RNC Gillespie demands Rock The Vote stop talking about DRAFT!!!

http://blog.rockthevote.com/multimedia/RNC%20attacks%20RTV.pdf

October 14, 2004


Mr. Ed Gillespie, Chairman
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

VIA FASCIMILE: (202) 863-8774

Dear Chairman Gillespie,

The letter I received from you yesterday was quite a surprise. It struck us as just the sort of "malicious political deception" that is likely to increase voter cynicism and decrease the youth vote. In fact, it is a textbook case of attempted censorship, very much in line with those that triggered our organization's founding some fifteen years ago.

I am stunned that you would say that the issue of the military draft is an "urban myth"that has been "thoroughly debunked by no less than the President of the United States."

I have some news for you. Just because President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary Rumsfeld, and for that matter Senator Kerry, say that there is not going to be a draft does not make it so. Just because Congress holds a transparently phony vote against the draft does not mean there isn't going to be one. Anyone who thinks that the youth of America are going to take a politician's word on this topic is living on another planet.

By your logic, there should be no debate about anything that you disagree with. There's a place for that kind of sentiment (and your threats), but its not here in our country.

More:http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2004_10_10_archive.html#109779237957217297

THe RNC is trying to shut down first CBS (they succeeded) and now Rock The Vote on the Draft Issue.

Rock the Vote is talking tough but I would imagine they will now fold their tent and not put out the PSAs they were planning unless we all email them and say put out the TRUTH ON THE DRAFT!

blog@rockthevote.com

Tell them you don't want them to back down to Gillespie, that you know about the Feb 11. Skills Draft Agenda memo that I got from the Seattle PI reporter and that they are clearly not just planning a Skills and Medical and Combat Draft that they are actively preparing for them. You want this issue debated BEFORE the election NOT AFTER it.

E-mail your lists and have them e-mail Rock The Vote as well. They need to have your support NOW!! We want to see TV commercials on the Feb 11 memo NOW!!

Don't listen to Bush when he says "Forget all this talk about the DRAFT!"

so it doesn't matter how many times they say something.

Watch thier face. If thier lips move, they're lying.

which in their case, always does.

refering to Nixon...

"He lies even when it's to his advantage not to lie. That is a sign of a great artist."

<Insert Rep. Tim Ryan rant here>

:thumbsup:

these Lyin' elephants!

Right! If bush says there will be no draft..it must be true;-)

not be as aggressive as they were.

E-MAIL THEM! LET THEM KNOW YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO BACK DOWN BEFORE THE RNC!

Good idea.

if the man said the sky was blue. Not only is the campaign strategy based on distortion, but Bush himself lies so often I doubt he knows what the truth is any longer. If Rove told him tomorrow he needs to institute a draft, he would call for it, then say he never denied there would be a draft -- and believe it himself.

Ed Gillespie is the greasiest used car salesman of the whole lot of them.

black barber shop on my way home from work and stapled TWO-FACED & FLIM FLAM MAN flyers to the utility poles on corners where young men hang out.

Go to http://somnamblst.tripod.com to download high resolution TIF or PDF file to print.

If OH goes for Kerry, it'll be thanks to people like you!

If we can increase turnout among urban low income people, he is gone.

I street canvass in the innercity everyday and it is extremely productive because people are out on the street anyway.

"...they had no plans ... to attack Iraq..."

among other more famous quotes.

And we should now trust you, why, again?