[okeefe-updates] Only two weeks left--important Green Party petition information!

[James O'Keefe for State Treasurer]

GREEN PARTY PETITION DRIVE / JAMES O’KEEFE CAMPAIGN UPDATE

IN THIS EMAIL:

1) AN URGENT CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS!
2) GREEN PARTY CONVENTION / EARTH FEST PETITIONING THIS SATURDAY
3) SIGNATURE CELEBRATION IN CAMBRIDGE THIS SUNDAY
4) A CALL TO IMMEDIATELY TURN IN SIGNATURES YOU CURRENTLY HAVE

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1) AN URGENT CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!

As most of you know, the Massachusetts Green Party is at a critical moment. If 
we can gather enough signatures by May 7 to get on the ballot, Jill Stein, 
Anthony Lorenzen, and James O’Keefe will have an unprecedented opportunity to 
compete with the big money candidates in November and the Green Party will 
likely retain its current ballot status, allowing it to remain the fastest 
growing party in Massachusetts. 

If we can’t gather enough signatures, the campaigns will be unable to compete 
and the Green Party will lose ballot status. We can’t let this happen! The next 
two weeks are the most critical two weeks of the campaigns.

Right now, the Jill Stein for Governor campaign has about 10,000 signatures; 
the Anthony Lorenzen campaign has about 9,000 signatures; and the James O’Keefe 
for State Treasurer campaign has about 7,000 signatures. In order to ensure 
that all the campaigns get enough verified signatures to withstand a challenge, 
we must double these numbers in the next two weeks. This is entirely possible, 
as the rate of volunteers gathering signatures has already more than tripled in 
the past two weeks!! 

We need at least 100 volunteers to commit to gathering 50 signatures per week 
for the next two weeks. For an average petitioner, this should only take 5 
hours per week—less than one hour per day!! 

Currently, the Stein campaign has over 4,000 contributors, the O’Keefe campaign 
has over 1,500 contributors, and the Massachusetts Green Party has about 5,000 
members. Surely, of these numbers, 100 people can step forward and accept this 
challenge.

Of course, if 200 people step forward, or 500, it will be less work for 
everyone!

If you are ready to accept this challenge, please respond to this email and let 
us know! Be sure to include your phone number and say whether you have already 
been petitioning, whether will be petitioning alone or with a local group, and 
whether you would like to find out about local petitioning groups. The events 
described below (in this email) will also be great opportunities for you to 
join with other petitioners to get those signatures!

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2) EARTH FEST PETITIONING / GREEN PARTY CONVENTION THIS SATURDAY

This Saturday, Boston is holding its annual Earth Fest on the Esplanade. 
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend, to celebrate Earth Day 
and to listen to great live music. We are organizing dozens of petitioners to 
gather signatures for all the statewide Green Party candidates at this event, 
as well as at other locations throughout the Greater Boston area. We will be 
going out in shifts throughout the day.If you are interested in joining us, 
please call Shelley at 617-628-2922 or respond to this email at 
info at jamesokeefe.org. 

Also on Saturday, the Massachusetts Green Party is holding it annual 
congress/candidate nominating convention at Bunker Hill Community College in 
Boston. Greens from across the state will gather to officially nominate the 
Green Party candidates for office and vote on other Green business. Votes on 
important business is scheduled primarily for the morning hours, and convention 
attendees will be invited to leave the convention early to join petitioners at 
Earth Fest and throughout the city. If you are interested in attending the 
convention, please contact the Mass Green Party office immediately at (978) 688-
2068.

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3) SIGNATURE CELEBRATION IN CAMBRIDGE THIS SUNDAY

This Sunday, join hundreds of Green Party volunteers at a petitioning blow-out 
at Mama Gaia’s Café in Cambridge. The “Signature Celebration” will feature all 
statewide candidates, live music, and lots of group petitioning. At our first 
Mama Gaia’s event, we gathered 800 signatures per candidate; at this event, we 
want to double that number. Please help us make this possible.

If you came to the first Mama Gaia’s event, you know this will be a good time! 
If you didn’t, find out what all the buzz is about! 

The Signature Celebration will begin at 11 a.m. with music, snacks, and 
candidate speeches. At noon, we will all head out to petition. At five, we will 
gather back together at Mama Gaia’s for more food, music and celebrating. Come 
for the music, food and fun, but please, please, stay for the petitioning. We 
need your help!

Mama Gaia’s is located at 401 Mass. Ave. (on the left side of the road if 
you’re traveling toward Boston). Please plan to arrive at the event by noon to 
join the petitioners. If you are late, though, don’t worry--volunteers will 
direct you to the nearest petitioning group. Please call us at 617-628-2922 to 
let us know you’re coming or for more information.

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5) A CALL TO IMMEDIATELY TURN IN SIGNATURES YOU CURRENTLY HAVE

If you have ANY signatures in your possession, please immediately turn them 
into your city hall or turn them into the campaign office. Even if you only 
have a few signatures, send it in! We need to get them verified ASAP.

Note: This does NOT mean that you should stop collecting signatures!! You 
should simply start collecting on new forms. If you need new forms, please call 
our office immediately at 617-628-7493 and let us know!

HERE’S THE PROTOCAL: 

FOR SIGNATURES FROM YOUR OWN TOWN OR THE SURROUNDING AREA, please contact the 
community coordinator in your area and drop the forms off to him or her. If you 
don’t know who your coordinator is, please call us at 617-628-7493. 

If you do not have a community coordinator in your area and have been gathering 
signatures alone, please take the forms to your local city hall(s) (the 
election departments). Each city hall will give you a receipt verifying that 
you dropped off the forms and indicating how many raw signatures are on the 
forms. Call our office immediately at 617-628-7493 to let us know that you have 
dropped off these forms and tell us how many signatures were on them. The city 
hall should call you within a couple of weeks and let you know that the forms 
are ready for you to pick them up. Take your receipt with you, pick them up, 
and mail them (for all three candidates) via certified mail to:

James O’Keefe for State Treasurer
Attn: Candidate Petitions
PO Box 441031 
Somerville, MA 02144

If you are unable to turn in your signatures to your community coordinator or 
to your city hall for any reason, please follow the instructions below (for 
signatures outside of your immediate local area) for all your signatures.

FOR SIGNATURES OUTSIDE OF YOUR IMMEDIATE LOCAL AREA, please send the forms (for 
all three candidates) via certified mail to:

James O’Keefe for State Treasurer
Attn: Candidate Petitions
PO Box 441031 
Somerville, MA 02144

Please include the certified mail receipt, and we will immediately reimburse 
you for this cost. Please call our office promptly at 617-628-7493 and let us 
know that these signatures are in the mail.

The final day to get in ALL signatures to the city halls is May 7. Thus, the 
final day that forms should arrive in this office, to go to city halls from 
outside your immediate area, is May 3.

James O`Keefe
Green Party candidate for Massachusetts State Treasurer
www.jamesokeefe.org | 617-628-2922 | info at jamesokeefe.org
Office Address: 240B Elm St., #B2, Somerville, MA 02144
Mailing Address: PO Box 441031, Somerville, MA 02144