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From: Brian Collins [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: New Supporters. For about a month I have observed with admiration as the PD sufferers gathered themselves and launched the campaign to support the Udall bill. As an Englishman, I have tried to think of ways that I might help, and having read the Email from Huntington's Disease sufferer Jim Hyland, I am kicking myself for not thinking of his suggestion of bringing in the HD bunch as well. I am a member of a group of sufferers/carers whose mission is to find money to support the Neuro-sciences Research group at the Queen's Medical Centre which is part of the University of Nottingham. We have on our Committee representatives of Alzheimer's, Motor Neurone, Parkinson's, and Huntington's Disease, and all work together to gather funds for exactly the reason put forward by Jim Hyland: A breakthrough in understanding any one of these diseases will probably benefit the sufferers of all these neuro-degenerative diseases. As in fund-raising, it is equally true in politics that numbers do matter. If you could mobilise these other groups you could probably double your firepower. I urge you to consider it. Regards, Brian Collins