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STEM CELL EMERGENCY: KOS members needed! If you are a member of DAILY KOS, please visit the site www.DAILYKOS.COM Sunday morning between 8-11 AM (California time) look for STEM CELL CRISIS IN CALIFORNIA: John Garamendi, Michael J. Fox, and Tom McClintock. AUTHOR CALIFSHERRY. Read the article, post a comment, and click recommend. (If you are not a member yet, please pass this message along to your list of stem cell research activist friends, and consider joining KOS. You won't be able to participate this time, but there are crises ahead, so please join-it costs nothing.) If we can get 40 KOS members to 1. post a comment and 2. recommend the article, it will be spread hugely, all across America. (Oh, if you want a reminder in the morning, email: [log in to unmask]) This is important! Here's why: Hi, Folks! Imagine if you really truly hated something-I mean genuinely despised it, so much so that you were publicly listed as first in the official opposition to it-and then were given POWER over it? That is the situation California's new stem cell program will face, if conservative Republican Tom McClintock becomes Lieutenant Governor. McClintock's opposition to Proposition 71, the California Stem Cells for Research and Cures Act is definitely not a secret. On the voter pamphlet his name is the first one listed among the enemies of the research program. "Official ballot arguments in opposition are signed by Tom McClintock, California State Senator'."http://ca.lwv.org/lwvc/edfund/elections/2004nov/id/prop71.html So how does Mr. McClintock feel about Proposition 71? "a self-serving sham.perhaps the worst ballot measure that we've seen over the past decade.open season on California taxpayers." Reporter Marc Strasman of California Politics Today interviewed McClintock, and said he (McClintock) would "compare the proponents of Proposition 71 to snake oil salesmen who come into town, take the people's money, and leave them poorer. Private companies. would 'make out like bandits' while citizens will not even have the right to ask about what the research is buying." http://www.etopiamedia.net/empnn/pages/cpt-emnn/cpt-emnn166-5551212.html This evidences a flagrant disregard for the truth."Citizens not having the right to ask?" I have attended virtually all of the 84 meetings, and the public is not only welcomed to attend but also invited to participate in every decision. To the best of my knowledge Mr. McClintock has not attended any of the meetings, so he may wish to claim ignorance. It also reveals a contempt for the research, which I find troubling. "Snake oil"? I have personally held in my hand a laboratory rat which had been paralyzed, but which walked again after having been given embryonic stem cells. As the father of a paralyzed son, I am eager for the research to move forward, and it frustrates me to see rampant ignorance getting in the way. The lawsuits already blocking full implementation of Proposition 71 are backed by opponents of the research very much like Mr. McClintock's supporters among the religious right. As Lieutenant Governor McClintock would be allowed to place up to five members on the oversight committee which runs the stem cell program. What kind of people might he appoint? It is scary to consider. P.S. If you would like to help John Garamendi be elected, please go to www.garamendi.org. I know, I know, you have been hit on by everybody in the Western Hemisphere six times already-- me, too-- but I will chip in $100 I can't afford; would you consider doing the same? Thanks, Don ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn