[C-U Smokefree] RE:

Wed Apr 6 09:14:11 CDT 2005

All:

I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the CU Smoke-free Alliance for your endorsement and support in this election. I believe that getting involved in municipal and other types of local elections is the best allocation of your time and efforts, and the most effective way to have the greatest impact and to get your message out. I would like to say that I knew this would be an extremely difficult race to run due to running against a very popular incumbent and the fact that the Mayor of Champaign became directly involved in this race due to his major concerns that developed over the growing support my campaign had been receiving from folks such as you and your organization. 

I want to reassure everyone that I even though I incurred a loss this time, I view it as a win for the long term and the issue of a smoke free environment since I was able to bring up this issue repeatedly during the campaign in reference to my opponent and his failure to see the merits in this cause. This also means I will not let this opportunity and event go to waste since a lot of time and effort was spent resulting in me receiving and developing much more name recognition as well as an increased public profile attributable in part to the smoke free issue. I plan to utilize this new recognition and new public profile to continue to aggressively pursue a smoke free environment in our community and work closely with your organization as well as run for City Council again in 2007. 

The Champaign City Council Race in 2007 will be for 3 at large seats and I believe smoke free is an issue that may be even more effective and receptive to an entire city wide audience as opposed to just district 3. Thanks again for your support, I and look forward to meeting with your organization again to discuss future strategy to pursue a smoke free environment for our community.

                                                                                                                                                                        Thanks,

                                                                                                                                                                                    -Matt Varble 

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott P Hays [mailto:sphays at ad.uiuc.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:47 AM
To: Varble, Matt
Subject: RE: 

I followed the returns on Sheldon's web site - and thought he did a good job keeping it updated, actually.  It was pretty depressing for me from the first 189 votes reported.  I wish I knew how he does it. I guess if you're the incumbent all you have to do is be nice, quiet and non-threatening and your base will turn out again and again.  The challenger on the other hand either has to expose a major character flaw or mobilize a lot of new voters.  The real crisis of democracy here is probably the 8,078 folks who stayed home in my view.

Anyway, if you'd like to post a message to our list informing them of the result, that might be nice.  You can post by sending an email to cu-smokefree at cu-smokefree.org <mailto:cu-smokefree at cu-smokefree.org> .  Otherwise, I can do it.

I'm still proud of our effort and I've enjoyed working together and look forward to continuing to do the same.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Varble, Matt [mailto:Matt_Varble at admworld.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:25 AM
To: Scott P Hays
Subject: 

Sorry I came up short....But I'll use this opportunity to run again in 07...very low turnout..822 people voted out of 9,000 registered voters..

Matt J. Varble

Archer Daniels Midland

1001 North Brush College Rd.

Decatur, IL 62521

1-800-637-5843 (2396)

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