Posted on 07/27/2007 9:01:03 AM PDT by Gopher Broke
Dear MoveOn member,
John Kerry and his team at Keeping America's Promise are putting together a cool radio ad campaign to pressure key Republicans who keep stonewalling an end to the war. They've invited MoveOn members to join in. The idea is to use radio to expose these key Republicans in their own backyards.
Here is the twist: John Kerry wants YOU to write the script for the radio ad.
It's a completely people-powered ad campaign. No overpaid media consultants making the spot or choosing where to run it. It's all done by you.
The radio ads should make clear that blocking an end to the war means political extinction. Click below to submit a script:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2839&id=
A 30-second radio ad is about 65 words long. You come up with the message, the Keeping America's Promise community will vote, and your ad could be on the air in just a few short weeks.
Here's how the contest will work:
You send in a script for a 30-second radio spot (that's about 65 words long). John Kerry and the team at Keeping America's Promise will select the top 20 submissions. Everyone will get to vote on the scripts. The winning ad will air in Republican states.
Folks who donate to air the ads will be able to choose which states they think the ad should run in. You can make the spot funny, or serious, or satirical, or hard-hitting. Whatever you want to do. You can make it a personal story from your life (maybe you know someone who served in Iraq or have a family member there), or you can make a factual case on why voters should consider someone else because of this issue, or anything else you'd like. It's all up to you.
Click here to submit your script:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=
You have until 12 midnight ET on Saturday, August 11th to get your script in—so it's time get planning and writing!
Good luck.
Thanks for all you do.
–-Nita, Marika, Eli, Natalie, and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team Friday, July 27th, 2007
And the corresponding email from Kerry for Senate:
Your ad can be the one pressuring Republican Senators in some key states. Submit your script as soon as you can write it!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the Republicans are feeling the pressure for change on Iraq. But I’m not a patient person. Especially when the lives of our troops are at stake. I refuse to wait around for the Republicans to move without giving them a little more pushing.
Quite simply, we want to take an unusual step - and we want to do it early. I think we need to run radio ads in the states of the Roadblock Republicans, making it crystal clear that they don’t deserve to be reelected because of their continued support for the Bush Doctrine of escalation without end. We need to turn up the heat even higher.
It’s the pressure of activists and the voice of the people that have gotten us this far in the Iraq debate, not the cookie-cutter ads and thirty second soundbites of Madison Avenue media firms.
So we decided, why don’t we let you speak in this radio campaign? If user generated content can change presidential debates, I know it can help change the next election on the most pivotal of issues.
That’s why we’re running a contest. We want you to send in a script for a 30 second radio spot (that’s about 65 words long), we’ll whittle it down some to the top 20, and then we’ll open up the voting to everyone. The winner that’s chosen by the people will be what we air in the states. And we’ll fundraise for the airing of that spot, with each of you able to choose with your contribution where you think we should run the ad. No political professionals making the spot, or choosing where to run it. It’s all done by you.
You can make the spot sad, or satirical, or hard-hitting. Whatever you want to do. You can make it a personal story from your life (maybe you know someone in Iraq or have a family member there or maybe you are one of the many veterans in this community), or you can make a factual case on why voters should consider someone else because of this issue, or anything else you’d like. You get it — it’s up to you. And what you do can be the ad that goes on the air targeting the Roadblock Republicans.
So click here to submit your script.
You have until midnight ET on Saturday August 11th to get your script in, so get thinking and start writing. And forward this email to everyone you think might be interested in submitting a radio spot to this contest. If you know someone who has a way with words and wants to make a difference, send this along. We’d love to get their scripts.
Thank you, and let’s make sure we get a change in course in Iraq very soon.
Good luck,
John Kerry
John Kerry for U.S. Senate
129 Portland Street, Suite 500
Boston, MA 02114-2014
info@johnkerry.com
www.johnkerry.com
The illusion of a “grass roots” movement.
Meanwhile John Kerry is stonewalling on (A) turning in his military records release and (B) telling us his “plan” for resolving “Iraq”.
Oh, how speshall...
/s
“Hello I’m John Kerry. And only racist, sexist, homophobes support the fraudulent bumper sticker ‘war on terror’.
You’re not a racist, sexist, homophobe are you?
(Hillary in ‘08)”
Jon Voight on H & C Thursday laod a HUGE slapdown of Francois. Kerry, on one of the talking head shows recently, said that there was only enrollment in “re-education” camps following our withdrawal from Nam. Voight took him on by pointing out that there were over two million deaths in Cambodia and Vietnam after our democrat enforced surrender and said we absolutely cannot do that again in Iraq.
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