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A Fifteen Year Old's PAC

by jkfp2004, Mon May 09, 2005 at 09:57:24 PM EST

Although I was not old enough to vote, I volunteered countless hours, wrote countless letters, and made dozens of phone calls for the Kerry campaign and my local Democratic Party. On Nov. 2, I was crushed by Kerry's defeated and by the rejection of so many of our senate candidates, but despite the loss, I felt encouraged. Even in the conservative atmosphere of my hometown, Yorba Linda, CA (Richard Nixon's birthplace), I could sense that people agreed with democrats on numerous issues and only voted republican because society said it was the "American," and "Christian" thing to do.

It was this observation that lead me to start my first PAC, Billboards for America. Our goal is to raise enough money to buy numerous billboards across the country telling the truth about Democrats and exposing the truth about Republicans. Although it is much less expensive than television or radio advertising, billboards still cost money and we need your help to get it up. Our goal is to raise $1000, by the end of May, so we can have our first billboard up by mid June. I encourage all of you to go to www.billboardsforamerica.com and if you can, provide a generous donation. Let's show those Republicans that even 15 year olds are up against them!

Thanks,

Derek Mazzeo

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I thought the billboard idea was great when DFA did it, and I'm glad to see you've decided to take it one step further. I think it would be a good idea to also follow DFA in letting people suggest and decide on the billboards. No offense to you, of course, but statistically speaking, you will get better ideas from a huge pool of people than you will just coming up with them on your own.

I'll be sending over a little cash, and I wish you the best of luck! Keep us updated, please :)

Rudy Giuliani hates firefighters. And puppies.

by Fran for Dean on Tue May 10, 2005 at 04:08:14 AM EST

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This is a great idea, right up there with leaving copies of subversive articles and flyers in public places like the waiting room of the dentist's office, or in the DMV. See "Truth is a Virus:"

http://www.animana.org/tab3/32truthisavirus.shtml

After the election, I thought about posting billboards at the lines between red and blue counties, say. It's the purple-red or red-blue interface we should target. The exurbs. The places where folks who vote Republican might still have a notion of tolerance, respect for diversity, an appreciation for liberalism and its ever so lovely shades of (multicolored) grey.

And what about the message? Kerry's was a ridiculous weak-footed whisper on every matter of importance. Neither he nor the DNC will see another dime from me until there's evidence they get it. A billboard with the standard Dem message will be a waste of time. No, you need something that strikes deep and with great immediacy. Something personal, emotional, paradigm-shifting. That's the hard part but it can be done. Put some artists to work, some brainy creative thinkers with guts and heart. Madison Avenue material this ain't.

I'm less interested in Lakoff's framing pablum than I am in the outrageous yet undeniable - like Billionaires for Bush or Michael Moore's sendup of the congressmen who vote for war but won't send one of their own to fight. The billboards should be funny, thought-provoking, asking the viewer to question the dominant paradigm of war and taxation, of death and destruction, of the rape of the environment, the loss of privacy and of worker's rights.

The billboards should ask the question - Who benefits when you vote Republican? Who benefits from the status quo?

by pammo on Tue May 10, 2005 at 09:21:07 AM EST

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