Dear Constituents,

On October 18th, I will be hosting a "Neighbor Helping Neighbor" event with other concerned members of the community. A Yard Sale, Silent Auction, Bone Marrow Drive and Bake Sale will be held at the Opechee Park House at 867 North Main in Laconia Street, across from Central Fire Station from 8:30am to 2:30pm this Saturday.

The event is being sponsored in a response to the concerns expressed by our communities about shortages in the food pantries and the heating emergencies that could occur, given the cost of fuel this winter. This community wide event will, in a small way, begin to help fill local pantries. Funds raised will be donated to the fuel assistance programs to provide for emergency needs.

We are also pleased that we will be joined by Giovanni’s dad so you can learn more about becoming a bone marrow donor to help Giovanni’s friends. I am sure that many have followed the story of young Giovanni Guglielmo who needed a transplant. While Giovanni has found a donor, his family continues to work to help others in need.

JUST IN:

Oct. 5, 2008: NATIONAL - "Protect the Count" to launch in the coming week.

4 min: Protect the Count Pt. 1

Watch for, and plan to join actions for public citizens, election workers, and credentialled observers. "Protect the Count" actions have been developed for all variations of vote-counting in America. Watch for each easy to learn short video, and make it your mission to DO IT and spread information to others!

Please: DONATIONS are badly needed from now through the end of the year, as we shift from training into action mode to "Protect the Count."

Democracy for New Hampshire,

Thanks for pointing to Public Markup for the draft legislation. I wanted to inform you that we just put the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act up on Public MarkUp(http://publicmarkup.org/bill/emergency-economic-stabilization-act-2008/). We are also asking people to sign a petition to ask lawmakers to not vote on the bill for 72 hours so that Congress can actually READ THE BILL.

We need to require better lawmaking from our representatives. They can't rush this important legislation through without reading it.

Please sign the petition and thanks so much for your support.

Nisha Thompson
Sunlight Foundation
Online Organizer and Outreach Coordinator
nthompson(at)sunlightfoundation(dot)com
202-742-1520

FINANCIAL CRISIS

I need your help to oppose Bush’s Plan to Bailout Wall Street at Taxpayer Expense.

TAKE ACTION BELOW!

For years, we have heard the Bush administration tell us how “robust” our economy was and how strong the “fundamentals” were. That was until a few days ago. Now, we are being told that if Congress does not act immediately and approve a $700 billion Wall Street bailout proposal there will be an unprecedented economic meltdown in the United States and an unraveling of the global economy.

Shockingly, having looked the other way while Wall Street hucksters looted the economy, the Bush administration now wants American taxpayers (and our children) to pick up the tab. I say “no way.” But I need your help to let officials in Washington know that Americans don’t want to be saddled with the cost of this bailout – a bailout made necessary by the Bush administration's deregulatory fever and Wall Street's insatiable greed.

NOTE: The new location for the day of action is the Fellowship Hall of the Concord Unitarian Universalist Church, at 274 Pleasant St. in Concord, at 11 am on Saturday. As before, we're going to have speakers from groups including the Sierra Club and the New Hampshire Council of Churches, tables and information from some of our partner groups, and an art project for kids to participate in!

Hey folks,
This Friday, the presidential candidates will come together in Mississippi for their first debate, to lay out their platforms in front of a national audience of millions. But while each candidate will claim to have a vision that can protect our country's safety and prosperity, neither of them is going to articulate a strong enough platform on stopping global warming.

The candidates are far behind the American people on this issue. You and I know that global warming is a threat to our health, our security, and our future, and that it's time to implement solutions that will address this crisis while creating good new jobs and pathways out of poverty. But if we're going to make the candidates face up to this reality, we're going to have to make some headlines of our own so that our concerns get heard.

NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT NETWORK

Come to DC for this Historic Moment: "Hearing on the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush"

Contact NIN DC action coordinator: cynthia_papermaster@yahoo.com if you're coming from outside the DC area.

July 22-24 "Impeachment Lobbying Days", House of Representatives

9 a.m. "Choose the Constitution" Press Conference & Rally

Rayburn Building, Independence Avenue

10 a.m. Hearing on the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush

House Judiciary Committee, Rayburn Bldg, Rm. 2141

"Rumor has it there are two panels being planned for the hearing, one consisting of Kucinich and four other members of Congress (Jane Harman, Walter Jones, Brad Miller, and Maurice Hinchey), and the other consisting of five non-Congress Members (Elizabeth Holtzman, Bruce Fein, Frederick Schwartz, John Dean, and Bob Barr)." ADS

SOURCE: wired.com

AT&T Whistleblower: Spy Bill Creates 'Infrastructure for a Police State', By Ryan Singel, June 27, 2008 | 1:14:59 PM

Mark Klein, the retired AT&T engineer who stepped forward with the technical documents at the heart of the anti-wiretapping case against AT&T, is furious at the Senate's vote on Wednesday night to hold a vote on a bill intended to put an end to that lawsuit and more than 30 others.

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Wednesday's vote by Congress effectively gives retroactive immunity to the telecom companies and  endorses an all-powerful president. It’s a Congressional coup against the Constitution.

The Democratic leadership is touting the deal as a "compromise," but in fact they have endorsed the infamous Nuremberg defense: "Just following orders." The judge can only check their paperwork. This cynical deal is a Democratic exercise in deceit and cowardice.

I'm writing on behalf of the Borgen Project- a seattle based non profit organization working to bring political attention to severe poverty. You can learn more about our organization through theborgenproject.org.

As you will see we have created the Global Poverty Act which has passed in the House and now we're trying to pass in the Senate. The way you can help is severly important and takes only thirty seconds to help pass this act.

We need roughly a dozen people (however the more the merrier) in New Hampshire to call Senator Sununu's office at (603) 647- 7500 and simply tell the staffer on the phone: “I’m a Borgen Project supporter and I would like the Senator to cosponsor the Global Poverty Act.” People can also email his office here:

sununu.senate.gov.

If you and your members can make the call or shoot an email it would greatly help the cause. You can see here (sample call log on right) how political offices tally each call and why it’s so important. Thank you so much for your consideration and let me know if I can answer any questions.
Thank you,

Candice Hays
The Borgen Project
theborgenproject.org

SOURCE: DonSiegelman.com

My Dear Friend:

Karl Rove abused his power as an official of the Bush White House and has been inextricably linked to the misuse of The United States Department of Justice.

The Department of Justice was used as a political tool to retain and to gain political power, thus perverting our system of justice and subverting rights and freedoms guaranteed by the U S Constitution.

In connection to these and other criminal conspiracies, Karl Rove has been subpoenaed to appear before the U S House Judiciary Committee. If Rove continues to refuse and fails to appear, The House Judiciary Committee must vote to hold Rove in contempt and that must then be voted on by the entire United States House of Representatives.

It is crucial to the preservation of our democracy and to the restoration of justice that Karl Rove and others, whomever they may be, be held accountable for these crimes against the United States of America.

It is important therefore that each of us do everything within our power to encourage all members of Congress to vote to hold Karl Rove in contempt and to vote to enforce that " citation". This is the only constitutional procedure that is available to us as citizens.

Please write, call and email as many members of Congress as possible and pass this request on to as many of your friends as possible.
The Founders of this nation left the preservation of our democracy up to us. It is now our time to take action.

Don Siegelman
Governor of Alabama
1999-2003

"We've waited seven years to find one Member of Congress brave enough to stand up for our Constitution, for which generations of Americans have fought and died," said Bob Fertik, President of Democrats.com. "We are thrilled and honored that Dennis Kucinich has chosen to be that one genuine patriot. We congratulate him on his historic leadership, and pledge to do everything in our power to persuade Congress to adopt all 35 Articles and put George W. Bush on trial before the Senate of the United States, exactly as the Founding Fathers wanted."

SOURCE:

35 ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT FILED AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH

Congressman Kucinich Takes Hours to Read ALL Articles in Full on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives

UPDATED With Video of Articles 28 & 29 on 'Tampering with Elections' and 'Violations of Voting Rights Act'...

The issue of Privacy Rights and NAIS has been posted to the Federal Register here

The comment period for this issue closes May 30. Please visit the site and leave your comments about how you feel about NAIS. Pass the word on to others. This is our one chance to make an official statement on this issue that affects so many of us. We need to use it wisely.

OOPS! New Hampshire's Primary 2008 vote count numbers don't match the numbers of voters checked in! OOPS! New Hampshire killed every legislative proposal to secure our elections! OOPS! New Hampshire illegally approved voting technology after the vendor himself told them it was defective! OOPS! New Hampshire Dept of State has refused to implement any procedures to check and balance against defective, hackable, riggable voting technology! OOPS! New Hampshire illegally uses secret vote counting technology to count 84% of our votes! OOPS! The New Hampshire legislature holds an illegal secret election to elect the Secretary of State! OOPS!

SOURCE: BlackBoxVoting The upcoming Black Box Voting 2008 Tool Kit ( http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.html ) contains innovative strategies to put real muscle into election protection. This e-mail contains a preview in the area of deterrents. We know we can't make elections perfect, but we CAN work on doing ENOUGH! So here's a place to start.

I think we're all sick to death of the "Oops Excuse." You know what I mean: Robo calls that pretend not to know they just told people something misleading, oops. Ballot accounting forms that don't add up, oops. Voting machine keys that don't get put in the bag, causing polls to open late, oops. Not enough machines allocated to certain precincts, oops, misleading translation on the ballot, oops, voting cartridges delivered late, oops, memory cards that cause machines to be serviced mid-election, oops, reported the wrong vote number, oops...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Legal Defense Fund Moves to Stop Animal ID Program; Files Intent to Sue Letter with USDA and Michigan Department of Agriculture

Falls Church, Virginia, (May 15, 2008) -- Attorneys for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund today sent a Notice of Intent to Sue letter to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) over implementation of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), a plan to electronically track every livestock animal in the country.

The Notice asks the USDA and MDA to "immediately suspend the funding and implementation of NAIS," and "fully and fairly examine" whether there is even a need for such a program.

Taaron Meikle, Fund president, said that contrary to USDA's claim, NAIS will do nothing to protect the health of livestock and poultry. "At a time when food safety and costs are a concern, the USDA has spent over $118 million to promote a program that will burden everyone from pleasure horse owners to ranchers and small farmers to individuals who raise a few chickens or steers on their own land for their own use."

Sununu and Gregg vote to Drill in Arctic Refuge!

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted down an amendment by a margin of 42 to 56 (60 votes were needed for approval) that would have opened pristine lands and coastal waters, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to new oil drilling. It would have also promoted the use of expensive, dirty, and dangerous "unconventional" fuels produced from liquid coal and oil shale. Sierra Club applauds Senate for rejecting failed energy policies.

Unfortunately John Sununu and Judd Gregg were among those who voted for new oil drilling. They along with President Bush are calling for more of the same disastrous energy policies that have saddled us with our present energy and economic crises.

HEADS-UP ADVISORY ABOUT LOBBYIST DISCLOSURE LEGISLATION
House Bill 91

This Wednesday the House may consider "concurring" with the State Senate on legislation that would greatly affect our lobbyist disclosure and reporting laws, and in my judgment considerably reduce their effectiveness. For the first time in New Hampshire's history, we would be eliminating important right-to-know requirements in our lobbyist disclosure laws.

Consider that since March 10, 1909 we have had a lobbyist disclosure law that has required -- REQUIRED -- that people who are lobbying the Legislature register before they do so. Now, for the first time in 99 years, we are changing that law into what amounts to an "honor system," allowing for 10 business days before a lobbyist must register, that's two full weeks, and giving certain people 75 hours to lobby free-and-clear BEFORE they must register. My goodness.

I don't think this is part of either party's Legislative Agenda -- nor should we be asking Governor John Lynch to sign a bill like this in its current form. Going backwards is not something we should be doing when it comes to lobbyist disclosure. We have seen recent news media reports about how our laws may not be sufficient enough as they are.

SOURCE: www.blackboxvoting.org

My records show that YOUR elections district uses the Accuvote voting machine. This is the system hacked in the HBO "Hacking Democracy" film, being shown TODAY on HBO. It also goes by the names "Diebold", "Premier", "Global Election Systems" optical scan or OS. Your voting system uses both the Diebold /Premier machines and the GEMS program for BOTH mailed in votes and polling place votes. It is the Diebold/Premier Accuvote optical scansystem that you will see on HBO, altered in the blink of an eye to change election results without leaving a trace.

The film "Hacking Democracy", showing exactly how my organization, Black Box Voting, actually rigged a voting system like the one your votes are counted on. You'll understand this quite painlessly by viewing the detective story as it unfolds, on HBO or YouTube. The film will be shown on HBO on May 2, 4, 10, 12, 14, 17, 18, 23, 29, 25, 26 and June 16 -- mostly during daytime hours. Note that several of these showings are on weekends.

Scroll down for NEW INFORMATION on how this voting system may affect you personally in the Nov. 2008 election, and what to do about it.

If you don't have HBO, you can view HACKING DEMOCRACY for free in nine 10-minute segments at YouTube: