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April 05, 2004

Jane Mitakides Campaign does the right thing

Greyhawk

-----Original Message-----
From: greyhawk@mudvillegazette.com [mailto:greyhawk@mudvillegazette.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 12:47 PM
To: info@mitakidesforcongress.com
Subject: You might want to cut your losses

Greetings

By now you've no doubt become aware that blogger Kos has made some rather amazing comments regarding the recent deaths of Americans in Iraq. That's free speech in action, to be sure. As a military member and blogger, I support his right to free speech, in fact I fight for that every day.

I also believe in the consequences of that speech. Kos' words were the most vile and reprehensible imaginable.

There's a fairly large group of military bloggers in the world now, and most are becoming aware of this story. Many, (I, for instance) were stationed at one time or another at Wright-Patt. Many have lots of friends in the Dayton area and many are contacting those friends about this issue even now. I'll delay my contacts as I think you deserve time to respond.

I don't think you want to be associated with this individual, but yours appears to be the only remaining political ad on his site. I'm sure that will earn you all the anti-military vote the Wright-Patt area has to offer, but I don't think you want that. I'd love to salute you (free of charge) for pulling your ad from Kos' site, but that's up to you.

Cheers

Greyhawk

----- Original Message -----
From: administrator
To: greyhawk@mudvillegazette.com
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 12:57 AM
Subject: RE: You might want to cut your losses

Thank you to all who have contacted us to alert us to the unfortunate statements made on The Daily Kos regarding the deaths of the American contractors in Iraq.

Many of you know that I come from a family with deep military roots, and I have been dedicated to supporting our troops and our veterans my entire life. I also believe that whenever a life is lost to violence� American or Bosnian, Somalian or Hutu, Palestinian, Israeli or Iraqi� mankind is diminished.

We have made the decision to remove our advertising from that website, to assure that there is no confusion about my position on this matter. But I want to be clear on one point: this decision is not because of any "pressure" I have received. It is a personal decision, and one I have not made lightly.

In the past, Kos has provided a valuable forum for Democrats, for the sharing of issues and information, and I believe "blogs" such as these will continue become a real force in political communications.

Again, thank you for your e-mail, and for your interest in this very important race.

Sincerely,

Jane Mitakides

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April 05, 2004

Jane Mitakides Campaign does the right thing