[adcom] Re: Forward of moderated message

[Colby E. Peterson]

Ric Hahn won't join the campaign due to our Israel-Palestinian stance.

Just FYI.

- Colby

On Jun 30, 2006, at 11:31 AM, announcements-bounces at green-rainbow.org  
wrote:

>
> From: ric <ric at peoplepc.com>
> Date: June 29, 2006 9:51:32 AM EDT
> To: announcements-admin at green-rainbow.org, announcements at green- 
> rainbow.org
> Subject: Re: [GRP-Announcements] Help the Four Green-Rainbow Party  
> Candidates	Get On The Ballot!
> Reply-To: ric <ric at peoplepc.com>
>
>
> I would very much like to support the Green Party but your recent  
> posted statement condemning Israel while expressing support without  
> any criticisms of the PLO, Hamas, etc. had prompted me to request  
> removal from your mailing lists. In reply I got a message saying  
> that many others had replied with similar concerns. Until such time  
> as the Green party takes action to  address this issue I must  
> assume that it is an organization with the stated purpose of  
> destroying the State of Israel and I can not support it in any way  
> in spite of many shared concerns.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Ric Hahn
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: announcements at green-rainbow.org
>> Sent: Jun 28, 2006 6:19 PM
>> To: announcements at green-rainbow.org
>> Subject: [GRP-Announcements] Help the Four Green-Rainbow Party  
>> Candidates	Get On The Ballot!
>>
>> Dear Green-Rainbow Party members, supporters, and friends,
>>
>> Five weeks from today, on Tuesday, August 1st, we hope to have  
>> submitted
>> 20,000 signatures of registered voters to city and town halls  
>> across the
>> state to get our candidates on the ballot for the November election.
>> Grace Ross and Wendy Van Horne, running for Governor and Lieutenant
>> Governor, need 10,000 certified signatures, so we are collecting  
>> double
>> that amount to guarantee success.  Jill Stein and Jamie O'Keefe,  
>> running
>> for Secretary of State and Treasurer respectively, need 5,000
>> signatures.
>>
>> The Green-Rainbow Party candidates are running as a slate, so the
>> signatures for all the candidates can be collected on a single
>> nominating petition, which makes it simpler than collecting for  
>> each one
>> individually.  Also, because of our ballot status, we can collect
>> signatures from any registered voter.  Despite these advantages,  
>> we're
>> still behind in our signature drive, and need to expand our effort
>> immediately.
>>
>> The signature drive is being coordinated by Pat Keaney of the  
>> Stein and
>> O'Keefe campaigns and Michael Cooper of the Ross and Van Horne
>> campaigns.  If you live in Western or Central Mass. (west of Rte.
>> 495), please
>> contact Pat at pkeaney at netway.com or by phone at 857-829-1882.  If  
>> you
>> live in Eastern Mass., contact Michael at  
>> revmichaelcooper at yahoo.com or
>> call 617-388-2867.
>>
>> We will promptly send you a packet to get you started collecting
>> signatures.  The packet includes blank nominating petition forms,  
>> blank
>> voter registration forms, and instructions for signature collectors.
>>
>> If we get 200 Green-Rainbow Party members to collect 100  
>> signatures each
>> in the next five weeks, we will easily surpass our goal of 20,000
>> signatures (several thousand have already been collected).   
>> Breaking it
>> down by individual, that means collecting 20 signatures each week for
>> the next five weeks.  A decent rate of gathering signatures is 20 per
>> hour.  So we're asking for an hour a week for the next month or  
>> so.  Can
>> you commit to an hour a week to make sure that our candidates are  
>> on the
>> ballot in November?
>>
>> We hope to hear from you soon!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>  Colby Peterson, Communications Director
>>  Green-Rainbow Party
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