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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Trevor FitzGibbon, Jessica Smith,

Wednesday, October 29, 2003 Fenton Communications

JACK BLACK, MOBY, VAN SANT & OTHERSHELP MOVEON.ORG VOTER FUND KICK OFF

CONTEST FOR BEST BUSH-IN-30-SECONDS AD

Grassroots Search for Creative New Approaches Will

Highlight Leadership Failures of the President

A cadre of organizers and artists affiliated with the MoveOn.org Voter Fund Wednesday

announced a nationwide search for a TV ad that tells the truth about George W. Bushspolicy failures, and a prize for the person whether professional or amateur first-timeproducer who creates it.

The winning 30-second ad will be the product of judging, first by visitors to the newwebsite www.bushin30seconds.orgduring December, and then by a panel of

entertainment and political experts. It will be aired the week of President Bushs State ofthe Union address, early next year.

MoveOn.orgs panel of judges includes the following entertainment personalitiesand political leaders: Jack Black, Donna Brazile, James Carville, Margaret Cho,

Hector Elizondo, Janeane Garofalo, Stan Greenberg, Moby, Michael Moore, MarkPellington, Tony Shalhoub, Michael Stipe,Katrina vanden Heuvel, Gus Van Sant,

Eddie Vedder, and others.

The ad search is part of MoveOn.org Voter Funds ongoing campaign to use television

and print ads and other activities to get the message out of Washington and intobattleground states, exposing the failures of the Bush Administration at home and in Iraq.

We know that the President is going to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in the nextyear, mostly from wealthy donors and special interests, said Eli Pariser, campaignsdirector for the MoveOn.org Voter Fund. A lot of that money will go toward ads that

will attempt to deceive and manipulate swing state voters about the Presidents agenda.

There are two key strengths that we have on our side. First, the truth is on our side.

Second, although well never have the kind of money President Bush can raise from hiscorporate friends, by bringing millions of ordinary Americans together, we can level the

playing ground with the special interests, concluded Pariser.

Award-winning musician and performer Mobyone of the projects organizers

believes that President Bush has managed to hide behind a carefully constructedcompassionate image. It is crucial that voters understand what President Bush's

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policies really mean for our country. And to do that, we need creative new ads thatclearly show what's at stake, the artist said.

The Bush- in-30-Seconds ad contest has been developed by a small team of people.We've come together because we believe that by tapping into the vast talent pool of

creative people beyond the Beltway, we'll find the right messages and ads to expose the

failure of President Bush's policies, said Moby.

MoveOn and project organizers hope the Bush- in-30-Seconds project will inspire theelectorate.

This is pretty exciting stuff. I have to say that I cant remember most of the political adsthat I've seen lately, said Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile. If nothing is

sticking out with someone like myself, then I worry what the average voter is taking fromthese ads. We have to start thinking outside the box. So I fully support the idea of finding

ways to develop fresh, creative and inspiring ways to communicate in politics.

The MoveOn.org Voter Fund is a Section 527 political organization affiliated with

MoveOn.org, which will create and run political ads in swing states to challengePresident Bushs policies and his administration. MoveOn.org, the Voter Funds sisterorganization, is an online grassroots advocacy organization with over 1.7 million

members nationwide.

Rules for the contest can be found on the website: www.bushin30seconds.org

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