With voters already casting votes, the phone bank operation needs your help for person to person communication with voters. Please volunteer today:
Every Sunday through Thursday in San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, and Sacramento, we’re contacting voters and winning converts to Prop 89.
Do you have a couple of hours to help clean up the corruption? If so, sign up with:
Ted Cahill
Prop 89 Field Director
Email: tcahill@calnurses.org
Phone: 510 273 2248
Tomorrow morning, Nick Nyhart, Executive Director, Public Campaign Action Fund and Chellie Pingree, President and CEO, Common Cause will be in San Francisco for an exciting event to highlight Proposition 89.
Along with local politicians, they will be offering to clean your car windows for free in order to produce a clear vision for clean government in California.
The event will begin at 8:30 AM at Olympia Gas Station on the Northwest Corner of South Van Ness and Chesar Chavez.
Join us!
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
This election really is just around the corner. Last night, another week of phonebanking ended (there phone banks don't run on Friday and Saturday night). Which means we are another week closer to the election.
Next week's phone banks begin Sunday night. Please volunteer.
Every Sunday through Thursday in San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, and Sacramento, we’re contacting voters and winning converts to Prop 89.
Do you have a couple of hours to help clean up the corruption? If so, sign up with:
Ted Cahill
Prop 89 Field Director
Email: tcahill@calnurses.org
Phone: 510 273 2248
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.
Sign up for Email Updates for news like this:
Are you fed up with the crisis of corruption in our government?
Big oil, drug companies, insurers, developers, HMOs, and big unions are corrupting our political system by working with inscruplous lobbyists like Jack Abramoff and using their millions of dollars in campaign cash to buy influence with our legislators.
Enough is enough!
This November 7th, California has the best chance in years to stop political corruption in Sacramento and send shockwaves of reform across the country — all the way to Washington DC.
A contribution of as little as $5 today "Bucks the System" by helping pass Proposition 89, the California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act.
Our Big Money opponents are working overtime to stop Prop 89 because they know that it will create a system where elections are about ideas, not their money.
By giving $5 to pass Prop 89, you are standing with everybody who is sick and tired of corrupt politics. By standing together, we can defeat the lobbyists and special interests spending millions to defeat Prop 89.
Proposition 89 will stop corruption by enacting:
• Strict Contribution Limits that will end the fundraising madness with constitutional limits so regular voters aren't drowned out by big money.
• Clean Money Full Public Financing of Political Campaigns that will level the playing field so new candidates can win on their ideas, not because of the money they raise.
• A Ban on Contributions From Lobbyists and groups seeking business with the state.
• Tough Disclosure and Enforcement that will stop candidates from hiding behind negative ads and punish politicians who violate the law.
By Bucking the System today, you are joining a powerful coalition of organizations and citizens working to create a government that is accountable to us, not to big special interest campaign donors.
Prop 89 is supported by trusted groups including the League of Women Voters of California, the California Nurses Association, the California Clean Money Campaign, California Common Cause, California Church IMPACT, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, Sierra Club California, and many other groups and individuals fighting for reform.
Please check out www.BucktheSystemNow.com and give $5 today. Or Buck the System even more by giving more if you can.
Then tell all your friends to "Buck the System", too. Even email your friends outside California, because if Prop 89 passes in California, it will sweep the country and help buck the corrupt money system everywhere!
Everybody can afford to give $5 — and with the price political corruption costs everyone, how can anybody afford not to?
Sincerely,
Clean Money Now -- Yes on 89
P.S. We can put an end to special interest control of government. Please forward this to as many people as possible. Everybody who Bucks the System makes a difference!
It seems the further people are from the Speaker's Gavel, the more likely they are to support Proposition 89. Last night, Humbolt Democrats endorsed Prop 89. On Tuesday, Contra Costa, Sacramento and Sonoma Democrats endorsed. On Monday it was San Diego.
It is not surprising to see Sacramento's vested interests oppose Prop. 89, but what is surprising is the level of grassroots support that is coming together pass Clean Money, including:
The Beach Cities Democratic Club, Democratic Alliance for Action, Democratic Club of Claremont, Democratic Club of Tracy, Democratic Club of West Orange County, Democratic Party of the San Fernando Valley, Democracy for America - Temecula Valley, Democracy for America - Orange County (DFA-OC), El Cerrito Democratic Club, Fresno County Democratic Central Committee, Golden Gate Democratic League, Kennedy Club of San Joaquin Valley, JFK Democratic Good Works Club, Marin Chapter - Democracy for America, Marin Democratic Central Committee, Metropolitan Los Angeles Democratic Club, Noe Valley Democratic Club, Novato Democratic Club, Oakmont Democratic Club, Pacific Palisades Democratic Club, Peoples Democratic Club of Santa Cruz County, Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains, ReclaimDemocracy.org - Orange County, San Francisco Democratic Central Committee, San Francisco Democratic Women's Forum, San Gabriel Valley Women's Democratic Club, Santa Clara County Democratic Club, Santa Clara Democratic Central Committee, SoCal Grassroots, 38th AD Committee of the Democratic Party and the 72nd AD Committee of the Democratic Party.Here are some tools for you to take grassroots action to pass Proposition 89.
Last night, the Proposition 89 Blog began rolling out version 2.0 -- this will allow you more tools to stay informed about the campaign.
Speaking of websites, some Attorney/Business in Irvine named Mark Patlan is a real hack. He has an Op-Ed in today's OC Register that talks about websites and Proposition 89, but it is clear by the writing that the author hasn't visited this website. Mark Patlan is a hack. It might be that he is a hack writer, it might be that he is a hack lawyer, or maybe it is because he isn't much of a political hack when it comes to the internet, but Mark Patlan is clearly a hack.
Here's what really got me about his column, the way he transitions directly from, "Further restrictions are included in Proposition 89 on the November ballot" straight into setting up a pathetic straw man against the current system:
In order to understand how these regulations chill political speech, imagine that there is a cause that you wish to support or oppose – building a toll road, universal health care, universal preschool or saving the endangered brown gnatcatcher. Now you wish to do something about it.
You learn that there is a political committee supporting your position. So, you contact the committee and offer your ideas on how you could create some grass-roots support for the effort. Perhaps, you could set up your own Web site and launch an e-mail campaign. Then you could take donations to support your efforts, or channel donations to the political committee.
After consulting an attorney, the political committee politely declines your help, instead asking only for your money.
This example illustrates how campaign finance regulation reduces political speech to financial contribution, the very evil that it purports to address. Under the California Fair Political Practices Act, the minute that you spent any money on your cause or raised any money for the cause, you became a political committee subject to the Act. Once you raise or spend $1,000, you become subject to the Act's strict reporting and disclosure requirements. And you don't dare "coordinate" your campaign with another "committee."
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We need your help phone banking for Proposition 89. These personal contacts with voters are very important to our statewide field plan. Starting this Wednesday (9/13), the Nurses are coordinating phone banks at the following locations:
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Strict contribution and expenditure limits
