Reply #102: To answer some of your questions...

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1) The primary objective as defined by JanMichael's original proposal is to use the California gubernatorial recall effort as an inspiration to create, distribute and deliver a Recall Bush petition, using the CA recall model.

2) This can be achieved through putting out a action call and networking with existing online and real world organizations, groups, and individuals.

3) The campaigns resources are all of the above, including every single American who is sick and tired of Bush

I have been politically active for most of my adult life, including working on local political campaigns.

As of last night I had a list of 150+ contact email addresses for organizations, groups, and individuals that might be interested in hosting a link or passing along the petition info, just waiting for a volunteer to come along (as I suggested in the original thread) and take on creating a contact database.

I didn't put this post into Activism for two reasons: the action was not yet ready to happen and because, frankly, Activism is a bit of a dead spot for traffic. GD gets much more traffic and I felt that was better for the time being while trying to hash things out.

In a prior life I worked in the film and television industry,and that involved working with advertising agencies and film publicity units.

Yes, this entire effort could be initially managed and coordinated via the Internet. It's as simple as making contacts, inspiring folks, generating traffic to the website where they could find an idea list of how/where to gather signatures, having folks download the petition and gather those signatures, then having those petitions returned.

As far as costs go, it's all about volunteers stepping forward and offering to help out sans menumeration. Chet kindly offered to do the PDF document and host the website, I volunteered to host a PO Box -- it is my belief that most of what needs to happen can be done for next to nothing. There is no need for this to be a billboard campaign, for pamphleting, tabling, any of the same old same old -- this can be about Americans downloading a file, printing it out on a piece of paper, and taking it to the streets. The only real cost I can foresee would come in in the delivery of the documents -- again, that is where volunteers step in to help.