[SfN] [illinoisballot] 10/10 10,000 people. Chicago. It's a go. (fwd)

[daria karetnikov]

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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 02:17:35 -0000
From: Dan Johnson-Weinberger <proportionalrepresentation at msn.com>
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Subject: [illinoisballot] 10/10 10,000 people. Chicago. It's a go. 

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Before the good news on the Battle for the Ballot, some great news.

We will be filling up the 10,000 seat UIC Pavilion in Chicago with a 
MASSIVE Nader rally on October 10th!!!

It is a go! We just got word from national 60 minutes ago. SAVE THE 
DATE! October 10th, a Tuesday night, from 7-11 pm at the UIC 
Pavilion. TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW! Forward this email. GET TO CHICAGO 
ON THE 10TH!

This will be the biggest political rally in Chicago in 2000. Bigger 
than anything Bush or Gore can do. The biggest. This is what 
democracy looks like.

Tickets will be seven bucks (less if you are broke, more if you can 
afford it). They will be available in the next few days -- but start 
spreading the word and making plans to come to the Pavilion. This 
will be huge -- and it will work if we get people to come. So start 
working now! Commit to brining 12 people for sure.

If you are interested in helping make this event happen, then come to 
the office tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6:30 pm. National is sending in the 
organizers who made Portland happen, and will be making Seattle, 
Minneapolis and Boston happen this weekend (those are all 10,000 
person events). If you can't make that meeting but want to make this 
event successful, email me at djw at VoteNader.org and I will plug you 
in. Take charge and be a leader on this one -- this will be HUGE and 
we have 21 days to make it happen. That is an intense timeline but we 
can do it. LET'S PACK THE HOUSE!!!! 10K on 10/10!!!!

OK, back to the Battle for the Ballot. Things are looking good. 
Today, attorney Andy Spiegel won most of his motion before the 
hearing officer. We essentially got the Board to reject 1200 
Democratic objections (legal specifics to follow). We did not get the 
Board to reject another 2000 or so at this stage in the game, but 
they will ultimately be rejected. So it was a partial win, but 
certainly a win. Thanks to Andy Spiegel for a great job.

Looks like we will be continuing the binder check through next 
Monday, and (long shot) Tuesday. There will be a preliminary hearing 
next Tuesday at 4 pm, when the Board will release their count of 
valid signatures, which will make it clear which side has the burden 
to continue (if we have more than 25,000, then the Dems have the 
burden; if we have less than 25,000 then we have the burden). Based 
on how many signatures we've been getting back, we expect to have 
more than 25,000 signatures by the end of the binder check.

That doesn't even include the rehabilitation that we're doing, which 
involves finding some signatures that the election judges did not and 
the affidavits (which will be on the web tonight or tomorrow). So 
we're in good shape. And why are we in good shape? Because of 
volunteer people-power. Because people have taken time off of work 
and spend hours in front of a computer screen, in hand-to-hand combat 
with the Democratic machine, to save each and every signature that we 
can. Because more than 106 different people have volunteered in this 
Battle for the Ballot. Because the Green machine is mightier than the 
Democratic machine!

One more week of this, and we'll be done with the binder check. We 
are done with Chicago, and have moved onto the 5th floor. We're doing 
suburban Cook County (same building at 69 West Washington) through 
Wednesday, and will be back on the 6th floor to do collar counties 
that are sent to Chicago (for convenience) Thursday (this is new), 
Friday and Monday.

Evenings is data entry at the office, except for Tuesday, which is 
the BIG meeting on the HUGE event at the Pavilion on 10/10. Spread 
that word! Ticketmaster isn't going to be distributing our tickets ---
 we are! There will be no high-priced corporate skyboxes. Seven bucks 
to get into the biggest political rally in Chicago -- what a deal!

More to come tomorrow -- hope to see you on Tuesday.

Dan Johnson-Weinberger
312.933.4890
Nader 2000




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