Hi,
Thanks for signing up at the SF Green Party's Pride booth to help
with our efforts to repeal Prop 8! This list is for volunteers who
can help us to collect signatures for a ballot initiative, once that
effort gets underway again.
If you wanted to just sign up for our weekly e-newsletter, please
let me know, and I can unsubscribe you from this list and put you on
the other one instead (of course, please let me know if you don't want
to be on either list).
For those of you interested in the background behind our efforts,
we've in contact with people from the statewide organization "Yes on
Equality" (yesonequality.org) to help collect signatures statewide for
a ballot initiative for a constituational amendment to repeal Prop 8.
We've heard that various organizations statewide have reached
consensus that the best time to put the question before the voters
again will be in the November 2010 statewide election. Once these
groups draft the ballot language, the CA Secretary of State will give
them a limited time window in which to collect signatures from
registered voters. The SF Green Party will help out by asking our
volunteers and active members to collect as many signatures as we can
to help with those efforts.
At this time, I don't know exactly when the signature gathering
will get underway again. The campaign first kicked off on Easter in
Dolores Park, but the leaders of Yes on Equality decided several weeks
ago to stop collecting signatures and try again after more
organizations were involved. I am waiting to find out exactly when
that will be, and will pass along any news as soon as I hear it.
Until then, we're lining up as many volunteers as possible so
we'll be ready to hit the ground running! If you know anybody
else who's interested, please let me know and I can add them to the
list.
JMC
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John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org)
http://sfgreens.org/
