Amanda Griscom Little of Grist got to do what many would like to do. Sit down and talk with John and Teresa about their new book. Here are some of the questions she asked.

When you’ve finished reading, please add the questions you would like to ask about “This Moment on Earth” in the comments and I’ll pass them along.

AGL: There are so many topics that you could have covered on the heels of your 2004 election experience. Why did you decide to focus on the environment?

JK: It presents the most important challenges in front of us.

AGL: Can you elaborate? There are certainly plenty of politicians and Americans who would argue that the war is the greatest challenge in front of us.

JK: Global climate change is a security issue on a planetary scale. There are millions of lives that may be impacted by it. But it’s not just climate change that presents critical challenges—it’s overfishing, it’s acidity in the oceans, it’s the mercury in our lakes, streams, and rivers that contaminate our fish. What does it say about a country like ours when 40 percent of our rivers, lakes, and streams are too polluted for fishing or swimming? Our water bodies and air quality are challenged beyond any point in our history. It’s a disgrace, and it’s a challenge to all of us to get it right.

AGL: Your book is very hopeful. What inspired you to write a hopeful book at a time when the challenges are so vast?

JK: This is not at all a Chicken Little doomsday deal. There are tremendous economic opportunities in addressing these problems, climate change in particular. Here you can improve the environment and public health, but also create jobs and strengthen national security. The potential economic byproducts of addressing this issue are enormous. Not only that, the tipping point is near.

THK: The 2004 election convinced both of us of the need to connect the dots for people—between the threats, the solutions, and all the concerned citizens who are working to reverse our downward course. We met so many wonderful people while campaigning who were tackling all different kinds of environmental challenges, and creating solutions at a grassroots level. We were very moved by this hopeful surge of activism. [...]

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AGL: The activists you spotlight embody what you call a “bottom-up” approach to environmental activism. You argue that it’s more effective than a “top-down” approach. How so?

THK: Whenever we’ve had systemic and sustainable change in this country, it’s because the grassroots has been ready to accept it. Top-down activity from the government cannot take root unless there’s bottom-up acceptance. In other words, I don’t think the feds can implement aggressive, massive change unless there’s a readiness at the ground level. I think we’re at that moment right now.

JK: You’re going to have to do both. You can’t deal with global climate change unless there’s a government policy to have carbon priced, to have an economy-wide cap, to create incentives for capital to flow toward solutions. But the pressure to make all that happen is going to come more from the bottom up. That’s what spurred the first environmental movement in the 1970s when we got the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, marine mammal protections, and all those other laws. We believe that a similar explosion of grassroots activity is happening today.

AGL: It seems to me that the common thread that unites most of the activists you profile is environmental justice, and yet that term only comes up in a few instances in your book. Why did you decide not to use that as a unifying phrase?

JK: Many of the people we spoke with didn’t consider themselves “environmentalists” or part of any particular movement—they just thought they were making a commonsense choice between right and wrong. We’d ask, “Do you consider yourself an environmentalist?” And they’d invariably say, “Not really,” or “No, I don’t,” or “I never think about it.”

Ultimately, we believe, the labels are not important. In fact, the labels can sometimes get in the way—they tend to polarize and isolate. What we want to do is prove that this is inclusive around a bigger set of values and principles that people can all embrace.

You can read the complete interview at Grist. When you have, come back and let me know what questions you have for JK and THK. I’ll pass them along and we’ll put up the answers next week.

 

[Editor’s note: JK is reaching out to the netroots today on Daily Kos. Welcome to our new visitors.]

A quick note this morning, and I’ll be back this afternoon to read and respond – we’ve got a Foreign Relations Committee business meeting that will keep me away for a few hours.

But before I go—netroots, we need you to meet the ‘new environmentalists.’

Over the last two years, I thought a lot about the political process – about how to make issues voting issues. It’s been a ‘back to basics’ approach for me. I came into politics as an activist – Earth Day 1970 and then full time in the movement to end the Vietnam War.

And when I thought of the environment, it hit me that even more dangerous about this administration’s assault on the environment is the assumption on which that assault relies: they think people don’t care. They’ve gotten away with dismissing the environmental movement as “elitist” – -or do-gooder “tree-hugging.”

That’s why Teresa and I spent the last year working on our new book. We want to show the true face of the new environmentalism. We talked to a ton of people who are fighting for a clean, safe, healthy environment. They may not label themselves environmentalists or activists but labels aren’t important. What ís important is that we’re all fighting for the same thing: a clean, safe healthy environment. <!-more-> Their stories moved us. And so we decided to collect them, along with our own reflections, in a book: This Moment on Earth. More Americans than ever before are realizing that we now face a crisis, a crisis that links ranchers and biologists, mothers and chemists, city planners, fishermen and even late-night talk show hosts.

No doubt, we in politics must work to solve the problems at 30,000 feet—with bold new ideas for energy independence—but this movement will only succeed if it’s more about you than us – if Americans get out there to protect the ground beneath their own two feet.

No doubt the right wing is going to pile on. We’ve seen what they‘ve done to our friend Al Gore, and as an old friend of mine used to say “it is what it is.” But I hope you’ll step in and fight their cynicism. This book isn’t about us.

I hope you’ll go online and write a review. Don’t defend us. Defend the ranchers out West who are tired of watching their cows die. Defend the evangelicals who are partnering with others to make “creation care” their great cause. Defend people you know who are the every-day environmentalists making changes in their lives to make a bigger change in the world. Defend yourself, the every-day activist and tell your own story. All of you are the heroes of This Moment on Earth. They and you are the face of the new environmentalism and it’s going to take all of us to get the job done.

Cross-posted at Daily Kos

 

JK and THK were interviewed on WNYC yesterday on The Leonard Lopate Show. JK blogging community member KarenNJ wrote up the following report which I want to highlight.

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[Leonard Lopate] started by mentioning that as [JK and THK] met at an Earth Day rally in 1990, they have been involved on this issue for a long time. Kerry spoke of how he was involved, as a kid just back from Vietnam in the first Earth Day. A friend of Kerry’s was an aide to Senator Nelson. The first Earth Day involved 20 million people and they wanted and got change.

Lopate asked why some in DC deny climate change. Kerry said for some it was an unwillingness to deal with reality,. He gave other reasons including lack of knowledge and arrogance. Most Democrats are concerned and some Republicans, but there are not enough yet to get carbon caps. Some are leery of the cost, but they don’t consider the cost of NOT doing something. He said this was a critical moment.

Teresa was asked how thinking about the environment was different in places like Mozambique. She said that US was ahead (until recently) of most countries in having a movement. In Mozambique, she said that people learn of how finite things are very early. There is a respect for animals and the surroundings. Preventing disease that would kill you otherwise was important. The US is so well off, and huge that the immediacy is not obvious. <!-more-> Teresa was asked if this was similar to the woman’s movement. Ours was early, but we still have not had a woman President. Teresa pointed out that in the US the women lead volunteer efforts. They often had real power, but it wasn’t acknowledged.

Lopate mentioned how the book described a decentralized environment and he asked Kerry if the government should be there. Kerry responded that they should, but they had sometimes failed miserably and they sometimes had to fight the government. He gave an example of a Washington state farmer, who had a problem with a huge dairy with penned up cows without free range, which produced a huge amount of waste that was polluting the air and the water. They fought for years to get the hearing needed to correct it.

Kerry emphasized that the book was not political. The interviewer pointed out it was not just the Republicans, that it was Michigan Democrats who led the fight against higher auto fuel standards. Kerry said that was personal – he and McCain had led the effort to change that. He spoke of a Senator bringing in a poster of a VW bug pulling a plow. Kerry spoke of not having to lose our standard of living to improve this. He spoke of how when things become a crisis there is a spurt of energy, but then it stops. He mentioned things like the lights that automatically turn off in Europe when you leave rooms.

Teresa said that the poorer countries won’t listen to us, if we have no commitment to change. She also said that the book tries to show the laws and explain why they were created and that sometimes good laws exist but are not applied. We need the will to apply them, not obstruct them.

Kerry was asked about city and state-level global warming initiatives – were they enough? Kerry said they are good, but we need international efforts. He spoke of the coal plants in China being enough to create disaster. Problem is that India and China said we did these things when we industrialized and that now we want to prevent them from industrializing. Kerry said it wasn’t true – that we are ok with them industrializing, but we need to transfer technology to do it in a cleaner way and he said we have large areas of sustainable forestry.

He agreed that Bush lowered standards because he thought they were anti-business. Some Republicans refused to stand up to special interests and equated higher standards to loss of jobs. JK pointed out that some corporations are now doing it voluntarily themselves.

JK was then asked if this would be any better with a Democrat in the WH and that it hadn’t been under Clinton. Kerry’s answer was that it depends on the Democrat. He then emphatically said that it would have been very different had he won the last state. He said that he wanted to put $1 billion into the auto industry and money into clean coal.

Teresa said defining it as an economic loss ignores the America does well because we invent. She quoted Nicolas Stern (UK) as saying that global warming will cost 25 times what it will cost to constrain it. She mentioned that in the UK , Thatcher got it.

Kerry was then asked why it wasn’t a bigger part of the 2004 camppaign. Kerry said they tried like crazy to make it an issue. They talked about it every speech and addressed local issues in every state. He had a major energy speech in Houston on Earth Day. When asked why it wasn’t covered – he spoke of color coded alerts that kept everyone on the edge of fear and Iraq. He did say he thought it would be a bigger issue in 2008.

Teresa was asked about the way the media dealt with candidate’s spouses. She said the coverage should be substantive and meaningful and respect the abilities of the spouse. She said the media was very different than 20 years ago and that local media covers what was said and done, while the national media doesn’t.

Kerry agreed with people who said Democrats should avoid witch hunts now that they were in power – but said that accountability is not a witch hunt. For instances, you can’t walk away from the US attorneys issue. He said that many agencies had accountability issues. He said that a lot of work was being done and spoke of the Iraq vote.

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Thanks for that detailed report, Karen.

Another JK blogging community member, Prosense, summed it up this way:

The Kerrys were captivating. They have a wealth of knowledge on the environment and do a great job of explaining the issues in terms that we all can understand. The interviewer did a good job. He played devil’s advocate, but his questions were intelligent and respectful.

The point Sen. Kerry made about climate change denial nailed the circus atmosphere that some member of Congress tried to create during Gore’s recent testimony before the Senate and House. Sen. Kerry said it’s an unwillingness to grapple with reality. Call it “ignorance,” “arrogance,” “indifference” or “ideology” or a combination thereof that “prevents people from taking science and digesting it.” Mentioned James Inhofe, who believes climate change is a hoax.

Teresa mentioned enforcement as a way to show the political aspect. She said there are a lot of very good laws on the books that cover particular issues, but they’re not being applied.

Asked if the focus on the wives (of candidates is a good thing, Teresa said focus should be meaningful, should be substantive, and should respect the individual in terms of their abilities.

The interview is well worth a listen. It’s one of the best in terms of hearing the Kerrys unfiltered.

 

You can listen to the interview yourself here

The Leonard Lopate Show

 

It was fun. What was? Liveblogging JK’s appearance on The Daily Show which if you missed it, you can still watch it here and of course, as all TDS afficionados know, the show from the night before is repeated at 8 pm so you have another chance to see JK and Jon Stewart (and Lewis Black and John Oliver).

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John Kerry appears as a guest on the Daily Show with Jon Stwewart.

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About the missing pictures, JK, you forgot to mention the gorgeous picture on the cover.

UPDATE #1 - I’ve been informed that we can’t use a blowup of just the picture from the book cover … copyright stuff. So you’ll just have to look closely at the book cover below or buy it for yourself! UPDATE #2 – MORE IMPORTANT JK & THK are doing an interview on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC today at noon. Available to all via live streaming at the NYC site - look for the Listen Live in the left sidebar or if you’re so fortunate as to live near WNYC’s broadcast area you can tune into WNYC FM at 93.9 or WNYC AM at 820.

As for “shifting the debate”, just keep on reading. <!-more-> Another review of This Moment on Earth has appeared at The Politico website. Curiously, the review is heavily flavored by their own political predictions which really aren’t about the book. But they do conclude with this note:

They say in a wrap-up chapter written on Feb. 2, 2007: “If we put an end to the era of dirty fossil fuels, we can begin an era of substantiality - environmental, economic and political - for our nation and our world.”

It sounds so optimistic and pure. But we all know the clock is ticking. The Kerrys’ masterstroke here is that they weave personal stories throughout these pages, glimpses of their time on the campaign trail crisscrossing America in 2004. With this book and its grass-roots spotlights, they’ve come out winners this time.

I was talking about the book yesterday with someone and we agreed that what’s notable about this book is that it encompasses the next step after someone has seen An Inconvenient Truth and knows that they must do something. Not everyone needs to follow the same path—there are many ways and many places to take a next step towards a sustainable life on our planet.

There’s a new customer review of This Moment on Earth at Amazon by David Michaelson. And he noticed the same thing I did.

... Shift the debate, people. Let’s talk what to DO ABOUT IT.

I was ready for John Kerry’s book to carry the same theme…it is time to take as given the problem and move on to solutions.

That isn’t quite what I got. And at first I was disappointed… But by the third chapter I found I was taking the most notice of exactly what the Kerrys WANTED me to notice the most: the people who are fighting back. ...

Put all this together and you may not have the next step in the evolution of the environmental debate, but you certainly have one more important step forward and one that might have a wider appeal than previous books in this genre.

Add your own review of This Moment on Earth to those at Amazon. It is critical that we internalize that we each can do something in our own place and the visions don’t need to be identical. We just need to start or continue or do more of. Let’s share that understanding with others. Just scroll down to Customer Reviews and jump in.

 

Well, tonight’s live blogging session promises to be more fun than this morning’s turned out to be. Check your local cable listing for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show tonight. They have a nice intro of the show and of the book.

And this just in from JK’s press people:

This morning when John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry’s book This Moment On Earth went on sale in bookstores nationwide, it was ranked 4,000th on Amazon.Com. No wonder the Today Show’s Meredith Veira thought she had a point when she asked John Kerry whether Americans really cared about the environment.

Well, day one isn’t even over – and the book is now ranked #170 on Amazon.Com! That’s a huge first day of sales – and interest.

Please, come check it out on Amazon – write a review – and let your friends know:

Keep the momentum going!

I don’t know that this changes anything about the critiques offered about the way The Today Show interview was conducted this morning but it does offer some insight into why so much time was spent on discussing Elizabeth Edwards and so little on the book, “This Moment on Earth”.

Live From Studio 1A: Shuffling the Kerrys Posted: Monday, March 26, 2007 6:51 AM by Peter Giordano

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Here’s a quick little tidbit about this morning’s rundown. Initially, Senator John Kerry and his wife, Teresa, were scheduled to be on our show this morning to discuss their new book. They were going to appear in the 8 o’clock hour, since the interview would focus more on the book and less on the news topics of the day. However, over the weekend, more news developed regarding Senator John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth. They gave their first interview last evening since the return of Elizabeth’s cancer, which instantly became the news that would lead our show. Given the history between the Kerry and the Edwards families, Senator Kerry’s appearance suddenly became all the more topical. For that reason, the senior producers decided to bump their appearance to the top of the show, and focus the interview on much more than just their new book. Who better to have on the show to discuss John and Elizabeth Edwards than the couple with whom they spent inordinate amounts of time on the campaign trail two years ago. Andrea Mitchell was filing a report on the Edwards family at the very top of the show, and the Kerrys became the interview immediately flowing out of that report. All it meant was a bit of an earlier wake-up call for the Senator and his wife, but I’m sure they didn’t mind. They’re here and ready to go.

Well, it may have made sense to those doing the scheduling but for those who thought they were tuning in to an introduction of “This Moment on Earth” on The Today Show, ahhh…. well, not so much. <!-more-> And just to keep you amused while you wait for The Daily Show, Bob Geiger tossed off a few witticisms of his own in this piece on Huffington Post, “Does A Major Swift-Boat Donor Become An Ambassador This Week?”. See if you can spot all the zingers.

Which one is your favorite?

 

 

It’s just about time for some more liveblogging. Fill up your coffee cup and turn on The Today Show. JK and THK will be on shortly after 7 am ET. (Just FYI… if you’re an NPR fan or just don’t tune into the morning TV shows, the Today Show will be on your local NBC affiliate.)

While we wait for them to appear, check out the book review by JK blogging community member MH at Freedom’s Fire, Brightly Burning.

 

 

  Tomorrow’s the big day and yes we do plan on doing a little “liveblogging” here so join us for JK and THK’s appearance on the Today show. I’ll try to get an approximate time of appearance and add an update here. Plus, tomorrow night, JK will be on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Definitely plan on some liveblogging fun.

The reviews for This Moment on Earth are starting to come in. Mole333 of The Daily Gotham wrote:

I was surprisingly inspired by John and Teresa Heinz Kerry’s new book, This Moment on Earth, coming out March 26th, 2007. This inspiration snuck up on me around the third chapter. ...Starting around the third chapter I realized I was referring to the book in several conversations and several blog diaries and that several of the people and organizations featured in the book I mentally filed away as worth looking into for future political connections, diaries and general research.

In short, almost without my realizing it, John Kerry’s book was getting into my brain and inspiring me. The book starts a bit dull but by the end is excellent.

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I found I was citing the most and taking the most note of was exactly what the Kerrys WANTED me to notice the most: the people who are fighting back. I think it was the case of Majora Carter and Sustainable South Bronx that finally made me realize that this book was inspiring me because I immediately decided she’d be perfect as an invited speaker for a political group I am involved with. The example of Riverkeeper, where ex-marines decided to patrol our nation’s waterways to protect them from polluters, was another “wow” moment. Even Don Imus and his wife Deidre come off inspiring in This Moment on Earth, something I never imagined I’d say.

And Chapter 7, discussing energy policy, is the best chapter, showing how right here and now, using existing technology, the city of Portland, OR, as well as companies like Texas Instruments and DuPont are doing EXACTLY what needs to be done to reduce carbon emissions…and doing it while creating jobs and saving money. Chapter 7 shows us that there remain NO EXCUSES for America to continue to avoid taking a leadership role in stopping global warming. All that we lack, as I have written before is the political leadership on a national level. Kerry shows us that locally there has been considerable leadership by both Democrats and Republicans. But nationally Bush has led us down a path that leads nowhere and that has ceded economic ingenuity to other nations.

So it is precisely through highlighting some wonderful people who are empowering themselves, their communities and, in fact, all of us that John and Teresa Heinz Kerry inspire in this book.

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Put all this together and you may not have the next step in the evolution of the environmental debate, but you certainly have one more important step forward and one that might have a wider appeal than Collapse and An Inconvenient Truth.

Mole333, thanks for sharing the impact that this book had. I’m looking forward to your followup posts and actions.

If you’ve had a chance to read the book or you find another review, please share it with us in the comments.

UPDATE: JK & THK will be on the Today Show tomorrow morning at some point between 7:00 am and 7:25 am ET. Join us then for liveblogging.

If your morning schedule won’t allow it, do join us tomorrow night for liveblogging JK on The Daily Show.

See you tomorrow.

 

 

Monday’s the day that “This Moment on Earth” is officially released and there’s lots planned for the day. JK and THK will start it out with an appearance on the Today show and JK will wind up the day talking with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. Get your VCRs and DVRs ready if you can’t be there to watch.

One of the other things that we’re inviting people to do, is tell their own stories and submit them to the website. Some people have already sent in stories. We’ve picked some to share on this page and I wanted to highlight a couple on the blog today.

Bob C. from Niles, MI

One warm autumn day in Michigan, around 1959 when I was about 12 years old, I was mowing my parents’ front yard. I happened to see a sprouted acorn poking its pale green cotyledon up through the grass and decided to mow around it rather than over it. This acorn became “My Tree.” Today “My Tree” stands nearly 40 feet tall and is so big around that I can no longer get my arms around it—a magnificent living thing, a mighty black oak spreading its limbs over its corner of Mom’s front lawn and spending its days tirelessly scrubbing the air of carbon dioxide.

The following June my father obtained several hundred pine seedlings from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and we planted them along the edge of the oak forest at the back of our 7 acres. Not all of them survived, but those that did are now giants too, giving shade where there had been none and shelter to all sorts of birds and other animals. My father, rest his soul, loved Nature in all of her forms, and he set an example that I still try to follow.

About a year after Dad’s tree-planting project, our Boy Scout troop planted hundreds of tree seedlings along the banks of the Galien River near New Buffalo, Michigan. Those that survived are also giants today, providing shade and shelter and freshening the air.

Please plant a tree this year! Plant a dozen trees. Plant hundreds, or even thousands of them if you can. Do it every year. Help a church youth group do it. Help an elementary school class do it. Anybody can do this at any age between 5 and 100. Do it, and I promise you will not regret it.

As you plant your trees remember: They may be little seedlings now, but some day they’ll be giants; and they’ll help us slow down global warming in addition to providing the many other benefits that trees bring to their surroundings.

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Karen M. from Rock Hill, SC

Crying as I left the film An Inconvenient Truth, I was filled with hope for the future despite all the inaction that has occurred in the past. What can we do? And what can I do?

Two months after seeing the movie I was forwarded an email about The Climate Project – a training that was going to occur in Nashville, TN led by Al Gore. They were going to train 1,000 individuals. I submitted an online application thinking that I wouldn’t be chosen, but submitting it because I thought I had more of a chance of going if I applied than if I didn’t. That was August.

December 4th I received an email that I was accepted and would join the 3rd Training Session January 4-6th. The training exceeded my expectations and I was connected to a great network of individuals from all different backgrounds that had the same passion as I to inform others about the climate crisis and more importantly what we can do about it. Someone at the training had said “It used to be ‘Houston, we have a problem.’ Now it is ‘Nashville, we have a solution.’”

I have a full time job as a Drug Prevention Specialist and a three year old son, and the environment has become a continual commitment as well. I have given 8 presentations since I got back in January to about 400 people 5 cities and have passed out 40 compact fluorescent light bulbs. I have presented to churches, to universities, to groups for at-risk youth, and local Democratic groups, and will be leading a presentation for the City of Stallings, NC. I have 8 more presentations planned up until August.

I have contacted my local newspaper and have successfully encouraged them to do a feature about our local environment and what we can do about it. I also contact any newspapers or media sources before I present in a town outside my own to encourage them to highlight the event and write a feature about our climate and what we can do to reduce our carbon footprint.

I am not a scientist. I am a concerned mother and an informed concerned citizen. My background is in public health. I have in the past been tasked with interpreting complex scientific concepts related to health and the environment for different populations. My intent is not to recreate the wheel, but to use my skills, tools, and abilities to bring to people the message about our climate crisis that has been researched and hypothesized by the brightest minds on the planet, and what we can do about it. For too long, companies and individuals have denied that global warming even existed or that we can do anything to change it.

People talk about the tipping point. I believe we are the tipping point, those who choose to take action. We will take on this generational challenge because we are the next greatest generation.

Thanks for taking the time to share what you’ve done with us, Bob and Karen. You and the other people in This Moment on Earth really are inspirational.

 

 

JK and THK are going to be on Imus in the Morning today from about 6:29 to 6:50 AM ET to talk about “This Moment on Earth” and whatever else Imus brings up.

Believe it or not, there are some who are bringing their coffee cups and ready to blog this for those who aren’t awake at this hour. Join us if you’re around.

We will have video up later as well. I’ll add the link here when it’s available.

So ready, set, take another sip of coffee and let’s have some fun this morning.

 

  UPDATE:

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Is your basketball bracket looking grim? Has your go-all-the way choice already been eliminated and you’re completely out of the running? Here’s one you can win.

Starting Wednesday, March 21, JK / John Kerry kicked off his own March Madness. His target audience is not hoops fans but political donors who may want to help Democratic candidates boost their first-quarter fundraising totals.

It’s time to fill out your first bracket of 2007 to decide which great Democrats the johnkerry.com community will rally behind this spring.

Go select 2 Senators and 2 Representatives that you want to win. Voting extends through midnight ET, Sunday, March 25th.

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Here’s a couple non-flash logos that you can use:  

To add one of these images to your blog or website, simply copy the code below, and paste it into the appropriate place on your site or use the attached gif.

With border:

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Without border:

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And here’s the script for the flash logo:

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Feel free to borrow the intro text above or use it to get you started on your own intro.

Go ahead and email all your friends and encourage them to vote too.

Oh one more thing I noticed when I was hanging out on the voting page. If you hold your cursor over the picture of each candidate, a little bio on each one will show up which helps if you don’t recognize all the names.

Hope your favorites win!