[recall Tuesday's Poughkeepsie Journal: primary is toss-up; Hinchey
not ready to endorse Schreibman:
"Hinchey is not taking sides in the Hudson Valley Democratic primary
battle between attorney Julian Schreibman of Ulster County and
Dutchess County Legislator Joel Tyner...'Whoever the (eventual)
candidate is, I intend to help them,' Hinchey said."
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20120403/NEWS01/304030016/Hinchey-Better-stronger-after-cancer
]
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Hi all...
Thanks to all-- so so so so so much-- for the 500 petition signatures
we've collected so far for campaign!
In just ten days-- on Monday Apr. 16th-- we have to present at least
946 petition signatures to the NYS Board of Elections offices in
Albany (really should be 2000+ to be safe; GOP may disqualify many)...
[biggest way you can help now-- to collect petition sig.'s; and ask
your family/friends/co-workers to help;
do the math folks: if each of 30 Team Tyner volunteers got just 20
signatures this weekend, means 600!]
Hopefully with your help we can collect hundreds more petition
signatures today/tomorrow/Sunday...
[Easter Sunday not great for going door to door-- but good for
standing in front of supermarkets folks; again: happy Passover all;
see http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/passover-haggadah-supplement-2011-2
]
So please-- if you can-- join us tomorrow (Sat.) for a crucial day of
door-to-door canvass petition blitzing:
-- 10:30 am-- Kingston: Kingston Plaza (in front of MAC Fitness)
-- Noon-- Saugerties: Inquiring Mind Bookstore (200 Main Street--
corner of Main/Partition streets)
-- 3:30 pm-- Hudson: Columbia County Courthouse gazebo (401 Union Street)
[note-- I myself have to attend Justice for Trayvon rally in
Poughkeepsie tomorrow noon-- but I'll be in Kingston in morning after
my WHVW 950 AM radio show-- and I can also meet you all in Hudson
too; can't break commitment to be at rally-- crucial to
getting/keeping petition volunteer activists motivated]
Also...sorry to so blunt about this...but if any of you know folks
with $$$...now is time to ask 'em for it!...
250 brand-new lawn signs will be in today/tomorrow-- please send what
you can asap to us at Joel for Congress, 324 Browns Pond Road,
Staatsburg, NY 12580-- need $1000 to pay for 'em!...
Also-- thx tons to Cameron Williams and Gloria Waslyn for fronting
$300 cost for 1000 double-sided, full-color pieces of campaign lit; I
myself have only so far been able to reimburse them for $80 of this--
please if you can-- step up to the plate if possible to help Gloria
and Cameron defray costs of this, k?...
[am about to drive to meet Burr Hubbell to pick up $250 contribution;
Beacon's Tom Baldino gave $500; Duncan Christy donated $900 for lawn
signs; Peter Leonard $500 as well-- come on folks-- help out!]
Official petition here--
http://www.joelforcongress.org/sites/default/files/Joel.pdf -- expand
it to legal-size paper re: law-- call us at 845-444-0599-- we'll send
you petition!...we need Dem signatures collected in Dutchess,
Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan, Ulster,
Schoharie, Montgomery;
Cong. district maps:
https://www.nyed.uscourts.gov/pub/docs/cv/324457/1.11.cv.5632.6729180.2.pdf
...
Note-- we'll also be having a Kingston campaign HQ opening/kickoff
Mon. Apr. 9th at 1:30 pm at 15 Gage St. in Kingston-- please if you
can show up to join us for this, k?...(thx again: Matt/Stew
Verrilli!)...
[ http://www.manta.com/c/mmf8cdy/prandoni-fabrication-design offices
of Prandoni Fabrication/Design]
Feel free to also join us tonight 9:30 pm-- I've been invited by Joey
Eppard to speak in between his sets as he plays at
http://www.RondoutMusicLounge.com !...
Don't forget-- next Team Tyner campaign mtg. is this Sunday 7 pm-- at
Manna Jo Greene's Sustainable Living Resource Center-- at 148
Cottekill Rd. in Cottekill (12419); call Manna: 807-1270--
directions...
[or see http://www.Mannajo.weebly.com -- thx tons to MJG for opening
this opportunity up to us!]
Also-- again-- if you didn't know-- let's pack the house at Harmony
at the Wok 'n Roll Cafe at 52 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock this coming
Weds. Apr. 11th 8 pm-- with music from Mighty Xee/One Sky, EC
Lorick/GaiaWolf, Liana Turner, Erayna Cranston Anderson, Julia
Nichols, Salted Bros, Finley & Pagdon, Dirty River (and some dude
named MC Whitebread!)...[lol]
[seriously-- if we can get bunch of new Dems to come out to this
Weds. we can recruit more volunteers!]
Here's a new one-- feel free to join us in Rhinecliff next Friday
Apr. 13th-- Cynthia Owen Philip is hosting a petition party (we'll
have lists of Dems in Rhinecliff) starting at 5:30 pm-- 35 Russell
Avenue!...(call her at 876-3423 for more info; Kelly Street is main
drag in hamlet; she's at Russell/Kelly).
And-- don't forget to also put Sat. Apr. 14th 9 pm on your
calendars-- Mike Nickerson of the Black Swan (66 Broadway in Tivoli)
is letting us do a musical benefit there as well-- with music from
Alexia Evans, Chris Davison, Joe Tobin, more-- start spreadin' the
news!...
Thanks again to you all-- so so so so much for all the time and hard
work you're putting in to this...
[again-- key thing now is this-- to collect petition sig.'s; and ask
your family/friends/co-workers to help!]
More hands make the work light-- so whatever you all can do to spread
word and recruit volunteers...
My connection to Maurice Hinchey is deep and strong; I first met him
in 1994 at his Washington, D.C. offices lobbying for universal
healthcare (single-payer: Medicare for all) with the late great Paul
Miller, Connie Holland, and Max Finestone; kudos to Art Richter (and
his VT daughter Deb!) for pickin' up the torch here locally; I've
been there along side Maurice in trenches fighting for single-payer
for decades...
Unlike The Anointed One, I have long made it 100% clear that I agree
with Maurice Hinchey on these six issues-- that we should save $400
billion a year by expanding Medicare to cover everyone, that we
should bring back FDR's Glass-Steagall Act to break up the big banks,
that our Constitution should be amended to make it clear corporations
aren't people (re: Citizens United/SuperPACs), that NAFTA, CAFTA, and
free trade agreements with Korea, Colombia, and Panama should never
have been passed, that the Fair Elections Now Act should be passed to
make real federal version of Clean Money Clean Elections campaign
reform, and End Excessive Oil Speculation Now should be passed...
But it's not just those six issues -- if you're just as upset as I am
that it's not just Republicans in Washington-- but also too many
Democrats-- that don't seem to be really speaking up against the rush
to war with Iran...aren't speaking up to criminalize
fracking...aren't speaking up against Wall Street (to break up big
banks, tax Wall Street speculation, and truly investigate those
behind destruction of our economy), aren't speaking up against
indefinite detention...aren't speaking up against bipartisan attack
on Medicare/Medicaid, aren't speaking up for a truly sizable public
works/infrastructure jobs program, aren't speaking up for Medicare
for all, aren't speaking up to amend our Constitution to make it
clear corporations aren't people, aren't speaking up Fair Elections
Now legislation (federal version of Clean Money Clean Elections
campaign finance reform), aren't speaking up for fair trade (to get
us out of job-killing NAFTA/GATT/WTO), aren't speaking up for our
troops to come home NOW from Afghanistan, aren't speaking out against
tar sands pipeline, aren't speaking up for our Constitutional
freedoms-- and aren't speaking up for Bradley Manning-- and aren't
speaking up for voting integrity to reject computerized voting
machines...(even Michael Moore reminded us all at Left Forum of this
issue)...
If you're just as upset as I am re: too much bipartisan sell-out on
all those-- help us get signatures!...
Thanks again tons to you all for making this campaign a reality--
together we can get to the next step!..
[pass it on]
Joel
845-444-0599
joeltyner@earthlink.net
http://www.JoelforCongress.org (tell your friends-- PayPal link online here!)
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Joel (260+ now on board online!)
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