[Peace-discuss] Thanks to Carl

[Jim Buell]

>Agreed, Carl and team. Great job!
>
>We all sure wish you had gotten 5% overall, but it was real close!  Was it
>4.9 or 4.6 or 4.2% overall, do you know?  That 9% in Champaign CO. was
>great!
>
>Kimberlie

Speaking as one volunteer, it was a blast! Estabrook for Congress has done 
a helluva lot to raise awareness and respect for the causes central to the 
campaign, like opposition to war and the need to counter mega-corporate 
control over politics, life, the universe and everything. And there's even 
more good news. JP just finished crunching the precinct-by-precinct numbers 
a few minutes ago, and ... Carl polled 16.3 percent citywide in Urbana, and 
10.7 percent in Champaign! (Carl's actual total district-wide was 3.9 
percent, but CNN reports it as 4% so we can too :). Nine percent is the 
Champaign County-wide total, as you noted, Kim. Nader drew 4.8 percent 
countywide in 2000, by the way.)

Nice going Carl, and nice going everyone!

>Here's what the C/U numbers show:
>Carl Urb.       1523            Carl Ch         1931
>Carl Urb %      16.3            Carl Ch %       10.7
>Tim Urb 4160            Tim Ch          9781
>Tim Urb %       44.4            Tim Ch% 54.2
>Josh Urb        3687            Josh Ch 6339
>Josh Urb%       39.3            Josh Ch%        35.1

Folks, be thinking about who you'd like to see in the Champaign city 
council and mayoral races, and the Champaign and Urbana school board races, 
come spring. I think it's safe to say after Tuesday that there's a certain 
amount of support throughout the twin cities for Green-style political 
representation. This is a topic that came up at last night's monthly 
Prairie Greens meeting. The Greens are looking to support candidates whose 
platforms and track records speak to values like social justice, grassroots 
democracy, nonviolence and ecological wisdom.

Some issues that supporters have suggested addressing through these races 
are racial and economic disparities in the schools, corporatization of 
education, Living Wage, residential recycling in Champaign, municipally 
owned utilities, mall sprawl, and domestic-partner benefits for city 
employees - not an inclusive list or a set of litmus tests by any means, 
just some of the stuff Greens want to work hard for. Electorally speaking, 
these are all excellent races for us because they're nominally nonpartisan 
(even though the people in these offices are generally identifiable as Dems 
or Pubs) - so there's no absurdly high signature requirements for getting 
on the ballot. None of these offices requires more than a hundred 
signatures to qualify to run - sigs are due for council the middle of next 
month, and for the school boards in mid-January. We won't be tilting at 
windmills (or windbags) here - Greens support could help solid candidates 
WIN these races.

By the way, we've put up a "thanks" page at www.carlforcongress.com that 
people may want to see - it includes a quick analysis of the Congressional 
race that expands on what I've written here. I'll update it right away with 
the citywide totals.

Grow we grow!
jb

At 05:19 PM 11/7/2002 -0600, Kranich, Kimberlie wrote:
>Agreed, Carl and team. Great job!
>
>We all sure wish you had gotten 5% overall, but it was real close!  Was it
>4.9 or 4.6 or 4.2% overall, do you know?  That 9% in Champaign CO. was
>great!
>
>Kimberlie
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alfred Kagan [mailto:akagan at uiuc.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:10 PM
> > To: Peace-discuss at lists.groogroo.com
> > Subject: [Peace-discuss] Thanks to Carl
> >
> >
> > Let's give a hardy round of applause to Carl for being out there for
> > us!  He put in a lot of energy and money and began a process to
> > change the terms of debate in the larger political arena. He rallied
> > a lot of support around his candidacy.  Thanks also should go to all
> > who worked so hard on the campaign.
> > --
> >
> >
> > Al Kagan
> > African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
> > Africana Unit, Room 328
> > University of Illinois Library
> > 1408 W. Gregory Drive
> > Urbana, IL 61801, USA
> >
> > tel. 217-333-6519
> > fax. 217-333-2214
> > e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
> >