Dont Vote for Change

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Author: Alan Lange

Started: August 9, 2004, 11:24:41 pm

Target: dontvoteforchange

Category: Government & Politics

Supporters:

Goal:

100,000

Goal Progress:

Status

Closed

To:

Pearl Jam
Bruce Springsteen
R.E.M.
Dave Matthews Band
Jurassic 5
Dixie Chicks
Death Cab for Cutie
James Taylor
Ben Harper
My Morning Jacket
Jackson Browne
Bonnie Raitt
John Fogerty
Keb' Mo'
Bright Eyes
John Mellencamp
Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds
Bon Jovi
& their beneficiary, MoveOn.org

We, the undersigned, are by and large fans of your music. However, your financial and public support of the removal of our President from office have betrayed many thousands of your fans. You have chosen to fund with proceeds the MoveOn.org PAC which has, among other things, publicly compared our President with Adolf Hitler, and implicated he was knowing and complicit in the 9/11 attack on our country.

While we certainly recognize and celebrate your rights to support political causes with your time and talents, it has placed fans like us in the unenviable position of supporting causes we strongly disagree with when we support you financially as artists.

As fans who have contributed to your financial and professional success, we feel betrayed by you and others who have chosen to "cash in your goodwill" with fans in such a way.

We, the undersigned will therefore excercise our rights by choosing . . .

- Not to support you with album or music sales
- Not supporting radio stations or their advertisers that give you airplay
- By not coming to concerts and live shows and by purchasing your "merch"
- And by any other means by which we can make our financial and cultural impact felt.