January 2012
Dear Friends,
We are excited and pleased to announce our plans to seek re-election to the Minnesota State Legislature in 2012. Your past support has created a very strong DFL tradition in Southwest Minneapolis, and we ask once again for your assistance as we prepare for this crucial election, beginning on Tuesday, February 7th at your neighborhood DFL precinct caucus.
Minnesota's quality of life and core values came under unprecedented attack last year. With majorities in the Minnesota Senate and House, the Republicans pushed measures to:
- Slash support for health care, public safety, education, environmental protection, public transit and basic human services;
- Erode reproductive choice, cut support for human rights, eliminate collective bargaining, and increase the state's reliance on coal;
- Protect the wealthiest from contributing one more cent to our shared prosperity, instead insisting, after forcing a government shutdown, on a budget built on gimmicks that forces future deficits, cuts to essential services, increased property taxes, borrowing from school districts and the state's tobacco endowment;
- Place a constitutional amendment on November's ballot to forever ban marriage for loving, committed same sex couples.
As your legislators, we fought alongside many of you against these initiatives. Minnesota is better than this. Minnesota invests in opportunity for everyone. We build communities from the foundations of our shared values: equality, generosity, opportunity. We uphold the hopes and aspirations of every citizen and family.
As the 2012 session begins, we will continue to advocate with you, our community allies, for social and economic justice in Minnesota. And that starts at our neighborhood caucuses.
- What?
- Precinct Caucuses
- When?
- Tuesday, February 7 at 7 p.m.
- Where?
- Find the location of your caucus on the back of this sheet or through the Secretary of State's web site, www.sos.state.mn.us
DFL precinct caucuses set the stage for Democratic victories at the local, state and national levels in November 2012. Through getting out the vote in Southwest Minneapolis we will defeat the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, as well as help re-elect Congressman Ellison, Senator Klobuchar and President Obama.
We are honored to serve as your legislative representatives at the State Capitol and look forward to continuing to provide progressive leadership for Southwest Minneapolis. We hope to see you at caucuses on February 7th.
Thanks so much for all of your support. Together we will keep fighting for a better Minnesota!
Sincerely,
Frank Hornstein
State Representative
District 60B
D. Scott Dibble
State Senator
District 60
p.s. We would be very grateful if you could make contributions to our campaigns so we can get started right away on getting the word out about this important election at the upcoming caucuses and endorsing convention.
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