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Al Gore's office has contacted the staff at AlGore.org and instructed them to cease with petition efforts to get Gore onto the state primary ballots. Attached below is the message that was sent out to organizers in response to this communication.

So where does this leave us?

I'm anxious that Dennis Kucinich is creeping up on Gore in the DFA pulse poll. What had been a decisive lead has dwindled to less than two percentage points, and counting.

I've posted a diary about Kucinich on both DFA and DailyKos, to try to take some of the steam from his engine. Please read and recommend:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/31/14583/143
http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/22736

Please urge your contacts to vote in Democracy For America's online presidential preference poll:
http://democracyforamerica.com/pulsepoll

DFA is a progressive organization of activists working to steer the Democratic Party toward progressive values by supporting candidates in primary and general elections, and they are running a poll of their membership to determine who their people are supporting. They have included a write-in option for Al Gore, and presently with fifty thousand DFAers having voteed he is winning the poll! See results here:
http://www.democracyforamerica.com

The Netroots For Gore GoogleGroup is planning to get everybody to create online content for Gore tomorrow, Thursday, September 13th. If you have a blog, post a message there about him tomorrow. If you take part in someone else's blog, post a message there. The goal is to create a massive swell of online buzz about Gore, to force attention.

Take a look at this post from the GoogleGroup:

http://groups.google.com/group/netrootsforgore/browse_thread/thread/faf9...

This is a big phat reminder that Thursday, Sept 13th is 'Blog for Gore

Please vote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19589213/

This is not just another online poll. Votes are being tallied for the Quill prize for book of the year. Al Gore's book 'The Assault On Reason' is the finalist in the "politics" category. If we can make it win the prize overall, that's another boost for Gore and his message.

Pass this link along to other Gore supporters!

Does anyone have any more information about this?

Gore visit set
August 30, 2007
BY STELLA FOSTER Sun-Times Columnist
http://www.suntimes.com/news/foster/534613,CST-NWS-stella30.article
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT and avid environmentalist Al Gore is set to speak Oct. 17 at the Economic Club of Chicago in the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency.

We should be ready to have a presence to welcome Gore, with signs and banners and petitions for people to sign. The petition to get onto the presidential primary ballot in Illinois for the February 5th election in the state is here:

Does anybody have Gore's home address?

I'm ready to start circulating a nominating petition for him here in Illinois. Illinois allows signatures to be gathered before a candidate has declared, they just can't be filed before the candidate declares. With a filing deadline of November 17, there's time for Gore to declare... but there isn't time for us to wait to start circulating.

The form is here:
http://www.elections.il.gov/Downloads/ElectionInformation/pdf/P-10.pdf

It's time for Gore to declare.

Here in Chicago we just hosted a union debate at Soldier Field, and during breaks the campaigns had their volunteers collecting signatures for nominating petitions for the primary.

That's right, with Illinois holding its primary on February 5th, as of this week the campaigns can now begin collecting signatures to appear on the ballot.

We really can't wait anymore. The time to collect signatures for a "please run" advisory petition is over; we need signatures on real petitions now.

Friday, August 3, 6pm, meet with other Gore supporters at the national blogger convention, YearlyKOS, here in Chicago. For details:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/19/131519/456
http://www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=21606
http://draftalgore.meetup.com/48/

This is a good opportunity to connect with other people from far afield, since YearlyKOS is a huge draw-- Sentors Clinton, Dodd Edwards, Obama, and Governor Richardson will all be in attendance.

CNN is linking to an online poll that could use more Gore votes:

http://www.2008presidentialpoll.com/

Please vote in it, and share the link with your own groups.