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    <title>Sustainable Politics Stapleton</title>
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    <description>Our mission: &quot;Promoting equal opportunity, social justice, and sustainable living values by using community-based activities to organize educate and take action.&quot; 
 
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            <title>&quot;Our Health Freedoms&quot; Educational Seminar August 21</title>
            <description>&quot;Our Health Freedoms &quot; Educational Seminar 
Oriental Theater (http://theorientaltheater. com) Denver, Colorado 
 
THURSDAY AUGUST 21, 2008 
9a.m. to  6p.m. 
 
A unique opportunity for the public, interested parties, patients, and holistic professionals to gather and learn about a new program designed to help their client base, while assisting veterans, other social work cases, and the general public on the road to better health utilizing a wide variety of complimentary therapies.   
Our forefathers worked hard to see through the Freedoms of Democracy, and NOW is the opportunity for us to work hard at assuring, &quot;Our Health Freedoms&quot;, instead of those being dictated by BIG PHARMA&#039;s multi-Billion dollar daily lobbying efforts diverting our government in unhealthy directions.   
 
Registration is ONLY $35.,  payable by CASH ONLY the day of the event, or by depositing via credit card 
payment through paypal account (paypal.com) deposit $35. to account name  goldnkid@earthlink.net .   
 
Your conference payment includes continental breakfast, lunch (hamburgers and hot dogs), and Colorado made &quot;HEMP I SCREAM&quot; afternoon treat.  Within walking distance remain several restaurants including Swing Thai, Mexican Jalapeno Grill, and others.  It should, however, be noted that there will be a lunch time speaker that you might not want to miss.  Warning, your conference fee does NOT automatically entitle you to 
 concert entry for the 1st THC National Convention in the evening.  Tickets may be purchased separately online through the box office at http://theorientaltheater.com   
Please Note: Due to the considerable excitement surrounding these unique events and due to the fact that thousands of individuals will be coming to Denver for the Democratic National Convention, ticket availability is going fast.  Get yours today, and DON&#039;T get left out in the cold!) 
 
 
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 
 
•	8a.m. to 9 a.m. REGISTRATION &amp; SET-UP ACTIVITIES &quot;Meet &amp; Greet&quot; time. 
•	9a.m. to 10a.m. Continental Breakfast with Opening Speaker 
•	10a.m. to 11:15a.m.  &quot;Why a Collective or Cooperative?&quot; 
•	11:15 a.m. to 1p.m. Lunch with speaker. 
•	1:00p.m. to 3p.m. Breakout Sessions including:  
1.	Growers(Balcony) 
2.	Caregivers &amp; Patient Advocacy 
3.	&quot;Holistic Practitioners -enhance your client base&quot; 
4.	&quot;The Business of Cannabis (medical) in Colorado&quot; 
•	3:00p.m. to 3:30p.m. BREAK TIME  (complimentary Colorado HEMP ICE SCREAM served). 
•	3:30p.m. to 5:30p.m. &quot;FREE SPEECH DIALOGUE&quot;-with numerous representatives of the politics of the day.  Included will be a Recreate 68 representative (recreate68.org) and an Alliance for Real Democracy representative along with other speakers, and  having moderation by the U.S. Department of Peace.   A unique experience following the concept of &quot;Community Mediation&quot;. 
•	5:30p.m to 6:30p.m. Networking and Cash Bar. 
 
 
  
 
THE FIRST HEMP AND CANNABIS NATIONAL CONVENTION 
http://thcnationalconvention.com                            http://www.myspace.com/thcnationalconvention 
Official Gear:  http://www.cafepress.com/THCNC 
 
The HEMP CANNABIS NATIONAL CONVENTION 
Oriental Theater (http://theorientaltheater. com) 
Denver, Colorado 
 
THURSDAY AUGUST 21, 2008 
6 p.m. to Midnight 
 
PUBLIC INVITED 
•	6:30p.m. to Midnight Continuous Live Entertainment including: 
BIG BUDS BLUES BAND        
ONE MANNA (Anna, the one woman band)           
APEX VIBE 
            Comedians and More   
                                         POLITICAL ACTIVISM, EDUCATION, COMMUNITY 
This will be a celebration of Our Freedoms following a daylong seminar for 
 Medical Marijuana in Colorado 
HIGHLY PRIZED &amp; extremely limited $10 tickets 
(now available Online at http://theorientaltheater. com or at the Oriental Theater Box Office) 
Complimentary VIP for ALL legal Colorado Medical Marijuana patients at the door with package including buffet, limited laminate, official THC National Convention t-shirt, 
&quot;Green Cross&quot; goodie bag and more!) 
Sorry, price of the Concert is NOT included in the educational conference fee.  BE WARNED, this event and conference WILL sell out early)   If interested, please obtain your $10. concert tickets separately online  at http://www. theorientaltheater.com  
 
Very limited Sponsorship Opportunities and Vendor Booths remain available (Deadline for paid application: August 10, 2008) contact Bobby at 720-628-6291.</description>
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            <title>Clean Lawn Calculator</title>
            <description>Check out a new online tool where you can calculate the emissions from your lawn equipment based on where you live and the size of your yard. Go to www.cleanairlawncare.com and click on CLEAN LAWN CALCULATOR. It&#039;s pretty cool!</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:42:46 MST</pubDate>
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            <title>The Real Rudy - Great Video</title>
            <description> I would suggest sending this to anyone who thinks Rudy is competent.  Many of you may know this stuff... but this video is short and would be great to send your friends and family who may not quite understand this...       http://therealrudy.org/   &amp;nbsp;The fact that he laughs when asked about the location of the command center... and that people died because of him is really quite disturbing...&amp;nbsp;   </description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:51:47 MDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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            <title>2 things you can do (takes 5 minutes) to help Kucinich Impeach Cheney</title>
            <description>Two things you can do to help US Rep. Kucinich succeed  
in Impeaching Cheney are: 
 
1.  Memorize this phone number...  800-828-0498  and use it often. 
 
(it is one of a number of toll free ways to contact  
your Congressman/Senator&#039;s Office) 
 
 
2. Call the number and ask for your Congressman  
(if you don&#039;t know who that is tell them where you live  
and they will connect you to the correct office.) 
 
Tell your Congressman to become a &#039;Co-Sponsor&#039; on   
US Rep. Kucinich&#039;s Articles of Impeachment. 
 
Then call all other Colorado Democratic Congressmem/women   
offices to make the same request. 
 
Then call US Rep. Kucinich&#039;s office and leave a message 
thanking him for having the guts to do this.  
 
I have used this number frequently and get through quickly. 
 
It should take only a few minutes to say something like.. 
 
&quot;My name is John Kennedy of Denver, Co and I support  
Representative Kucinich&#039;s filing of Articles of Impeachment  
against VP Cheney and I urge you to become a Co-Sponsor.&quot; 
 
Simple, yes? 
 
 
Go for it.............</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:00:47 MDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>John H Kennedy</dc:creator>
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            <title>Clean Air Lawn Care</title>
            <description>Clean Air Lawn Care is a Fort Collins lawn mowing company on the cutting edge of clean, green lawn care and for good reason. Small engines, in particular 2-stroke engines used in conventional lawn care equipment, contribute to 10-12% of the nation&#039;s air pollution. Gas lawn mowers consume 580 million gallons of gasoline annually and 25-35% of this fuel escapes unburned. The AZ government recently gave an Executive Order to stop using gasoline powered lawn equipment by June 30, 2007. Worldwide, people are stepping up to the plate to prevent further global warming and here in the US, many are asking how they can do their part. One way is to reduce the carbon emissions that come from conventional lawn care equipment. 
Clean Air Lawn Care uses electric and biodiesel fueled equipment powered through renewable energy (wind/solar). The equipment is also noticeably quiet. The Dept. of Interior Green Seal report estimates electric lawn mowers cut noise emissions by  
50-75%, making it much nicer for neighbors! Purchasing the equipment was only slightly more expensive than gas-powered machines, yet even with just 30 to 40 customers in the 2006 mowing season, Clean Air Lawn Care saved $1500 in gasoline and prevented 2,500 pounds of carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere. With Clean Air Lawn Care&#039;s current expansion in Colorado to Boulder and Denver, and nationally to Boston, New York, Atlanta, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Portland, and Seattle, just imagine how much less carbon will be emitted in 2007!  For more information, visit http://cleanairlawncare.com or call 888-969-3669.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:50:21 MDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Tell &#039;Foxy&#039; to Stop the Iraq War &amp; Impeach Bush</title>
            <description>We had a little fun with &#039;Foxy&#039; the fox today... NO, not That Kind of Fun!   
 
We heard that Frontier was doing a Campaign Interview style promo for the &#039;Foxy&#039; Frontier&#039;s Favorite Animal at the Civic Center today across from the City Hall.  So we thought this would be great test of our Concept of Instant Vigils.   
 
We flew downtown and did a &#039;one indian&#039; to their &#039;circle the wagons&#039; maneuver.  The media types applauded my arrival but grumbled later when they had trouble getting a shot without our signs in the background. 
 
Our sign on one side said. 
 
Call Foxy and tell her to  
Stop the Iraq War 
and impeach Bush 
 
and on the other side 
 
Call Foxy and say  
Stop the War and  
impeach Bush. 
 
Amazing the amount of eyeballs these signs got. 
 
It was Fun... 
you all shoulda been there. 
 
Maybe next time, eh!  Join Us. 
Impeachment can be fun. 
 
John 
 
WeeklyVigilsToImpeach.Us    
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ProgressNowAction Member   
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:14:58 MST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>John H Kennedy</dc:creator>
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            <title>Iran, weapons, and how they got there...</title>
            <description>No shit!  Wow Iran is sending weapons into Iraq!  Big news...  
 
Oh wait, it has been going on for years?  No one has cared? 
 
It has no real effect on the problem? 
 
Does it really matter... nope 
 
Why are they doing it?   
 
Simple, because of Bush. 
 
Bush invited them in through his lack of policy... and continues to do so...  He does not need a new strategy... that implies he had one...  
 
So if Bush is responsible (sorry to use the R word bushy) then what will he do... invade himself?  That could get ugly...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:42:57 MST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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            <title>Ten major U.S. businesses and four national environmental organizations issued a joint report, A Call to Action</title>
            <description> This morning, ten major U.S. businesses and four national environmental organizations issued a joint report, A Call to Action ( pdf file ), calling on the federal government to quickly pass strong national legislation to cut global warming pollution. 
 
You can watch the press conference live this morning on CSPAN at 11:30am Eastern. You will also be able to watch it online at CSPAN.org. 
 
The companies involved in today&#039;s announcement are well-known Fortune 500 corporations: Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, Duke Energy, DuPont, Florida Power and Light, General Electric, Lehman Brothers, Pacific Gas &amp; Electric, and PNM Resources. 
 
They have joined Environmental Defense, the World Resources Institute, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and Natural Resources Defense Council to form an unprecedented alliance -- the United States Climate Action Partnership (US-CAP). 
 
In today&#039;s announcement, the partners pledged to work together to support six recommendations for national action:  
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:09:34 MST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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            <title>Hick for President?</title>
            <description>Sure enough... on the Most on MSNBC the statement by the guest was something like &quot;who was that Denver mayor you had on, maybe he should run for president&quot;.... 
 
amusing!</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:51:37 MST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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            <title>Colorado in ideal situation on min wage</title>
            <description>Colorado voters did the right thing this past Tuesday raising the state minimum wage.  Of course, most of that increase may have happened anyway in January, with Democrats taking control of Congress, as well as the state Governor&#039;s office retaining control of the state legislature. 
 
Congressional Democrats have promised to pass an increase in the minimum wage in their first 100 hours.  While this legislation has yet to be introduced, it will likely raise the federal minimum wage quickly as high as, if not above, the state minimum wage.  Assuming Bush does not cast his second veto on this important measure, our state may soon face no competitive disadvantage to other states, based on Colorado&#039;s poverty wage workers being paid more than those from other states. 
 
Coloradans, however, voted not only to raise the state minimum, but also to index it for inflation each year.  We can over time, then, stay above the sinking tide of American wages.  If the federal minimum wage also rises, our transition will be less impactful on Colorado businesses, while also ensuring poverty wage workers in Colorado don&#039;t fall further into poverty simply as a result of basic inflation. 
 
A new assault has been waged in the War on Poverty. Good job Colorado in not adopting the Republican cut and run stategy in this critical war!</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:31:06 MST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Mark Mehringer</dc:creator>
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            <title>And so it begins... ahhh 2008</title>
            <description> Tom Vilsack is running for president. 
 
The Iowa governor plans to formally launch his bid for the 2008 Democratic nomination today, one of his top political aides said Wednesday. 
 
Vilsack, who leaves office in January, will file papers today to establish his presidential campaign committee, aides said. The step marks the first official move by any politician among the large field of Democrats and Republicans weighing campaigns for president.  
 
 Full Story </description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:47:10 MST</pubDate>
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            <title>Sure looks like 51 to me...</title>
            <description> RICHMOND -- An estimated 200 votes, all of them in Isle of Wight County, remained uncounted early today at mid-day as election workers began reviewing the results of Virginia&#039;s cliffhanger Senate race, state leaders said.  
 
Jean Jensen, secretary of the state board of elections, said the remaining 2,442 precincts have reported their vote counts. The number of untallied ballots is well below the 7,312-vote lead that Democrat Jim Webb holds over incumbent Republican Sen. George Allen.  
 
The Senate race is expected to be Virginia&#039;s third statewide election recount in the Commonwealth&#039;s history. Attorney General Bob McDonnell was elected last year by a 360-vote margin after a recount. In 1989, former Gov. Douglas Wilder was declared the victor after a recount.  
 
Jensen said a computer malfunction in Isle of Wight has delayed a final vote count for that county.  
 
&quot;The votes are fine,&quot; she said. &quot;It&#039;s just the machines are locked up. The votes are in there.&quot;  
 
The precinct in limbo has 383 registered voters, said William Bell, secretary of the county&#039;s electoral board. He said turnout for the county was about 57 percent, meaning the number of uncounted votes should be around 200.  
  
 
Of course this could go on for a while... 
 
 Because the results show Webb winning by less than 1 percent -- 0.31 percent to be exact -- Allen will have the opportunity to request a recount.  
 
The Republican may file a request with Richmond courts after the State Board of Elections certifies the final vote on Nov. 27. That means the final result of the race could remain unresolved until December.  
 
Still uncounted are an estimated 2,000 &quot;provisional votes,&quot; ballots filled out by people who could not be confirmed on Tuesday as legally registered voters. Jensen said about 4,000 provisional votes were reviewed in last year&#039;s recount for the attorney general race, and only 700 of them were determined to be legal votes.  
  
 Read more...  
 
 Virgina Board of Elections Website </description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:35:41 MST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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            <title>So now what happens at the Election Commission?</title>
            <description>Of course rumors are flying... but lets be real... 
 
Something needs to happen...  
 
I have heard something about servers... all I can think to say is servers, smervers!  
 
Maybe the Election Commission is not in charge of the servers... but if they are not, WHO IS?  Who was in charge of testing? Or lack of testing?  
 
Maybe the Election Commission is not in charge of Election Judges ( though it appears that they are. )   
 
What about provisional ballots?  WHO is in charge of making sure there are enough at the vote centers…  
 
Lots of questions for the Election Commission… with 2 elected officials and 1 appointed by the Mayor…   
 
One more question... how do you trust any answer you get going forward?  I am sure there are a few City Council members asking themselves that very question right now...  my guess is a Mayor as well...</description>
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            <title>Sec of State and Attorney General OPPOSE extending voting hours</title>
            <description>This is exactly why we can&#039;t ignore those down ballot races.  It is appalling that the Secretary of State and Attorney General would intentionally disenfranchise Colorado citizens by limiting voting hours, when they are partially to blame for the election meltdown in Denver.  Unfortunately, it is also very likely that Ken Gordon will lose in the race for Secretary of State because of these same voting problems.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:28:16 MST</pubDate>
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            <title>Investigating ourselves? DCCC sends dems to the wrong place...</title>
            <description>Come on!!!!!!!!!! Are you kidding!! 
 
 Also, some bad robo-calls went out from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in places like New London and Old Saybrook. DCCC spokesman Bill Burton confirms the problem, which directed people to their primary polling place, which is different from the general election polling place. He says the calls were stopped as soon as the problem was brought to their attention, corrected, and then resumed with the correct information. He believes &quot;a small number&quot; of the thousands of robo-calls being made in Connecticut were incorrect. -  MSNBC   
 
Makes me think of an old tune...  
 
 Well, I fin&#039;ly started thinkin&#039; straight 
When I run outa things to investigate. 
Couldn&#039;t imagine doin&#039; anything else, 
So now I&#039;m sittin&#039; home investigatin&#039; myself! 
Hope I don&#039;t find out anything . . . hmm, great God!&quot; - Dylan </description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:17:48 MST</pubDate>
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            <title>Need a laugh?  South Carolina Governor (R) Mark Sanford didn&#039;t have his registration card so he was unable to vote.</title>
            <description>Pesky plans to stop voters...   watch it ...</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:56:01 MST</pubDate>
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            <title>&quot;like putting a full stream of water through a small funnel.&quot;</title>
            <description>Let&#039;s hope for the best and that we have people in Denver who can wait... glad we did the mail in ballots this year! 
 
 From NBC&#039;s Doug Adams and the &quot;Make Your Vote Count&quot; team 
There were long lines this morning in Denver outside some polling places, where hundreds lined up to wait.  Among them was Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter, who spent several hours waiting in a line outside a voting center in Washington Park in Denver.   
 
We talked with Alton Dillard, the spokesman for the Denver City Election Commission, and it appears that the problem has to do with the electronic &quot;pollbook&quot; and not the voting machines themselves. Pollbooks are the electronic connections that link precincts to the city&#039;s master list of registered voters.  
 
Similar problems with this type of &quot;electronic pollbook&quot; caused massive problems in Maryland&#039;s Montgomery County during the September primary. 
 
Voters were slowed up when they checked into the voting center because the pollbooks experienced system slowness. The poll workers apparently called into the county elections office to check on individual voters, which created larger lines. However, the precincts were all equipped with Adobe PDF versions of the entire city&#039;s poll listing. When asked why those were not used, the spokesman admitted: &quot;Good question.&quot; 
 
Voting experts are watching Denver closely this year, in part because the city is implementing a new system of &quot;vote centers&quot; this year. They have eliminated more than 400 neighborhood precincts and folded them into 55 &quot;vote centers.&quot; These larger vote centers are designed to allow people to vote anywhere within the city - instead of having to go their local neighborhood precinct. They generally are located in high-traffic areas such as shopping malls.  
 
As Kim Brace, our election expert, puts it: Using these vote centers for more than 350,000 registered voters in Denver is  &quot;like putting a full stream of water through a small funnel.&quot;   
  
 - MSNBC </description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:39:29 MST</pubDate>
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            <title>Denver Voting Problems</title>
            <description>How hard is it to think through the plans and test the machines and the plans...  
 
Should be interesting to see what happens if Denver voters can not vote... I wonder... 
 
 Richard Davies, a business consultant, said, &quot;I voted at Wellshire Presbyterian Church for 15 years and was in and out in 20 minutes each time. Only the city of Denver can break something that doesn&#039;t need fixing.&quot;  
 
The problem centered on computer registration, poll workers said. They had 16 ballot booths but only four registration booths.  
 
Election officials said computers went down at the Syracuse Voting Plaza and by 8:05 a.m., another problem had arisen at the Risen Christ Voting Center.  
 
Voters in suburban areas seemed to be experiencing fewer delays.  
  
 
 From RMN </description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:23:44 MST</pubDate>
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            <title>The headquarters for Jay Fawcett&#039;s campaign for Colorado&#039;s 5th Congressional District was vandalized</title>
            <description>From  KOS : 
 
  
The headquarters for Jay Fawcett&#039;s campaign for Colorado&#039;s 5th Congressional District was vandalized overnight and a death threat - the third such threat - was also emailed to Fawcett. Both incidents have been reported to the police.   
 
As voters headed to the polls, Fawcett campaign volunteers arriving at campaign offices were greeted with a vile &quot;Skunk&quot; aroma, making it virtually impossible to conduct work there.  The campaign is expecting more than 200 people to come through the offices today to help with Get Out The Vote and Poll Watching efforts.   
 
&quot;Don&#039;t let these hooligans deter you from exercising your Constitutional right to vote,&quot; said Fawcett.  &quot;It&#039;s time to take a stand against these attacks.&quot; 
 
This is the second time the Fawcett Campaign has been vandalized. Last Tuesday the Campaign Finance Director&#039;s car was covered in the skunk smell, while parked out front of the El Paso County Republican Office.   
 
&quot;I find it disgusting that, as we are fighting for Democracy in Iraq, people are besmirching Democracy here in Colorado Springs,&quot; said Fawcett Campaign Manager Wanda James. &quot;Death threats and childish illegal activities will not deter us from getting out the vote to victory today.&quot; 
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:12:34 MST</pubDate>
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            <title>Quote for the day</title>
            <description>&quot;War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.&quot;  
 
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:17:52 MDT</pubDate>
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