[WestMALocals] Troops Home Referendum

[Owen Broadhurst]

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From: Kasia Paprocki [mailto:KPaprocki at afsc.org]
American Friends Service Committee

Dear Friends,

It's time to let the people vote on the war!

The Statewide Campaign to Bring Our Troops Home Now is working to place the
following referendum on the ballot in every State Representative District in
Massachusetts:

Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in
favor of a resolution calling upon the President and Congress of the United
States to end the war in Iraq immediately and bring all United States troops
home from Iraq.

This campaign is the first of its kind in the entire nation. If it is
successful, it will serve as a model for campaigns in every other state. All
eyes are on us.

Our friends in eastern Massachusetts are working hard to get the referendum
on the ballot in their congressional districts. We've got 20 districts here
in Western Mass, and we have committed to getting the referendum on the
ballot in every single one of them. We're confident that this is possible,
with your help. It only takes the signatures of 200 registered voters to get
this non-binding resolution on the ballot in a single State Representative
District for this November's mid-term election.

We need your help collecting signatures in your district.

The petitions will be available on April 18.  Once we have the petitions, we
need to start collecting signatures and get them in as soon as possible to
have them validated. Once on the ballot, we will need all the help we can
get publicizing the referendum and gathering all the support we can in order
to secure the YES vote in every district.

Although the work of collecting signatures will not begin until April 18, we
want to be as prepared as possible, and make sure that once we receive the
petitions, we are mobilized to get our 200 signatures in every district.

Please help us mobilize for this incredibly important and exciting
initiative. You can contact us at afsc at crocker.com or (413) 584-8975. When
you respond, please include your name and the town you live in so that we
can co-ordinate teams based on legislative districts.

Thank you again for all you do,

Kasia Paprocki, AFSC




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Owen R. Broadhurst
Candidate for State Representative
Third Hampden District
http://www.owenbroadhurst.org