Really...I cannot stand MSNBC anymore! Read this..

[truhavoc]

And I quote:

"Throughout the battlegrounds, Kerry’s mostly paid-army of organizers were pitted against Bush’s largely volunteer-driven team to get supporters to the polls Tuesday."

I suppose they are referring to ACT, but are they even being paid anymore to GOTV? I don't know anyone that has been paid for GOTV, and I know there were republican groups that paid people to sign up voters just like ACT did. Just the spin in this article irritates the hell out of me.

In the same article as well:
"Democrats said their private surveys hinted at momentum for the Republican incumbent."

THIS ARTICLE IS ON THE MSN HOMEPAGE!!!

sorry, here is the link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6363683/

[roseBudd]

1. Nobody is paying me, and I spend my own money at Kinkos

and on CDs to burn Eminem's song Mosh to.

[truhavoc]

2. Obviously I would say WE have the largest unpaid grassroots effort! n/t

[PA Democrat]

13. You have registered a LOT of new voters haven't you rosebud?

I recall being so gratified when I read your posts describing your voter registration and canvassing efforts.

Look at your work compared to the paid Republican canvassers who get a bounty for every Repub they register and who toss out all the Dem registrants. That article is a slap in the face to all of us who have been working so hard because we BELIEVE so strongly in our cause.

[roseBudd]

29. Yes, I registered and street canvassed everyday downtown on my lunchbreak

I decided to focus on increasing turn out among young African Americans. I'm not sure what they think about a middle-aged white woman glueing flyers and talking trash about the idiot boy, but a few have told me it's great what I am doing.

Yesterday I drove slowly around African American neighborhoods, my car palstered with Kerry signs and white shoe polish vote messages on my windows, blasting Mosh, giving away CDs and the GWB is a PAB flyer.

Go to http://somnamblst.tripod.com to download high resolution TIF or PDF files to print and distribute in the inner city (not the suburbs). Hand them out and or attach them to utility poles, bus stops, phone booths, etc. Guerilla marketers needed to create MAXIMUM BUZZ!



paired with

[mike from ri]

3. apparently they picked up the story from a local paper

or vice-versa. i saw the same thing on a link to a grand rapids Mich paper.

[MaineDem]

4. Damn, I missed out being paid

60 - 70 hours a week since Labor Day and I don't get a penny. What's wrong with this picture?

Same is true for the many other volunteers working with me. Why doesn't MSNBC talk about them???

[Danmel]

5. I wasn't paid to GOTV

I took a bus trip to PA to canvass voters with ACT and nobobdy paid me. ACT paid for the bus, so we had no out of pocket expense to make the trip but I was and am a volunteer- today I am going to the Progressive Coalition to make phone calls to Florida. THey are full of it- I'm sending them a email.

[cubsfan forever]

Bless you, Danmel and Welcome to DU! n/t

Professor 2

[FARAFIELD]

16. YEAH THE MAKE ME SICK

I just heard a great NPR piece this week about Repukes going on Bus Trips the Exact same damn thing!! MSRNC sucks wang

[newyawker99]

30. Hi Danmel!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[cubsfan forever]

6. True to form: MSNBC whores for Asshat

I have been trying to tell my wife this for years, but she thinks they are better than FAUX, which is like saying Attila the Hun killed fewer people than did Hitler. BTW: She is a fanatical Kerry supporter.

Professor 2

[Chiyo-chichi]

9. Tell your wife that MSNBC executives have publically stated

that FOX is their model... what they aspire to. It's in Joe Conason's book Big Lies. A very good read.

[cubsfan forever]

15. Thank you! I shall indeed pass along the

information. She is a very analytical and intelligent woman.I always have to have my facts at the ready, which is the way adults communicate. Thanks again!

Professor 2

[NastyDiaper]

18. Freep-speak is killing America.

We all know that it's the repugs that are more likely to get paid. Even for that both sides are almost entirely volunteer. The propoganda machine is running full steam.

[0007]

7. Keith Olbermann rocks. The only program I watch now and then!

Other than that MSNBC can go screw themselves along with FAUX and CNN

 Vote as if your life depended on it, because it does.

Call 866 687-8683
If Poll Workers refuse you to vote for any reason
If there is a late opening or early closing of a polling place.
If your polling place runs out of ballots or has an incorrect ballot
If you experience poll worker insensitivity or discrimination in the voting process

The civil rights community have set up a toll-free Election Day hotline. This line is
staffed now and, in addition to logging your complaint, the civil rights organizations have law
students and attorneys who can provide assistance on Election Day.

the hotline number is
866 687-8683
202 457-0473 fax

[PA Democrat]

8. That MSNBC article is total bullshit

I have been working on the Kerry campaign here in PA. There is ONE paid person in the entire county, with the exception of I believe TWO people who are being paid on election day only by their local Dempcratic chairperson to be poll watchers. We send our volunteers out to do canvassing and visibility events and they have been taunted by the Bush "volunteers" because the BC campaign is paying them $10 an hour, while our people get nothing.

[wishlist]

10. Garbage- must have gotten info from professional Republican operatives

We have the biggest groundswell of grassroots support and volunteer efforts that I have ever seen in any election year. Look at the all the small donations from individual contributors being made plus all the people showing up at Democratic Headquarters everywhere to help in any way they can.

Also, people have been paying at Dem Headquarters to get their yard sign, stickers and buttons, whereas the Repubs are giving them away in more places, but you still see a lot more Kerry stuff where I am in N.C.

[RafterMan]

It's an AP story

mostly

[cornermouse]

11. Republicans have been paying $8 an hour since

before the election in Missouri. Tell MSN to check the employment ad section of the papers.

[AP]

12. I think the Dem Party is leaving nothing to chance and is running paid

GOTV in key precincts around the country where they can't get middle class white people (the kind of people who usually volunteer) to walk in low turnout working class black and immigrant neighborhoods where all the Democratic unlikely votes are.

The Republicans don't have to pay people to do GOTV becuase they get to walk upper middle class white neighborhoods. Also, Republicans are so motivated to vote this year, they don't really need to get out their own vote.

This story is really about one of my biggest concerns about the Democratic Party: it's so hard to get the people motivated to participate whose interests the Democratic Party is doing the most to represent. It's because they don't have the time to pay attention and often don't appreciate what the government can do on their behalf. Democrats -- all of us -- could do a much better job explaining people what we stand for. It's so much more than hating Bush.

[Blue_Roses]

14. Remember who their parent company is --GE

GE needs Bush to stay in office because they just got another huge taxcut.

[redstateblues]

25. Permanent War Requires Many New B-2 Engines(GE made)

[GR]

17. I Could Have Worked For ACT For $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ But...

I'd been working with the MO Dem Party so am working unpaid and there are a whole lot of us volunteers doing just the same things that the republican volunteers are doing, only we're hones and they're basing their entire campaign on lies and disasterous policies which have hurt America.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

19. You mean MSNGOP?

As in G.E.? As in profiting from the war in Iraq? Them?:eyes:

[Renew Deal]

20. This is the AP article.

[Doodlesweaver]

21. Volunteers...

I have volunteered to do canvassing for ACT. So have several of my friends. Not one of us was paid to do it. I have also volunteered for the Kerry campaign. Never paid a single dime. In fact I give them money!!!

[mikehiggins]

22. I beleive that "paid" crap came from Newsweek eom

[mikehiggins]

23. Sorry. I meant AP eom

[truhavoc]

24. I think you are right...that is even more frustrating!

Now every small paper across the country is printing this BS.

[hereinmissouri]

26. Bush fliers

Yesterday we came home to find 20 Bush fliers on our door (all the same). My husband thought maybe they left so many because of our Kerry yard sign. I thought it was because they were being paid & just wanted to be done with it & didn't want to just throw them in the garbage.

[truhavoc]

27. Happened to me about 5 weeks ago

I think it was definitely the Kerry sign. Problem was, I was out of town for the weekend and it rained, I had paper all over the lawn! Talk about pissing me off...I went out that night and registered 35 new voters.

[newyawker99]

31. Hi hereinmissouri!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[stray cat]

28. Volunteers flying into battleground states

without any reimbursement, any pay and taking time off from jobs. These are dedicated volunteers.

How many reporters are not getting paid and still working their butt off?

[robbedvoter]

32. Them rich Demoncrats try to clobber poow wittle helpless GOP-ers..

:nopity: