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To: Moose4
Hopefully Ms. Wright has nothing to do with her fan club's immoral activities in regards to where this song is at on the chart. It appears she is upset that some of her fan club members were calling/emailing radio stations and posing as members of the military or their families in some kind of misguided quest to drive the song up the charts.
20 posted on 12/19/2004 6:41:59 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: af_vet_rr

Here are verbatim examples from the message board:

• On Nov. 22, ''Chuck'' urged team members to call several Kansas City radio stations and ''tell 'em your husband is a marine — whatever it takes.''

• On Oct. 30, ''Chuck'' said he had called about 40 radio stations under the name ''Sgt. Steve McKay.''

• On Oct. 28, ''Chuck'' posted this message: ''Sob stories and just telling how this song has affected u r going to work best. This song is what they call a reaction record and we need reaction.''

• On Oct. 25, ''Chuck'' suggested fans log on to military message boards and talk up the song. ''You can also fib a little and say you are in the armed forces and how this song needs to be heard — u get the picture,'' he wrote.

A separate e-mail to team members from Constantine contained a message that Hoffpauir said was forwarded from Walter. It said: ''I think with the Texas stations we should say — I am a Marine or Navy and so on, and tell the station they know of the song and in honor of them they should play it — it's worth a try.'' The e-mail is dated Dec. 14.

An Oct. 25 e-mail to ''special mission team'' from ''Sharon'' said, ''Remember this is a small group of special people, and as you know it has to be between us and only us (of course Chuck and Chely know LOL). We can't tell a soul outside of our family, so radio doesn't catch on.''


22 posted on 12/23/2004 11:02:35 AM PST by TheOtherOne
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