MoveOn.org Political Action: Democracy in Action

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004
From: Wes Boyd, MoveOn.org Political Action
Subject: See the Winning Ad: Let's air it during the Republican Convention

View the winners of our Real People ad contest and help us run the top ad during the Republican convention.

If you can support this ad campaign go here.

Dear MoveOn member,

Over the last three days, more than 100,000 MoveOn members have voted on the seventeen finalists in our Real People ad campaign. And we have a winner. The top rated ad features Lee Buttrill, a MoveOn member and Marine who has recently returned from Iraq. In this ad, Sergeant Buttrill simply and eloquently says:

"We were given these ideas that there were weapons of mass destruction...It was just a lie. That wasn't a proper use of American troops. It wasn't a proper use of my life, or my friends' lives, or the marines who I've seen die around me."

With your help, we can get this ad on TV during the Republican Convention, countering their slick spin with this simple and powerful indictment of Bush's failures as Commander in Chief. To see Sergeant Buttrill's ad (and the other finalists) and pitch in to get them on the air, go to:

https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/switchad_winners.html

Starting with the Republican convention, the Bush campaign and the RNC are going to move into high gear. They have the resources - more than a hundred million dollars. And they have the slick ads. But we've got the voices of ordinary people telling the simple truth. And that could make all the difference.

Amplifying these real voices is something we can only do together. The Republican National Convention will be funded by Bush's big-business friends. We don't have a few people who can give a lot, but together we're a lot of people who can give a little. And that's part of what will make this campaign unique: never before have both the content and the funding for an ad campaign come from the grassroots membership of an organization.

Please check out all the finalists and support airing these powerful ads nationwide, starting with Sergeant Buttrill's ad during the Republican convention, at:

https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/switchad_winners.html

When we asked MoveOn members last month for their stories for a Real People ad campaign, we got hundreds of responses from members who voted for George Bush in 2000, but will be voting for Kerry in 2004. Academy Award-winning documentary film director Errol Morris has been interviewed these former Bush voters on camera, and now MoveOn members have told us which ads they find most moving.

Thanks to everyone who voted, to the thousands of MoveOn members who submitted personal stories for this campaign, and to those of you who took interviews with Errol Morris. We wish we could have used them all.

-Wes Boyd and the whole MoveOn.org Political Action team
August 12, 2004

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