Posted on 07/06/2006 12:23:06 PM PDT by Gopher Broke
Dear xxxxxx,
Last Monday, the Ohio Joint Committee for Agency Rule Review (JCARR) voted to uphold the restrictive and illegal voter registration rules enacted by Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. But People For the American Way Foundation is still in the fight!
Many of you signed PFAW Foundation’s Election Protection 365 petition denouncing the burdensome regulations and urging JCARR to do the right thing and reject right-wing voter suppression tactics in Ohio. By a party-line vote, your calls for justice were turned down.
Today, People For the American Way Foundation joins several other civic organizations in filing a lawsuit to overturn recent changes to Ohio election law – including Secretary of State Blackwell’s undemocratic rules. PFAW Foundation believes the changes in Ohio law violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, and protections contained in the first and fourteenth amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
While PFAW Foundation is busy trying to protect the integrity of Ohio’s election system by fighting voter suppression tactics in court, People For the American Way is running full throttle in what has become a real battle to renew expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
PFAW Public Policy Director Tanya Clay House delivers petitions to Majority Leader Boehner’s Capitol Hill office last week.
Our emergency petition to save the VRA has reached 50,000 signatures, and to further ratchet up the pressure on Congress, PFAW will be holding public demonstrations, conducting meetings with House staff, keeping this issue in the media, and redoubling our efforts – with your help – to get as many new signatures on our petition as possible, so we can deliver more box-loads up to Capitol Hill when Congress gets back from break!
If you have not signed the petition, please do so now at www.SaveTheVotingRightsAct.org.
If you have signed, please forward this e-mail and tell your friends about www.SaveTheVotingRightsAct.org.
Both PFAW and PFAW Foundation are on the front lines to protect the voting rights that sit at the core of our democracy. Thank you for standing with us in this fight.
-- Your Allies at People For the American Way
P.S. In case you missed Ralph’s email over the 4th of July holiday, below is a word of thanks from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Your commitment to voting rights for all Americans is making a huge difference on Capitol Hill. Thank you!
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6/29/2006
Dear Ralph,
I want to personally thank you and People for the American Way for your perseverance and commitment in ensuring that the Voting Rights Act is renewed.
I am grateful to every American who signed the citizen petition asking Congress to renew the Voting Rights Act. Democrats agree with the American people: we must act immediately to pass the Voting Rights Act reauthorization.
The VRA demands that we unite together as Americans with one voice to reaffirm our commitment to justice and equality for all. Democrats had the commitment of Republican Leadership that they would bring bipartisan, bicameral legislation to the floor, and we will continue to hold Republicans to that commitment.
Thank you again for your leadership in ensuring that the right of every American citizen to cast a vote is protected.
As we continue to work to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act, I encourage your members to visit our Voting Rights Web page and to sign up for e-mail updates on this issue.
Nancy Pelosi
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No reply...this is posted for infomation purposes..."know thy enemy"
ping
OK. :-) Sometimes a reply can be as much fun as the request for your $$.
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