SEND A MESSAGE TO SOUTH DAKOTA !!!!!

This is an exciting development:  FOUR NATIVE AMERICAN PRO-CHOICE WOMEN RUNNING FOR THE SOUTH DAKOTA STATE LEGISLATURE.  Most of them face anti-choice Democrats in the primary, which is coming up soon on JUNE 6th, so your financial support is needed at once; please don't put it off!  Even a few dollars goes a long way in South Dakota.

These women are creating an historical first in SD.  They are Charon Asetoyer, Faith Spotted Eagle, Paula Long Fox and Theresa Spry.  And when they win their primary races, they will join Theresa Two Bulls, an incumbent Senator running again for the Pine Ridge district seat, making FIVE Native women running on the Democratic ticket for state legislative offices.

AND! if each of these fine candidates makes it through her primary and wins in the general election she will REPLACE a legislator who VOTED FOR SD's ATROCIOUS BAN ON ABORTION!  In fact, most of them face antichoice Democrats in the primary and that's what makes OUR help NOW so vastly important.

Help move these dynamic, progressive women candidates thru their primaries!  They're running on huge issues like reproductive health rights,including access to abortion, emergency contraceptives and pregnancy care. But they're also running on other issues important to their districts and to all of us - sustainable energy sources, clean water protections, living wages, quality public education, quality health care for all, affordable child care, creating communities free of domestic violence and sexual assault and even testing for depleted uranium on soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan (candidate Long Fox will represent the military families of Ellsworth Air Force Base) to highlight just a few.

Political races in South Dakota don't take as much money to run as big state, big city races, but that doesn't mean they can run on nothing and so far it seems pretty unlikely the SD Dem Party is going to pitch in for them before the primaries.  Our job is to help them win their primaries in a big way so that they are "viable" and can perhaps get their party support in the general election. 

A few dollars to each of these campaigns will help create change in South Dakota that we'll all feel wherever we live.  The individual limit for donations to candidates in SD is $250, but $100, $50, or $25 can do a lot - from helping to pay for candidate forums to ads in hometown papers and radio spots. Every single dollar gets used well!

Won't we feel darned good for them, for SD and about ourselves when they win? 

Send your contributions to these campaign addresses and don't forget to include your occupation and employer name if you are giving $100 or more. 

Charon Asetoyer (Dist. 21 Senate)
Campaign for Change
P.O. Box 472
Lake Andes, SD  57356

Charon@charles-mix.com

Faith Spotted Eagle (Dist. 21 House)
Faith Spotted Eagle for Change
P.O. Box 762
Lake Andes, SD  57356

Eagletrax@hotmail.com
more: Spotted
Eagle: Deksi (Uncle) Vine,
Braveheart

Society)

Paula Long Fox (Dist. 33 House)
10520 Canyon Place
Rapid City, SD  57707
LongFox7@aol.com

(more: American Indian Education   Foundation)

Theresa Spry (Dist. 35 Senate)
821 Halley Ave.
Rapid City, SD  57701

Sprybunch@aol.com
(more: Former teacher, family planning counselor for 14 years,
Chair of the League of Democratic Women among many other
efforts on behalf of women and her community.)

Thanks for everything you're doing for these candidates.  We'll keep you updated as we head for June 6th and beyond!  And don't forget to PASS THIS ON.  We're not just building grassroots political action, we're building grassfires of progressive activism that can spread across South Dakota and our whole country.

Yours in solidarity,

Laura Ross
Pat Reuss
Sally Roesch Wagner
Laura Flanders
LaDonna Harris
Katha Pollitt
and add your name in solidarity!

Barbara (from Vermont)