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A mail from someone in favour of the petition.

Ebrima

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>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
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>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.
>

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