Tim4Hillary
04-15-2009, 07:01 PM
In case anyone questions why we have to fight the noise on the right. Notice the words "dog fight" so I don't think I'm planning on becoming a shrinking violet anytime soon:
Dear Tim,
Despite an onslaught of media scrutiny trashing its accuracy, the National Organization for (Straight Only) Marriage continues to push and organize around their new ad, “Gathering Storm.” (See their ad, and what you can do about it.)
Yesterday, they sent an urgent email to their members claiming to have called over 250,000 homes in Iowa, and seeking to raise $1.5 million for their efforts, including an aggressive ad campaign targeting us in California -- just as the California Supreme Court is deliberating on our challenge to Prop 8.
Please help us respond to this attack.
Here are a few snippets of their appeal:
[LGBT rights activists are] worried about California and how a loss in the nation’s most populace state will
affect them…
Though we have received a bump in our funding in the wake of the launch of our ad, we are in for a
real dogfight. We must get our message out in more markets and build what we have never had before —
a dedicated army of millions of marriage activists to volunteer, organize, and VOTE for marriage.
Today, I’m asking for your help to counter NOM’s work in California .
We have a secret weapon in this state. It’s the married couples, their friends and family members, and their ability to tell their personal stories. It is those stories that smash the lies and misinformation our opponents spread. And this work must be done in our own neighborhoods, person to person, where it has the most impact.
But people need help telling their stories. They need support for those difficult conversations, they need help realizing their power, and they need tools and motivation to talk neighbor to neighbor.
That's why we are hiring field organizers to bolster this critical work in the parts of our state where we have the most work to do. We are adding organizers in San Diego , Orange County , the Inland Empire, the Central Valley and Sacramento , under the visionary leadership of our new field director Amy Mello , working out of Los Angeles , another place where a majority of voters supported Prop 8.
Please make a donation right now so we can hire field organizers as part of our campaign to talk neighbor to neighbor across the state.
A plan of this magnitude requires skilled organizers to plan, motivate, and change minds. We are starting with six, but it’s only a start. We need many more to help change the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of Californians.
This is expensive, but it must be done. The work does not happen on its own. Please, lend your help now.
Warmly,
Marc Solomon
Marriage Director
Equality California
Dear Tim,
Despite an onslaught of media scrutiny trashing its accuracy, the National Organization for (Straight Only) Marriage continues to push and organize around their new ad, “Gathering Storm.” (See their ad, and what you can do about it.)
Yesterday, they sent an urgent email to their members claiming to have called over 250,000 homes in Iowa, and seeking to raise $1.5 million for their efforts, including an aggressive ad campaign targeting us in California -- just as the California Supreme Court is deliberating on our challenge to Prop 8.
Please help us respond to this attack.
Here are a few snippets of their appeal:
[LGBT rights activists are] worried about California and how a loss in the nation’s most populace state will
affect them…
Though we have received a bump in our funding in the wake of the launch of our ad, we are in for a
real dogfight. We must get our message out in more markets and build what we have never had before —
a dedicated army of millions of marriage activists to volunteer, organize, and VOTE for marriage.
Today, I’m asking for your help to counter NOM’s work in California .
We have a secret weapon in this state. It’s the married couples, their friends and family members, and their ability to tell their personal stories. It is those stories that smash the lies and misinformation our opponents spread. And this work must be done in our own neighborhoods, person to person, where it has the most impact.
But people need help telling their stories. They need support for those difficult conversations, they need help realizing their power, and they need tools and motivation to talk neighbor to neighbor.
That's why we are hiring field organizers to bolster this critical work in the parts of our state where we have the most work to do. We are adding organizers in San Diego , Orange County , the Inland Empire, the Central Valley and Sacramento , under the visionary leadership of our new field director Amy Mello , working out of Los Angeles , another place where a majority of voters supported Prop 8.
Please make a donation right now so we can hire field organizers as part of our campaign to talk neighbor to neighbor across the state.
A plan of this magnitude requires skilled organizers to plan, motivate, and change minds. We are starting with six, but it’s only a start. We need many more to help change the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of Californians.
This is expensive, but it must be done. The work does not happen on its own. Please, lend your help now.
Warmly,
Marc Solomon
Marriage Director
Equality California