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  •  He got a tan while in Rancho Cucamonga, CA (4.00 / 36)

    I'll update with the article stating it.

    -Hope never cost Corporate America a dime -Somebody blow Bush so we can impeach him already.

    by DWCG on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 01:36:59 PM PDT

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    •  Great job pulling all of this together (4.00 / 3)

      Fucktarded

      by mkf on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 01:42:19 PM PDT

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      •  Let push these through our Media! (4.00 / 8)

        We need to push our media to cover this (whether it's now during the tragedy or after it calms down). Make no mistake, they will cover what their readers want to read. So let's tell them what we want to read!

        All of these are great LTE material.
        So check these tips to Write Letters to the Editors that have more chances of getting published (the tips include a link to the Media Database to find local papers to target), and fire away!

        And feel free to bookmark these tips and pass the link around, too; they'll be useful again.

        Don't just complain, Take Action.

        by cyrilb on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 05:36:48 PM PDT

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        •  Here's a great resource (4.00 / 2)

          Use the GOP.com tool to identify local papers and send your messages.

          -Hope never cost Corporate America a dime -Somebody blow Bush so we can impeach him already.

          by DWCG on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 05:47:51 PM PDT

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          •  but don't send via their website! (4.00 / 2)

            The tool is great to find the contacts for the paper (enter your zipcode on the box at the top and hit submit, then click on the links for the papers to see contact), but don't send your letters via the web site -- if you do the GOP gets a copy of everything you send, and a wonderful resource for opinion research and advance warning of what people here are responding to. Use your own email software or webmail to send your LTEs.

            By the way, I've though for a long time that dKos (to say nothing of the Dems) should have a tool like this.

            by miholo on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 07:07:16 PM PDT

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            •  printed letters (none / 0)

              And, by the way, you should consider also sending printed copies of your letters to the editor via old-fashioned mail. Most newspapers are much more likely to publish those (including because it shows you were willing to put more time and effort into it). But emails also help, of course.

              by miholo on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 09:14:42 AM PDT

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        •  I already wrote my LTE (none / 1)

          Sent it to my local paper, The Bergen Record in NJ.  Even got a confirmation e-mail back.  Hopefully it will be posted.  I included the quote from the Army Corps of Engineers to back up my point that Bush is to blame.

          Economic Left/Right: -6.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51

          by Democratic Hawk on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 06:57:35 PM PDT

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          •  Here's my letter to the Houston Chronicle (none / 0)

            To the Editor:

            People need to know that George Bush's war of choice in Iraq is directly responsible for the worsening disaster in New Orleans.  In the current budget, to pay for the war, Bush budgeted only one-sixth of the amount of money that local New Orleans officials said they needed.  This is despite the fact that in 2001 the Houston Chronicle reported that a New Orleans flood was among the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing the country.  For fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district of the Army Corps of Engineers is facing a $71.2 million reduction in federal funding.  George Bush ignored the impending disaster while he jetted out to California for a photo-op with World War II vets.  He is too beholden to Pat Robertson and Halliburton to provide leadership for real people and problems here at home and he has to go.

            -4.63 -4.77, Stop writing interesting things. I've got to get some work done.

            by mengelhart on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 08:31:18 PM PDT

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    •  Damn couldn't find it (4.00 / 5)

      This is the best I could find:

      While New Orleans prepared for what FEMA projected could be the third largest catastrophe on American land, the president was enjoying his vacation.

      -Hope never cost Corporate America a dime -Somebody blow Bush so we can impeach him already.

      by DWCG on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 01:49:43 PM PDT

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    •  Tan like Nixon (none / 0)

      hangin' loose ..

      heh heh heh

      by Kdoug on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 08:51:02 PM PDT

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