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Election Day Volunteers Needed in Millbourne
Submitted by cmw on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 12:05am.
Dear Friends,
A historic political struggle is happening in Millbourne. You may have ridden past Millbourne on the El. It is a very small municipality. It is only ten square blocks. Years ago, the departure of a Sears store left it saddled with a huge hole in its tax base.
But Millbourne is also one of the most diverse small communities in Delaware County. Imagine if ten square blocks of West Philly had the power to elect its own mayor and council. Imagine what could be accomplished.
For the first time in many decades, there is a diverse slate of viable candidates running for local office that looks like the community there. They face a family that, in my opinion, has run the town like their own business for decades.
A few volunteers in Millbourne on Tuesday could make all the difference. I urge you to help them out. If you are doing any electoral work, I urge you to coordinate with them. Their contact info is below.
In Solidarity,
Chris White
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Kramer
Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Subject: solicitation for volunteers for Tuesday
To: chris.organizer@gmail.com
Cc: Jeanette MacNeille
We are campaigning in Millbourne in a tight race to gain the Mayor's seat and a Democratic majority on Council, which would be a first in at least thirty years. We have a first rate team and we are running hard.
With your help, we can win in Millbourne on November 3rd. Could you contribute a couple of hours of your time on election day? We need greeters, one person to drive, and a couple of people to take leaflets around to counteract the inevitable last minute attacks. We would appreciate food donations. We would love to see you.
Please call 484-461-8107 and let us know if you can help.
Thank you very much! Vote Democratic on November 3rd.
Millbourne really needs help
I wanted to volunteer to work the polls, but I have to be out of town. Millbourne is nearly colonial in its governance, with most of the land area owned by one connected person that takes up most of the land area of the town. It has sat vacant for speculative purposes for years.
Millbourne has a great community of many different ethnicities and cultures. It's a shame that they are held hostage for the benefit of a very very few.
Help them out if you can?
Joshua Vincent
www.urbantools.org
www.ourcommonwealth.org
Phree Philly
What a battle
On the one side you have a diverse, immigrant-heavy group of people trying to stand up for a more open democratic process where elected officials represent the voter's wishes versus a corrupt and unresponsive Republican machine backed by big money that just so happens to look nothing much at all like the actual demographics of Milbourne. Its almost a cartoonish contrast and yet Philly Democratic powers-that-be could not be less interested in helping this small neighboring jurisdiction open up to competitive small "d" democratic elections.
Oh and in a year where the city's budget was held hostage by a State Senator who represents the essence of whats wrong with the DelCo Republican machine and Milbourne is the smallest, easiest step in starting to dismantle that very same DelCo Republican machine dear Mr. Pileggi epitomizes.
Call me crazy but this is an election Philly progressive should care a lot about in a year when it became very, very, very clear that state politics and bad old GOP machines in the Philly burbs really do effect us.
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.