Any news on Kerry's press conference?

[Vektor]

Did anyone see it? Tape it? Is it going to rerun on any channel?

MUST HAVE KERRY FIX.

[TayTay]

1. Apparently, Hilary's office forgot to notify C-Span

So, there was no coverage. And Kerry's Small Business Committee meeting was held in a room without sound. (So, I couldn't listen in on capitolhearings.org.)

Sigh! I am bereft today. If a press conference happens, and nobody is there to record it, does anybody know about? Did it actually happen? Don't know. Sigh!

(And it was not Kerry's fault. It was Hilary's press conference.)

[JI7]

2. press conferences are not unusual

i think it's common for congress members to do them . but the media does not always or even have to cover them. when it's a controversial or popular thing then they usually show up in large numbers.

but these issues like election reform and some others while very important are not something the media whores care for.

[Pirate Smile]

3. CNN just did a teaser on it and showed some video with Hillary talking

and JK was standing there with the rest of them.

Story should be on sometime in the next half-hour.

[whometense]

4. pic fix!

Sen.John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites), D-N.Y., take part in a news conference on voting reform legislation Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

[JI7]

5. look at that hand

[Vektor]

6. Wow - swoon!

Our hero!

[Firespirit]

14. Nice pic -- wow!!

That's sizzling.

Why is Hillary so sour-looking though?

[Pirate Smile]

7. Kerry, Clinton Offer Bill to Revamp Election Laws

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050217/pl_nm/politics_kerry_dc_2

By Thomas Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Failed U.S. presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) and fellow congressional Democrats offered a bill on Thursday to address voting problems like those reported last November in the pivotal state of Ohio.

President Bush (news - web sites) won the state by less than 120,000 votes among the more than 5.5 million cast as he captured a second term amid a crush of claimed irregularities in Ohio.

Complaints included ones of partisan election officials, voter intimidation, long lines and an inadequate number of voting machines in neighborhoods that favored Kerry.

Kerry rejected calls to challenge the results, but has vowed to make upgrading elections laws a top priority even as he keeps open his options of running again in 2008.

[Pirate Smile]

8. more

-snip-
This has to nothing to do with the question of the outcome of 2004 (election)," Kerry, a Massachusetts senator, told a Capitol Hill news conference. "This has everything to do with full civil rights of Americans. Period."

Joining Kerry in introducing the bill were Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) of New York, who is also viewed as a potential 2008 presidential contender, and Barbara Boxer of California.

-snip-
Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Christopher Bond of Missouri offered a bill of their own on Thursday designed largely to combat voter fraud.

[TayTay]

9. Boy these bills are getting to be like opinions

Everybody's introducing one. Can we all get together and do one bill? Wouldn't that make it easier for eventualy passage. (What am I saying, this is the 109th (weasel) Congress, these bills will never pass.)

[LittleClarkie]

10. Don't ya love that the Republicans are producing one on voter fraud

What freaking voter fraud! Your guys won!

If only they were talking about the same kind of voter fraud we are, but I don't think they are. The Repubs here are crying about how there are so many voters on the rolls with non-existant addresses. Well, a reporter took some of those addresses and went to the addresses to see if indeed they were bogus. He said that he had no trouble finding most of the ones he went looking for.

I got accused of voting more than once by my freeper neighbors just because I was a Dem. They had no proof, just some trumped up charge that there were too many ballots printed in Milwaukee. Yes, there were three times the number needed. There ALWAYS are that many. The city only asked for 500 more per ward than they normally get. Considering everyone was expecting a big turnout, that didn't seem like much. But the County Exec tried to block it, citing vague concerns of fraud. He lost. Small victory.

When I've tried to argue this point with my freeper friends, they say "Well, he was just trying to save money." No, he was just trying to say we're a bunch of cheats. And now this asshat is gunning for the Governor's job. Our Governor isn't perfect, but he's a damn sight better than this guy.

I don't appreciate being called a cheat for no reason. So I'm suspicious of any measure the Repubs are trying to get passed re: voter "fraud."

Sorry, rant mode off.

[Pirate Smile]

11. They will probably include protection for the challengers the Repubs like

so much.:eyes:

[TayTay]

12. We have to OWN this issue

And we have to present it to the American people as an issue not of 'sour grapes' but of basic fairness. It is unAmerican and inherently unfair to let some people's votes count more than others. (And it is elitist.) We are not asking for special rights or preferential treatment for one group over another. We are simply asking that Americans live up to their ideals and let every eligible voter vote and let those votes be reliably counted. This is the democracy that we were taught to believe in and this is the democracy that we deserve.

Americans have a sense of basic fairness and a hatred of cheaters. We have to craft an honest appeal to those very things. That is what will make this argument a winner.

[elshiva]

13. Caption:

"Kerry's message to Bush: Talk to the Hand"