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June 21, 2003
Rigged Dems Vote?
There's to be an online Dems primary next week for registered members of MoveOn.org. Sounds like a prime opportunity for some vote rigging....Disclaimer: not that I'm advocating anything like that. Really. Honest.
Some of the candidates, like Gephardt, are complaining that MoveOn is supporting Dean over the rest of the candidates.
"We are not going to change our participation at this point, but we are concerned that the process seems to be rigged," said Erik Smith, a spokesman for the presidential campaign of the Missouri lawmaker. "We think there is a legitimate role for MoveOn to organize grass-roots support for candidates, but we are worried that it appears they are playing favorites."
Dean campaign manager, Joe Trippi, said the other campaigns are just trying to disparage the primary because they know they will not win.
Yeah, so neener neener neener. *eyes roll* Geez, what a bunch of little kids. But maybe Gephardt is onto something. Recently one of MoveOn's employees took a 2 week leave of absence to work on Dean's website. And the top three finishers in a recent MoveOn poll were allowed to write pitches for votes that were then sent out to all MoveOn registered members. Dean's was sent first. The remainder of the candidates are allowed to submit similar pitches, but those will be put on a memo that also describes the endorsement process. In other words, one of those emails that you'd read the first few lines and then delete.
"You want to give everyone a soap box, but different size soap boxes in a sense," Mr. Boyd [one of site's organizers] said.
Everyone's equal, but some are more equal than others? Hey! Isn't that just discrimination dressed up in pretty words?
Oh wait, that's what Dems do.
Posted by Rita at June 21, 2003 05:14 AM
Comments
Sounds familiar. "In the barnyard all animals were created equal, some more equal than others." G. Orwell's Animal Farm?
Posted by: Bill at June 21, 2003 10:10 PM