Dear Supporters,
Many
of the very same anti-gay groups who helped pass the discriminatory Amendment 2
in our state have now targeted the City of Gainesville, forcing a referendum on a
charter amendment that would strip away the City's civil rights protections for
gay and transgender residents.
We have only
seven weeks!
Gainesville's voters will decide this charter amendment on
March 24, 2009, only seven weeks from now. If it passes, it will make it
legal to fire someone, deny someone housing, turn someone awayfrom a restaurant or hotel, or
deny them a loan solely because they are gay or transgender. But it
doesn't stop there. This charter amendment would forever bar the City of Gainesville from ever
providing protections to LGBT people from discrimination.
The advocates of
this amendment are using the usual fear tactics, spending thousands on
television ads that show a sexual predator following a young girl into a public
restroom.
Fight fear with
truth by joining SAVE Dade
How can we fight back? This time, the answer is simple: turnout in the Gainesville election is
expected to be between 12 and 16 thousand voters. With your help and the aid of
other volunteers, we can talk to every voter and identify supporters who can be
turned out to vote against this divisive and hateful amendment.
SAVE Dade is
holding phone banks every Thursday evening to call Gainesville voters. Over the past
two weeks, SAVE Dade has already called about 3,000 of the target voters, and
has identified many supporters and recruited numerous volunteers.
Your help is
needed
Join SAVE Dade's
phone banks and become part of this statewide effort. We cannot stand by
and allow basic rights to be taken away from LGBT people in Gainesville. Even worse, passage of this
amendment would make it more difficult to pass any anti-discrimination
legislation in the entire state of Florida.
We have only seven
weeks to stop this hateful charter amendment. Call 305-751-7283 now to sign up
for a phone bank. If you cannot contribute your time, help SAVE Dade continue
this vitally important work by making a donation today.
SAVE Dade's
Impact:
Goal = securing
500 votes for Gainesville
To date:
-5 phone banks
-56 volunteer phone
bankers
-3000 calls placed
-350 "No" votes secured
-33 volunteers/donors recruited for Gainesville
-Over 700 volunteer hours equating to $13,657
in volunteer wages
invested in equality
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