Grassroots Effort To Get Rush off the Air in Austin, TX

[BrklynLiberal]

Crush Rush!
I read recently how a station in Brattleboro, VT dumped Rush and replaced it with Air America and even some ClearChannel stations will soon be doing this.

Travis County - location of wonderful Austin, TX. - is a blue county. Why is Rush on the air here on KLBJ 590 AM?

We can change this. Here's how:

1. Write an email to KLBJ and ask them to Crush Rush and pick up Air America.

2. Write a letter to the Editor of the Chronicle
and urge readers to contact KLBJ (include contact info
from the KLBJ link, above). Make sure to read the Chronicle's instructions. You have to include your address and phone number in your message. If your letter is published, you can edit what will be revealed.

3. Write a litter to the Editor of the Statesman and
urge readers to contact KLBJ (include contact info
from the KLBJ link, above).

3. Forward this email to all your liberal and
progressive friends.

4. We could print up some stickers and plaster the city with a "Crush Rush" message.

Austin - as the Texas Capitol - would be a huge symbolic win for Air America.

Anybody want to help? I know only two people know about this blog, but I have to start somewhere.

posted by Captain Apathy at 3:33 PM
0 Comments:

http://captainapathy.blogspot.com/2005/01/crush-rush.html

[CyberSon]

1. yes!!

Crush rush!! who listens to him anyway, unless they are going for a good laugh!!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Crush Rush! That's my talk radio station and I sure don't listen to him!

I'm in! I've been hitting them up for Air America already. :)

[CyberSon]

3. and once you in austin get AAR.

maybe we in houston can get it too!!

[bluestateguy]

4. There are no Air America stations in Texas

Travis County is blue, Dallas County almost voted for Kerry (it has not voted Democratic since 1964), the city of Dallas voted for Kerry, as did Houston and San Antonio. We deserve to have Air America in this state.

[sonias]

6. Corpus Christi is really close to getting one

I predict they will be the first. A very good activist group in Corpus, is doing great alternative things with the media there. Supposedly they are in negotiations right now.

Good luck Corpus Christi!!

Sonia

[natureman]

7. Air America possible in Corpus ?

I live only 80 miles from Corpus. How can I join this grass roots movement ?

[queeg]

5. Rush is ok---it Seargant Sam that needs to go

I figure I like to listen to Rush ---one day when I am listening, I figure his head will just catch on fire or something, or else he will start dropping Oxycontin again on the air, and I want to be able to say I heard it happen live.

Its those morning bigots on KLBJ that need to go, and that Seargant Sam is the most Fascist bigot that has ever been on the air. I am thoroughly shocked time and time again, and I am disgusted to think that that is the kind of people that Austin has for Policemen.

KLBJ is so right wing however I really can't see this happening, what with "Dr" Laura then rush and the morning storm troopers, I tend to doubt if they will allow anything facual on the air. I would suggest attempting to go to one of their competitors, ---I would be glad to write a letter to a competitor that I will become a faithful listener if someone would put on a full day of Air America.