<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3">Here is some information about a film screening at the VLP next Monday.<BR>
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"The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress" is a new documentary from Brave New Films, the film production house set up by Robert Greenwald, the producer/director behind "Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low Price", "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," and "Uncovered: The War on Iraq". Following his now-standard model for releasing these highly charged films that would not be likely to find a large-scale distributor, the movie is being released across the country through home and community screenings sponsored by the organizations working on these issues, such as Common Cause, Public Campaign, the ACLU, and others. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3"><B><U>The screening in our area takes place at the Village Learning Place on Monday, July 10 at 7 pm. If you plan to come, please RSVP on the film's website at http://bigbuy.bravenewtheaters.com/screenings.</U></B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3"> The VLP is located at the former Enoch Pratt Library branch at 2521 St. Paul Street in Charles Village. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3"><B><U><BR>
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You can read more about the film at www.tomdelaymovie.com. While the focus of the documentary is national, its topic relates directly to the efforts here in Maryland to enact public financing of state legislative elections, which for the first time this year passed the House of Delegates (HB 1054) and came out of committee in the State Senate (SB 569). We will have information at the screening about how to get involved in that effort. <BR>
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Please forward this e-mail to others who may be interested in this important topic.<BR>
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Matthew Weinstein</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="3"></FONT></HTML>