2012/3/14 Justus Römeth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:squig@dfpx.de">squig@dfpx.de</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>I have very mixed feelings about this as well. It either means I will finish my thesis quickly or very very late oO.</div></blockquote><div><br>Tough decission. Best of luck whichever side the dice falls upon!<br> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div>The best commercial for the pirates of NRW and S-H would of course be making it into the Saarland parliament, and you guys do more to reach that goal than I ever could, so I know, and thanks!<div>
<br></div><div>Well:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="" alt="Inline image 1"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Jerry Weyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:weyerjerry@gmail.com" target="_blank">weyerjerry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't know if I should say "I'm sorry" or "Congratulations", but count on our help! :)<div>
<br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Jerry<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Justus Römeth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roemeth@gmail.com" target="_blank">roemeth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Just a short FIY:<div><br></div><div>It looks like the state parliament of North-Rhine-Westfalia is dissolving itself, meaning there will be elections there within the next 60 days.</div>
<div><br></div><div>NRW is Germany's most populous state with 17 million inhabitants (more than the Netherlands(!)). It is a mix of urban places like Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, and the formerly industrious Ruhr area (Dortmund, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, and Duisburg) along with some more rural areas with some student and other midsized towns like Münster, Bielefeld, Paderborn, Siegen, and Aix-la-chapelle. PPDE was polling at around 5-9% recently, so there is a good chance of us making it above the 5% threshold. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This year was supposed to be pretty slow as far as elections were concerned, with only the elections in the relatively small states Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein coming up. Well, we were already pretty mobilized and ready to help the pirates there, since both states are rather rural, which makes the pirates few and far apart, but now it would be of utmost importance to make it into the NRW parliament, and we do have good chances of accomplishing that. This means that help from the surrounding countries (France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands) is very welcome to reach that goal, of course. Since it is almost at the same time as the Schleswig-Holstein election, it will likely cost us some helpers there, so if pirates from Denmark (or Sweden on their way to buy cheap beer) can help out there, too, it would be grand.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think if we make it into the NRW parliament that would be a bigger event than the Berlin election last year (whereas Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein would have been about the same size, maybe a bit smaller). Our chances for a lot of publicity there are good, and, just like Berlin, this would be at the very least Europe-wide. So see if you can spare a weekend or two until the elections are happening to help the pirates in NRW if you live closeby.</div>
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