SOCIAL: No on 8 campaign
Lisa Foster
lisafoster25 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 23:49:45 PDT 2008
Just helped host a No on 8 fundraising party, and we got nearly $6,000 from
graduate students, family, and faculty! People really came through for us.
Thanks everybody for working on this issue.
Lisa
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Peter Bradshaw <pete at flatfeetpete.com>wrote:
> Dollar for dollar match up to $1,000,000 till Sunday.
>
> http://www.noonprop8.com/challenge
>
> I've so much I want to write about this but can't get the words down,
> it's really upsetting. How sad is it that people spend so much money
> to interfere in an aspect of other peoples lives that will have no
> effect at all on their own. There's so many things that $50k could do.
> If people vote for McCain/Palin because they're obscenely wealthy and
> looking for lower taxes they're selfish and shallow, but at some level
> their behaviour makes sense. They're putting themselves over other
> people. Voting for 8 is sickening because it's a pure vindictive
> attack on people you incorrectly judge. The result will have no effect
> on the yes voters lives. If anything the fact that all weddings cause
> a good deal of spending and tourism will increase state income meaning
> it's a financial win.
>
> Ahh.. I'm incoherent again. In short its a shallow attack that speaks
> to the worst parts of human nature.
>
> Give! This is really making realize how important it is to get citizenship.
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM, mike kosim <mike.kosim at mac.com> wrote:
> > It's what happens when people believe that others must suffer so that
> they
> > may prosper.
> > Mike
> >
> > Manish Champsee wrote:
> >>
> >> This is sad, but shows what we are up against:
> >>
> >> http://www.sacbee.com/391/story/1308945.html
> >>
> >> Pam and Rick Patterson have always followed teachings of the Church of
> >> Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and tried to live within their means.
> >>
> >> He drives a 10-year-old Honda Civic to his job at Intel. She is a
> stay-at
> >> home mom who makes most of the family meals and bakes her own bread. The
> >> couple, who have five sons between the ages of 3 and 12, live in a
> >> comfortable but modest three-bedroom home in Folsom.
> >>
> >> It's a traditional lifestyle they believe is now at risk. That's why the
> >> Pattersons recently made a huge financial sacrifice – they withdrew
> >> *$50,000* from their savings and donated it to the Yes on Proposition 8
> >> campaign, the ballot measure that seeks to ban same-sex marriage.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Dave Snyder <dave at livablecity.org
> >> <mailto:dave at livablecity.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >> by using this link:
> >>
> >> http://www.eqcapac.org/
> >>
> >> I don't even think marriage as a legal institution should exist at
> >> all, but the fundamentalist patriarchy is freaking me out.
> >> I took action after reading this email:
> >>
> >> Dear David,
> >>
> >>
> >> The latest tracking polls show that *if the election were held
> >> today among voters who have seen both our ads* and the other
> >> side's ads that *we would WIN!*
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, we don't have sufficient funds to get our ads seen
> >> by all the voters who've seen the other side's ads. So it's that
> >> simple…*without more funds we'll lose*
> >>
> >> <
> http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=etINI8PUJiKSIhI&s=hwKVJhM6JlK2JkNULqF&m=jtIUI6OMJmJ7F
> >.
> >> But we will win if we have enough money to reach voters.
> >> So_*DONATE NOW!*_
> >>
> >> <
> http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=hmKTJhM6IlJZJrL&s=hwKVJhM6JlK2JkNULqF&m=jtIUI6OMJmJ7F
> >
> >>
> >> A powerful array of motivated groups have organized against
> >> us. Yesterday's /Sacramento Bee/ reported that:
> >>
> >> "Mormons…have emerged as the leading financial contributors to
> >> the controversial Nov. 4 ballot measure. Church members have
> >> donated about 40 percent of the $22.8 million raised to pass
> >> the initiative since July."
> >>
> >> What is also unfortunate is that only 30,000 people have donated
> >> to the No on 8 campaign compared to the 60,000 who have donated to
> >> the other side.
> >> In a state with about two million LGBT people, in a country with
> >> millions more and tens of millions of straight allies, we have to
> >> get everyone to support this fight. If every LGBT person donates
> >> we can win!
> >>
> >> Yesterday's /Sacramento Bee/ also reported on the sacrifices being
> >> made by members of the Yes on 8 campaign:
> >>
> >> "That's why Auburn resident David Nielson, 55, is giving…He
> >> and his wife, Susan, live on a budget. The couple donated
> >> $35,000, he said, "because some things are worth fighting
> >> for." The couple will forgo a vacation for the next two years
> >> and make other sacrifices to pay for their donation, he said."
> >>
> >> So, what is your equality worth to you? What is your equality
> >> worth to your friends and family? How much will you sacrifice for
> >> your own freedom?
> >>
> >> We are running out of time. We need your support now. We need
> >> the support of your friends and family now. *_DONATE NOW_!*
> >>
> >> <
> http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=apIFKWNEKeIML7K&s=hwKVJhM6JlK2JkNULqF&m=jtIUI6OMJmJ7F
> >*FORWARD
> >> THIS EMAIL TO ALL OF YOUR CONTACTS!*
> >>
> >> <
> http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=diJLK5OQIhLTJhJ&s=hwKVJhM6JlK2JkNULqF&m=jtIUI6OMJmJ7F
> >
> >>
> >> In solidarity,
> >>
> >> *
> >> Geoff Kors
> >> *Executive Director
> >> Equality California
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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Lisa Foster
Master of Public Policy Candidate 2009
Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
415/307-3784
lisafoster25 at gmail.com
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