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Hi Louis,
Good News!
The Texas bill that will retroactively and automatically give the Green
Party of Texas ballot access was signed into law earlier this week!
This is a cool win for a couple of reasons. First, we’re on the ballot
because of the new law _and_ because of Martina Salinas’ 2016 Railroad
Commissioner race. Martina garnered 3.25% of the vote in 2016, enough to
get us on the ballot under the new law.
Second, this is a win that Howie Hawkins 2020—our campaign—worked hard
to secure. We helped mobilize Greens in Texas with an aggressive online
and telemarketing outreach plan that had a singular focus: get voters to
call their reps and _demand_ passage of the new law.
Success is sweet! This win translates into a complete game changer for
Green Party candidates—including our campaign. Without this bill, we
would have had to pony up an estimated $100,000 just to get
this campaign and other Texas Green campaigns on the ballot in 2020.
(Can you hear our collective sigh of relief?)
This is a huge win. But it’s just the beginning.
We need to put organizers on the ground now to help rebuild that state
party from the ground up. That will take resources. And that’s where you
come in.
As great as the Texas win is, many states still have draconian ballot
access laws designed with one purpose in mind: to keep third parties off
the ballot. In fact, Ballotpedia estimated that for an
independent candidate for president to get on the ballot in all 50
states in 2016, they’d need more than 860,000 signatures. (We estimate
1.5 million to be safe.)
And, while we were in Alabama last week, we were reminded that,
currently, we need 50,000+ signatures to get on the ballot—and then in
order to keep ballot access, the presidential candidate needs to achieve
20% of the statewide vote.
Here’s the thing...
*No matter the challenges, our campaign goal is to get the Green Party
on the 2020 ballot in every state in the Union, including the District
of Columbia and the advisory vote in Guam, Puerto Rico, and other US
territories that decide to hold advisory presidential votes.*
That means we need to organize and deploy Greens _nationwide_ in
constant petition drives and organizing work until the end of next
summer/early fall.
Now, we can always rely on our incredible volunteers, but they need
coordination and support. Our campaign is committed to paying for a full
time staff member to coordinate ballot access volunteers and hire Green
organizers on the ground.
*That’s where you come in*. We need to raise about $1.5 million over the
next year to get about 1.5 million signatures to secure ballot access in
every state and territory. That’s $1 per signature. That's cheap,
because the Greens can rely so heavily on our own activists.
Can you help out by sending $250 today
<https://howiehawkins.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b41d63c12ee29143634ebbb28&id=19f41bcd17&e=26db3827a9>?
That’s the maximum amount that qualifies for 1:1 Federal matching funds,
doubling your donation’s value to $500.
Or, if $250 is not possible today, could you commit to sending $10, $25,
$50 a month
<https://howiehawkins.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b41d63c12ee29143634ebbb28&id=f2bda66649&e=26db3827a9>
(or more) through the November 2019 election to help us get on every
ballot – including the tough states like Alabama?
Whatever you can send will help us achieve nation-wide ballot access in
2020! There’s no such thing as a donation that’s too small—every dollar
you send will be stretched to do the work of two or three dollars.
We need your help now
<https://howiehawkins.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b41d63c12ee29143634ebbb28&id=adbeed362a&e=26db3827a9>.
We need Green organizers working today, and every day between now
and September 4, 2020, the last state ballot access deadline before the
November election.
It’s profoundly anti-democratic that we have to battle for ballot
access; but gaining ballot access will enable us to run local candidates
and build the Green Party into major party from the grassroots up.
That’s a goal worth our hard work and money.
In solidarity,
Team Howie
P.S. Campaign finance laws are confusing, so here’s how it works: The
maximum donation you can make to any campaign is $2800 for the primary
and another $2800 for the general election, a total of $5,600
per person. The first $250 you donate _before_ the Green primary next
August qualifies for 1:1 Federal matching funds. Your $250 becomes $500.
Please donate today
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