 Last-minute mailer from NH Republicans Originally uploaded by betsythedevine. |
Today is Sunday.
On Sunday, millions of Americans gather in churches to celebrate their sense of wonder at the universe, their allegiance to tradition, and their hope for a future more just than the world around them. On the last Sunday before Election Day, Republican operatives go out in force with a last-minute message to stick under windshield wipers. And mainstream media is too slow, too divided, to report on what people are being told. But those “secret messages” won’t be secret if you and I take the time to make them public. I’m headed to spend my morning in church parking lots, photographing those last-minute leafletters and their leaflets. And whatever I find, I’ll put up on Flickr and tag it “Election2006” so that others can see it too. Please join me–email me your photos if you don’t have a way to post them yourself–we have a voice now, so let’s use it–join me! |
p.s. That picture is a last-minute mailer from the NH Republican State Committee. Thanks to D Fowle of the NH Gazette for posting that photo and inspiring my quest!
p.p.s. I’m up in NH — photos when I get home. The news here is that real NH Republican voters are too turned off to turn out for leafletting church parking lots–yay, NH! I knew people in my state had a lot of sense.
In the absence of actual volunteers, anyone willing to go door-to-door with GOP leaflets are allegedly getting $100 bucks for their troubles. And, in the absence of actual volunteers, the National Republican Congressional Committee has turned to 300,000 robocalls to NH, hitting some voters three or four times a day with calls that sound as if the Democrats made them.
Democrats have protested to the US Attorney that these calls are targetting even people on the national don’t call list–that’s illegal in NH. The NRCC says that calls will continue because NH law “does not apply” to calls made form out of state.
You’ve just got to love those Republican family values.