Reply #92: Where have I been?

[suston96]

I will tell you where I won't go - and that is where the focus of voting rights is lost because of internecine crap like this that does no one any good.

I have joined both the Transparency Project and the BlackBox Voting project and will join any other project where the action is that leads to paper ballots and manual ballot counting and tabulating, and a complete removal of all hackable machines that intimidate voters and cause them to stay away from elections.

You will get little or nothing accomplished while you waste time reminiscing about bitterness over things that happened long ago and about which you can do nothing now. I am not interested in your hate Bev Harris histrionics. I am interested in right now and the huge job we have after Tuesday. Because whether we win or not, the problem with stolen and corrupted elections will still be there.

I have spent almost 20 years as a voting rights activist and I am proud of my accomplishments, and I know my way around the battlefield. I am saddened by people who have lost sight of the real enemy and who insist on wasting so much time quarreling among themselves.

I have had DU on my bookmarks for as long as it has been around. I am involved in another board, not under the same name, and have been trashing right wing nuts there for 10 years. I communicated with Andy a few times here about election day precinct patrols back in 2004, I think, but I didn't know he was ill and that is why he didn't respond.

Democrats fighting Democrats? H'mmm. Maybe Bill Maher is right.