I got this email the other day and thought others may be interested:
Have your Representatives Signed the Contract fromAmerica?
Thank you all so much for taking part in our initiative to achieve real economic conservative and good governance reform in D.C. Our launch on April 15th was very successful, and in the last week, a number of candidates and elected officials signed the Contract fromAmerica, including Sen. DeMint (R-SC) and Utah Senate Candidate Mike Lee. However, we need YOUR help to successfully convince elected officials and candidates that they need to listen and follow our mandate.
Below are a series of activities you (and your membership if you are the leader of a grassroots organization) can do to make a real difference in this grassroots effort...
Get Candidates/Elected Officials to Sign the Document
1.) Call the members of Congress in your district and surrounding districts, as well as your Senator and candidates for Congress/Senate of all parties. Ask them to sign the Contract from America (which you can send to them by email, by cutting and pasting the Contract at
www.contractfromamerica.orgor faxing/mailing them a pdf version of the contract at
www.contractfromamerica.org/documents. Give them 2-3 days to review and then call again, asking if they will sign. If they say yes, have them return a signed copy of the Contract from America to you, which you should email to us. In addition, ask if they will take a photo of the signing or a video statement of support, which we will put on our website. Please let us know if an Elected Official/Candidate signs or says that they will not sign by sending us an email.
2.) If you are a director of a coalition group, and a candidate/elected official chooses to sign, you should request they send out a press release, and you should send a press release as well, with your name as the media contact person. A template for such a press release is available to download at
www.contractfromamerica.org/documents. Again, please let us know if a candidate/elected official decides to sign.
3.) You can find the various candidates/elected officials in your district and State on this site:
Politics1 - American Politics, Elections, Candidates & Campaigns. Most of the candidates' websites (where you can get contact info, etc.) are linked to that page.
Other Things you Can Do
1.) Write an op-ed/letter to the editor to your local newspaper. We will have a template op-ed which you can use and modify as you wish up soon at
www.contractfromamerica.org/documents. You should mention in your letter that Sen. DeMint has signed the Contract, and that your congressman/candidates should follow in his grassroots conservative footsteps.
2.) VOLUNTEER! If you have some available time and would like to help us, please let us know. For this project to be a success, we need the help of thousands of people. Please let us know via email if you would like to assist.
3.) Call-in to your local talk radio show and discuss how congressmen in your area and state need to sign the Contract fromAmerica.
4.) Sign the Contract yourself at
Contract From America and forward the link to your family, friends, and co-workers, for them to sign as well. Recruit your membership and others to make calls to the candidates and elected officials.
5.) Donate to our cause. Please click here if you wish to donate $5 or an amount of your choosing.
Thank you all for being part of this grassroots, bottom-up initiative. We will update you with further action items in the upcoming weeks and months.
Regards,
The Contract fromAmerica team
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