Mid Michigan Draft Al Gore petition meetings Tues & Thurs 5:30-6:15pm, Oct 2 to 18

Mid-Michigan Gore Supporters busy collection petition signatures for January 15 Primary

Please help us on our petition drive to place Al Gore on the ballot for the Michigan January 15 Presidential Primary. We are working hard to collect signatures and also to raise needed funds. Instead of our next Meetup (monthly meeting) that usually would be on the first Tuesday in October, we will have brief bi weekly meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:15pm at the Gone Wired Cafe at 2021 E. Michigan Avenue, on the east side of Lansing.

These bi-weekly meetings will last until Thursday, October 18. The new state Primary Election law requires that we turn in more than 12,396 valid signatures by Tuesday, October 23. On Tuesday, October 23, we will have a regular Meetup beginning at 7:00pm at Gone Wired Café to evaluate the success of our petition drive and plan our next steps in our efforts to elect Al Gore as our next president.

We have over 100 volunteer petitioners collecting signatures across Michigan. Please join our petitioning efforts as we need every volunteer we can recruit. Similar petition drives are taking place in Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, California and other states.

We were really pleased that Al Gore received 36% of 400 Dems likely to vote in Michigan’s Dem primary or caucus, and Clinton got 32%, Obama 16%, Edwards 8% and the others less. The poll was released by the Detroit News and WXYZ on August 14th and done by EPIC/MRA. More and more we are expecting Gore to announce that he will run for President in October after the Nobel Peace Prize is announced on October 12.

We sponsored a Book Discussion of Gore's book, An Assault on Reason, on June 7, at Okemos Schuler's Books. The discussion panel included Beryl Schwartz, City Pulse Publisher, Tracy Dobson, MSU Fisheries & Wildlife Prof, and Doug Kelley, veteran of several presidential campaigns and 2004 Dem National Convention delegate from Ann Arbor. More than 40 people attended this informative event. More than 120 attended a book panel discussion in Royal Oak on August 24, despite tornado like weather as the event began. Similar panels have occurred in Ann Arbor and Traverse City. We are making arrangements for more book discussions.

We also need your help in passing out Draft Gore information and collecting petition signatures at upcoming parades, weekend festivals, Wharton Center performances, and other events. Also, we need data entry volunteers to transfer the petition signers' data onto Excel spreadsheets. Please contact Bob Alexander, 517-351-0965 or alexjuliea@aol.com to volunteer.

For more information on the Draft Al Gore for President 2009 efforts, please check these websites and articles:

AmericaforGore.org - this is the official website of the national coalition of several Draft Al Gore groups.

AlGore.org - this website list the largest number of local Draft Gore groups, now numbering close to 200. Please go to this site, sign the petition and register for the Meetup group nearest you. Also, check out the Blogs and Forums, and volunteer info.

Draftalgore.Meetup.com - this site has more information on the 60 or so more active Draft Gore Meetups. It is similar to AlGore.org without the Blogs and Forums and Volunteer info, but we want to fully populate each website, as different folks find out about us thru various websites.

DraftGore.com - This site has collected over 111,000 petition signers who urge Gore to Run, lots of info from articles, without the AlGore.org Blogs and Forums and Volunteer info.

The TIME Magazine article on May 16 is fantastic!
The Last Temptation of Al Gore, by Eric Pooley, TIME Magazine, May 16, 2007
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1622009,00.html

The Rolling Stone Magazine article also is very informative,
www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13248532/why_gore_should_run__and_ho...

Hope to see you soon,

Bob Alexander, leader of the Mid-Michigan Draft Gore Meetup, 517-351-0965, alexjuliea@aol.com