[Campaigns-l] Help a good cause and get a look at a wiki driven letter writing campaign.

[Jennifer M.]

Hi guys,

I know this isn't totally on topic for this list, but you guys are totally
tapped into wikis and it seemed like you might be interested.  I've been
working on a letter writing campaign for the last 40 hours and a wiki turned
out to be the most useful part of it... and it's taught me that it maybe
would be good to have some templates laying around a wiki to make something
like this easier to throw together.  You might be curious even if you're not
interested in the political cause itself just because this might become a
standard part of campaigns wikia as it grows and evolves.  Anyway, I'll cut
to the political blurb now :-)

...

Harry Welty is a Congressional Candidate running to represent Duluth,
Minnesota. He's also affiliated himself with Unity08 and the Unity Movement,
a multipartisan movement with the goal of getting national attention off
divisive issues like abortion and onto issues that will seriously affect the
welfare of Americans for generations to come, like the massive National Debt
that threatens to fiscally cripple the U.S. just in time for our young
people to inherit it.

If this is the first time you've heard about Harry Welty you can get a quick
one page summary with links to his blog and his campaign website at this
website:

http://unitysupporters.com/wiki/index.php?title=Harry_Welty

Harry was been told by the Duluth News Tribune and the local public
television station WDSE PBS-8 that he can't debate because he doesn't belong
to a political party that fielded a candidate who won at least 5% of the
vote in the previous election. 14 years ago Harry Welty ran as an *unknown*
independent against Oberstar and took 7% of the vote. Since then he's served
on the Duluth School Board and been a columnist for The Reader Weekly. *So
far* that doesn't matter to the people in charge of the debates (but we're
trying to change that).

The decision makers seem to care about political machinery instead of
people, parties instead of candidates. It's not right. Harry deserves a
chance in the debates. Please forward this email to everyone you know who
might be interested. Then go to the link below and learn about emails and
phone calls you can make to try to help Harry get chance in the debates:

http://unitysupporters.com/wiki/index.php?title=Letter_Campaign_For_Harry_Welty

Thanks for taking the time to read this, thanks for taking the time to pass
this on, and thanks for visiting the link above and doing something to help
Harry. Please do it fast. The debates are on Friday, October 20, 2006 and
after that point forwarding this or sending email won't be very useful.
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