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To: SiouxPal who wrote (60380)	10/14/2004 12:25:39 AM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

I will be voting for Bush

To: SiouxPal who wrote (60380)	10/14/2004 12:27:17 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 89467

Famous Blacks Get Out the Vote in Florida Wed Oct 13, By GENARO C. ARMAS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Black actors including LeVar Burton and Alfre Woodard will join members of Congress crisscrossing Florida by bus this weekend to try to get out the vote for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites). The "Our Vote, Our Future" tour begins Thursday in Tallahassee and concludes Monday in Miami. Democrats say they will focus on voter education and empowerment in a state where Kerry hopes a large black turnout will help him beat President Bush (news - web sites) and win Florida's crucial 27 electoral votes. Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) Chairman Terry McAuliffe, in a conference call with reporters Wednesday to announce the tour, encouraged Floridians to take advantage of the state's early-voting laws. He said he hoped the tour counters what he called "a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise communities of color" in Florida and other states. Bush in 2000 won Florida by 537 votes over Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites) after the recount in which federal civil-rights monitors said ballots of black voters were disproportionately tossed out. McAuliffe said he sent a letter Wednesday to Republican National Committee (news - web sites) chief Ed Gillespie addressing recent incidents in two other tightly contested states, Oregon and Nevada. State officials in Oregon have said they plan to investigate allegations that a paid canvasser may have destroyed Democratic voter registration forms. In Nevada, election officials have rejected an attempt by a former GOP operative to remove 17,000 Democrats from voter rolls there. House Democrats on the bus tour include Reps. Corrine Brown and Kendrick Meek of Florida, Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and District of Columbia Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. ___ New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg put his money where his mouth is, following up his pitch to make the Big Apple the site of this summer's Republican National Convention with a $7 million personal donation to help finance the event. Bloomberg's contribution was the biggest collected by the private committee that raised money to help the GOP hold its presidential nominating convention. In all, the New York City Host Committee 2004 collected a record $85.6 million and finished the convention with a $4 million surplus it plans to donate to the city, the committee said Wednesday. Bloomberg's personal donation to the host committee included $5 million in cash and $2 million for financial and legal services performed by his accountant and two law firms. Roughly 15,500 individuals and corporations donated money to bring the Republican convention to the heavily Democratic city, including Democrat David Rockefeller, who gave $5 million — the second highest total, a report the host committee filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission (news - web sites) showed. Other big donors include Ameriquest Capital Corp. co-chair Dawn Arnall, $5 million; Citigroup, $2.25 million; and IDT Charitable Foundation, $2.1 million. Verizon, Time Warner, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, Carl Linder, the Hess Corp., Merrill Lynch, YankeesNets and the Hearst Corp. also gave more than $1 million. The federal government contributed $50 million for security costs. Bloomberg said the city will pay about $7.9 million in public funds for security, fire protection, transportation and sanitation. The committee in Boston that helped the Democratic Party hold its presidential nominating convention there in late July reported raising $54.4 million from private donors and finishing with $3 million left over. ___ The GOP is asking the Rock the Vote group to "cease and desist" its suggestion that the government may bring back a military draft. "Your "Draft Your Friends" campaign is being conducted with malicious intent and reckless disregard for the truth," Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie told the nonpartisan group in a letter Wednesday. Rock the Vote has linked draft concerns to its appeal to register young voters. The group has produced a public service announcement warning of the possibility of a draft, and its Web site tells visitors "You have been drafted" to report to a polling place. Republicans contend the draft talk is a Democrat-inspired scare tactic to drum up votes against President Bush. In a move by GOP leaders in the House to quell rising draft concerns fueled by Internet chatter and e-mails, the House voted 402-2 last week against a measure that would have brought back a military and civil-service draft. Hans Riemer, head of Rock the Vote's Washington, D.C., office, said military needs could require a draft in the near future. Neither party is properly addressing the issue, he said. "Our group is doing its best to promote an effective debate," Riemer said. "Earth to politicians: the draft issue is much more than an Internet rumor." ___ Associated Press writers Timothy Williams in New York and Devlin Barrett in Washington contributed to this report.