Urgent! Need a very simple favor to help stop CCA

From: RUPRI Blue Mountain [mailto:YIMBY-L@PO.MISSOURI.EDU] On Behalf Of
Frank Smith
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:37 PM

CCA is proposing to build a huge pen just outside Millen, Georgia, south of
Augusta.  They bought land to do this ten years ago. 

The local paper has a reader poll to assess community support.  It shows
very heavy support, but it's a "push poll" in the sense that is presents it
as an opportunity to develop jobs, but no negatives are mentioned, of
course.

If YIMBYs could log on to the paper and vote "No" for the prison,
astroturfing could be very helpful in terms of fighting this one off.  It's
critical that this be done ASAP as there's a vote coming up on November 1st
to decide the issue and we need to get the paper interested enough to run an
op ed.  We had an anti-prison ad in the paper yesterday.

I got an e-mail from a local this morning who's written to the paper to
protest the siting. I'm hoping we can generate some serious opposition in
the eight days we have remaining before the vote.

Please take just a moment to bring up the paper's main page and vote on the
left side of the page.  This will be a huge help at no cost to you.

Here's the URL to vote:  http://www.themillennews.com/

If you want to take a look at our ad first, here's the URL for that. It has
a link to the main page where the voting is taking place.
http://www.themillennews.com/ROP/Large/misc-PrivateCI.htm

Again, this should only take you a minute to do this.  You can only vote
once from any IPN.  I suspect CCA has already astroturfed it.

Thanks so much,

Frank

If you like, you could drop me a note for details:  fsmith@kanokla.net