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Dear List Family, Why not channel our anger, indignation, fear, disappointment, loss of self- determination, and use this holiday week-end to ask our families and=20 friends to help make the Udall authorization an appropriation? What if every member of our immediate & extended families and circle=20 of friends and their family members looked through their personal phone=20 books and tried to identify people whose residency is in one of the 23= states,=20 whose 29 members of Congress hold in their=A0 hands the fate of 1 million to= =20 1.5 million=A0 USA=A0 Parkinson's sufferers PLUS millions of=A0 world-wide= =A0 members=20 of our growing PD population? (more than 50 K per year are newly diagnosed) During family celebrations, talk about what each member can do? Maybe Aunt= =20 Minnie knows a neighbor, whose son-in-law works in a garage where=20 Congressman=A0 Porter's car gets serviced. What about your son, or grand-daughter returning to college with the names= of=A0=20 the 29 Members and asks their school friends, fraternity/sorority/classmates= in Government & PoliSci classes to participate. And Cousin Ted, who always= brags=20 about the high esteem his fellow golf buddies have for him at the club?=20 Wouldn't=A0 they like to help?=A0=20 I propose a "Race against Time/Race for Cure" Marathon.=A0 The object of= this=20 endeavor is to identify person(s) living in one of the Districts of the 14 Representatives in the 23 States listed. =A0=20 A report to this list should be made each time there is a "HIT",=A0 i.e.,= someone has been identified=A0 and they are willing to write a letter/make a call= AND continue the search for additional contacts. The prize for having generated the most "HITS"? Let's come up with ideas.......... I am curious to find out just how "small=A0 the world " really is?=A0 Whose family/friend tree would have branches=A0 in most of the 23 States?=A0=20 I propose that with every Easter basket, every baggie of left-over food to= be=20 taken home, we enclose a sheet of paper with the list of states/names of legislators who need to be contacted.=A0=20 To be continued in post #2. [log in to unmask] DOB: 1941/Dx: 1980/Cured:ASAP Slogans wont do it/Hard work will