My Letter to Kerry About Ohio

I know this topic has been posted, but the most recent one has 144 replies so I though I should start a new one.

I read teh email that the Kerry campaign sent out and was furious. The following is my reply:
Dear Senator Kerry,

I am one of legions of people who are both dismayed and furious at your weak kneed and ineffectual performance both during and after the campaign. Despite your tough talk you did not respond in any effective way to the Republican slanders. You conceded the election before all the votes were counted, with little or no recognition of the massive irregularities in Ohio, Florida, New Mexico and other states. As more and more evidence surfaced of the outrageous actions of the Ohio Secretary of State, who has since bragged about how he "delivered" the Ohio vote to Mr. Bush, you remained silent. You were AWOL on January 6th, yet expected us to step up and "demand that Congress commit itself this year to reforming the electoral system." Tell me why, sir, you were not available to stand with Senator Boxer and, on the floor of the Senate, make that demand in person?

Your rationale that a protest of the Ohio vote count would make no difference in the outcome is, to be polite, pustulant nonsense. To use a term apparently unfamiliar to the Senate, IT'S THE PRINCIPLE THAT MATTERS. If you truly believe that all eligible citizens should be able to vote, and reasonably expect their vote will be counted accurately, you should have been in the Senate, and leading by example. Instead you chose a cautious, bureaucratic, low-risk response that has set back the cause of election reform immeasurably. The Republicans were handed a victory on a silver platter and the Democrats have demonstrated once again their utter moral and political poverty.

Senator Kerry, you of all people should realize that this is not your Father's Republican Party. It is controlled by ideologically driven thugs whose only goal is complete power. To them the Constitution is a dishrag, and the rule of law a minor impediment. If the Democrats do not realize that this in not just a political chess game, and that the very future of our Republic is at stake those of us who are not in a position to oppose it directly have no hope. I doubt very much that you will see this, or even be ware that there is outrage in the Democratic rank and file, but I hope this message gets through somehow before it is too late. I live in Alabama, and am dedicated to rousing the grassroots Democrats here. I could use someone to be an inspiration in Washington, but I don't see anyone there.

(AlabamaYankee)

First the Ohio vote, then Gonzales. If the outrages continue at the rate of one per day it's going to be a long four years

How about this?

Dear Senator Kerry:

The Republicans were right. You are a flip-flopper. You promised to fight to have every vote counted, but you conceded hastily without bothering to investigate the truth: this election was rigged in many states, including Ohio.

I sent donations when you asked for help to hire thousands of lawyers to protect our votes. What a waste of money!

You didn't even have the guts to stand up with courageous Barbara Boxer to contest the theft of this election. I have researched the precinct data carefully and know full well that you won Ohio--if you'd only bothered to stand up and fight! Instead, you seem content to let the Republicans steal another election--and suffer us all with four more years of devastating neoconservative politics.

Please don't run in '08. Democrats won't forgive this betrayal. Personally, I'd vote for Boxer/Tubbs-Jones in '08--
two Democrats who showed genuine leadership!

Spot on sir! I worked for Kerry in Ohio at his State hqs. I sent a very angry
e mail to a friend who works for the senator I got to know during the campaign.

I said what you said but no where near as well. I thought 1/6/05 was a chance to
show the thugs and crooks who now run the republican party a message that we
will not take their crap anymore but the democrats laid down. Complete
beaten wife syndrome ....... "I have to go back to him ..... I know he loves me."

I said that he proved the flip flop charge right. No retreat, no surrender. Sure!

to the president* with your concerns about his performance for the last 4 years?

I'm suprised that some folks here folks are more apt to rip JFK a new one than *.

when you should be hatin' the game.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

I began to respond to that email and then was just so outraged, I couldn't even begin to conceive of putting words together. Yours express my feelings beautifully, though. If you don't mind, perhaps you should encourage people to cut and paste, add in their own geographical info at the end & send along to Kerry.

It's more effective if you use your own words, but borrow what works for you, and expand on the theme that you feel is most important. And by all means get active with your local Democratic party, and Organize, Organize, Organize! If your congresscritter is a Dem who won't fight, give him/her the boot. If, like me, you have only Republicans to "represent" you, work your ass off for change.

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See this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=203&topic_id=264653

You have said it so well. I am very discouraged,after seeing how people worked to elect Kerry and he concedes even before all of the irregularies were known.What will change if the Senate,House, and the presidency plus the Supreme Court are against us. Kerry could have made a difference! Was it all for show? Did he intend or know he would lose? Where is the man who stood up against the Vietnam War?What is the matter with the dems....they voted to certify,but talked about the suppression and lack of machines etc,......I just don't understand.

Beyond all reason they keep coming back craving approval and hoping for a return to the happy days of chummy bipartisanship.