According to MoveOn.com:
Dear MoveOn member,
Just days after Justice O'Connor's resignation, the fight to protect our rights is in full swing. By all accounts, this will be a long, fierce campaign. The radical right is already pouring millions of dollars in large, secret contributions into the right wing spin machine, determined to ram through whomever Bush puts forward.1
We have a different approach, one that relies on millions of ordinary Americans giving what we can to protect our rights?and this is when you're needed most.
If Bush announces an extremist nominee we'll to need respond fast and hard with ads on the airwaves and in major newspapers that get our message out?and none of it comes cheap. So today we're launching our Emergency Fund to Protect our Rights with an initial goal of $500,000. If you can help us get there now, we can leap straight into action the moment we hear the news.
If keeping an extremist off the Supreme Court is important to you, this is a great time to chip in.
https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/pro...F0TL8Iiimw&t=3
The national press is already reporting that this will be the most expensive, ruthless Supreme Court nomination ever. They're calling this the "Presidential election of 2005"2 and estimating as much as $100 million will be spent in the fight.3
Why are far-right leaders like Jerry Falwell and James Dobson determined to spend so much? Because even with Republican control of Congress and the White House, our independent courts (not to mention the Constitution) still interfere with their drive to impose a narrow, far right agenda on the rest of America. After more than 10 years without an opening on the Supreme Court, this is the chance they've been waiting for to seize complete control.
As radical right leader Gary Bauer put it this week, the far right base elected a "conservative president and a conservative Senate majority for precisely this moment."4 Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said it this way: "When the time comes, a Supreme Court vacancy cannot be considered just one of many issues, but THE fight to end all domestic fights."5 And Pat Roberston, asking for divine intervention to remove Supreme Court Justices wrote, "I don't care which three, I mean as long as the three conservatives stay on. There's six liberals, so it's up to the Lord."
These radical right leaders and their millions of dollars have tremendous sway with Bush and many members of the Senate. To counter their influence and protect our rights we'll need to be able to hit the airwaves, as well as the streets and the phone lines, as soon as a nominee is announced?and keep up the volume through what will surely be a long, brutal campaign.
If we can raise $500,000 for our Supreme Court Emergency Fund today, we'll be off to a great start. Please give what you can.
https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/pro...F0TL8Iiimw&t=4
Thanks for all that you do.
?Ben, Joan, Carrie, James and the MoveOn PAC Team