Subject: For Immediate Release: Grassroots Fuels Prop 89 By Giving $5 To Buck the System

From: "Sara Nichols, Yes on 89" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:20:17 -0400 (EDT)

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Grassroots Fuels Prop 89 By Giving $5 To Buck the System
Five Bucks vs. Millions to Level the Playing Field
September 21, 2006
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California – Fueled by disgust with the
current system and unprecedented fundraising by big
oil, big insurance and developers to swamp the
airwaves with their perspective in the November
election, grassroots outsiders of both parties are
taking to the internet to raise five bucks at a time
to support Proposition 89.	

The
internet campaign, called “Buck the System” is
seeking to raise five dollars from 100,000 voters to
counteract the special interest money that has been
pouring into the No on 89 and other campaign
coffers.  And the campaign is succeeding.  In its
first hours, the campaign raised thousands of
dollars and is being forwarded all over
California.

“Buck the System is about average
people saying ‘enough is enough.’  We’re fed up with
the crisis of corruption in our government and we
know that our voices will not get heard without
money, so while the other side can turn to big oil,
drug companies and tobacco companies, we turn to the
people,” said Susan Lerner, executive director of
California Clean Money Action Fund, one of
Proposition 89’s key supporters.

If passed by
California voters on November 7th, Proposition 89
would establish a voluntary “Clean Money” system for
full public funding of election campaigns modeled
upon successful programs already in place in Arizona
and Maine and recently adopted by Connecticut.  It
is designed to level the election playing field,
open up the ballot to more good candidates, and stop
political corruption by making elected officials
accountable to voters, not big money
donors.

“This kind of campaign is a natural for
the internet,” said veteran blogger Bob Brigham who
blogs for Proposition 89.  “It’s viral, it’s
exciting and it’s David vs. Goliath.  People of all
political stripes are stepping up to say sure, I’ll
give $5 to end political corruption.”

(For more
information on Proposition 89: 
www.BucktheSystemNow.org (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=axx9qybab.0.n4e8qybab.kenmtrbab.10855&ts=S0205&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.BucktheSystemNow.org))

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For More Information about Prop 89:	www.89Now.org (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=axx9qybab.0.r57vqxbab.kenmtrbab.10855&ts=S0205&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.89Now.org)

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Clean Money Now - Yes on 89 is a committee 
of leading reform groups working with Californians 
for Clean Elections to pass Proposition 89, the 
California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act.  
For more info on Prop 89 and its endorsers, go to 89Now.org (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=axx9qybab.0.rjpgzxbab.kenmtrbab.10855&ts=S0205&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.89now.org%2F).

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