Where we are with exactly 30 days left: In the last few months Oklahomans for Health has gathered roughly half of the 156k signatures needed to make the ballot. We have broken voter registration records around Oklahoma and dictated the political discourse in this state. There are 90 business locations around the state hosting the petition full time. With an active volunteer list of 1k people and enough signature packets in circulation for several hundred thousand signatures. We have three active road trip teams circling the state and we have done all of this having spent total to date: 50k dollars. We are well within the ability to achieve the ballot but in order to ensure victory we need an influx of cash. Before we started this process, no one believed it possible in Oklahoma. Most Oklahomans werent even aware that a direct voter petition for a constitutional amendment existed. With exactly 30 days left, and all the resources available to individual volunteers, we can still make this happen and we can do so on the cheap. For a comparison to petition initiatives in other states and the typical budget one needs to look no further than Oregon. Their recent initiative was sponsored by the group New Approach Oregon. Supporters had to collect 87,213 valid signatures by July 3, 2014 in order to land the initiative on the ballot. Supporters of the initiative began collecting signatures on April 17, 2014. They announced that they had gathered 145,000 signatures on June 26, 2014, and submitted them to the secretary of state on the same day. They also had a budget of 500k supported by the Drug Policy Alliance and this was their second attempt after failing two years ago. We in Oklahoma have had zero national or out of state support and are on the verge of succeeding in a deeply conservative part of the country with a tenth of the budget. If we can double our budget, and raise another 50k we can pull off the unimaginable. We need to double our road trip presence for the next 30 days in order to ensure victory but that requires everyone that believes in health freedom for Oklahoma, and the country, to step up to the plate and help us. If you would like to make a large donation directly to the Chairman of the board please contact Sam, the volunteer coordinator at Sam@oklahomansforhealth, send me your contact info and I will call you personally. As always, every donation to a 501c4 is tax deductible up to $5,000. If you prefer to donate electronically the link is: gofundme/9swjjc
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:04:07 +0000
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