Monday, July 24, 2006

Letter writing campaign on Daniel's behalf-please help out!

Family + Friends of Daniel McG wrote:

http://www.supportdaniel.org/morehelp/letters.html

Please write your Senators and Congressperson about Daniel's case
In the interest of doing everything we can to secure Daniel's freedom, we are asking that you take an active role in writing to your Senators and Congressperson about the injustice of Daniel's situation. There are links, sample letters and more here.

Below you will find .pdf and .txt files to download. Please use these as a template to print out and mail to your Senators and congressional representatives. If you prefer, you can download the text file and use the letters as a reference, or paste the text into the email forms we are linking to (they do not provide public email addresses).


1) Write to your Senators about Daniel's case. We ask that you write to the Senators at their local and DC addresses to assure they see them.

a) NEW YORK STATE residents:

Senator Hillary Clinton
NY office: pdf text
DC office: pdf text
Link to email form

Senator Charles Schumer
NY office: pdf text
DC office: pdf text
Link to email form

b) OREGON residents:

Senator Ron Wyden
Eugene office: pdf text
Portland office: pdf text
DC office: pdf text
Link to email form

Senator Gordon Smith
Eugene office: pdf text
Portland office: pdf text
DC office: pdf text
Link to email form

c) ALL US residents (including NY and OR), please write to a number of Senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee and reference comments they made in the past on this topic (see our examples in the documents below).

Senator Barack Obama
Illinois office: pdf text
DC office: pdf text
Link to email form

Senator Frank Lautenberg
New Jersey office: pdf text
DC office: pdf text
Link to email form

Senator Jim Jeffords
Vermont office: pdf text
DC office: pdf text
Link to email form

d) If you are not a NY or OR resident, please go here to find your Senators' contact information.



2) Write to your Congressperson. You can find contact information here.

Please also consider writing to the Congresspeople below who have not been afraid to make strong stances on issues in the past.

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney: pdf text
Link to email form

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: pdf text
Link to email form (Note: At prompt select "Ohio" and type in zip "44107"

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