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rights by the Republican Congressional Majority and their chief demagogue,
Kenneth Starr.  

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======= TABLE OF CONTENTS THIS ISSUE:

<> LARRY KING LIVE?  Moderator for a national debate?  Could be.
<> CORDIALLY.  Invited to Sunday's noon-time national rally!
<> POUNDING AWAY. Inslee is not alone talking about "hypcrites."
<> GOP TO PEOPLE: 'Go to Hell'.  Michael Moore lays it out.
<> GOP WORRIES: 'Will vote be the verdict?'
<> SHIFTS!  Seen in midterm elections 
<> WHO'S BUYING?  The best Congress money can buy.

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BEFORE INSLEE AND STILL POUNDING AWAY!
Candidate Alford has 3 ads running, dislikes GOP "smut."
Candidate Krulick takes on #3 Judiciary "impeacher."
kralford@email.msn.com
al@vote-al.org
http://www.house.gov/hres525.htm
http://icreport.house.gov/icreport/105-311/HD105-311.html

I am Ken Alford, the Democratic candidate for Congress from the 5th C.D. in
Colorado Springs, CO.   I have 3 ads at the present time on local cable
denouncing the tactics of Ken Starr and the Republican Party.  I have been
speaking out on this issue for several weeks -- even before Inslee.
However, since I am such an underdog against the incumbent, Joel Hefley, it
has received no attention.  I would have spoken the same message if the odds
were 50/50.  I see this as an attack upon our Constitutional right to
privacy and due process by law and the right to face your accusers.  As if
commanded by God, they release secret grand jury evidence to the public and
shovel that "smut" onto the Internet.  Then they wring their hands and say,
"What should we tell the children?!"  What Grand Hypocrites!

I am Al Krulick.  I'd be delighted to hear your ideas for endgame, here in
the 8th District of Florida.  I am the Democratic challenger to Bill
McCollum, third ranking Repubican on the Judiciary Committee and avowed
"impeacher."  I have brought up the subject in all our debates, including the 
one televised on PBS in our area.  Also, I have included a "NO IMPEACHMENT" 
stamp on all my print ads and mailers.  Unfortunately, as an underfunded 
candidate who receives no help from Washington, I don't have the money to 
produce or run any anti-impeachment TV ads.  What would you recommend, 
in these closing days, to a candidate with no money, but one with an entrenched 
incumbent opponent, who is arousing the ire of his constituents?

=== Comment: Ken, don't hold back like that.  But you have hit a chord.
People have likely already forgotten that the same week the Congress
published the Starr filth ("all the news that's fit to print," NY Times?!)
and made it (still does!) widely accessible (still is right on the front
page of the House website - see above URL), the same GOP, including your
opponent, right (?), railed against pornography on the internet, and passed
legislation to keep this kind of "smut" off.   So, Ken and Al, maybe
"Hypocrites" is too "nice" a descriptive term?  Maybe you're both not such
the underdogs you thought (read Michael Moore below)?   

More reminders of this kind of stuff, and a groundswell of anger could just
propel you and other underdogs to the Congress.   Why do you think "they"
aren't talking about this anymore?  They're hoping the American people will
fall back into apathy and then they can go back to Washington after the
election and mess with us some more.  Remind the mad but non-voting folks in
your district that it's not over because it's "quiet".  That's just a GOP
deceptive strategy.   More of the same is coming again -- IF they stay home
Tuesday.

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GOP TO AMERICAN PEOPLE: "GO TO HELL"
Michael Moore calls Nov. 3 vote an "act of civil disobedience."
http://www.michaelmoore.com
Vulnerable Republicans: http://www.michaelmoore.com/congress.html
Excerpts: write MMFlint@aol.com for full text.

I am overwhelmed by your response to our "witch hunt" on Ken Starr's lawn
and to my letter on October 8 calling for an act of civil disobedience on
November 3 where we all go to the polls and vote straight Democrat and throw
the Republicans out of office. Now it's time to turn the screw.

We are days away from removing the most idiotic, inept, and embarrassing
Congress this country has ever seen.  The Republican Congressmen who are
attempting a coup d'etat by going ahead with the impeachment process --
against the will of the American people -- don't even know what is about to
hit them.

That's good. I don't want them to know. I want them to continue telling the
American people to go to hell. This arrogance will be their undoing.

It's strange, isn't it, that these politicians have lost their primal
political animal instinct: survival and re-election at all costs. You would
think they would be frightened by the fact that 66% of the voters want them
to stop their sex inquisition. You would think they would know that to
continue on this path will surely lead to their own political suicide.

Of course, what really plagues them is their own conscience, because of
their own adulterous affairs, and kinky sex (Henry Hyde, Dan Burton, Helen
Chenoweth). Take Newt Gingrich. According to Newt campaign worker Anne
Manning, in 1977 she gave Newt oral sex while he was still married to his
first wife. She told Vanity Fair, "we had oral sex. He prefers that modus
operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'"  Newt later
tried to get his wife to agree to divorce terms while in her hospital bed
where she was recovering from cancer surgery.

On top of that, Newt Gingrich lied under oath, committing perjury, not once,
not twice, but Thirteen separate times while testinfiyng before Congress
about his illegal use of campaign funds.  And then there's Congressman Bob
Barr, sponsor of the "Defense of Marriage Act", now on his 3rd marriage, who
was caught on video tape licking whip cream off a woman's breasts at a 1992
fundraiser.

So this is not a plea to join the Democratic Party -- a party that has
failed working people miserably.  It is simply a chance to USE the Democrats
as a TOOL to send our message. Trust me, once these Democrats are in, they
are going to be frightened by the power we've just exercised. They don't
even think they're going to win in the first place. Imagine if we show up in
such numbers that we change the face of Congress with a snap of our fingers.
Scary stuff for any politician who dares to cross us again.

So go into that voting booth and participate in a legal act of subversion.
Vote straight Democrat.  I don't care who the damn Democrat is. If it's some
Liberal wuss, vote Democrat. If it's a dead guy in Chicago, vote Democrat. I
don't care if it's that little Chihuahua dog on the Taco Bell commercial --
if he's on the ballot as a Democrat, pull the lever!

If you're a Republican, vote Democrat. Don't worry, this won't upset your
conservative apple cart. That Democrat you're voting for is more than likely
just a mushier version of the Republican on the ballot -- pro-corporate,
pro-death penalty, anti-affirmative action.

If you're a Democrat, well, uh, vote Democrat.  And if you're an independent
like me who has, sadly, not voted in the three state and local elections
that have been held since the "Evil of Two Lessers" presidential election of
1996, then here's the chance to give the system a shock wave and the wacko,
sex-obsessed right wing their comeuppance.

When the San Diego Padres lost the World Series this past week, they didn't
start acting like a bunch of sore losers, demanding that millions of dollars
be spent to investigate the private sexual habits of the Yankees' Derek
Jeter. These right wing Republicans are a bunch of cry-babies because they
lost not once, but twice to the draft-dodging, blue dress-staining hillbilly
from Arkansas. They couldn't accept the will of the people and the fact that
they lost. Whaah, whaah, whaah and boo hoo hoo. Because of their 40 million
dollar temper tantrum, we, the people, are still stuck with lousy health
care, crumbling schools and an economy that is just waiting to collapse.

Throw the bums out on November 3. 

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IN THE MEDIA: THE POLITICAL CLIMATE - IT IS A'CHANGING
"Inquiry worries Republicans"
Coming fast and furious, too much for one newsletter, so check out:

GOP wonders: Will vote be verdict? 
Even in Idaho, resentment at inquiry worries Republicans 
 
TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Oct. 27— It was only one question from the dozens and
dozens of questions that Idaho Republican congressional candidate Mike
Simpson fielded Monday in a day of campaigning that started at 7 a.m. and
ended after 9 that evening. But it was a reminder that some voters harbor
resentment at the impeachment inquiry launched against President Bill
Clinton. It’s an undercurrent that could cost Republican candidates in tight
races, such as Simpson’s.  
       
‘I’m upset at the trivial things they’ve done to the president.’ — BUTCH NEIL
Idaho voter / http://www.msnbc.com/news/209264.asp

Small shifts seen in midterm elections 
http://www.msnbc.com/news/209212.asp       

Who are the big campaign donors?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/209189.asp
 
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