Thursday, August 31, 2006
Do you live in or near PA?
Then get your fanny to work! The Democrats are (surprise, surprise) trying to keep the Green Party off the ballot this November.
You can help! Here's how:
Hello fellow Greens,
As many of have likely heard, we in Pennsylvania are in a tough fight for our Senate candidate to remain on the ballot. Due to losing court cases on the constitutionality of the egregious amount of signatures we need to collect to be on the ballot (67,070 compared to the corporate parties' 2,000 signatures), it looks like our gubernatorial ticket will not be on the ballot. That leaves Carl Romanelli as our only standard bearer who can potentially garner us enough votes in this year's statewide election in order to maintain our minor party status for the next 2 years.
We filed almost 100,000 signatures, more than anyone has ever collected in this state, to get us on the ballot. The Democrats are challenging 70,000. 2 years ago when Ralph Nader tried to get on the ballot here, the ensuing petition challenges tied up the state courts so much that they forewent their entire October caseload. Trying to avoid that this year, the courts have ordered that we do petition reviews at the state's Bureau of Elections office, using their new computerized registration system. We need 9 volunteers and the Dems need 9 volunteers everyday until all the petitions have been gone through.
The Democrats would have assumed we would have given up when faced with such a monumental task. Yet we have managed to get people to Harrisburg every day for the past few weeks. If we didn't, we'd be held in contempt of court & automatically lose our case.
All this fighting does not come without a cost. Unlike the Democrats paid staff and interns filling their slots, our volunteers are taking often unpaid time away from their jobs, paying their own travel and lodging, and only receiving lunch from the Romanelli campaign. We'd like to be able to give some more compensation to them. We also need to pay our attorney as well, who has been doing an incredible job keeping us on the ballot so far (Absentee ballots have started going to the printer with Carl on them).
What we desperately need now are volunteers who can come to Harrisburg on weekdays AND donations to keep our senate campaign alive. Volunteers have no qualifications other than being able to read. If there are people from neighboring states, neighboring countries, or elsewhere, we can use your help. Contact Blyden Potts
if you can come to PA, even for just one day.
As this is a U.S. Senate campaign, there are FEC limits on donations and specific reporting requirements. To donate, you can send checks to:
Carl Romanelli for US Senate
308 Spring Street
Hanover Township, PA 18706
or you can make donations to the Party to:
Green Party of Pennsylvania
P.O. Box 11962
Harrisburg, PA 17108-1962
Thank you for your help,
Mike Rosenberg
GP-PA Delegate
Green Party Candidate
188th Legislative District
Pennsylvania General Assembly
www.rosenberg4rep.org
4134 Lancaster Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104-1727
You can help! Here's how:
Hello fellow Greens,
As many of have likely heard, we in Pennsylvania are in a tough fight for our Senate candidate to remain on the ballot. Due to losing court cases on the constitutionality of the egregious amount of signatures we need to collect to be on the ballot (67,070 compared to the corporate parties' 2,000 signatures), it looks like our gubernatorial ticket will not be on the ballot. That leaves Carl Romanelli as our only standard bearer who can potentially garner us enough votes in this year's statewide election in order to maintain our minor party status for the next 2 years.
We filed almost 100,000 signatures, more than anyone has ever collected in this state, to get us on the ballot. The Democrats are challenging 70,000. 2 years ago when Ralph Nader tried to get on the ballot here, the ensuing petition challenges tied up the state courts so much that they forewent their entire October caseload. Trying to avoid that this year, the courts have ordered that we do petition reviews at the state's Bureau of Elections office, using their new computerized registration system. We need 9 volunteers and the Dems need 9 volunteers everyday until all the petitions have been gone through.
The Democrats would have assumed we would have given up when faced with such a monumental task. Yet we have managed to get people to Harrisburg every day for the past few weeks. If we didn't, we'd be held in contempt of court & automatically lose our case.
All this fighting does not come without a cost. Unlike the Democrats paid staff and interns filling their slots, our volunteers are taking often unpaid time away from their jobs, paying their own travel and lodging, and only receiving lunch from the Romanelli campaign. We'd like to be able to give some more compensation to them. We also need to pay our attorney as well, who has been doing an incredible job keeping us on the ballot so far (Absentee ballots have started going to the printer with Carl on them).
What we desperately need now are volunteers who can come to Harrisburg on weekdays AND donations to keep our senate campaign alive. Volunteers have no qualifications other than being able to read. If there are people from neighboring states, neighboring countries, or elsewhere, we can use your help. Contact Blyden Potts
As this is a U.S. Senate campaign, there are FEC limits on donations and specific reporting requirements. To donate, you can send checks to:
Carl Romanelli for US Senate
308 Spring Street
Hanover Township, PA 18706
or you can make donations to the Party to:
Green Party of Pennsylvania
P.O. Box 11962
Harrisburg, PA 17108-1962
Thank you for your help,
Mike Rosenberg
GP-PA Delegate
Green Party Candidate
188th Legislative District
Pennsylvania General Assembly
www.rosenberg4rep.org
4134 Lancaster Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104-1727
// posted by Gregg Jocoy @ 10:44 AM 
