Get Out the Vote

At this point, one of the most powerful things you can do to help pass Proposition 89 is to use our online tool to email your friends.

Down to the Wire: Help Get Out the Vote!

Clean money activists are joining students, nurses and other community activists to clean up California this weekend!. So whether your bag is walking, talking, singing, standing, eating or sweeping, we have an action for you.

Mobilize for Prop 89 This Weekend!
Find a meeting or rally to join this Saturday or Sunday.

Join Your Local Phone Bank!
Join volunteers calling voters and asking them to vote Yes on Prop 89. Free food and likely voters are waiting for you!

No on Proposition 89 Ad

FTCR:

"If you are pregnant or nursing, or could become pregnant, are taking any other medications, are ill or could become ill at any point in your life, are in school or could attend school in the future, have a job, pay taxes, live in a home, drive a car, or have friends or family you care about, you should know that voting No on 89 isn't for you. Talk with your family nurse for more information on how Yes on 89 can heal California."

Get on the Bus

CNA is (literally) rolling out six mobile phone bank buses, with 24 lines a piece and wrapped in signage. This will allow the ability to drive to hospitals for shift changes and let nurses easily phone bank before or after shifts.

The San Francisco Chronicle's John Wildermuth wrote:

Hit the road with the nurses for Prop. 89

With modern politics now tied to focus groups, tracking polls, TV attack ads and the other oh-so-serious -- and often oh-so-boring -- accouterments of California elections, there's almost no time for good, old-fashioned political stunts that at least added a little life and personality to the voting business in years past.

The exception: The California Nurses Association, which is out on the hustings backing Proposition 89, the campaign finance initiative. CNA members on Wednesday afternoon opened the union's "Get On the Bus," campaign, which will put nurses on six colorfully decorated buses driving across the state promoting Prop. 89. [...]

Earlier this month, it was street theater in Sacramento, as Prop. 89 backers joined a Jack Abramoff impersonator to string a million dollars in phony money from a lobbyist's office to the headquarters of the California Chamber of Commerce, which is opposed to the measure.

They've also brought a guy dressed as Batman to a number of their events and even projected a 40-foot "Bat-signal" on a building where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was having a fundraiser.

They're also probably the only campaign to have its own rap song the three-and-a-half minute "About Time for 89," written and performed by Colette Washington: "It's about time for Prop. 89, what's going on in Sac Town is blowin' my mind..."

Check out a new video where Colette performs at the launch of Get on the Bus. Big Pharma and Big Oil and Big Money may be able to spend whatever it takes to preserve the perverse status quo, but creativity and hard work are our slingshot in this David vs. Goliath battle. Get on Board!

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Press Notices Our Ad's Youtube Penetration

Steven Harmon in the San Jose Mercury News:

A 30-second spot for the ``Clean Money'' Proposition 89 campaign is apparently catching fire in the so-called political echo chamber: the network of alternative, underground, and electronic messaging that drives younger voters to the polls.

The ad, which hit TV markets around the state this week, is the No. 1 political ad on YouTube, where it's been viewed 16,000 times in less than 48 hours, supporters said. That's 10 times more than the Proposition 87 ad featuring former President Clinton.

And it's gone even more viral since its debut. It's being featured on one of the most popular political Web sites in the country: Crooks & Liars.

The clever imagery of the ad -- a giant piston, representing corporate-financed ads squashing people -- tries to drive home the message that political ads are pounding people into submission. Proposition 89, the ad says, will put a stop to them by limiting contributions and publicly financed campaigns. Supporters hope it will awaken the apathetic voter; polls show the proposition trailing significantly.

The ad is so perfect that it doesn't need the saturation our big-money opponent's boring ads need.

``I don't know if we'll pull this off,'' said Bill Hillsman, who created the ad and is the media consultant for Connecticut senatorial candidate Ned Lamont's insurgent campaign against Sen. Joe Lieberman, ``but if the spot goes out enough, people will say this is how I feel, and if for no other reason but this, I'll go out and vote.''

Joe Trippi, the San Jose State University graduate who helped revolutionize the convergence of politics and the Internet as former presidential candidate Howard Dean's campaign manager in 2004, said the ad ``really captures'' the mood of the voter.

``It's the perfect spot,'' said Trippi, a consultant to the Proposition 89 campaign. ``It helps create the echo chamber between the Internet and TV that it will need to make that big move. This is getting moved around pretty virally right now.''

Go see the ad, then make a donation to keep it on the air, and use our online tools to email your friends and family.

Stop the Pounding Reviews

Bill Hillsman's new Stop the Pounding ad is getting play all across the internets, including a post on Crooks and Liars (the most popular political video blog in America). Here is what some people are saying:

"one of the slickest and most engaging political ads in California right now....In this ad, the medium is the message. Rather than targeting corporate donations and their influence on politicians, it attacks television advertising funded by those donations." -Robert Salladay, LA Times Political Muscle Blog

"It is a terrific ad - and an incredibly important campaign." -David Sirota, SirotaBlog

"Watch Hillsman's ad, which is a remarkable piece of political jujitsu on the practices of political advertising, and has the possiblity to remake them." -Jamie Court, Huffington Post

"hilarious YouTube Video, courtesy of 89now.org and/or Clean Money Elections which just about sums up this year's election. I love it how they've managed to tie in our fatigue with the campaigning...." -Dan Wood, A Progressive Alamedan

"to me there is no single race as crucial as the battle to pass Proposition 89, a huge first step towards cleaning up politics in this state and taking it out of the hands of wealthy special interests. Joe Trippi sent me an ad today that was done by the brilliant filmmaker Bill Hillsman." -Howie Klein, Down WithTyranny

"A great ad." -SFBrianCL, Calitics

"His new ad for the issue doesn't even look like a political ad -- its production values are too high-end. Polling shows Proposition 89 is in a fierce battle, but as Hillsman's ad makes clear, the big money interests are actually shooting themselves in the foot. Spending tens of millions of dollars on nasty ad campaigns to try to destroy popular initiatives, these corporate interests are angering voters. Hillsman goes ninja style and turns these frustrations into a powerful argument for campaign finance reform." -Left in the West, AOL News Elections Blog

Yes On 89 TV Ad: "Stop The Pounding"

Bill Hillsman's new ad for Proposition 89.

Huge Momentum

When I opened the mail today, I had an absentee ballot looking back at me. I wasn't the only one.

On Monday, I received a great piece of mail from Proposition 89 supporters. I'm hoping that most absentee voters felt the way I did when I looked at the piece.

But the best way to influence absentee voters is for them to hear from other voters. The Phone Banks are hopping. Join in: San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, and Sacramento. tcahill@calnurses.org, 510-273-2248

"About Time on 89" Ring Tones

You've seen the video now get the ring tones!

"ABOUT TIME FOR 89"

New Site of the Day

Check out Latinos for 89.

Busy Week

There is a lot going on this week so please stop by daily for updates. There are three things we hope you can do with us this week:

1. Email Campaign - One quick request for everyone is to join our email campaign. First, make sure you sign up for email alerts. Second, use our tool to email friends and family so they can join you in supporting Proposition 89.

2. Buck the System Now - Under Prop 89, candidates who build a coalition of $5 donors and refuse special interest money get Clean Money public financing, leveling the playing field so elections are about ideas not money. Give $5 now and Buck the System.

3. Phone Banks - Help communicate with voters. Every Sunday through Thursday in San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, and Sacramento. Contact Ted Cahill, Prop 89 Field Director. Email: tcahill@calnurses.org Phone: 510 273 2248

Email Organize to Buck the System

In addition to our Action Center and our online and offline materials, we are also providing easy tools for people to use email to organize their friends to help pass Proposition 89.

In just a few minutes, you can help mobilize grassroots support by sending an email to your friends asking them to join you in supporting Proposition 89.

With your help, we can use email to efficiently organize enough people to take on the Sacramento special interests that are spending big money to stop reform.

So take five minutes and use our email tool to tell your friends about Proposition 89.

Update on the New Prop 89 Blog

In addition to a site redesign, the new Proposition 89 Blog offers a number of new tools.

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