-Caveat Lector- http://www.vote.com/ WHAT IS VOTE.COM? Vote.com is a fully interactive web site designed to give Internet users a voice on important public issues and other topics. The Internet is filled with chances for us to listen and read. This site gives us a chance to speak out and to be heard. When you vote on a topic listed on our site, we'll send an immediate e-mail to significant decision makers like your congressional representative, your Senators, and the President telling them how you feel. When the polls close, we will send each a tally of the votes in his district. Then, when your congressional representative votes on the issue, we will e-mail you to tell you how he or she voted. Right before election day, we'll send you a report card listing how they voted on all the topics you voted on -- so you can see if they agree with you. WHO IS BEHIND VOTE.COM? Dick Morris and his wife Eileen McGann. The funding for the site comes from Dick Scruggs and Steve Bozeman, two of the nation's leading anti-tobacco lawyers. WHY DID THEY SET IT UP? Morris' entire career has been in polling -- finding out what voters think. Now he and his wife want to set up a way for voters to speak out. Morris says, "I trust the voters a whole lot more than the politicians. I guess I know the politicians too well." IS IT FREE? Absolutely. We get our money from advertisers on the site. IS IT LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE? Neither. It's a ballot box. And it's not Democrat or Republican either. It has no point of view. It wants to bring your point of view to the attention of those in power. WHAT IS THE FIFTH ESTATE? That's an online magazine published on our site. It is irreverent, probing and investigative. It will publish stories that will make news and shake things up. Edmund Burke, a British statesman, called journalism the Fourth Estate during the French Revolution. We think the Internet is replacing the media, so we call it the Fifth Estate. (The other three Estates were in the French parliament under the king -- the first was the clergy, the second was the nobility, and the third was the merchant class). ARE ALL THE QUESTIONS POLITICAL? No way. We will get your opinions on who should be in the Hall of Fame and e-mail it to the sportswriter's committee. We'll ask you who should win the Oscars and e-mail the results to the group that makes the decision. IS MY VOTE SECRET? You bet. The computer knows how you vote, but we don't. Your vote is encrypted so that even the staff people at Vote.com cannot access that information. WHAT IS VOTE.COM? Vote.com is a fully interactive web site designed to give Internet users a voice on important public issues and other topics. The Internet is filled with chances for us to listen and read. This site gives us a chance to speak out and to be heard. When you vote on a topic listed on our site, we'll send an immediate e-mail to significant decision makers like your congressional representative, your Senators, and the President telling them how you feel. When the polls close, we will send each a tally of the votes in his district. Then, when your congressional representative votes on the issue, we will e-mail you to tell you how he or she voted. Right before election day, we'll send you a report card listing how they voted on all the topics you voted on -- so you can see if they agree with you. WHO IS BEHIND VOTE.COM? Dick Morris and his wife Eileen McGann. The funding for the site comes from Dick Scruggs and Steve Bozeman, two of the nation's leading anti-tobacco lawyers. WHY DID THEY SET IT UP? Morris' entire career has been in polling -- finding out what voters think. Now he and his wife want to set up a way for voters to speak out. Morris says, "I trust the voters a whole lot more than the politicians. I guess I know the politicians too well." IS IT FREE? Absolutely. We get our money from advertisers on the site. IS IT LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE? Neither. It's a ballot box. And it's not Democrat or Republican either. It has no point of view. It wants to bring your point of view to the attention of those in power. WHAT IS THE FIFTH ESTATE? That's an online magazine published on our site. It is irreverent, probing and investigative. It will publish stories that will make news and shake things up. Edmund Burke, a British statesman, called journalism the Fourth Estate during the French Revolution. We think the Internet is replacing the media, so we call it the Fifth Estate. (The other three Estates were in the French parliament under the king -- the first was the clergy, the second was the nobility, and the third was the merchant class). ARE ALL THE QUESTIONS POLITICAL? No way. We will get your opinions on who should be in the Hall of Fame and e-mail it to the sportswriter's committee. We'll ask you who should win the Oscars and e-mail the results to the group that makes the decision. IS MY VOTE SECRET? You bet. The computer knows how you vote, but we don't. Your vote is encrypted so that even the staff people at Vote.com cannot access that information. WILL I GET A LOT OF SPAM MAIL? Nope. We will tell you about referenda you might find interesting (based on the ones you have already voted in). And, if you tell us, we won't send you anything. HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU EXPECT TO PARTICIPATE? Hopefully, millions of people will want to vote. It will give us all a chance to be heard so our voice gets loud enough to drown out the special interests that run Congress. WHAT IS THE BOOK, VOTE.COM? Its a book Dick Morris wrote about how the Internet is taking over politics. It will be sold in bookstores and on the Vote.com site. It says that the Internet is taking the place of television in politics, that money will matter less and less because the Internet is free, and that special interests are losing their grip over Congress. WHO ARE DICK MORRIS, EILEEN McGANN, DICK SCRUGGS AND STEVE BOZEMAN? Dick Morris, the President of Vote.com, was President Clinton's chief strategist and advisor in the 1996 campaign. He has handled the campaigns of a large number of American politicians including Trent Lott, William Weld, Pete Wilson and a whole lot of others. He's now a commentator on the Fox News Channel and writes a weekly column in the New York Post. He has written three recent books: Behind the Oval Office, The New Prince, and Vote.com. Eileen McGann, Morris' wife, is an attorney and former public interest lobbyist. She serves as the CEO of Vote.com. Dick Scruggs and Steve Bozeman are Vice Presidents and partners in Vote.com. They were the pioneers of the anti-tobacco litigation. They represented the states of Mississippi, Texas, Florida and a number of others in their lawsuit against the tobacco companies. They negotiated the settlement where big tobacco had to shell out over $200 billion. They also represented Jeffrey Wigand, the whistle blower who is the hero of a new movie, The Insider. WHO ELSE IS INVOLVED? Frances Cerra Whittelsey is Editor of the magazine, the Fifth Estate. She is an award-winning former consumer reporter for The New York Times and Newsday. She wrote the book, "Women Pay More," about gender-based pricing, at the request of Ralph Nader. She and Fifth Estate Senior Editor, Kathy Jones, created the ground-breaking SIS web site, the first and only non-profit, ad-free web site devoted to women consumers. Joel Morton is formerly with Fox News Channel and is Vice President in charge of Voting Operations. Miguel Sal is from Bologna, Italy, and is the Creative Director for Vote.com. Paul McGann is in charge of operations. Environments.com and SenseNet helped design and build the site. GTE is our server. HOW CAN I CONTACT VOTE.COM? E-mail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ban Handgun Sales to Kids Under 21? Should patients be able to sue HMOs? Protect Gays from Hate Crimes? Vouchers for Schools? http://www.vote.com/ Bard We don't need a 3rd party; we need a 2nd Party. The DNC and the GOP defined: Two wings of the same bird of prey, The National Socialist DemocRatic Republican Party. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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