidency should be the platform and "we shall not be moved" should be our anthem.

[0007]

7. I agree, people should flood the state of Ohio on the 6th of January

Rep. John Conyers is the only one out in front, while everyone else is peeping from behind.

[Prodemsouth]

3. Too bad Kerry does not care..thanks anyway Jesse.

n/t

[shadowknows69]

5. doesn't mean we shouldn't

If Kerry doesn't want it give it to Nader ;O)

[Prodemsouth]

6. No Cobb- he is the one who would deserve it.- but you know what I think

I am being mean to Cobb. I would not want the job right now either-

[G_j]

8. we can be thankful for "third party" activism

on the fraudulent election.

[Prodemsouth]

9. After this if the Dems continue to act like pink tutus. We should start a

new party.If they go with someone who "will not make waves" at the DNC, they are finished wtih me and I am hardly af a left winger. We need to get a national meeting to get someone will fight- I don't think the Green Party could be a real national player. We need a center left figure at the helm of a new party that can have broad appeal.

[G_j]

17. speaking of which..

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1231-07.htm

Published on Friday, December 31, 2004 by the Associated Press

Third-Party Candidates Ask Court for Another Recount of Ohio Vote
by Jay Cohen

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Two third-party presidential candidates asked a federal court Thursday to force a second recount of the Ohio presidential vote, alleging that county elections boards altered votes and didn't follow proper procedures in the recount that ended this week.

Lawyers for Green Party candidate David Cobb and Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party made their request in U.S. District Court in Columbus as part of an ongoing lawsuit that originally was filed by a county board of elections to stop the recount.

The two candidates, who received less than 0.3 percent of the Ohio vote, paid $113,600 for a statewide recount after the vote was certified earlier this month by the secretary of state.

Ohio and its 20 electoral votes tipped the national race to President Bush. Sen. John Kerry conceded the morning after the Nov. 2 vote. Counties finished the recount Tuesday. Bush won the state by 118,457 votes over Kerry, according to unofficial results provided to The Associated Press by the 88 counties.


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[InvisibleBallots]

10. If I had known this I would have voted for Jesse Jackson!

Dumbest mistake the Democratic party ever made? Running *Dukakis* instead of the one we really wanted, Jesse Jackson.

[WonderGrunion]

12. Those who forget history...

Are doomed to pick the guy from Massachusettes over the firebrand activist every time.

[G_j]

16. I remember voting for him in the primaries

because he was the only one who would address a certain very taboo subject:
poverty

[lewiston]

11. Frances Xavier Cabrini

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. watch this Truthout video....

Let us get this gentleman and his cohorts in front of some investigators for some serious questioning.

If such a thing is possible in Imperial Bushmerika anymore. Going up against the Imperial Family carries a quite steep price, professionally and personally, that much is clear, even if they don't actually murder you (and in some cases, they do IMHO).

This and other evidence is beginning to mount. Once again it is all laying about like a child's discarded toys.

Even more so than in 2000.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/122404X.shtml

[Goose1963]

15. Contestthevote.org -- "it's crunch time"

[newyawker99]

18. Hi Goose1963!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[G_j]

19. thanks

most people know nothing about this.
Outrageous, isn't it?

[Vidar]

14. Pity this bigoted country won't elect a black president. Jesse's

the biggest hero we've got.

[moderatesoutherndem]

20. first minority or female president is likely to be a republican

[catbert836]

21. Why do you say that?

The South would vote Democratic, and besides no self respecting person of color would run as a Repuke anyway.

[Disturbed]

22. Will any Dem Senator...

stand up with Conyers?

[Name removed]

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[Lorien]

24. Kick

:kick:

[lovuian]

25. Noone has explained why the Voting Booth was shut down

for hours for a terrorist attack warning which Nobody gave!!!

The FBI hasn't found out who the NOBODIES WERE EITHER!!!

Oh it was stolen all right!!!