Letter Writing Campaign

Hello friends, PADA’s existential crisis is upon us – the fight to keep Edgely hangs in the balance.  I am writing with a simple but incredibly important request of each of you.  There are in life very few times when spending ten minutes a day, every day, can make the kind of difference that will change the course of history, echo down the generations.  Long ago, I watched a son take his first steps during a Spring League at Edgely.  24 years later, I want the next generation of our community to grow up and thrive at Edgely.  To go from being single, to coupled, to maybe raising kids of their own at our beloved mecca.  However, there are some people in power are set against us.

 If the ultimate community in Philadelphia spends the next few months remaining on the sideline, Council-Person Curtis Jones and his people will get the support he needs to build a football stadium on Edgely.  It will be the end of our way of life.  Yet we have a chance to make our voices heard in a way that cannot be discounted, not by Curtis Jones, and not by his fellow council members.  All politicians count contacts on important issues.  Eventually there will be vote(s) at city council on our issue.  

The goal, starting now, is to make 1,000 contacts with city council members every week, from now until this thing is over.  The strongest two calls will always be to the council person from your own district if you live in Philadelphia, and to Curtis Jones, even if you live in another district.  Even if you live outside of Philadelphia entirely, your membership in PADA gives you the right and opportunity to call Curtis Jones and other members of City Counsel.  The ringing phone, and the voice proudly proclaiming that you are a PADA member, spend time and money in Jones’ district, and care deeply about this issue, will resonate, and your voice will be heard. 

The script below contains suggestions of what to say, along with the telephone numbers and addresses for each member of City Council.

I am asking everyone on this list to do two things: 

1.  make a few phone calls every day to the below numbers and write at least 2 postcards every week. 
   
   
2. Find a small group of friends and be in charge of getting them to make the calls and write the postcards.  Then let me Marc Davies know that you are taking up this effort – he is tracking community involvement marc@marcdavieslaw.com       

We are going to build a bigger and bigger list of people who will, before we are done, flood city hall with our voices.  This is our moment.  We may not have another.  Please respond to Marc via email if you are in. 

 GAME ON