clips designed to be played as paid ads on talk radio; please download & play them on your local radio stations I plan to take on talk radio where I live. And I encourage you to do the same. AM radio is a free market place. Anyone can place an issue ad on the air. All it takes is a credit card, an e-mail address and access to a fax machine. Depending on the radio station and time slot, a 30-second radio ad will cost from $20 to $120 a spot. I have produced seven "Paid Radio Moments." They are 30-second ads that frame progressive issues. I am doing what I can to put them on air on WGY (the big AM radio station in Albany, New York) in the first week of January. If you want to help in Albany, that would be great. I could use help. If you would like to do the same somewhere else that would be great. If you want to run all seven or just one, that's fine with me. If you want, you can even put one on the Rush Limbaugh program. These audio files available to anyone who will put them on the air in their entirety, that's my only condition for full and free use. As long as a spot is played in full you are welcome to any of them. The scripts are pasted in below. Any help or feedback would be appreciated. Robert Millman r.millman@att.net 7 "RADIO MOMENTS" 1. TAX CUTS/DEFICIT SPOT This is a paid radio moment-- The Federal deficit, is 400 billion dollars this year, the total National Debt is 7 trillion dollars. I keep hearing it's our money, But it's gone and now it's our debt. Not corporate debt, it's citizen debt Every man woman and child in this country owes the government 25,000 dollars. (pause) It would be fair to call this a "Birth Tax." 2. INCUMBENCY/REDISTRICTING SPOT This is a paid radio moment-- We're all nervous about losing our jobs-- even politicians. But, they can cut a deal to keep their jobs safe. When politicians re-draw voting districts, they choose where your vote goes--. And they get elected again and again. And before they retire, they choose where your vote goes next. That's what re-districting is (pause) A way to steal your vote 3. JUSTIFICATION FOR WAR SPOT This is a paid radio moment-- The President assured us Sadaam had weapons of mass destruction, nuclear capability and ties to Al Qaeda, Iraq could not be contained. We declared victory, but we're still there. We've taken and re-taken the same cities. 13 hundred American troops are dead, many more wounded, with no end in sight. (pause) Half truths got us in. Can whole truths get us out? 4. RIGHT TO VOTE SPOT This is a paid radio moment-- You have a right to vote. It's in your State Constitution. The right to vote along with a right to equal protection under the law It's one of your civil rights. So when some votes aren't counted, or some voters are harassed you should be worried. Vote suppression isn't a strategy. Call it what it is -- a crime A crime against your right to vote 5. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SPOT This is a paid radio moment-- Oil--it fuels our cars, our jobs, and our lives. More than 50% of America's oil is imported. As long as we're dependent on foreign oil, It's likely we'll have troops in the Middle East, Because that's where the oil is. Even if we'd like to, we can't drill our way out at home, We don't have that much oil. (pause) We don't need a marketing strategy, we need a real solution 6. DISSENT SPOT This is a paid radio moment-- Some of us disagree with the President. We think the Iraq war is a mess. We think vote suppression is a crime. We think tax cuts for the rich are a bad idea. We think business doesn't know best. (pause) And we think dissent is an American value. (pause) This country was born because people questioned authority It's as American as apple pie 7. CHRISTIANITY SPOT This is a paid radio moment During times of war, people like to feel that God is on their side. I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but I have to ask-- Which God is that? Which God supports war? If you're a Christian and you support a war, That's your choice, as it should be. You're endowed with a free will. Just leave Christ out of it, all right? He never supported a war. These scripts were developed with input from: Robert Millman, Joan Fucillo, Greg Rossel, Oliver Dawshed, and Dennis Meyer