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We're out with a crew collecting signatures every day now, so please check our calendar for times and locations and come out to join us. We need your help! It's best to call us at the office so we know to look for you (646-415-8361), but you're welcome to just show up. Specific meeting places are on the calendar if you click the link.

Organizers are planning events around the state and we'll be adding those as they come in. Ithaca will be meeting tomorrow June 10 at 10:00 a.m., at 704 S. Plain St. - call the office for details.

From the Village Voice:

Dem Party Animals
As New York's Democrats prepare to take charge, reform vows take a backseat

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The erstwhile party of open government adopted a similar bar-the-door approach to the single most important issue haunting its otherwise wildly popular incumbent, Senator Hillary Clinton: the war in Iraq.

Democratic Party officials had good reason not to want the Iraq issue to get much airtime at the convention. While Clinton brought overwhelming voter support into Buffalo—a Zogby poll of 744 statewide voters released while the Democratic confab was under way reported that she enjoyed an overall favorable rating of 60 percent—the same poll found that her position on the war was a potential stumbling block. Some 32 percent of people who said they were likely to vote in the November election said they would vote for any anti-war candidate rather than Clinton. "There is potential for an anti-war candidate to embarrass her," said John Zogby on his polls' findings. "Many New Yorkers are very opposed to the war, and they could send a message."

Sign the petition to get Jonathan's name on the primary ballot! We'll be in Union Square all day today, on the south side of the park near Fourteenth Street. Stop by, sign the petition, and say hello to Jonathan and Cindy Sheehan this morning. We'll have volunteers out all day so you can sign petitions from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 tonight. See you there!

You can come by our office to pick up your petitions tomorrow from noon to 7:30 p.m. The address is 26 Perry Street, ground floor. That's just west of 7th Avenue in the Village, a few blocks below 14th Street. If you can't make it tomorrow just call us at 646-415-8361 to arrange a time to stop by, or to have us send them to you.

Petitioning begins tomorrow, June 6th, and we'll kick off our petition drive at 8:30 a.m. in Union Square with Jonthan and Cindy Sheehan! Please join us in collecting signatures there, or just stop by to sign your name. We'll be in the south side of the park at 14th Street.

NY Newsday
Glenn Thrush in Washington
June 5, 2006

In a state Democratic convention devoid of drama or debate, anti-war crusader Jon Tasini provided a tiny jolt of excitement by threatening the Clinton clan with the terrible specter of inconvenience.

Tasini, a Senate candidate, forced the convention last week to pass a resolution condemning the Iraq war by threatening to saddle Hillary and Bill with three extra hours in Buffalo.

Tasini, a former writer's union exec who played his David's role with gusto, made his mischief by moving to insert his name on the ballot. Had he succeeded, it would have triggered a three-hour roll call, forcing the Clintons to idle their jets in a dimly lit Hyatt on the shores of Lake Erie.