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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:08 PM
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Hey look Kids it's the RNC's "Reggie the Registration Rig"
Edited on Wed Mar-03-04 03:10 PM by underpants
That is working man Ed Gillespie climbing out of Reggie now.


Republican National Committee (news - web sites) Chairman Ed Gillespie unveils a 56-foot 18-wheeler that the Republicans will use to register voters across the country on Wednesday March 3, 2004 in Washington. The Republicans hope to register 1 million voters with the vehicle named 'Reggie the Registration Rig.' (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Look kids you can track Reggie-where he goes and what CELEBRITIES visit him to register votes...do you lke celebrities. So far the RNC Chairman and former Enron lobbyist and NASCAR's record setting driver (for his LOSING streak)Rusty Wallace are the celebrities who have appeared.
http://www.gopteamleader.com/reggie/


Reggie has plasma TV's and it is going to ethnic festivals AND NASCAR races isn't THAT fun?!?!?

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040301.gtrig0301/BNStory/Technology/
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:10 PM
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1. That's odd.
Usually republicans try to keep people from voting.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:11 PM
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3. They register you and then use your card as fuel for Reggie
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:13 PM
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5. silly
they need the names to help them steal the election
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:10 PM
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2. 56 feet!
Gives you plenty of attempts to throw eggs at it.
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mhr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:12 PM
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4. 200 Million Buys One Helluva Of A Propaganda Buzz!
This is what we are up against folks.
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PaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:17 PM
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6. Hell, what about those
video games they have inside as a "sitter service" while the parents register! Sure, they're priming them young, and might have them buffaloed to send them to Iraq!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:40 PM
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12. Yep their machine is literally rolling
HEADS UP!!!!!!
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:18 PM
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7. Ask Ed for his Union card!
Perhaps the Teamsters would like to have a talk with him...

But seriously, the GOP needs at least a big rig to haul its BS around.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:39 PM
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11. I was wondering about that myself
In Va. he at least has to be licensed to drive it.
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sadiesworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:21 PM
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8. Plasma TVs showing "The Passion" over and over and....
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Missy Vixen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:24 PM
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9. No cutesy names
no "big rig", (unless your family drives an SUV,) no B-list celebrities. It's you, a card table and folding chair, a handful of ballpoint pens, some voting registration forms, and a couple of hours of your time in front of your local grocery store.

If every active evilDU'er spent two hours per month till the election cutoff registering voters in front of their local grocery store, we could boast perhaps 100,000 new voters all over the country by November. (This is a worst-case scenario number, by the way.) Ask those new voters if they have a way to the polls. If they don't, tell them to register permanent absentee (if it's available in your state,) or let the local Democratic Party office know that there are those who will need rides to the polls on November 2nd.

Why do you think the candy and cookie sales concentrate on the grocery stores? Everyone goes there.

The last time we did a personal "voter registration drive," we got fifteen people in two hours. We'll keep doing it till the election. Let the Pugs throw whatever they want at us. We can do it smarter, cheaper, and better than they ever could.

Julie
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 03:38 PM
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10. Excellent point
I am calling the Va. Dems and the Kerry campaign next week.
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trogdor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 04:26 PM
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16. Oh, just you wait...
...until the wingnut who runs the grocery store (you know, the one with the Fox and Friends ads on the shopping carts and the scannable discount cards) throws your ass out - or even better, calls the cops without giving you the courtesy of being asked to leave first.

Better be sure to be a non-partisan voter registration advocate. That'd really make the wingnut look like a piece of shit when you go to the press.
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Missy Vixen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 07:02 PM
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18. Actually, a wingnut does run the grocery store
>...until the wingnut who runs the grocery store (you know, the one with the Fox and Friends ads on the shopping carts and the scannable discount cards) throws your ass out - or even better, calls the cops without giving you the courtesy of being asked to leave first.<

It was a non-partisan voter registration. He also knows that I'm a Democrat. He was THRILLED to have me there, because Safeway considered it a "community relations" feather in their cap.

I urge all DU'ers to non-partisan voter registration.

Julie
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Qutzupalotl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 04:02 PM
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13. Big Election Rig
How blatant they are. Let's rig the election and throw it in people's faces.
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jenk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 04:05 PM
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14. we need to smash that thing up!
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 04:13 PM
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15. And it's Ennie the Enron Lobbyist driving it!!
Whee!
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-04 04:45 PM
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17. And Florida will get a special truck of its very own!
It'll be called Jebbie, the Election Rig.
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