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Saturday, Sunday and Election Day Work In Erie, Pa. Our friends in Erie, Pennsylvania need our help to ensure that Kerry wins this key swing state. Kerry seems to have a small lead in Pennsylvania, and if he is going to win in Pa. he must do well in Erie. They are asking people to travel to Erie this weekend as well as on Election day. If you can help out down there please consider spending the final days in Erie. The address of the Erie HQ is 1002 State Street, on the corners of State and 10th Streets in downtown Erie. The phone number to the office is 814-454-1600. They will arrange for housing for anyone who wants to stay overnight, so contact them to go down. We will also be going on our regular Saturday and Sunday day trips to Erie. The group will leave the Wegmans' parking lot on Walden Avenue, across from the Galleria Mall and off of the Thruway Exit 52E, at 8:30 am and return back to Buffalo around 7:00. To sign up for either trip please drop me and our trip Captain Ginni Basil and e-mail by Friday evening. Ginni's e-mail is affabelle @ yahoo.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Election Day In Ohio Ohio still needs hundreds more volunteers to combat the roughly 3,000 paid workers that the Republicans are bringing to Ohio to help SUPRESS the vote. We need people in Ohio to help ensure that everyone who wants to vote does vote and that those votes are counted. They need help in Cleveland and Youngstown, and if we get a large enough crew they will provide us a bus or vans to take the group to Ohio. This would entail you to travel to Ohio on Sunday evening, attending a training seminar on Monday and working at least a 6 hour shift on Tuesday. If you are interested in this effort please drop Mark Poloncarz an e-mail ASAP mpoloncarz @ yahoo.com. DON'T FORGET, IF YOU PLAN ON WORKING OUT OF NEW YORK ON ELECTION DAY YOU WILL NEED TO VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT. AN ABSENTEE BALLOT CAN BE OBTAINED IN PERSON FROM YOUR COUNTY'S BOARD OF ELECTIONS THROUGH NOVEMBER 1ST!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call Local Voters From Your Home for John Kerry In addition to calling voters in Iowa we are also calling local voters to persuade them to get out and vote for John Kerry & John Edwards in WNY. Initial results to these calls have been very positive, and every vote that we bring out for John Kerry will help all Democratic candidates. If you would like to pick up a list they are available in our local HQ. Please be advised these cannot be e-mailed, so please do not ask for the lists to be e-mailed to you. Because the election is only 7 days away we need these calls to be made as soon as possible and then the results be returned to Mark immediately after. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Election Day Volunteers in WNY - Training Seminar on Saturday 10/30 For those of you not able to travel to Pennsylvania or Ohio we need many volunteers here in WNY to help on E-Day. We will be holding a training and discussion seminar Saturday, October 30th. The seminar will take place in Cheektowaga immediately after this event: This Saturday @ 11:00am join ECDC for the 2nd Annual Hillary Clinton Get Out the Vote Rally Higgins for Congress Cheektowaga Headquarters Corner of Dick Road & George Urban Blvd (Valu Center Home Plaza) Come for the Rally - Stay for the neighborhood canvas If you plan to volunteer on election day and didn't make Thursday's meeting, please go to the Clinton rally & stay for the brief training seminar and the assignment of districts to be covered and specific jobs for Election Day. If you are able to volunteer your time on E-Day please drop mark an e-mail and try to make it to the training and assignment seminar Saturday. There are many jobs we need to fill for Election Day, from drivers to callers and to those walking door-to-door bringing out voters. So come on down and help elect our next President by bringing out a huge vote for Kerry in WNY!! Local Campaign Contacts As always, to read the latest local and national campaign news please join our local Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/buffaloniagara4johnkerry/. Don't forget you can still make a donation to the effort by donating to the DNC. All money raised by the DNC will be used for get out the vote efforts. To make a donation to the DNC E-Patriots secure account please click here: https://www.democrats.org/epatriots/give.html?sourcecode=E004793. If you haven't helped before, now is the time. The race is a toss up in most national polls, and of course is still up in the air in at least 10 of the swing states including Iowa, Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin. Whatever assistance you can provide will definitely help the cause. As always, thanks for your past support and working together we will elect John Kerry and John Edwards on November 2nd!! Mark Poloncarz Buffalo & WNY Coordinator Kerry-Edwards Victory 2004 Ellicott Square Bldg., Suite 115 Buffalo, New York 14203 716.853-2511