[GPCA Updates] Help Amend the 3 Strikes Law

[Green Party of California Updates]

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In 2004 the Green Party was instrumental in "almost" passing an amendment to 
California's draconian Three Strikes Law.

We have another shot.

The 2008 Three Strikes Initiative is printed and ready for 438,000 good
signatures to get this initiative on the November 2008 ballot.

But we need petition coordinators.

Please contact Donna Warren at donnafacts at yahoo.com or call the FACTS
(Families to Amend California's Three Strikes) office at 213-746-4844 if you
will help with this initiative drive in any shape or fashion.

The Green Party has an opportunity to be in the forefront of amending the
most outrageous law on California's books.  We will make history!

If you're against the death penalty - please help with this initiative.

If you're against the prison industrial complex - please help with this
initiative.

If you're for humanity - please help with this initiative.

If you believe in the 10 key values of the Green Party - please help with
this initiative.

If not for the lies of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and other politicians
seeking to exploit the issue and the $10 million they poured into a
last-minute blitz against Prop. 66, the law would have been amended in
November 2004.

Our new initiative, The Three Strikes Reform Act of 2008, restricts
"strikes" to serious and/or violent felonies only.  No longer will minor
offenses be counted as strikes.  Polling we recently conducted among
California's likely general election voters shows that support for reform is
as high as it has ever been - and that, since we have crafted a more
strategic and thoughtful initiative, we can even withstand the vicious,
deceptive attacks we know will come.

Here are some highlights from that poll:

  a.. 68% of Californians would support this reform - even after hearing the
toughest arguments against it, arguments based on the same things we heard
in 2004.

  b.. Fully 80% of voters say our new thinking - that, unlike the initiative
in 2004, this one restricts resentencing to those who have never been
convicted of murder, child molestation, or rape - is a very persuasive
reason to vote for the measure.

  c.. 68% of voters favor resentencing those whose Third Strike is
nonviolent or non-serious.

We almost made it last time with your help, and this time, we have a much
stronger, more strategically crafted initiative.  But we need your support
again if we're going to make this happen!



Donna J. Warren, Green Party of Los Angeles County

http://www.facts1.com