Thank You -- Keep up the good work!!!

Thank you to everyone who came to the Supreme Court today. Although the Republicans had made a concerted effort to give the media a sense that the popular support was only for Bush, we certainly held our own and many observers say we did better -- in terms of numbers of supporters, our demeanor and message and our diversity.

Thanks you also to everyone who has been able to spend some time at the Vice President's residence. There too, we have held our own. The Vice President and his family have called and thanked us for the continued effort and support shown by all the volunteers. They are heartened to see us out on the corner and very appreciative of the way in which we have expressed our support for a full and fair count of those votes that have not yet been counted. We can all take pride in the respectful way in which our volunteers have treated people and that we have refrained from the personal attacks that are so typically used by the people on the other side of the street.

If you have any time that you can spend down on the corner, please grab a sign or come down and just stand and wave to the supporters going by. This weekend, it looks like the Republicans are hoping to have 1,000 supporters at the Residence (see message below), so if we are to avoid being drastically outnumbered, we need everyone who can take some time to come down and bring friends and family.

Thanks,

Susie Turnbull, Steve Robinson and Mary Kitsos

P.S. We thought you would be interested in the following two items. One is from Rep. Sherrod Brown (a Democratic Congressman from Ohio who has been in Florida observing the process). The other is a portion of a message to Republicans urging them to circle the VP's residence with signs saying he has to go.

Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) wrote: "Let me make sure I understand. . . . 1. Al Gore won the popular vote by over 300,000 2. Al Gore has 267 electoral votes 3. Al Gore is behind by 537 votes in Florida with 14,000 votes uncounted or not accepted by the secretary of state. 4. Governor Bush asked the Florida and US Supreme Courts to stop handcounting ballots even though handcounting is the law in Texas (where he signed the bill) and in almost every other state in the nation. 5. Republican politicians from over a dozen states, as part of their misinformation campaign, have come to Florida to talk about how corrupt, inaccurate, and unreliable a handcount is -- even though each of them comes from a state where the handcount has been used dozens of times bipartisanly and accurately. 6. When I was Ohio secretary of state, I conducted personally and the office supervised dozens and dozens of recounts by hand with both parties in full agreement and participation. 7. When the Miami-Dade canvassing board was counting the 10,000 uncounted ballots, a group of rowdy, out-of-state, paid Republicans (many from Republican leadership offices in that dreaded capital city of Warshington, DC) pounded on the walls and windows and doors, intimidating the workers who then stopped counting. 8. 4700 Republican absentee ballot applications were fraudulently filled out on government property in Nassau County 9. Several hundred (or maybe thousand) absentee ballot applications in Martin County were altered illegally after a Republican elections official gave them to Republican workers to take home; those applicants were then allowed to vote. No such courtesy -- legal or illegal -- was extended to Democratic applicants. 10. Secretary of State Harris is George W. Bush's campaign co-chair in Florida 11. Secretary of State Harris certified the vote before 14,000 votes had been counted even once 12. In eight years as Ohio secretary of state, I never saw -- in Ohio or anywhere else -- an election certified before all the votes were counted. Ever. 13. The candidate's brother is itching to sign a bill to choose Florida's electors and override anything that the state's voters might have decided. 14. The Fox Election Desk chief who convinced Fox in the early hours of November 8 to call the entire election for Bush (convincing also the "liberal media" at other stations, like birds off a telephone wire, to call the election for the Texas governor) was on the phone repeatedly on election night to both of the Governor Bush brothers. . . Oh yeah, I forgot, he is also George W.'s cousin. And AL GORE is stealing the election?"

and from the Republicans:

Come join us at the Naval Observatory any time you can. We are there from 8am to 8pm daily with signs that say "Enough is Enough - Al must Go". We are trying to stick to a theme so the media picks up our message and Lord knows they do get so concussed!!! And ----- Saturday and Sunday we need over 1000 people at the Observatory to surround the place with signs that say "Clinton/Gore have put our country thru enough from Monica to Chads - Al must go NOW".