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Article: Stop slacking off, Moore tells nonvoters.(Politics)(The controversial liberal author and filmmaker urges the ouster of president Bush in the Nov. 2 election)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 19, 2004
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Byline: Jeff Wright The Register-Guard
In a performance equal parts pep rally, revival meeting and comedy shtick, filmmaker Michael Moore told 4,000 political partisans in Eugene on Monday they must do everything they can to boot President George W. Bush from the White House.
The president and his cohorts "are radicals out to undo our government, unfund it and tear up our Bill of Rights. That is their agenda - and we have to stop them," he said to rousing applause.
Eugene was the 31st city in Moore's 60-city "Slacker Uprising" tour, a get-out-the-vote campaign in 20 battleground states that began in late September and will continue through ...