ALERT: Location change for Conyers Columbus hearing (GOP obstruction)

[WilliamPitt]

Received via email:

"Location change -- Columbus City Council chambers -- apparently Republican leaders in Ohio got word of the meeting and denied the request for a room. So much for an open democracy. We'll have this on the steps if we have to. Columbus City Hall, Columbus City Council Chambers, 90 West Broad Street, Columbus, OH."

Original thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=138255&mesg_id=138255

Stay tuned.

[pleiku52cab]

1. I hope they do hold it on the steps

show the rest of the country what a bunch of assholes the repugs in Ohio really are. Great PR for the cause.

[Lisabtrucking]

2. We need e-mail address's For Republicans. Can someone supply?

[Lisabtrucking]

3. This is not democracy, this is communism n/t

[momzno1]

5. not communism, that would hardly be this bad

FASCISM

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

18. Actually "Communism" was a convenient cover for TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP.

Something for people to hang their hat on...

Both Soviet and Chinese style used the ideology of "communism" as a counter of the religion and capitalism that has ruled the "western liberal democracies".

[ohio_liberal]

4. Unbelievable

I just can't fucking believe it. Oh well, I'll sit on the steps with them if I have to. Anyone need a ride? :)

[3days]

6. I'm in Maryland,can you swing by?

[ohio_liberal]

7. Don't you know I'd love to?

If you can make it to Wheeling I'll drag you the rest of the way ;)

[3days]

8. I would love to but if I miss anymore work I am gone.

[kc.ink]

12. sure, how close to Sandusky are you?

[ohio_liberal]

29. Unfortunately not close at all

We'll be driving 70W from the Wheeling area.

[Alizaryn]

9. Absolutely incredible. I hope the GOP "no room at the inn" makes

front page in at least the Ohio papers.

[Helga Scow Stern]

10. All the better to protest! Why keep it in the "chambers". Let it out on

the street!!!

Wish I could be there.

[Patsy Stone]

11. Please blast to every media outlet.

This, if I may say this, blows.

[EFerrari]

23. Hubris always blows. But yeah, put out the word to all

your networks, all your outlets.

In a way, the more visible the better. Here's where they start overplaying their hand.

[Pepper32]

13. Wow, more previews for what 4 more years of * will be like....

Unbelievable. The American people need to wake up now. If you try to tell them this, you get MOVE ON, IT'S OVER... sigh

[noonriser]

14. kick

:kick:

[AmyCrat]

15. and just an hour ago on the PR Newswire, an announcement about the hearing

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/12-10-2004/0002594808&EDATE=

<snip>---
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, December 13, 2004,
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones along with Judiciary Committee Ranking
Member John Conyers, Reps. Maxine Waters and Ted Strickland, and the Rev.
Jesse Jackson will hold a forum addressing Voting Irregularities in Ohio to
take place at Columbus City Hall, Columbus City Council Chambers, 90 West
Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio. Others expected to attend include Ohio State
Senator Ray Miller, Prof. Robert Fitrakis - Editor of The Free Press, Cliff
Arnebeck - Arnebeck Associates, John Bonifaz - General Counsel for the
National Voting Rights Institute and Gregory Moore - Executive Director for
the NAACP National Voter Fund.
---<snip>

[ailsagirl]

16. They're such bastards... I think they're getting worried :)

[O.M.B.inOhio]

17. kick

(it was disappearing)

[IAMREALITY]

19. Hey, Maybe They Should Find Out How Much It Would Be

To Rent out that restaurant the Greens were arrested in, (the building Blackwell's office is in) to host the event.

How would that be for poetic justice!

[KaliTracy]

20. Poetic Justice Indeed!

I like it! :)

[eowyn_of_rohan]

21. Is there a school, church, auditorium, etc that would work? -nt

[ohio_liberal]

28. There are many places that could be used.

Veteran's Memorial, COSI, the Convention Center, about a dozen conference rooms in local hotels, etc. Council chambers is a good alternative. It looks bigger than the room used in senate building in DC.

[Griffy]

22. Kick

[texpatriot2004]

24. The room that was denied us, we pay for that room, right?

[ohio_liberal]

30. Ohioans certainly do

tax dollars at work :shrug:

[henslee]

25. They're fucked and they know it! Auf wedersein field chimps of der BFEE!

Should've bet on Lady Liberty not Herr Krashkartte. Now pay the price.

[henslee]

26. I say they hold it at that Warren school... you know, "Lockdown High" nt

[WilliamPitt]

27. .