Reply #53: Analysis: Protesters try last hurrah

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January 04, 2005

Analysis: Protesters try last hurrah

By Marie Horrigan
UPI Deputy Americas Editor

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Massachusetts native Sheila Parks has set up vigils in front of Sen. John Kerry's residence in Boston, which she said are attended by 10 to 15 people each day. Parks also is part of a delegation that is scheduled to travel to Washington Tuesday to make its case personally to a "dream team" of senators they think might be willing to hold up the vote certification.

Her group, Coalition Against Election Fraud, also is scheduled to meet Wednesday with representatives from Kerry's Senate office, who they will give copies of online petitions, letters and postcards from supporters and citizens asking Kerry not to certify the vote.

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A spokesman for Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., meanwhile, said the office had received a number of petitions Monday but would not comment on how Boxer intended to vote on the certification.

Parks said she couldn't imagine why no Democratic senator had stepped forward. "Maybe it's what we always said, that once they get in there they lose their integrity," she said.

But if no one does so, she added, she was going to start voting Green.


Link:
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050103-053855-5995r.htm