Gambia-L: A mail from someone in favour of the petition. Ebrima ______________________________________________________________ >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Your Letter to Mr... Ford >Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 > >My Dear Brother, > >Thanks again for re-directing the Ford petition mailings together with >George Sarr. In this computer age, collective emailing does become >absolutely effective than standard postings. I saw that brother Saul Khan >has emailed you Ford's Email address. I was on the ALABAMA STATE website, >but I could not fetch Ford's email yet; I guess Saul's seems to be the >right one, but I will confirm to make sure that that is in fact the right >one by Monday. In the event you would like to know more information about >Ford, here is Alabama State Representative website address: > > www.legislature.state.al.us > >Brother Saul Khan's suggestion >------------------------------ >Ebrima, the suggestion made by brother Saul to only allow your petition >letter mailed to Ford instead of a collective mailings does not seem to be >a good idea. His argument that collective mailings might annoy or disorient >Ford does not hold water. This is America, where each and every >Congressman, Senator, Mayor or even local county representatives all >encourage collective mailings because they all make decisions based on >opinion polls. It is the numbers that matters here in America, and nothing >else. Even the White House encourages and welcomes collective mailings from >the general public, because it does aid the President in making tough >decisions based on what his pollsters tell him. > >On that note, I do not think that just sending one single petition letter >to Ford would register anything, though, your petition letter to him is >powerful and absolutely convincing. To that end, Ebrima, I opine that >collective mailings should be pursued once again, even if we are going to >loose the battle. The essence is, we are here to register our points to >important people like Ford, who happens to be founder of WORLD CONFERENCE >OF MAYORS. Let's struggle continues. > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------