Hello there,

My name is Robin Goodrow. I’m an Emmy award winning writer/puppeteer from Northern California. I recently heard that 90 million Americans are not voting in this election and I decided, in my own way, to reach out to them. I created a short five minute YouTube video with my puppet Vanilla, a four-year-old monkey to encourage undecideds and young voters to vote and also expose them to the Koch Brothers and their blatant racist ways. It’s amazing how many people have never heard of the Kochs. Or think Charles and David have something to do with Coca Cola. The companies these brothers own earn 100 billion dollars A YEAR in revenues, but unfortunately their behavior is very destructive and greedy. They are the second wealthiest men in America and Romney’s biggest supporters.

This from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. October 29th, 2012. “Karl Rove and the Enron grifter Ed Gillespie, have assembled $200 million from big polluters and Wall Street moguls to buy the 2012 election. Two of the Koch Brothers pledged $130 million to elect candidates who favor unrestrained corporate profiteering. The senators and congressmen they fund represent Koch and it’s oil industry cronies, Big Pharma, and the Wall Street banksters currently mounting a hostile takeover of our government.”

Below is the direct link to the Vanilla Video. Vanilla is from my children’s television show, BUSTER AND ME (Busterandme.com) which aired for 20 years in Northern California on NBC. This short YouTube video however is NOT for young children. Vanilla gets a little feisty, a real rabble rouser. Actually she’s not nice or polite, and who can blame her, when it comes to the issue of racism and damaging people’s lives and health through corporate greed, Vanilla definitely speaks her mind. But when you think of what she could have said, she is very tame!! Here’s the URL…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyDqkYJ3nYI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Another way to get there is to go to YouTube and type in The Koch Brothers – Vanilla takes a Stand

At the VERY end of the video is an amazing, and disturbing quote from Charles Koch. The nauseating arrogance!

As Noam Chompsky recently said, “The Republican organization is extremely DANGEROUS, not just to this country, but to the world. It’s worth expending some effort to prevent their rise to power, without sowing illusions about the Democratic alternatives.”

So this is my effort. I figured, as Michael Moore recently stated, if I can reach one or two people and get them to vote, that’s a good thing. For those who are considering not voting, believe me I have my list of complaints too, major ones, but these are serious times and the Koch brothers and their fellow GOP criminal cronies are serious people with BIG PLANS. Just think of Bush and the illegal invasion of Iraq.

Thank you reading this. If you feel so inclined please share Vanilla with others in the vast Internet universe. She’s been told she’s “changed a few minds”, brought “real joy” to many people and “boosted morale”. We CAN still win this thing. Thank you for all your hard work and fighting the good fight. Wishing you and your staff all the best.

Robin and Vanilla (The Hundredth Monkey)