424 signatures delivered for HR 1207!
Here in Mankato, Minnesota, a group of five of us took our lunch hour to deliver a stack of petitions with a total of 424 signatures to the local office of Congressman Tim Walz (District 1). There was only one staffer present when we arrived; she welcomed and thanked us for our petition. She said that in the years she's worked there she has only received one other petition for anything at the local office. She did say that Congressman Walz has always been in favor of transparency in government, so hopefully this petition will give him the nudge he needs to become a cosponsor of HR 1207. And of course, we all forgot to bring a camera. We did, however, bring a copy of Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism, and gave it as a gift to the office. I'm guessing it probably won't be read, but hey, anything's possible. We had collected signatures from a wide variety of sources over the weekend and Monday--some from downtown, some on campus, some from single-family homes, townhouses, local parks (on the days it wasn't raining!), from our workplaces, and more. Our fastest collections came from the food court at the local public university, where we could approach a table with multiple clipboards and get several signatures in just a few minutes. A number of petitions were faxed or snail mailed to us from other parts of the district. To get signatures faster with less paper, we used this 10-signature-per-page version (.pdf) of the petition. Perhaps more important than the 424 signatures we garnered were the 500-odd conversations we had with fellow residents on the lack of transparency in the bailout bonanza and the Federal Reserve itself. Most of these conversations were about two minutes long. A good number of people were already familiar with the Federal Reserve, but many more had little knowledge of the Fed or its powers; we didn't ask those people to sign, of course, but gave them our "Fed Factsheet" based on information pulled from the Campaign for Liberty site. I would estimate that about 20% of people we talked to didn't want to sign (don't like to be on lists, not sure about the subject, no time, etc.) but I didn't talk to anyone in favor of continued government secrecy and closed-door policy meetings. Congress, are you listening? Categories: Campaign For Liberty, Grassroots News, Action Item Tags: HR 1207, petitions, canvassing Showing comments 1—11 of 11
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