Because of your help, last Tuesday, we won a resounding victory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, by passing a measure for Clean Elections with 69% of the vote. You contributed directly to this victory by helping us to raise $15,000 for the effort, allowing us to conduct an aggressive paid media campaign that included television commercials, radio ads and telephone calls to likely supporters. We were also able to send volunteers from several states to Albuquerque to help in our Get Out the Vote efforts. Thank you!
Now we need to take this momentum for change that you helped create in New Mexico and roll into three other states that are at critical stages in their campaigns for reform. We need your help:
- Connecticut, we need your help to pass a clean elections measure for all legislative and statewide offices.
- Massachusetts, we need your help to qualify a measure for the ballot that will take the redistricting process out of the hands of the state legislature.
- Ohio, we need your help to pass four measures on the November 8th ballot that will create fair and honest elections in this important battleground state.
Today we are asking you to climb aboard our reform train and head to Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Ohio, wherever it is convenient for you, in the coming days and weeks. Join one of these campaigns and help us win the critical reforms that will clean up the political process in these three states.
What we need the most in each of these efforts are volunteers and activists who can commit a day, a week, or month to help us push for these reforms. No prior training or specific skills are required; we just need enthusiastic volunteers to help get our message out and encourage supporters to take action for reform.
Volunteer today by going to the following link:
http://www.commoncause.org/GetontheReformTrain
Sign up today and invite everyone else you know to get on board of our reform train.
We need you now. Specifically, we need you as soon as possible in Connecticut, where the state legislature will go into special session in their final negotiations on the much anticipated Clean Elections bill. We need volunteers and activists on the ground to activate citizens and to put pressure on state legislators who are so close to passing reform, but who have balked before. So, please sign up today:
http://www.commoncause.org/GetontheReformTrain
As I mentioned before, in addition to Connecticut, we need your help in two other states. In Massachusetts we have launched a huge effort to collect 100,000 signatures, with an all-volunteer cadre of signature gatherers, to qualify a measure for the ballot that will take the power to draw district lines out of the hands of self-interested legislators. This is a major commitment: we have never attempted to collect so many signatures, and we have to complete the task before Thanksgiving.
In Ohio, Election Day, November 8th, looms large as we work to pass four amendments to the constitution that will change the face of politics in Ohio. We need volunteers and activists on the ground to mount a huge campaign to educate voters, identify supporters and to get them out to vote yes on the amendments on November 8th.
In the coming days we'll be sending many of our staff to help win on these critical campaigns. Join us and get on board with us on our reform train and take a day, a few days, a week, or more to help in Connecticut, Massachusetts, or Ohio. We'll do our best to line up accommodations and we will make sure that your time on the ground is productive. Sign up today and invite everyone else you know to get on board:
http://www.commoncause.org/GetontheReformTrain
If you can't make the trip to one of these three states in the next few weeks, you can still help the campaign. Make a contribution to support our campaigns for democracy today. But please, do whatever you can to help us win in these three key states. Your engagement in these campaigns will make all the difference, just as it did in Albuquerque.
Thanks for all you do for our democracy.
