John,

Late yesterday we found out that the city of Portland was going to block our Repeal RCV signature gatherers from all voting locations today. After a good-faith effort to work things out, I went and filed in the Cumberland County Superior Court for a restraining order against the city of Portland.

Our Repeal RCV circulators have just as much right to be there and give Portland voters the same opportunity to sign as anywhere else.

And you know what? We won. The court issued a temporary restraining order against the city to make them allow their own people to sign our petitions at polling places.

We had to scramble, but we got circulators out at key locations in Portland.

I’m telling you this for two reasons.

1) This is not easy work. We have to be ready to fight for everything we get. I am ready, every day, to fight for you.

2) This costs money, and time, and takes a tremendous amount of effort.

It’s not every day you have to go to court to prevent a major city from silencing their own people.

So, after this massively successful effort with signature gatherers at over 200 locations across Maine, I want to ask you to help replenish our funds and help us move on to the next step in the fight to Repeal RCV.

Today was the first win in our fight to Repeal RCV but it won’t be the last. I’m ready to fight every day to get this job done and Repeal RCV.

Please click here right now and donate $10, $25, $50 or more to help us keep growing.

I would love to end this day with a commitment from hundreds of supporters to show my team we are on the right track.

Thank you to all of you, the volunteers, drivers, organizers and those who signed. We are on our way.

Sincerely,

Dr. Demi Kouzounas
Chair
Maine GOP