-- A new grassroots organization aims to leverage the Internet to ask Congress to "immediately censure President Clinton and move on to pressing issues facing the country."

"Frankly, we have spent too much time on this already," says Joan Blades spokesperson for the new group, called Censure and Move On.

Blades and husband, Wes Boyd, founded the "purely volunteer effort" and its site, www.moveon.org, after finding themselves talking to citizens around the country who felt that their representatives in Congress were not listening their desire to move past the Lewinsky incident.

As founders of Berkeley Systems, the team's technical resources allowed them to get the site up and running in just 3 days. Though the site gathered only 500 names in the first 24 hours following its launch yesterday morning, it received another 500 in the next three hours alone.

"I'm hoping for a million, but a hundred thousand would make me happy," says Blades.

But the volunteers at Move On have their work cut out for them. A quick search on Yahoo turns up no sites for "censure Clinton" but 20 sites for "impeach Clinton."

"We just delivered 60,000 petitions to Henry Hyde's office today," says Scott Lauf, executive director of the Clinton Investigative Commission and operator of the www.impeachclinton.org Web site.

Lauf's site, which launched in January 1997, also collects signatures for its cause and has received over one million hits during the past 2 to 3 weeks alone.

"There's a lot of people frustrated at the mainstream news," says Lauf. "The Internet has serves as a secondary medium for people to express themselves." _________FROM CNN.COM

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