Spend $20, Help Save Democracy- Send BBV Book to Congress

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I am moving this over to this forum as suggested.

We are trying to get people to send Bev Harris's book, Black Box Voting: Ballot Tamepring in the 21st. Century, to members of Congress. In order to try to avoid duplication of effort, I am keeping track of pledges here.

This does not mean that you can't send the book to your state legislators, libraries, etc. It's just a suggestion that since Bev's book is online, you take that money and send a copy to congress or somewhere else it might do some good. I will work on several versions of a letter provided by other activists to be included in the book if it is shipped from Plan Nine Publishing. I don't know if you can have such a letter included from Amazon.

I am now keeping the list sans who is pledging to send books. IF you'd rather I keep names on the list, I go back to that. I was just using DU screen names. I have that information and can add it back on, but perhaps some will prefer to PM me and let me add their reps to the "already pledged" list that way.


Books have been pledged to send to:

SENATORS

Jeff Bingaman
Barbara Boxer
Robert Byrd
Hillary Clinton
Mike DeWine
Elizabeth Dole
Richard Durbin
John Edwards
Russ Feingold
Dianne Feinstein
Bob Graham
Chuck Hagel
Fritz Hollings
Edward Kennedy
Herb Kohl
Carl Levin
Patty Murray
Charles Schumer
Olympia Snowe


REPRESENTATIVES

Tom Allen
Virginia Brown-Watie
Randy "Duke" Cunningham
Jesse Jackson Jr.
Dennis Kucinich
Tom Lantos
Brad Miller
Steve Pearce
Jan Schakowsky
Pat Tiberi

Checks for update accuracy always welcome!


Recommendations of people who should get books:
(Just guessing on my part, I'll put an asterisk by some I think are important, but that's only my guess. If you know of someone who rarely makes the news but who really works behind the scenes to get things done, then let me know and I'll add them to the list if you're already committed to send books to others)

Lincoln Chafee
Tom Harkin*
James Jeffords*
Patrick Leahy*
Barbara Mikulski
Bill Nelson
Harry Reid
Ron Wyden

Brian Baird
John Conyers*
Norm Dicks
Barney Frank*
Rush Holt*
Jay Inslee
Barbara Lee*
Jim McDermott
Ed Markey
Marty Meehan
Ron Paul*
Nancy Pelosi
Bernie Sanders*
Maxine Waters
Henry Waxman*




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