Filmmaker Michael Moore urges slackers to vote in talk before 15,000 here

Filmmaker Michael Moore urges slackers to vote in talk before 15,000 here: "Filmmaker Michael Moore brought his political road show to the University of Arizona last night, asking 'slackers' to help oust President Bush while sparring with chanting Bush supporters in the crowd.
'Fifty percent of this country does not vote. Do you think it's the rich and powerful who don't vote? No! It's the poor, the disenfranchised and the young,' Moore told a McKale Center capacity crowd of nearly 15,000. 'We want to try and convince you to vote.'
Moore plied nonvoters to support Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry by offering packages of underwear and Top Ramen noodles, 'the sustenance of slackers everywhere.'
'People say they're not interested in politics. Well, politics is very interested in you,' he said. 'Politics wants to make your life very miserable.'
Moore, whose film 'Fahrenheit 9/11' has just been released on DVD after being a box-office hit, is on a 60-city tour of swing states hoping to help get Kerry into the White House.
Arizonans shouldn't be so quick to assume a Bush victory in the state, he said, noting that polls giving Bush an edge in the state fail to consider new voters and mostly young voters who aren't contacted because they only use cell phones.
'And I think they underestimate how many people are going to vote,' he said. 'We have some very important issues at stake here, and we have to remove George W. Bush from the White House. The issues boil down to one thing for me: this illegal and immoral war in Iraq.' "

C.T. REVERE and ROMANO CEDILLOS
Tucson Citizen