<p>Hi guys,</p><br>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 :-)
<br><br>...<br><br>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.
<p>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:
</p><p><a href="http://unitysupporters.com/wiki/index.php?title=Harry_Welty" class="external free" title="http://unitysupporters.com/wiki/index.php?title=Harry_Welty" rel="nofollow">http://unitysupporters.com/wiki/index.php?title=Harry_Welty
</a>
</p><p>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).
</p><p>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:
</p><p><a href="http://unitysupporters.com/wiki/index.php?title=Letter_Campaign_For_Harry_Welty" class="external free" title="http://unitysupporters.com/wiki/index.php?title=Letter_Campaign_For_Harry_Welty" rel="nofollow">
http://unitysupporters.com/wiki/index.php?title=Letter_Campaign_For_Harry_Welty</a>
</p><p>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.
</p>