--- "Dan Cantor, Working Families Party"
<danc@workingfamiliesparty.org> wrote:
Hi David,
Big business interests -- insurance companies, banks, Wal-Mart -- have influence in Albany because they write big checks.
Until we get real campaign finance reform, working families have to rely on another way to have our voices heard: with our votes.
Today, the Working Families Party is launching a 7-week drive to identify 200,000 progressive voters who want a more progressive New York. We're calling it our "Count on Me" campaign.
We can give Eliot Spitzer a clear public mandate for progressive change if 200,000 of us vote together for him for Governor on Row E, the Working Families Party ballot line.
Can we count on you to vote on Row E? Let us know, and then forward this email to your family and friends and ask them to join you.
Sign the Count on Me pledge at: http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/countonme/email.html
Here are four things that we want Eliot Spitzer to start working on when he officially takes office on January 1:
Universal health care
Living wage jobs
Fair funding for every public school
Real campaign finance reform
And we want votes on Row E to send Congress a message to bring the troops home from Iraq.
If we can count on you to give Eliot a mandate for progressive change and to send a message to Congress, then sign the Count on Me pledge here: http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/countonme/email.html
You're going to get to vote on Row E anyway, so why take the Count on Me pledge? Unity is one key to our success, and the Count on Me pledge shows our unity. Here's another reason: Once you take the Count on Me pledge online, we won't clutter your mailbox with direct mail, and we can stretch our resources further. Be part of something big, sign the Count on Me pledge here: http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/countonme/email.html
Sincerely,
Sam Williams, Bertha Lewis, and Bob Master
WFP Co-Chairs
Dan Cantor
Working Families Party Executive Director
danc@workingfamiliesparty.org
http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/
http://wfpjournal.blogspot.com/
P.S. Be sure to forward this email to your family and
friends and ask them to take action for progressive
change.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Wolach <dwuaw@yahoo.com>
To: "Dan Cantor, Working Families Party" <danc@workingfamiliesparty.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:50:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Can we count on you?
Dear Mr. Cantor,
I will happily support and organize for Spitzer if in New York soon. But given that the Working Families Party--which I have supported both monetarily and on the ground--has routinely supported "winners" instead of "progressives" (cf. your disgusting failure to support Tasini in the Senate Primary) I think my time will be better spent organizing for a party other than the Working Families Party. Perhaps the Greens will seem more credible in the long run? Shudder to think that we have become so irrelevant so quickly.
Yours in Disgust,
David Michael Wolach