From Don Reed -
> MISSOURI MIRACLE: COMPUTER-SAVVY STEM CELL
> SUPPORTERS NEEDED!
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> Go to
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/5/16116/2284
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> Please recommend my story about Missouri Senatorial
> candidate Claire McCaskill - it's neck and neck, and
> she needs every single vote. Pass this forward, and
> ask everyone who is computer-savvy to help
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> Claire McCaskill is fighting her heart out for all
> of us. She did not have to stand up for stem cells,
> but she did-- and she is being hammered for it.
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> Against all the odds, she has a one-per-cent lead
> over the mountain of money the Republican rival
> has-but her money is pretty gone-and the GOP
> get-out-the-vote machine is up and running.
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> To win, Missouri's disabled voters must turn out.
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> There are 900,000 voters with a disability in the
> show me state. If they turn out, Claire will win.
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> Please contact your KOS friends, and ask them to
> recommend this story, so we can get it to everyone.
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> On behalf of my paralyzed son, Roman, thank you.
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> Let's help make the Missouri miracle happen.
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> Don C. Reed
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/5/16116/2284
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> MISSOURI MONDAY-DISABLED TO THE RESCUE!
>
> - a message from Don Reed, stem cell advocate, in
> support of Claire McCaskill, candidate for U.S.
> Senate in Missouri.
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> Imagine the struggle a paralyzed person has to go
> through, just to get out of bed.
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> My son Roman Reed is paralyzed, a quadriplegic. And
> maybe he can't close his fingers, and maybe his legs
> don't work.
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> But nothing on earth will stop him from voting
> tomorrow.
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> And if he lived in Missouri, he would be bringing
> every wheelchair-driving friend who could fit into
> his van.
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> I propose that THIS Monday, November 6, be called
> "MISSOURI MONDAY," dedicated to citizens with
> disabilities all across America, but particularly in
> the "Show Me" state of Missouri, where disability
> advocate Claire McCaskill is fighting the most
> uphill battle in America.
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> Against her is a campaign with a mountain of money
> to spend, a budget described as "limitless", someone
> who is flooding the state's airwaves with expensive
> cunning ads.
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>
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> President Bush wants to defeat Claire McCaskill so
> badly he has come himself to Missouri five times in
> the campaign-he did not have time to visit much
> before then, but during election season he comes so
> often he seems to considering a change in address!
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> The last I heard, the opposition had $4,200,000-4.2
> million cash on hand-and McCaskill's campaign had
> about 1/32 that much. (Literally, only about
> $225,000!) They can afford to send limousines to
> pick up voters and transport them to the polls.
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>
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> And on Claire's side?
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> If a person is judged by the company she keeps, look
> at McCaskill's campaign workers.
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> Almost entirely volunteers, McCaskill's people work
> for free because they care about Claire, enduring
> sleepless nights, earaches from too many hours on
> the phone, and stomachs aching with junk food shoved
> down hurriedly. Their feet are blistered from
> walking door to door, and it is an act of will just
> to put one foot in front of the other.
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>
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> But they know who Claire McCaskill is, and why her
> election matters, to Missouri, and to America.
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> Her candidacy itself is excellent beyond question.
> She is strong on health care, and on issues of
> poverty, unemployment, insurance, and wheelchair
> access. She knows that many Missourians require
> better care right now.
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> She is also not afraid to look ahead, toward the
> future of cure. She has supported stem cell research
> from the very beginning-unlike her opponent, "Mr.
> Timidity" Jim Talent, who ducked and dodged and hid
> from revealing his position publicly-- while behind
> the scenes he voted against it again and again.
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> In a straight-up fight between her and her
> Republican opponent, there would be no contest.
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> But that mountain of campaign cash-all those ads!
> Surely that is an insurmountable advantage?
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>
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> But Claire McCaskill has 900,000 friends whom money
> cannot buy: Missouri citizens with disabilities. If
> they make it to the polls, a huge upset is in the
> making.
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> They know Claire McCaskill supports the legitimate
> concerns of the disabled community.
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> As the father of a paralyzed son, I urge every
> Missourian with a disability to regard the voting
> booths as your personal source of political power.
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> My son Roman drives a wheelchair. He cannot close
> his fingers, or move his legs.
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> But he will vote tomorrow.
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> And so, I hope, will every one of Missouri's 900,000
> voters with a disability.
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> I suggest we give America an early Christmas
> present, and elect a Senator from the great state of
> Missouri, who is not afraid to take a stand.
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> As Roman puts it, "take a stand with us-take a
> stand-so one day, everybody can."
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> And as literature's most famous citizen with a
> disability, Tiny Tim in Dickens' Christmas Carol,
> once observed: "God bless us, every one!"
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>
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> P.S.- If you want to know where Claire McCaskill
> stands on disability issues, here she is -
>
http://www.claireonline.com/dia/organizations/CMC/content.jsp?content_KEY=1422
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"Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid...Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person." - Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
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