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!

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!

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

Please Volunteer to Phone Bank

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

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

Phone Bank for Proposition 89

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:

• Sacramento
• San Diego
• San Francisco
• Glendale
• Oakland

The program begins this Wed, Sep 13th and then will run every Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thursday from 5-9pm. They are flexible about the length of slots. Food and refreshments will be served each night.

If you can volunteer, please contact:

Ted Cahill
Prop 89 Field Director
Email: tcahill@calnurses.org
Phone: 510 273 2248

Please help spread the word.