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Lights out, phone unplugged, not answering the door

May 18th, 2005 · No Comments

Silence from Senator McCain’s office
Even though ProjectUSA is a pipsqueak organization too poor to buy a representative’s vote, let alone a senator’s, we’ve issued John McCain a public challenge.
We’ve named the stakes, and made the wager. The dispute in question is legitimate, and the public has an interest in the outcome. But every day, […]

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Tags: corpocracy · corruption · immigration · media · vote 2008

McCain answers challenge

May 17th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Woman calls and denies getting one

Claiming it wouldn’t allow us to post a billboard “bashing” Senator John McCain, Viacom, the multinational media conglomerate that ranks number four on the list of special interests paying “contributions” to Senator John McCain, used its monopoly on 30-sheet billboards in the Phoenix area to prevent us from displaying a […]

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Tags: immigration · media · vote 2008

Banned in Phoenix

April 25th, 2005 · 1 Comment

For those of you collecting examples of the corporate assault on democratic values, you’ll want to include Viacom Outdoor of Phoenix on your list of rogue corporations.
The huge outdoor advertising company, part of multinational mutlimedia multibillion dollar megacorp, Viacom, has decided the public shouldn’t be allowed to see the message “John McCain supports amnesty for […]

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Tags: corpocracy · immigration · media

Embrace amnesty, just don’t call it an amnesty

August 30th, 2004 · No Comments

An editorial in Sunday’s New York Times welcomed Republicans arriving in town for the party’s national convention with some free advice on the immigration issue for GOP campaign strategists.
“If the Republicans want to court moderates and appeal to minority voters like Hispanics,” counseled the Times, the party must embrace an amnesty for illegal aliens, or, […]

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Tags: immigration · media

Great American whoppers

May 5th, 2004 · No Comments

Will Utahns swallow Cannon’s claim?

Great American whoppers I
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Tags: immigration · media