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Support Maria Cantwell for Senate …

10/12/2012 Nativegrl77

With just 27 days until Election Day, I’ve got big news:

We just launched our first TV ad of the general election, highlighting one of the many ways that Maria has made life better for the people of our state: by working with businesses to create jobs here in Washington, including for our veterans.

Too many veterans serve our country and then find it difficult to secure jobs when they return home. Maria knows that we’ve got to change that.

Click here to see our new ad, “Great People,” and see what Maria is doing to boost job creation and get veterans working again in Washington.

Maria was a cosponsor of the VOW to Hire Heroes Act, a law that’s helping veterans find jobs here in Washington and around the country.

This law:

Offers tax incentives to businesses that hire unemployed veterans;
Created a retraining program to help veterans transition to new jobs back at home; and
Provides new pathways to make the jump back into civilian life a little easier.

While we still have more work to do to create jobs for veterans and non-veterans alike, this is a program that we can all be proud of.

Filmed in Tacoma at J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding, our new ad shows why Maria is the right choice for Washington — watch it and then share it with everyone you know.

In 27 days, we have a chance to send a champion of Washington back to the Senate. We know that Maria will fight for us day-in and day-out to increase employment opportunities and bring back jobs to Washington.

But we still need to get the word out in these final weeks of the campaign — please watch our new ad, then forward this email to your friends so that they can watch it, too!

Thank you,

Robin Brand Campaign Manager Friends of Maria

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Rob Zerban and 50,000 Supporters Demand Paul Ryan Debate

10/12/2012 Nativegrl77

This is Rob Zerban, Paul Ryan‘s congressional opponent. If you just watched the VP debate, now you know why Ryan won’t debate me.

His plans to end Medicare, privatize Social Security, and cut taxes on the wealthy simply can’t withstand scrutiny. Joe Biden clearly won.

This past week, I delivered your signature and 50,000 others to Paul Ryan’s office, demanding a debate. Today, I repeated this challenge on MSNBC.

Tomorrow, I’m holding a national call to respond to the VP debate and — once again — demand that Ryan debate me. Media and PCCC members are invited, and I’ll take questions.

Click here to see our petition delivery — and RSVP for tomorrow’s national call (you can also listen online).

You can also see the video here and sign up to Call Out The Vote for me this weekend!

PCCC members have been there for me time after time. You made over 42,000 calls for my campaign on Wednesday — and you’ve generously donated over $122,000 to my campaign this past year.

Thank you for helping me give Paul Ryan his toughest race in 12 years, including out-fundraising him last quarter. Let’s keep the pressure on!

See you on the call tomorrow.

— Rob Zerban

P.S. You can also chip in a few bucks to my campaign here.

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10/11/2012 Nativegrl77

$3 million.

That’s how much money the opponents of the freedom to marry are raising to repeal marriage equality in Washington, and fight it in other states. And the National Organization for Marriage, or NOM, has quite a history of using that money to scare and mislead voters about what the freedom to marry means.

And, believe me — NOM is just beginning to drown Washington with campaign cash. Just last night, we learned that they’d transferred ANOTHER $400,000 into Washington.

Please click here to contribute $3 to fight these ads now — if we wait until they’re on the air in Washington, it’ll be too late.

After I emailed you about NOM’s campaign to — and I quote — “protect marriage from Barack Obama and his wealthy homosexual lobbyists”, some of our supporters suggested that I tell you exactly what these $3 million dollars in anonymous donations are going to buy.

In 2008, NOM ran an ad called “Princess” which featured a young girl telling her mom “what she learned in school today” — which was that “A prince can marry a prince, and I can marry a princess!” You know the argument by now: that somehow, allowing all loving couples to marry will upend our schools and threaten religious freedom. It was a lie then and it’s a lie now.

These are the kind of false attacks that we KNOW are coming.

We know, because the same organization, it’s same shadowy anonymous donors, and the same spin doctors that put together this ad are bankrolling — and leading — our opposition in Washington.

It worked in California — but we can stop them in Washington, if you click here to contribute $3 right now.

Sorry to pollute your inbox with this, but you deserve to know.

Zach Silk Campaign Manager Washington United for Marriage

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National School Lunch Week :

10/11/2012 Nativegrl77

Support Our NSLW Campaign:

But a shirtRead on Huffington Post:
“Entrepreneurs, Pissed-Off Parents and the New Standards: An Opportunity for a School Food Revolution” by Kathleen Rogers & Anthony Geraci.

Nothing is more important than our children’s health. Yet, school food often falls short of proper nutritional and sustainability standards.
There’s no better time to highlight the importance of healthy, sustainable school food than during National School Lunch Week: October 15 – 19. And Earth Day Network is here to help.
Check out our National School Lunch Week campaign website to learn more and to see a special video message from the Harlem Globetrotters.
Make a commitment to talk to your kids about where their food comes from and how it affects their health and the environment. Then, ask local school administrators to participate in National School Lunch Week with school-wide observances.
Finally, tell your kids about our National School Lunch Week poster contest, and have them enter to win $100 and other prizes.

Together, we can ensure a bright, healthy and green future for America’s kids.
– The Earth Day Network Team

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Jane Doe via Change.org

10/10/2012 Nativegrl77

Verizon will no longer punish victims of domestic violence with cancellation fees. Now Sprint should do the same.

Sign Jane’s Petition

My name is not Jane. I need to keep my real name secret because the man who abused me can’t know where I am — I fear for my safety. But when I was leaving him and needed to get him off the cell phone contract we shared, Sprint put my safety at risk.

The man who abused me is the father of my son. When our baby was just four months old, he watched as his father strangled me and threatened to stomp on my head with steel-toed boots. I left and got a restraining order the next day.

But at a time when I had no job, no steady place to live, and feared for my life and the life of my little one, Sprint refused to let me get my abuser off my cell phone contract unless I paid them $200 — even though the contract was in my name. I had no money, and the man who threatened to kill me could track exactly who I was calling and when.

I was inspired when I saw that another woman started a petition on Change.org asking Verizon to end contract cancellation fees for victims of domestic violence — and she won. So I started my own petition asking Sprint to do the same. Click here to add your name.

When I signed the petition asking Verizon to drop cancellation fees for victims of domestic violence, I was shocked how many other people who signed shared awful stories about Sprint. One woman wrote about how Sprint made her meet her abusive ex-boyfriend in person at the Sprint store before they’d let her cancel her contract.

As for me, I’m still so afraid of my abuser that I can’t even use my real name. But this issue is so important for women like me fighting for their lives, I knew I had to do something.

Cindy’s petition to Verizon made me realize that I am not alone. If she can get Verizon to change its policies to prioritize the safety of victims of domestic violence, there’s no reason Sprint can’t do the same. I know that if enough people sign my petition, Sprint will do the right thing, too.

Click here to sign my petition demanding that Sprint follow in Verizon’s footsteps and end cancellation fees for victims of domestic violence.

Thank you,

Jane Doe USA