Veterans For Common Sense

(Abridged: For those who just instinctively hate everything about this administration and will donate to anything at the drop of a hat, click here to donate fifty bucks. And buy a book from me, whydoncha, you beautiful Pavlovian bastards. Otherwise, read below.)

Donna Barr once again keeps me on my toes with announcing her involvment with this group. I'll be donating next week.

Check out the post (linked above) or just read it here verbatim.

Dear VCS Members and Supporters:

Normally we don't send out more than one email in a week, but when events warrant we will send more in order to keep you updated.

Our campaign questioning the nomination of Alberto Gonzales is gaining traction in Washington and the interest of the mainstream media. In the last 24 hours VCS director Charles Sheehan-Miles has conducted three major radio interviews in Los Angeles, New York and Tampa, Florida to discuss the campaign, and this afternoon the conservative Washington Times ran an article covering VCS' work on the nomination.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2481

We're getting this interest from the media because of your incredible response to our letter, which now has 2,300 signatures.

Additionally, a super volunteer graphic designer has stepped forward to make our ad a reality. We've raised just enough funds to place the ad (which will be a 5-foot by 4-foot-high backlit poster) in the Capitol South metro station (which most of the Congressional aides take to work), but need to raise more the truly reach as many people as possible (we'd also like to place the ads in Union Station, on the other side of the Capitol).

We'd like to ask you to consider three things today:

1) First, let your friends, family, and colleagues know about the letter opposing Gonzales and ask them to sign it. The more signatures we have on the letter, the more seriously the Senate will have to take it.

2) If you participate in a weblog, discussion group or bulletin board on the internet, or have a group which meets off-line, let them know about the letter and ask them to sign it. You can send them this link to sign-up: http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/campaigns/attygen.cfm.

If you post it somewhere on the internet, let us know so we can track where the signatures are coming from. You can send that to contact@veteransforcommonsense.org

3) If you haven't made a gift to help fund the ad, please consider doing so. We've raised just over three thousand dollars since this time yesterday, but to place as many ads as possible, we need to raise more, so we can get a contract on additional space locked in this week. Contributions made on-line by midnight tonight will have the greatest impact, because we'll be able to lock in the ad space this week.

To see the early draft of the ad, visit:http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/NewsArticle.cfm?ID=2470

To make a contribution, click here:https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=3422

Thank you again for your support. P.S. Are you a wordsmith? VCS could use one or more volunteers to work together to help reshape the language in the ad to make it as effective as possible.Interested? Join the discussion here: http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/discussion/viewtopic.php?p=13253