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Dear Everyone,
S.O.S. from CINDY
SHEEHAN!
After camping with my family in a
redwood grove for two days, I have just
tonight returned and found an incredibly
disturbing email from Cindy Sheehan.
Cindy and her team submitted two
thousand more signatures than needed in
order for her name to be listed on the
ballot in her November run against Nancy
Pelosi. But now the San Francisco
Department of Elections has "challenged"
an almost unbelievable percentage of
those signatures -- 43.5 percent! -- and
is demanding that Sheehan collect
another 2,116 valid signatures before 5
pm Friday in order to qualify for the
ballot. It's a very fishy development,
especially coming so late in the game,
and it yet again raises all sorts of
questions about the integrity of our
elections, but that's a discussion for
another time (see below*)...
Nonetheless, Cindy believes that she can
still get the needed valid signatures in
time, but she really, really needs our
help. What can we do?
1 -- Go to Cindy's website and follow
the instructions for making sure that
you and your friends and neighbors have
signed her petition. OR If you are a
registered San Francisco voter, please
make a special trip to Cindy's office at
1260 Mission St (between 8th and 9th
Streets) as soon as possible and sign
her petition -- if you have not already
done so. (Cindy's office is just four
and a half blocks from the site of
Wednesday's WorldCantWait "freeze"
action described below.) Also, please
take a petition and collect the
signatures of your friends and neighbors
who are registered to vote in San
Francisco and return it promptly to
Cindy's office.
2 - Wednesday, Aug 6, Hiroshima Day, has
been designated as a "money-bomb" day
for Cindy. The campaign particularly
needs money now to hire professional
signature gatherers, and, once this
hurdle is passed, to help get Cindy's
message out. To donate -- and please do
-- please go here.
* (I've been a fan of San Francisco
mayor Gavin Newsom ever since he began
his political career by wading into the
jungle of the San Francisco taxicab
industry, but tonight this sentence from
a 2003 San Francisco Chronicle profile
of Newsom haunts me and makes my head
start to wobble back and forth: "His
aunt was married to the brother-in-law
of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco,
the House minority leader" (and now, of
course, the Speaker of the House and
Cindy's opponent in November).
FREEZE ACTION -- 5 pm, Market and
Powell, SF, Today!
I also returned home to an email from
World Cant Wait, saying that they've
received emails from a number of people
for whom the 5pm start time of today's
"Freeze" action is just a bit too early
(they're coming from work). So World
Can't Wait is planning a second,
slightly later, Freeze that should
accommodate late comers. The upshot:
Come as close to 5 pm as you can, and
you should still get in on the "frozen"
action. Details here.
And regarding the "after" action that I
mentioned in my last email -- I simply
need about a dozen or more people (all
are invited) to help me figure out
camera angles and logistics and to try
to envision any possible glitches for an
action I intend to take place during the
next week-to-month or so. If you're
coming to the Freeze, please look for me
-- I'll be passing out a flyer with
details. I could use about
ten-maybe-fifteen minutes of your time
immediately following the Freeze. Any
questions, please call me or email --
I'll do my best to get back to you.
All the very best,
Brad Newsham
newsham@mac.com
415-305-8294 |
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