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Email 2/Day 2 Senate Bill 5 Campaign Letters to Senators Hi Ray, As outlined in the coordinated campaign, here are your tasks for DAY TWO. Remember to replace the highlighted text within the letter with your personal story and the highlighted text at the end of the letter with your personal contact information. Remember that we have three requests: Vote Yes on S5 and Vote Yes on a Veto Override. Vote No on S30. Write SEVEN letters (Actually ONE with SEVEN different addresses and titles). FIVE to the targeted Senators and TWO to your own Senators. Sample letters can be found below. Make certain that at least FIVE of your friends and family members do the same. By doing this, you have multiplied your impact from 8 letters to 48 letters! If you can get TEN or TWENTY friends and family to join you, go for it! Again, we are providing some text (between the bold blue lines) that you can copy and send to your friends and family. And as before, please feel free to edit or re-write completely. Please email us if you have any questions or need any help. Thank you again for your continued hard work to pass this bill. Dear Friends and Family, Please help me contact six Senators who might change their positions to support stem cell research by voting Yes on Senate Bill 5. Below are their addresses and sample text for you to use. For more information on why I think they might be receptive, click here. These are only five of those who voted against the research. If you have the time and energy, it might help to reach all of those who voted no last year. It only takes one Senator to change his or her vote to move this research forward! To find the others who voted no last year, click here. Please be sure to take out the highlighted text and put in your information. After you change the highlighted text, please copy it all to a blank page and add one of the addresses. Repeat this process until you have written all five letters. Please write a separate letter to each Senator (do not send one with all five addresses!) It is most effective if you can email or fax this letter since they will vote on Wednesday or Thursday - before they get the snail mail version. Also, please send letters to your two Senators. To find your Senators' contact information and voting history, go to Project Vote Smart. It would be extremely helpful to know how many letters you were able to send. I am tracking our impact. It means a lot to me to have your support. Thank you! Ray ****** Sample letter: The Honorable Senator Robert Casey, Jr United States Senate Dirksen B-40 Washington, DC, 20510 March 6, 2007 Dear Senator, I understand you will soon be voting on the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act bill. This is an issue that transcends local politics and affects American citizens across our nation. For this reason, I am writing to urge you to vote yes on S5. Your decisive vote will allow the research to go forward. Please send the message that it is time for our government to respond to the supermajority of Americans who support this research. Briefly tell your story and why you support stem cell research here. The entire letter must be one page or less If your story is long, you can take out one of the four messages below to accommodate it. As you may know, the success of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act (S 5) may depend on your vote. Several Senators have proposed a "substitute" bill, funding alternative research. This mistaken piece of legislation is no substitute for Senate Bill 5. I want to tell you that: To my knowledge, none of the nation's preeminent scientists regard any form of "alternative" stem cell research as a substitute for embryonic. I will be happy to provide supporting data, if you would like. We citizens and families, consulting with our doctors, should make medical decisions. Political leaders should not be cutting families off from access to lifesaving therapies. Instead, the entire Senate should be leading the effort to fund this research - as it is our family's right to decide and choose the best medical care for our loved ones. The American people overwhelmingly support embryonic stem cell research, and they resent the restrictions currently imposed. These restrictions on federal funds deny every family the right to access the best medical treatment and cures for their loved ones. This support for embryonic stem cell research is undeniable: In the 2006 midterm Election pro-stem cell research candidates won major victories. Non-embryonic stem cell research is already heavily funded. White House documents reveal a preference of nearly 20-1 for funding alternative stem cell research over embryonic stem cell research. Your yes vote holds the power to save lives, and to ease suffering. Please be a voice for those who have been told, "There is no hope". Stem cell research is our hope. This is a make or break issue with me. My friends and family are among the one hundred million Americans affected by chronic disease and disability. I urge you to vote "Yes" on the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act for me, my family, and for the millions of Americans who support this research. Please also Vote "Yes" on a Veto Override Vote. Vote No on S30. Please know that you can call on me, my family, and the nearly 600 patient advocacy and health organizations, research universities, religious groups and other interested organizations that support this research. Sincerely, Your name Your street Your city, state and zip ****** Five Additional Addresses: The Honorable Senator John Sununu United States Senate 111 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC, 20510 The Honorable Senator Norm Coleman United States Senate 320 Senate Hart Office Building Washington, DC, 20510 The Honorable Senator Richard Shelby United States Senate 110 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC, 20510 The Honorable Senator Bob Corker United States Senate B-40A Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC, 20510 The Honorable Senator Lindsey Graham United States Senate 290 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC, 20510 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn