Dear Dean grassroots leader,
Howard Dean is no longer actively campaigning for the presidency and is promising a new Dean for America to carry his ideas forward. We'll all be a part of that new organization and movement when it's announced.
In the meantime, Ralph Nader has joined the race, and the press is gleefully reporting stories of how ex-Dean supporters and groups are "defecting" to Kerry or Edwards.
We feel we need to act now so we're planning to issue a press release, in conjunction with MoveOn.org, to announce our unity. The press release will cover three main points:
1) We are UNIFIED in working to send as many delegates pledged to Dean as possible to the Democratic Convention.
2) We are UNIFIED in the need to create a movement to advocate for the principles articulated by Howard Dean.
3) We are UNIFIED to work together in coalition with a broad range of groups to oust George Bush in 2004.
We're collecting the names and contact info of leaders of regional and national Dean grassroots organizations who might be interested in endorsing the final press release. Once we've completed writing the release, we'll forward it to you for your approval. If you agree with the statement, we'll include your organization's name as part of the release.
If you'd like to be a signatory to the press release (after you've approved its contents), send the following information now to Rob Dickinson <robd@pobox.com> :
Name of the grassroots group:
Description of what constituency this group serves:
Contact(s) Name:
Phone number(s):
E-mail address:
Approx. number of people represented in this group:
Additionally we have set up a mailing list so we can stay in touch.
Subscribe at:
http://www.smc4dean.org/mailman/listinfo/grassroots-unity
and or send an e-mail to:
grassroots-unity-subscribe@smc4dean.org
Your help is absolutely necessary to make this project fly! Please direct questions to Dan Robinson at dan@drob.org.
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