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The vote on C&D will be extremely close. With just two days left, it's all about getting out the vote. We have to get more YES votes out than no votes. That simple.

Getting out the vote is the responsibility of us all. We each are responsible for doing everything we can Monday and Tuesday to remind everyone we know to vote.

One simple thing that each of us can do is email 10 friends right now. Tomorrow morning we're going to send an email out to the entire network inviting everyone to join our Internet GOTV Email Tree. You can get a jump on that right now by going to:

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Be part of the largest Internet get out the vote push in our state's history. Click on the link, add your name, and invite 10 others to join you.

Colorado Pols has reported that polling may show Yes on C&D trending upward. We need to have strong word-of-mouth down the stretch to fight the lies being put out by John Caldara and Marc Holtzman.

Make your own virtual C & D billboard and email it to your friends! And check out the billboards others have created:

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Have you sent a "Yes on C&D" billboard to your friends yet?

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Dobson explanation fails the sniff test, call for Judiciary Committee to subpoena Dobson

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
CONTACT: Michael Huttner
(303) 991-1900

Denver: "We believe James Dobson's explanation regarding his conversation with Karl Rove on Harriet Miers fails the sniff test and we call on the US Senate Judiciary Committee to subpoena Dobson to testify under oath on their secret conversation," stated ProgressNow.org Executive Director Michael Huttner.

In his national radio address this morning (transcribed below), Dobson disclosed that the "secret" items were that Rove first spoke to Dobson and told him that Miers was high on the short list and second, that several prominent prospects had taken themselves out of contention.

"We believe Dobson may be lying and he needs to be called to testify under oath," stated Huttner. "That Miers was on the top of the short list or that other prospects withdrew is not the kind of information that would tell Dobson that 'Miers will be a good justice,'" noted Huttner, an adjunct law professor at the University of Denver.

Last week, Dobson stated that "When you know some of the things that I know - that I probably shouldn't know - you will understand why ... I believe Harriet Miers will be a good justice."

ProgressNow has received an overwhelming response to its petition sent to thousands of its members calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to demand that the White House disclose the information that Rove shared with Dobson.

Link

"The U.S. Senate has the right to know what Dobson knows," noted Huttner.

--- Transcript of Dobson's radio address, "secret" items in bold ---

Full Transcript at: Link

"So, I wouldn't reveal any of the details about the call, although I did say to these pro-family leaders, which has been widely quoted, that Karl had told me something that I probably shouldn't know. And you know, it really wasn't all that tantalizing, but I still couldn't talk about it. And what I was referring to is the fact that on Saturday, the day before the President made his decision, I knew that Harrier Miers was at the top of the short list of names under consideration. And as you know, that information hadn't been released yet, and everyone in Washington and many people around the country wanted to know about it and the fact that he had shared with me is not something I wanted to reveal."


"But we also talked about something else, and I think this is the first time this has been disclosed. Some of the other candidates who had been on that short list, and that many conservatives are now upset about were highly qualified individuals that had been passed over. Well, what Karl told me is that some of those individuals took themselves off that list and they would not allow their names to be considered, because the process has become so vicious and so vitriolic and so bitter, that they didn't want to subject themselves or the members of their families to it."


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ProgressNow.Org is a nonpartisan, national grassroots organization whose mission is to be a strong credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community problems.

For more information, quotes or sources, please call Michael Huttner at 303-991-1900.