One email from you can change the world.
Kari Chisholm
Seriously.
Sometime today, sit down and write an email to everyone you know (in Oregon). Send 'em a voting guide - with your endorsements for each ballot measure and each candidate race, especially the downticket local races and issues.
So many of us know people that won't bother voting all the way down the ballot, don't want to bother reading the ballot measures, won't even crack open a voter's pamphlet. These folks have tuned out the TV and radio ads, won't look at the junk mail, won't answer the door or the phone. Heck, they might not even bother voting at all (since the #1 reason for not voting is "I didn't know who to vote for.")
A personal endorsement from you - RIGHT NOW - may be the only meaningful interaction your friends, neighbors, and coworkers are going to get before they fill out that ballot. A personal endorsement from a friend is worth thousands of dollars in air time, postage, and volunteer labor.
If just 5000 BlueOregon readers send an email to 30 friends each, we'll have generated some 150,000 emails making the case for a better, more progressive, more "blue" Oregon.
Besides giving money, emailing every one of your friends is the one thing you can do to change the world right where you're sitting now.
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Oct 24, '06
thanks for the reminder - I'm going to send one to US friends, as well, reminding them how important it is to vote this time round. most of my friends are already set, but it might prompt them to reach out to their friends, and so on...
9:59 a.m.
Oct 24, '06
We all have political friends - but we also all have friends that aren't quite so interested in all this stuff. Every two years, at election time, is when they invest about 90 seconds thinking about it as they vote.
Share your picks, whatever they are. It will make a difference.
Oct 24, '06
Kari (and others), how about writing your own letter here? I'm sure there must be some readers other than myself that find some areas at the bottom of the ticket fuzzy. I'd truly appreciate seeing the opinions of some of you here, especially if condensed where I can review them with my ballot in hand.
12:59 p.m.
Oct 24, '06
Here are some worksite fliers and other cut-and-paste resources for people who want to elect working families' candidates:
List of Oregon AFL-CIO endorsed candidates statewide: (flier) (html)
Oregon AFL-CIO Ballot Measure Guide: (flier) (html)
Schedule of GOTV events and sign-up info: (pdf)
Oct 24, '06
Hey Kari - is it time for punditology yet?
Oct 24, '06
OK, for my endorsement cheat sheet:
http://undergroundscience.blogspot.com/2006/10/2006-endorsements-cheat-sheet.html
...and for the full discussion of each endorsement:
http://undergroundscience.blogspot.com/2006/10/my-endorsements-2006.html
(apologies for not covering more races, or including races that you may not have a personal interest in.)
cheers, ~Garlynn
4:57 p.m.
Oct 24, '06
The Multnomah County Democrats' Voter Guide can be found here: http://www.multdems.org/files/voter_guide.pdf
Oct 24, '06
Decided it'd be better to post the full text of my cheat sheet for discussion purposes:
Here's the Woodsong ticket.
I'm registered to vote in Multnomah County, Oregon, but I'll start at the top so that people in other jurisdictions will be able to read the most relevant races first. Note that I may have ommitted some races that I'm either not eligible to vote in myself, that have only one candidate running, or which just rall beneath my radar.
Also, because I'm hip to some of the issues there, I will provide a couple of endorsements for California (most notably -- NO on 90!!).
So, without further ado -- ENDORSEMENTS 2006 CHEAT SHEET (Quick Reference): (For a more complete discussion of each endorsement, click here.
OREGON
Measure 39: NO (Hamstring Local Government by Banning Private Property Condemnation)
Measure 40: NO (Allow Conservatives to Elect Supreme Court Justices by District)
Measure 41: NO (Screw the State of Oregon on Federal Tax Returns)
Measure 42: NO (Sizemore's Scam to Lower His Car Insurance Bill)
Measure 43: NO (Prohibit Women Under 18 from Having the Right to Choose for Themselves)
Measure 44: YES (Gives Prescription Drug Coverage to Uninsured Oregonians)
Measure 45: YES (Re-Approve the Term Limits for the Legislature that Career Politicians Tried to Remove)
Measure 46: YES (Constitutionally Authorizes Campaign Finance Reform in Oregon)
Measure 47: YES (Enacts Campaign Finance Reform in Oregon)
Measure 48: NO (Prohibit the State of Oregon from providing enough essential/basic services)
Statewide/National Office:
United States Representative in Congress, 3rd District: Earl Blumenauer
Governor of the Great State of Oregon: Ted Kulongoski
Nonpartisan State Judiciary, Position Six: Virginia Linder
MULTNOMAH COUNTY MEASURE
26-81: YES (Keep the Libraries Open)
METRO MEASURE
26-80: YES (Parks, Greenspaces, Habitat, Trails, Small Furry Creatures)
Portland School District No. 1JT
26-84: YES (Keep the Schools Open & Provide Quality Education for our Children)
City of Portland
Measure 26-86: YES (Start to fix the freakin' police/fire retirement/disability system)
CALIFORNIA
Measure 90: NO (Prevent kooky anti-government types from manifesting their agenda)
Marin/Sonoma Counties
Measure R: YES (Sonoma-Marin Rail Project & 70-mile Bicycle Path)
Oct 25, '06