Wexler Hits 50,000 Impeach Sigs in One Day, Going for Half-Million
by Ralph Lopez
Mon Dec 17, 2007 at 12:11:32 PM PST
(UPDATE, NOW 80,000)
It's not being reported in the corporate media, which also refused to publish an opinion piece penned by six-term Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI). But a whopping 50,000 people responded in just one day to Rep. Wexler's call for people to sign his on-line petition supporting an immediate start to hearings on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Cheney Impeachment bill (H Res 799). Among the corporate media refusing to publish the piece by three U.S. congressmen are the NY Times, the L.A. Times, and the Washington Post.
As of Sunday morning, 54,000 people had signed the petition at WexlerWantsHearings.com calling for action now. Names are being added at a rate of one every one or two seconds.
Wexler has said he wanted at least 50,000 signatures. But why stop there? If people get behind this, and if the impeachment movement spreads the word, he could easily get closer to 500,000 signatures over the next few days.
And if each of us were to send out a call to sign to ten of our friends, then we'd have half a million...
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..signatures, which would be hard for Conyers and the Democratic leadership, Speaker Nancy Pelosi included, to ignore. Go to WexlerWantsHearings.com and sign the petition!
Kucinich's impeachment bill was filed on April 24 and has been ignored now for almost eight shameful months. On Nov. 7, a bipartisan majority of 218 members of the House voted to send it from the floor of the House back to the Judiciary Committee for action. Now it's sat there for over four weeks.
We need to tell Congress, and particularly the Democrats who are stalling on this important defense of the Constitution and of democracy itself that time's up. We the American People want action. We want impeachment hearings!
Email small-town newspapers to please cover this (forget the major media, they do not care about their country.) Hit the street corners and shopping malls with flyers. Once you get out there you'll realize that a tiny fraction of the population gets its news from the progressive Internet. Most people do not have a clue about what's going on with impeachment, BUT WILL IMMEDIATELY AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY RESPOND! This happens fast. Remember that in 1776 there was suddenly electricity in the air as a subjugated and repressed people took to the streets and won their freedom!
Can Kos front-page this?
(This diary based on a report by David Lindorff, Democrats.com)
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79819 signatures (9+ / 0-)
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as of now.
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please update title & link (now 80,000) (7+ / 0-)
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It's now 80,000, not 50,000.
It will approach 100,000 by midnight.
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It's over 100,000 right now.... (0 / 0)
Let's get it to 200,000 by midniight.
The meek shall inherit nothing. -F.Zappa
by cometman on Mon Dec 17, 2007 at 02:15:39 PM PST
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??? - it's 89,018 now (0 / 0)
and it's fifteen minutes later...I guess it's going backwards
-8.38, -7.74 lern gud werds and feed the hungry!!!
by condoleaser on Mon Dec 17, 2007 at 02:28:26 PM PST
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It's at 84,700+ now. Something is wrong with the (0 / 0)
counter.................
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tried the link, (1+ / 0-)
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but it didn't work. The page is coming up blank. Has anyone else had trouble?
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In an earlier diary.... (0 / 0)
today dlindorff mentioned that the link was having trouble becasue so many people were trying to access it!!!
Keep trying. Once you get through it only takes 30 seconds to add your name.
The meek shall inherit nothing. -F.Zappa
by cometman on Mon Dec 17, 2007 at 02:13:57 PM PST
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just tested link (8+ / 0-)
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it works, they could be getting swamped on bandwidth.
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I just got through (4+ / 0-)
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and signed the petition. Thanks for promoting this.
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The link is slooooow......... (0 / 0)
I think that means there is a good response. I emailed the link to my list.
"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched." George H.W. Bush to Sarah McClendon, 1992
by 4Freedom on Mon Dec 17, 2007 at 12:33:21 PM PST
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I think it's being hacked, maybe. (1+ / 0-)
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Because when sigs were coming in at 2,000 per hour, the site was running much faster than this.
Maybe there are right-wingers bombarding the site with millions of hits to slow it down.
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by all 80K of us refreshing the page every 30sec! (0 / 0)
i'll admit...the first night I was hooked on it. kind of like i imagine getting high would be. Refresh: 45K; Refresh 46K; Refresh 50K; aaaahhhhhh
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. -- E. O. Wilson
by Ephemera on Mon Dec 17, 2007 at 01:24:23 PM PST
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Yeah, it can be addictive. :) But we need to be (0 / 0)
sending links or this diary out to lists of friends and activists so the numbers keep growing.
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Must be swamped (0 / 0)
cuz I get a can't connect error.
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swamped by dirty tricksters? (0 / 0)
that would be one way to slow it down.
It's not getting swamped by signers, because the rate is not anywhere near its peak over 2,000 per hour.
It's actually surprising that the hackers haven't actually shut down the site by now.
But I'll bet they're having trouble just keeping the site online, due to Rovian type activity.
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something's wrong - site way too slow (0 / 0)
someone has thrown a monkey wrench into it.
The site is capable of handling at least 2,000 sigs per hour, and the site is totally swamped, but the number of sigs is down significantly.
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try going on at night, prepare techies (2+ / 0-)
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if the dirty tricks continue, Wexler must be notified and techies deployed to find out what's going on.
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tech-team probably working non-stop (0 / 0)
You can bet that, if anyone in the pro-Bush/Cheney camp can slow down the site, they will, and that includes some heavy hitters.
This must be a heck of a hacker-fest - there are probably big computer phone banks bombarding the site, and counter-measures, and counter-counter measures.
Or have I read too many spy novels, seen too many episodes of the Avengers?
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I just got on fairly quickly to check the news (0 / 0)
I wonder if they are in the middle of trying to update the site? maybe just wishful thinking on my part...
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Cf. Kucinich Sunday Money Bomb fundraising on D15 (0 / 0)
http://december152007.wordpress.com/...
At least they don't try to hide that their goal, just prior to D15 was to raise $10 million from 100,000 individual donors.
D15 was DK's "Money Bomb" day. D16, yesterday, was the 2nd Ron Paul Money bomb http://www.ronpaulgraphs.com/... blitz. His fanbase raised over 6.75 million dollars. From 33,539 donors. Over twenty times the #'ers of folks that gave to DK.RESULTS
* $131,400 TOTAL
o $86,400 made directly to the Kucinich site
o $45,000 made to ActBlue
* Approximately 1,592 donors (1,072 to Kucinich, approx. 520 to ActBlue)
o At least 665 were new donors (As determined via contributions to the Kucinich site. New donor results via ActBlue are not known.)
o Average donation works out to $82
* December 15, combined with the Black Friday event and the Nov 29 drive, will amount to a very successful 4th quarter for Dennis Kucinich. You can view historical data, as well as the 4th quarter results when they are released, at opensecrets.org.
* Special thanks to rcut for the tireless promotional efforts, and to Adam for his help with the graphs. And thanks to everyone else that posted stories, voted for stories, sent emails and anything else!——————–
FUTURE KUCINICH DRIVES* I am working on ideas for future drives. I will send out one last email to this list once the details are worked out.
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NEW FORUM FOR KUCINICH* There is a new forum for Kucinich supporters: denniscrats.com/vanilla
* Check it out - it's a great way to stay connected with people that were part of this event.——————–
CONGRESSIONAL REVOLUTION* As we have all seen, Congress plays an integral role in shaping the direction of the country. Or should I say, should play a role.
* It is obvious that we cannot simply rely on electing the right president. We must also work to elect the right Congress.
* Visit congressionalrevolution.com to join that movement
* Seriously, check it out :-)——————–
REAL LIFE* As you may have seen in the recent Kucinich email, it is very important that we do what we can to expand Kucinich's exposure from the Internet and into real life.
* Join a Meetup group near you: http://denniskucinich.meetup.com/——————–
Once again, thank you, everyone.Stay involved,
William Scott Hunter - info@december152007.com
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Well over 81,000 at 5:05 pm e.s.t. (0 / 0)
Our legislators no longer listen to us, so it is probably a waste of time, but god, it makes me feel better to be a signatory. GO REP. WEXLER!
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all - JFK- 5/18/63-Vanderbilt Univ.
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Are we talk'n 'bout.... (0 / 0)
....impeach'n Hillary already?
I've voted Democrat in every presidential, congressional, and state election since 1959...how 'bout you?
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89022 at 4:27 Central time when I signed n/t (0 / 0)
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no matter the dirty tricks (1+ / 0-)
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... I will sign it no matter how long it takes to get through, if I have to set the alarm for 3 in the morning, if it takes a week. And I will call and yell at some congressmen to impeach in the meantime, to make productive use of the wait.
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