<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Please share!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">carol ammons</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carolammons@gmail.com">carolammons@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:16 AM<br>Subject: Help Elect Carol<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight:normal"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:48px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">CAROL AMMONS FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE –Proven Fighter for the People</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">Dear </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Family</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> and Friends,</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">We write to ask for your support to </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elect</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> Carol Ammons as the Democratic </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Primary </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">candidate for State Representative from the 103</span><span style="vertical-align:super;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:10px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">rd</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> district. </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carol has a proven record as the candidate who will fight for the people</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">. Carol is running on her record of five years of service in local government and decades of community service.</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">We have chosen to support Carol Ammons because she has devoted her life to the quest for social change and justice for all, not prestige or power for herself.</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carol is a Proven Fighter for savings $$ and reducing tax burden for all citizens</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">Over the past 5 years on the County Board and now on the Urbana City Council, Carol has taken a leadership role on many issues. Her advocacy led to the County Board’s selection of the only jail consultant who would examine ways to reform the local criminal justice system to reduce the jail population rather than merely building a new facility with more beds. </span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">Carol Ammons is a strong supporter of the Fair Tax Amendment to establish a graduated income tax for Illinois that would enable the state to raise more revenue without increasing the tax burden on middle and low income families.</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carol is a Proven Fighter for Quality of Life and Social Justice Issues</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">Carol’s work has included protecting the Mahomet aquifer; establishing wind farms in the county, reforming the criminal justice system, improving the quality of rental housing and helping homeowners afford sewer repairs. Carol has both the experience and the creativity to seek solutions other than the status quo. </span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">For decades, Carol has been involved in many social service agencies as both volunteer and staff including her employment at Catholic Charities and the Boys’ and Girls’ Club. She has run soup kitchens and organized drives to collect school supplies for low income children. </span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold">Carol is a Proven Fighter for the People</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">As our representative in Springfield, Carol will fight to protect public employees’ pensions and to secure more funding for K-12 public schools and for the University of Illinois. She supports same-sex marriage. </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Her vocal opposition to the county clerk charging a higher fee for civil union registration than for marriage licenses stopped that proposal from being enacted. </span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In Springfield Carol will fight for</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> reproductive choice for all women and girls, immigration reform that protects families and </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(255,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">to put an end</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"> to the unsuccessful war on drugs that has led to mass incarcerations and a prison system that is starving our education system.</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">Please use the enclosed envelope to mail a contribution to the campaign or donate on-line at www. <a href="http://carolammonsforstaterep.com" target="_blank">carolammonsforstaterep.com</a>. </span></p>
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</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">Carol Ammons’ Priority Concerns</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold">Education: To expand education as a vehicle for social mobility</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">• Reform education funding we need more funding for public education and the progressive income tax will make more money available for education</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">• More funding for K-12 education</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">• Expand access to higher education, increase resources for University of Illinois</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:normal">• Reduce cost of student loans </span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold">Human Rights/Social Justice Issues: To fight for fairness, equality, diversity, and justice </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">• Protection of civil rights & civil liberties</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">• Reproductive choice</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">• Immigration reform</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">• Equal marriage rights for same sex couples</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">• Effective alternatives to mass incarceration with emphasis on non- violent offenders; the cost of the prison system is starving the needs of our public schools</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold">Economic Reform: improving the economy & social contract</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">• Prioritize job creation we need to do more than bringing in low-wage jobs</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">• Living wage jobs – we are looking for ways to partner with private industry to bring about living wage jobs</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">• Secure public employees’ pensions – state government failed to pay their share, Oppose reducing the amount of public employees pensions; they’ve already paid their fair share: we have to think about pensions for the future, younger workers are going to have a new pension system. But we should not take away from those who have already earned their pension, and invested their time in the workforce. The legislature must ensure that the state doesn’t default.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">• Progressive income tax – graduated income tax: the majority of states that have income tax are all graduated now, and Illinois should do that also. The answer to economic problems should not be on the backs of children and poor people, people with disabilities, and senior citizen.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:54pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">• Affordable housing, especially for working poor with incomes below poverty level</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold">Health and Human Services </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal"></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">Fight for the protection of women’s health care choices</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold"></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">Improve Medicaid expansion</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold"></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:normal">Reduce homelessness in our community</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold"></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-weight:bold">Protecting the right to vote</span></p>
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<br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><span></span><span></span>Carol Ammons- </div></div>Candidate for the 103rd<br></div>State Representative<br><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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