Hey! Go vote!!

At 11:09 AM -0700 10/7/03, Wes Boyd, MoveOn.org PAC wrote:
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<http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=3571853>REU\
TERS:
>"Race too close to call as polls open"
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> Get out there and VOTE!
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> <http://moveon.org/pac/recall/materials.html>Click here to
>find a polling place for any street address.
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> <http://ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_ppl.htm>If you
>know your county, use this link to find your polling place.
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> NO ON RECALL!
> NO ON PROP 54!
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>Dear MoveOn member,
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>Stop. Take a moment. Drop whatever you're doing. The campaign
>against the recall has been such an uphill battle but in the past
>few days your efforts have paid off.
><http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=3571853>Ri\
ght
>now, amazingly, this race is too close to call. Pick up the phone or
>open an email message on your computer, and begin contacting your
>friends and family about voting.
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>You can defeat the recall and keep Arnold Schwarzenegger's hands off
>our state by making a last-minute plea to your friends and family to
>get out there and vote.
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>Somewhere, someone you know is thinking about not voting. Maybe they
>think the recall will be defeated without their vote now that
>Schwarzenegger is down in the polls. Or maybe they're still reading
>the old polls that showed him winning, and think the recall is a
>done deal. What they need to hear -- from you -- is that this race
>is incredibly close, and that it's incredibly important both for
>California and democracy to decisively defeat this recall today.
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>In the hours ahead, we have the power together to push this effort
>over the top and win.
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>And here's another important reason to contact your friends: Some
>usual polling places are closed today, but you can look up your own
>or a friend's polling place at the link below. You can also forward
>this link to anyone who might need it.
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<http://moveon.org/pac/recall/materials.html>http://moveon.org/pac/recall/materi\
als.html
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>If you know what county you live in, this link may be more helpful:
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<http://ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_ppl.htm>http://ss.ca.gov/elections/electio\
ns_ppl.htm
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>Below we've included a plea that one MoveOn member sent to her own
>friends and family. We're passing it along to all our California
>members today because it captures the way so many of us feel about
>this great state we live in and what's at stake in this election.
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>We've all day today to win this. Polls close at 8pm. Let's keep
>fighting right up until then and make today a great day for
>democracy.
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>Sincerely,
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>-- Carrie, James, Joan, Peter and Wes
> (Californians of) The MoveOn PAC Team
> October 7, 20003
> California Recall Election Day
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>An email from a MoveOn member to her friends and family:
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>FROM: Emily
>SUBJECT: About your conscience
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>Yes, this is a plea...a mass plea to you, my friends and family, to
>vote. It's a simple thing really, one you've probably done many
>times in your life. This time though, the future of our beleaguered
>state of California, the place we love because of it's natural
>beauty, expressive and creative people, innovation in new products
>and ways of living together is gravely in danger.
>
>An, actor, not even a very good one, is poised to win a technically
>legal, (but highly suspect) recall election. He and his advisors
>(mostly from former Gov. Pete Wilson's staff, and some with
>connections to the Bush White House) will change our beautiful home
>state into something worse than even former Gov. Ronald Reagan
>concocted.
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>If you don't want to see oil rigs off our coast, if you prefer to
>breathe air and drink water without chunks of pollutants in them, if
>you consider a woman's body her own personal property (with which
>she can make her own medical treatment decisions) if you value
>public schools and the promise of a decent education for all
>children, and if you value open, equal, and just democracy you have
>but one choice to make on Tuesday.
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>If you haven't already sent in your absentee ballot, please take
>that extra 1/2 hour out of your day and brave the annoying traffic,
>manage to get yourself to the polls and vote NO on the recall
>(regardless of your personal feelings towards Gray Davis).
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>If you feel compelled to vote for a YES candidate please make it one
>who you believe can beat Arnold. Please also consider voting NO on
>both Props. 53 and 54 as they both further restrict the democratic
>freedoms we have worked so hard to achieve.
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>I've spent the past week working for the MoveOn.org phone bank
>calling strangers all over the state asking them to do the same
>thing I'm asking you to do, and that I myself have done. The
>response has been overwhelmingly against the recall of Gov. Davis. I
>believe the majority of Californians are against this power grab.
>But the key to defending our democracy is making sure that every
>single registered voter makes it to the polls on Tuesday.
>
>This is not a done deal by any stretch. Your itty-bitty, little vote
>is CRUCIAL and together with the votes of millions of other
>Californians who are disgusted by the entire recall circus we can
>put a stop to this here and now!
>
>The State we save is our own.
>
>Thanks,
>Emily
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