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rockedthevoteinMA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-16-04 12:25 PM
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13. And in an article posted shortly after the election -
Edited on Thu Dec-16-04 12:30 PM by rockedthevoteinMA
He was in Ohio himself, filming, and was told he couldn't be there to make a movie - he said, this isn't a movie - it's evidence to be used in a court of law.

Lemme see if I can find that article...

on Edit: here's the link (it's a really good read!!)

http://www.clevescene.com/issues/2004-11-10/news/feature_7.html

"Are you making a movie about the election?" someone asks.

"The videotape exists as evidence," he says. "It's not to appear in your cineplex. It's to appear in a court of law!"

Moore leads a stumbling charge into the school to capture the long lines, but blocking his path is Michael Vu, Cuyahoga County's election director. He looks like a little boy in a grown-up suit, plucked from a college civics course and thrust into the role of Evil Bureaucrat in Mr. Moore Goes to Cleveland.

I'm sorry, no cameras, Vu says.

But Moore is armed with a recent court ruling. "We're not letting anyone tell us that our camera can't go somewhere," he says

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