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The petition is approaching 17,000 signatures. The new goal is 20,000 signatures. To get a more accurate count of "good" signatures, subtract 5% from the total the site shows.
2 volunteers needed to deliver the petition and others to call their offices. Those for 'special delivery' include: Biden, Lieberman, Obama, Richardson, Ford. You can deliver it to their home district office.
I have 2 Obama, 1 Ford, and 1 possible Lieberman delivery volunteers.
I have 1 delivery volunteer to congressional leadership in DC.
Biden Delivery News: from Rebecca Young, Progressive Democrats for Delaware:
"I signed the petition and I'll post this to our DFA yahoo group. Meanwhile, I'm drafting a letter to Senator Biden from our group and we will be collecting original signatures on it between now and July 13th. We will deliver it personally to Senator Biden's chief of staff, John D'Eluterio shortly after that."
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If you know of a blog that hasn't already linked to the petition, send this link for the HTML to copy and paste into their site.Generate some buzz by writing LTE's and by calling or emailing your congressional delegation. Include a link to the petition or mention it when you call.
Go to this site for petition related gear and for an easy way to send an email to your congressional delegation. It's the first item in Current Features under the Welcome.
Also see this comment about donations.
15,349 signatures went to DemFest this weekend and were delivered to Governor Dean on Saturday night at Stubbs BBQ. This is how the scene was described: "The crowd was dense and several people in the front were holding up DEAN SPEAKS FOR ME signs. Jim called Howard to the stage (crowd went wild) and proudly presented him with 15,000+ signatures. He looked pleased, maybe surprised. There was lots of noise and cheering going on".
There were 296 pages, 1-1/2 inches thick. I had them spiral bound. It looked pretty impressive, if I do say so myself.