[pp.int.general] 120 Days Left for Utah in the USA

[Amelia Andersdotter]

+ and call it open source or something.

On 16/10/2007, Amelia Andersdotter <teirdes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Get 200 girls to walk topless in your favour. :D
>
> /amelia
>
> On 16/10/2007, Ray Jenson <ray.jenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello, Everyone!
> >
> > I'm needing a bit of help, and I hope that you can all assist me.
> >
> > Today marks a very important day. Today marks 120 days from the deadline
> > in February to have all of the signatures ready and counted for Utah to
> > be permitted to form the Pirate Party of Utah.
> >
> > However, there is a problem. In spite of our attempts to gain some
> > measure of attention with the press, it simply hasn't happened. We're
> > simply not making enough of a wave to gain the kind of attention we need
> > to get people interested and aware. I'm still running into people
> > regularly who have never heard of the Pirate Party, or who think that
> > we're actually a lobbying group without much in the way of support. We
> > aren't making a stir, and so the media just doesn't care. The perception
> > is that we simply lack support (though the supporters I have found tend
> > to be rather excited-sounding about the idea of there being a political
> > party as long as they personally don't need to do anything more than join).
> >
> > Truth be told, we are indeed lacking in signatures. We announced 60 days
> > ago that we were looking to collect signatures to petition the
> > government for political party status. It has not happened yet, and at
> > the current rate we're not going to qualify.
> >
> > What I need from everyone are some ideas about how to generate enough
> > publicity to make this happen. I'm completely out of ideas, and the
> > press just is not interested in publishing stories, because all of the
> > press in Utah is currently owned by members of one or the other major
> > parties. Except for my own newspaper, which is not yet publishing due to
> > my lack of money, but which I hope to be having soon.
> >
> > I hope to hear any ideas soon, as this second 60 days needs to move
> > much, much faster. Official count on the signatures has not yet reached
> > 50 out of 2000 needed. If we go with electronic signatures, we need
> > 3,400 instead of 2,000, according to the current Lieutenant Governor's
> > rules.
> >
> > Thank you, anyone and all.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Ray Jenson
> > Interim Administrator
> > Pirate Party of Utah.
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