Move On.org’s PAC is organizing bake sales all across the country to raise money for the Kerry campaign.
This announcement got me all teary eyed for some reason. Throwing bake sales for democracy in an attempt to at least do something. It’s beautiful.
You hear us Mr. Shrub sir?
We may be broke, but there are more of us than there are of you and your corporate fat cats.
We’re gonna bake sale your ass right out of the White House.
President Bush presents himself as a man of the people, but a look at his fundraising shows otherwise. Over $95 million of his money has come in the form of bundles of $2000 checks from high-rolling CEOs and lobbyists.
So this week, we’re holding a fundraiser that will highlight the contrast between Bush’s big-money supporters and the hundreds of thousands of small donors on our side. On Saturday, April 17, MoveOn PAC will hold the world’s largest bake sale — an event which will show the voters and the media that while Bush has the millionaire vote locked up, we’ve got the grassroots on our side.
MoveOn members around the country will hold Bake Sales for Democracy in their neighborhoods to raise some dough, have some fun, and support our campaign to take back the White House and Congress and elect John Kerry. Sign up here to find a bake sale near you:
http://action.moveonpac.org/bakesale/
Or, to hold your own bake sale, go to:
http://action.moveonpac.org/bakesale/new.html
Here’s the entire email that was sent to me yesterday:
Dear MoveOn Member,
President Bush presents himself as a man of the people, but a look at his fundraising shows otherwise. Over $95 million of his money has come in the form of bundles of $2000 checks from high-rolling CEOs and lobbyists.
So this week, we’re holding a fundraiser that will highlight the contrast between Bush’s big-money supporters and the hundreds of thousands of small donors on our side. On Saturday, April 17, MoveOn PAC will hold the world’s largest bake sale — an event which will show the voters and the media that while Bush has the millionaire vote locked up, we’ve got the grassroots on our side.
MoveOn members around the country will hold Bake Sales for Democracy in their neighborhoods to raise some dough, have some fun, and support our campaign to take back the White House and Congress and elect John Kerry. Sign up here to find a bake sale near you:
http://action.moveonpac.org/bakesale/
Or, to hold your own bake sale, go to:
http://action.moveonpac.org/bakesale/new.html
You can organize your own bake sale and recruit your friends to help. You can also sign up to bake something and bring it to a sale near you, or just to come by and help out. While we’re out selling cookies we’ll also be registering voters and passing out flyers on John Kerry’s positions and accomplishments. After you sign up, you’ll get a kit with everything you need (posters, voter registration forms, John Kerry factsheets, etc.).
And since a bit of competition makes things fun, we’ll take a page from the Bush campaign: sell 100 items at your bake sale and be a MoveOn Pioneer. Sell 200 and be a MoveOn Ranger. We’ve also got a few other tricks up our sleeves, with some celebrities who are going to come to some bake sales–maybe yours! Chip in and do your part:
http://action.moveonpac.org/bakesale/
So far, more than 500 sales are set up, with names like:
— Mountain Park Patriots Bake Sale, Roswell, GA
–Have Your Cake and Beat Bush Too, Brooklyn, NY
–Cookies for Kerry, Milwaukee, WI
–No CARB (Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfield, Bush) Bake Sale, Denver, CO
–Aunt Polly’s Warm Scones & Hot Coffee for Cool Democrats, Albuquerque, NM
Whether you prefer brownies or blondies, lemon meringue or apple pie, we can all agree that it’s time for a change in our country’s leadership.
Sincerely,
–Eli Pariser & Adam Ruben
MoveOn PAC
April 12, 2004
P.S. We
WE are supposed to hold a bake sale to promote a guy who is almost a billionaire himself. On his website it says we should all give up our movies and dinners out to donate to him. Kerry is a total poser, the richest senator, leader in lobby money, the biggest sellout. He has never written any legislation of importance in 19 years. He has sold our his fellow veterans by making the same mistakes of the past, sending men and women to die for a war based on lies, and then saying we have to stay the course no matter what. He is the same as Bush. It is Kerry that is unelectable. Proof….he is running neck and neck in the polls with the shrub. The guys who has lied to start a war, has just been caught vacationing when he should have been on the job about bin laden…..and Kerry can’t beat him….makes one wonder.
It time to not just retake the whitehouse, but FIRST retake the democratic party. They can’t just throw a republicrat in there and force us to accept him. No one even knows where Kerry stands on anything. Does anyone wonder how he has just won so many victories without any clear stands on issues? yeah me too. Perhaps he has the same powerful connections that Bush does, to perhaps the same diebold folks.
Bush has exposed himself as a complete delusional moran. Not only that, his behavior and that of his cronies is called treason. Lying to start a war is treason. The massacre in Fallujah is more than a war crime, and should be stopped immediately. We know they lied to start the war, why are we letting them continue to lead the country? Why does John Kerry only offer suggestions of more troops? John Kerry and his friends in the senate are supposed to be holding the executive branch accountable, but instead are looking the other way. Why? Because Kerry and Bush go way back(skull and boners) and when Kerry gets in office he is supposed to pardon the whole bunch. WE THE PEOPLE have to demand accountability. This is ridiculous. Kerry has exposed himself as another of Bush’s cronies, and is unacceptable as a leader of our country.
Wake up America. Dennis Kucinich is the only qualified candidate to lead america, and no matter what the odds look like we must fight for where we stand as a nation. WE must take back our democratic party, and then take back our country. We need to prove that we are a true democracy full of courageous citizens willing to stand up for what is right….or imagine how we will look in the history books.
For more inspiration listen to this ani difranco song….
PEACE
http://austin.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/3/ani-nextboldmove.mp3