Shelly resigned! Action plan: Urgent! DU this...

[Liberty Belle]

ALL: Please read, take action and kick this thread!!!

CA's Secretary of State, Kevin Shelly, has just resigned.
(SF Chronicle article posted in another thread -- see www.sfgate.com)
(article just updated to say he HAS resigned, not planning to.)

Schwarzenegger will appoint a replacement that must be approved by the CA Legislature.

If he appoints a Republican, we could wind up with rigged elections since the Secretary of State can buy voting machines, withhold machines in minority districts, create cumbersome rules designed to purge Democratic voters off the rolls and make it harder for them to register or have votes counted, thwart recount efforts, etc. -- just like in Ohio and Florida.

URGENT!
Please call, write and e-mail Arnold to say that if he appoints a Republican, you will urge that he be recalled for thwarting our democratic process.
See contact info below.

Call, fax and e-mail your State Senator and State Assembly represesntatives. Insist that they vote AGAINST any Republican Arnold may nominate for Secretary of STate. Make clear that this is a line-in-the-sand vote. Say that a vote for ANY Republican means you will do everything possible to defeat this legislator in the next primary election. Vote NO on this GOP attempt at a coup to rig elections!
Link below to find your legislator.

Call the DNC . Tell Terry McAuliff to get the national party to pressure the CA Dems on this one. Also call Howard Dean ask him to get the DFA moving on this. Call Moveon, Progressive Democrats, and other progressive groups, too. Forward this e-mail everywhere!

Contact info:

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

To send an Electronic Mail please visit:
http://www.govmail.ca.gov

Link to find your legislators and state legislative leaders:
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Mail or Phone the DNC
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Main Phone Number:

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Email the DNC www.dnc.org/contact/
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[DemoTex]

1. Shit!

On the other hand, if California goes red the cat will be out of the bag.

[ZombieNixon]

3. CA may not go red,

but it might "mysteriously" become a swing state, causing the Dem candidate to waste time and resources in a faux swing state that was never in danger in the first place.

[marcologico]

16. Now you know how Arnold "won" that recall.

Just a hunch.

[CAcyclist]

2. F#%^%$%k this!

God D$^&^n BY%%Y%YDs and the stupid spineless Democratic Party in California that let this happen.

Ok, fine. Expect this state to vote Republican in 2006.

I don't want to be a buzzkill but I did my fighting. I ran around *before* this trying to shore up support. It's too late, now.

[CAcyclist]

4. Ok, I'm still fighting

It's not too late, but by God we'd better make this a huge effort and we need money NOW to prove to Shelley that he should fight and we will back him up. Pledge money NOW NOW NOW. See the other thread for the address of his legal defense fund - don't send money to the Secretary of State's office

[yurbud]

5. my e-mail to Arnold

Arnold,

If you appoint a republican to the secretary of state's office to replace Kevin Shelley, I will campaign for your recall and demand that the attorney general investigate your nominee's and your own ties to the voting machine companies and the energy companies that engineered election in the first place.

Not all of us are blinded by your celebrity, and that will eventually wear off with other Californians as they figure out how much you have screwed them. You don't want to have something like vote rigging hanging over your head when that moment of disillusionment comes.

[bobweaver]

6. This was a RW smear, just like they did to Rose Bird. Goodbye, fairness...

[ChiciB1]

7. OMG!! I Live In Florida!!!!!

I KNOW HOW well these Governors work things to their advantage.

JEB had a chance to show that he was truly for ALL the people of Florida after Katherine Harris was elected the first time as my Rep., but NO, he HAD to appoint Glenda Hood ANOTHER REPUKE!!!!

WATCH OUT... it NEVER ends!!!

[yurbud]

8. called both of my reps and ca dem party

[Liberty Belle]

10. Good! We all need to call them.

How do we reach the people who started the contest the vote petition? They got 30,000 signatures. They should start one to demand a Dem to replace the DEM we elected.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Damn.....

How scary!:scared:

Just when I thought the shit couldn't get any worse....THIS!:argh:

[itzamirakul]

11. Kick!

[lonestarnot]

12. Crap! More going to pieces! Evil spreading like a wildfire!

[ZombieNixon]

13. KICK!

Maybe you should post this in the CA local board, too.

[Acryliccalico]

14. kick..........n/t

[marcologico]

15. This is bad. Shelley got personally Diebolded. How long til CA goes red?

nt

[NVMojo]

17. you had better hope that the new SOS isn't handpicked with the help

of Sequoia and the NV SOS Dean Heller ....I warned you, California DU-ers.

http://www.sequoiavote.com/article.php?id=55

Sequoia has an office in Oakland and they want the California voting market so bad, they can taste it....

there are already Sequoias in Washington and Nevada will have statewide brand new printered Sequoias by 06 ...just watch ...Arnold has been given his marching orders ...

http://www.electionline.org/index.jsp?page=Newsletter%20Dec%2018%202003

and then there is this:

California stopped short of demanding a paper trail for November. Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller ordered it for his state. Last week, Sequoia vice president and former California assistant secretary of state Alfie Charles was showing off the new Veri-
Vote printer that his firm is supplying to Nevada when an astute legislative aide in Johnson's office noticed two votes were missing.

http://www.dangerouscitizen.com/Articles/1228.aspx

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/10115218.htm?1c

[senseandsensibility]

18. kick

Please e-mail the DNC if you don't live in California, and your representatives if you do!