Holy Bat Thingies! Howard Dean Needs Me!

I must shed my disguise as a normal, mild-mannered graphic designer and spring into action as the Incredible Zomby Boy!

Dear Mild Mannered Graphic Designer,

There are now fewer than 20 days until Election Day. There's no more time to waste, and I need your help right now.

MoveOn PAC needs 1,000 volunteers in the next 24 hours towards our goal of organizing in 10,000 key neighborhoods and turning out 440,000 new votes for John Kerry.

You and a dozen other neighborhood leaders can together turn out over 500 new voters. That would have been enough to tip the balance in Florida in 2000. Your neighborhood in is a critical focus of this effort. Think about it--you and a few friends literally have the power to swing the election in .

But Mild Mannered Graphic Designer, you need to start the ball rolling. Please call the office below closest to you right now. Don't lose another minute:

[No, I'm not giving you the phone numbers. Get your own damned email from Howard Dean.]

Or, sign up on MoveOn PAC's website and a local staffer will call you within 24 hours to get you started:

[Link Killed for Obvious Reasons. And because I HAVE THE POWER!]

This week my organization, Democracy for America, joined MoveOn PAC's Leave No Voter Behind campaign to turn out infrequent voters on Election Day and defeat George W. Bush.

Here’s why: MoveOn and Democracy for America have brought millions of new people into our political process. We cut through meaningless political language and reject the money-for-influence game in Washington. We talk directly to the people and we are accountable only to you.

This project will bring a powerful wave of new voters to the polls. Millions of people who have never voted know that something has gone wrong. They see friends losing their health care, neighbors sent to war in Iraq, and family losing their jobs. They have seen for the first time how the political process impacts our lives – and they ought to be voting with us.

Together we can change the direction we're heading in and take our country back.

Take the first step. Join us in Leave No Voter Behind and make them pay attention to us:

[By the power of Grayskull, I can remove this link!]

People like you knocking on doors and driving vans to polling places will win the election. Voting is not enough. We have a responsibility to make sure everyone participates. And you have the power to make it happen.

Thank you.

--Governor Howard Dean, M.D.
  Founder and Honorary Chair
  Democracy for America

No real point here--the email just sort of makes me giggle. The idea that MoveOn isn't a monied special interest, for example. The idea that someone stole the country, and only MoveOn can get it back, for another.

I get emails from right-leaning organizations that make me laugh as much as this one did, in honesty. The overheated rhetoric and the doomsday prophesying don't really reach me, but I suppose they are effective. Whether effective or not, though, I don't really care; I'm just starting to feel election fatigue and I'm looking forward to the end of this road.

Then maybe Howard Dean can send me emails that aren't quite so irritating. I mean, it would be nice if he asked how I was doing once in a while...

Posted by zombyboy at October 14, 2004 02:09 PM