Dear Supporter,

Since I wrote you last week, we have seen an outpouring of support from our online community in my effort to raise the $30,000 I need to pay legal expenses for my appeal on December 9th.

But, with less than one week left, I still need your help to reach that goal.

Please donate what you can today — so I can have the resources I need to keep fighting back and to hold Karl Rove accountable!

Not only is my freedom at stake, but so is the preservation of our democracy. If Karl Rove can turn the powers of government against me and get away with it, it can happen to anybody.

Winning my appeal on December 9th is the first step in turning all this around and will give Congress more incentive to dig for the truth. We must stop the unchecked political prosecutions and election engineering that put me in prison and threaten the very base of our democracy. But I can’t do it alone.

Donate today — and help take the Department of Justice back from political operatives like Karl Rove.

Exposing Rove’s misuse of power within the Department of Justice is essential to protecting the future Americans voted for on November 4th and ensuring no one is ever subjected to the same politically motivated prosecution I endured ever again.

My Legal Defense Fund can accept contributions of any size from any source. Please give as much as you are comfortable with giving to help me meet my legal expenses.

Thank you again for your continued support. Rest assured I will keep fighting, one way or another, to ensure that Karl Rove is brought to justice once and for all.

Thank you and God bless,

Don Siegelman
Governor of Alabama
1999-2003

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Mainstream media in the US today is pretty much a dismal infotainment affair, with goofy pundits on the left and right who make consumption of “the news” akin to having a daily root canal.

Let’s get behind Glynn and keep Locust Fork going strong.

There are some lefty and righty blogs in this state where people who have never even seen a journalism textbook think they have the authority to decide what the model should be for a blog. There is no doubt they will never be able to develop a replacement for a newspaper online, because they are totally dependent on newspaper Websites for the news they link to and comment on.

As we develop and grow and build the budget and bring more former newspaper reporters on-board, we do know how to cover events and issues as real journalists.

As newspapers continue to lay off reporters, we expect to pick up more and more of them to help build this site into a full-fledged online news site. We already have a columnist in Atlanta, a sports writer and editor on the Gulf Coast, a correspondent in Tuscaloosa and another one in Little Rock, Arkansas.

We sometimes run guest columns from Roger Shuler in Birmingham, and Scott Horton who writes for Harper’s magazine.

Beware of anyone who blogs under the name of a “cat,” moon or otherwise. We use our real names in bylines on stories with datelines, like news organizations have been doing it since this nation was founded based on the American Revolution born upon the principles of a free press.

Do you not think if Tom Payne were alive today he would be a blogger?

Also, I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing a certain gossip columnist in Mobile yesterday who has probably never read a blog. But she had a low opinion of blogs. She pretended to be an objective reporter and bashed blogs for printing gossip and rumor. But her entire publication is in fact an old fashioned print newsletter sent through the U.S. mail. And the entire thing is based on rumor and gossip : )

Reminded me of the talk radio crowd. They like to bash blogs for printing gossip and rumors, when that is the entire basis of their business model too!

The pretense of objectivity is alive and well in Alabamaland. If only any of them knew what they were talking about, the people in this state would already be far better informed. There are all kinds of charlatans who are in the business of making money trying to convince you that they have all the answers. I suggest if you follow this news site and blog over a period of time and watch it grow and evolve, you will find that our model is better.

If not, I’ll buy the Yuengling!