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eNewsletter - October 30, 2008
The elections are only a few days away! And all across the country, the recovery community has been working tirelessly to Make Recovery Voices Count. These recovery advocates are building our recovery advocacy movement by engaging in our nation’s civic life and their voices will be stronger as we look beyond November 4th.
We have an exciting story to tell about how people in recovery, families, friends and allies are speaking up and participating in the 2008 elections. Recovery community organizations and allies have organized to register tens of thousands of voters, educate candidates and the public and on November 4, they will be getting-out-the-vote all across the country. This is historic.
There have been many well-attended and informative Town Hall meetings in Connecticut (4), San Francisco and Virginia. The last one will be today in Lexington, Kentucky, sponsored by People Advocating Recovery. Read more here.On October 26 there was a Town Hall meeting in Richmond, VA with Sheriffs from three jurisdictions (below) joining recovery advocates and allies.
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Candidates appeared at Recovery Month events and signed Candidate Pledges. The Missouri Recovery Network sent out the 5 Questions for Candidates to candidates for state-wide legislative races and published the results. In Ohio, Ohio Citizen Advocates published a 2008 Voter Guide and NCADD New Jersey released Decision 2008 New Jersey General Election Guide. You can click on the images below to check them out!
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And leading up to Election Day, get-out-the-vote activities have been organized around the country. We’ll fill you in on how they went after the Elections.
This November and in the years ahead, join us in making Recovery Voices Count!