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CARPE ELECTION HELP US BUILD <strong>CRPA</strong>’S CAMPAIGN MACHINE 2.0 This election cycle is unlike any we have witnessed in many years. Americans in general, and Californians in particular, are in an epic struggle to preserve our right to keep and bear firearms for ourselves and future generations. Long standing civil rights, freedoms, and American values are under siege from opportunistic power hungry politicians with ulterior motives. All of us have watched and listened while candidates and media talking heads use gun control rhetoric as a tool to demonize those who choose to own a gun for sport or to defend themselves or their families and to advance a statist political agenda. They distort the truth about firearms owners and about the social utility of firearms. And this all comes at a threatening time when lone wolf guerilla terrorists’ attacks make the ability to protect ourselves and our families more important than ever. NO GUN VOTE LEFT BEHIND To preserve our rights, the vote of every gun owner is absolutely critical to prevent more anti-gun politicians from being elected and more gun bans being passed in California. If all gun owners voted, we could stop ill-conceived laws before they can get off the ground. Consider this: the statewide voter turnout for the November, 2014 election in California was 42.2 percent. Jerry Brown won the governor’s office by 1,216,199 votes. And that was an election with an unknown Republican opponent who barely showed up. If even half of the estimated 8-12 million firearm owners in California registered to vote and actually voted, gun owners would gain a majority in the state legislature and control many state level offices. So, did you vote in the last election? Did all your friends? We cannot leave any gun vote behind! If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. If you don’t vote, shame on you! FIVE DEGREES TO DOMINATION Gun owners have only to get through five degrees to dominate California politics. If ten new voters register, and they each get ten more, and they each get ten more, after five cycles, there would be 1 million new pro-gun voters! Help <strong>CRPA</strong> make it happen! The deadline to register to vote is October 24, 2016, but there is no reason to wait. It only takes 5 minutes to register and will make all the difference next November! <strong>CRPA</strong> has paper voter registration forms available free of charge for you to distribute. Contact us at contact@ crpa.org. <strong>CRPA</strong> will provide as many as you want, as often as you want. Folks can also register online right now! http://registertovote.ca.gov/. Send that link to your friends. Push it out with your emails! All gun owners need to reach out to register at least ten other gun owners, and see that they actually vote too! Every range, instructor, and gun retailer should have voter registration forms available for customers. If your local range or store doesn’t, give them some. And ask them to put that website address and a graphic on their website! Folks can also elect to permanently vote by mail so they don’t even have to drive to the polling place. They just mail back the official ballot that they get in the mail. It will be sent to them well before Election Day. All gun owners must commit to register to vote and should vote by mail so they don’t slip up and miss going to the polls on election day. BUILDING <strong>CRPA</strong> CAMPAIGN MACHINE 2.0 Successful political campaigns have changed. Technology is making it much easier to communicate a specific message to a specific voter. Social media has made it easier to get a message out. Data mining and list development and cross referencing are replacing old school paid media buys on TV and radio. To stay effective, <strong>CRPA</strong> is adopting these new techniques to influence elections. Help support <strong>CRPA</strong>’s effort to rebuild the <strong>CRPA</strong> campaign machine by donating, but just as important by subscribing to <strong>CRPA</strong>’s alerts and by sharing, forwarding, those messages to ALL of your friends. Seize the elections! #winning! All hands on deck! COMMITMENT TO THE CAUSE, C.D. MICHEL, <strong>CRPA</strong> PRESIDENT & GENERAL COUNSEL California Rifle & Pistol Association <strong>March</strong> TFL <strong>CRPA</strong> FIRING LINE 3
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