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Tell your Representative and Senators:
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/87

House Speaker Denny Hastert insists he knew nothing about Mark Foley's predatory
behavior until the scandal broke on 9/29/06.

But two-thirds of Americans believe Hastert is covering up the truth.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1543199,00.html

And now we know Hastert's Chief of Staff, Scott Palmer, confronted Foley about
his abuses several years ago, according to a front page story in the Washington
Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601888.
html

Palmer and Hastert are extraordinarily close; they are roommates in Washington
DC. It's impossible to believe Hastert was unaware of Palmer's confrontation
with Foley.

That means Hastert is lying about what he knew and when he knew it - and is
indeed leading a coverup.

Denny Hastert must resign as Speaker of the House immediately. Tell your
Representative:
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/87

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To avoid responsibility for the Mark Foley scandal, Republicans are accusing
Democrats of innumerable sex scandals.

If you hear Republicans making that outrageous argument, tell them to read this
fully-documented list of Republican sex crimes.

http://www.armchairsubversive.com/
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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