I NEED YOUR HELP, MY FRIENDS
With just thirty days remaining until the election, things are heating up in Cathedral City, and I Need Your Help.
Notwithstanding my documented track record of achievement for the people of Cathedral City, anti-progressive forces that want to roll back everything we've accomplished are mounting a determined effort to get me off the City Council come November.
To those people, it does not matter what the track record of my four years on the Council is. To them, it’s about personalities and ideology.
But while they’re fretting over ideology, I’ve been working. Some of the achievements I can be proud of are:
● Our Downtown Energy Savings and Conservation Project will save taxpayers tens- even scores-of millions of dollars over the estimated 40+ year life of the project, will keep more than 500 tons of noxious pollutants out of our air every year, and help make America stronger by helping reduce our consumption of nonrenewable foreign fossil fuels. All this at zero financial risk to the City. Those who are seeking to drive me off the council opposed the project.
● When some sought to use the Coachella Valley Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan keep us from developing north of Interstate 10, I helped broker the deal that struck an appropriate balance between conservation and safeguarding our City’s economic future.
● When I took office, we had a parks/parkland shortfall of more than 120 acres. On my watch, we’ve eliminated that deficit, acquiring more than 140 acres of parklands for our expanding future.
● I’ve never stinted on making sure that public safety remains as well-funded as we can make it. I’ve held the line on staffing and consistently voted to make sure our public safety personnel have the tools they need to keep the community safe.
● On my watch, we are moving forward with our Sheraton Desert Cove resort. It will be a union facility -the only one in Riverside County- paying good union wages and providing good union benefits to Cathedral City workers. If the anti-progressive forces that want to get rid of me get their way, the resort may well be cancelled.
While some of my colleagues don’t think it’s important to cherish the diversity of a City that has large Latino, senior, and GLBT communities, I do. The candidate they want to replace me with does not, and uses code words that convey clearly his view that Cathedral City should not welcome its GLBT residents.
The good news is that I am receiving expressions of support from all over Cathedral City and the Coachella Valley. I am pleased to be able to say that I am endorsed, among others, by Cathedral City Mayor Pro Tem. Greg Pettis, by Democratic Congressional candidate David Roth, by Coachella Mayor Pro tem Juan de Lara, and by former Cathedral City Councilmember Sarah DiGrandi, who was my immediate predecessor on the city council.
The bad news is that those who want me gone are outraising and outspending me by a factor of more than 3-1. That shouldn’t surprise anybody. Anti-progressive forces always have more money, and in this race, they’ve been supported by wealthy developers.
I need your help if I am to keep getting our message of achievement and inclusion out to the community. Though we have raised close to $25,000 already, the opposition keeps raising money faster. We need to raise another $25,000 between now and October 30 to stay competitive and keep the electorate informed. Every contribution, no matter what size, helps. There are no contribution limits in this race, and thus no limit to your generosity.
And it is to your generosity that I am appealing, as well as to your commitment to progressive, city-building values. What we have accomplished in Cathedral City is largely the result of those values in action. We can't let what we've worked so hard to accomplish be dismantled.
If you haven't contributed, but would like to help
If you've already contributed, but are willing to contribute again
If you've contributed all you can, but are willing to volunteer or (in Cathedral City) to display a yard sign.
If you're willing to send a link to the blog (www.councilmembermarchand.blogspot.com) to like-minded friends.
Your support will be greatly appreciated.
Contributions can be mailed to:
COMMITTEE TO ELECT PAUL S. MARCHAND
No. 1245357
68-860 Perez Road, Ste. F-1
Cathedral City, CA 92234
Thanks,
Paul
Notwithstanding my documented track record of achievement for the people of Cathedral City, anti-progressive forces that want to roll back everything we've accomplished are mounting a determined effort to get me off the City Council come November.
To those people, it does not matter what the track record of my four years on the Council is. To them, it’s about personalities and ideology.
But while they’re fretting over ideology, I’ve been working. Some of the achievements I can be proud of are:
● Our Downtown Energy Savings and Conservation Project will save taxpayers tens- even scores-of millions of dollars over the estimated 40+ year life of the project, will keep more than 500 tons of noxious pollutants out of our air every year, and help make America stronger by helping reduce our consumption of nonrenewable foreign fossil fuels. All this at zero financial risk to the City. Those who are seeking to drive me off the council opposed the project.
● When some sought to use the Coachella Valley Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan keep us from developing north of Interstate 10, I helped broker the deal that struck an appropriate balance between conservation and safeguarding our City’s economic future.
● When I took office, we had a parks/parkland shortfall of more than 120 acres. On my watch, we’ve eliminated that deficit, acquiring more than 140 acres of parklands for our expanding future.
● I’ve never stinted on making sure that public safety remains as well-funded as we can make it. I’ve held the line on staffing and consistently voted to make sure our public safety personnel have the tools they need to keep the community safe.
● On my watch, we are moving forward with our Sheraton Desert Cove resort. It will be a union facility -the only one in Riverside County- paying good union wages and providing good union benefits to Cathedral City workers. If the anti-progressive forces that want to get rid of me get their way, the resort may well be cancelled.
While some of my colleagues don’t think it’s important to cherish the diversity of a City that has large Latino, senior, and GLBT communities, I do. The candidate they want to replace me with does not, and uses code words that convey clearly his view that Cathedral City should not welcome its GLBT residents.
The good news is that I am receiving expressions of support from all over Cathedral City and the Coachella Valley. I am pleased to be able to say that I am endorsed, among others, by Cathedral City Mayor Pro Tem. Greg Pettis, by Democratic Congressional candidate David Roth, by Coachella Mayor Pro tem Juan de Lara, and by former Cathedral City Councilmember Sarah DiGrandi, who was my immediate predecessor on the city council.
The bad news is that those who want me gone are outraising and outspending me by a factor of more than 3-1. That shouldn’t surprise anybody. Anti-progressive forces always have more money, and in this race, they’ve been supported by wealthy developers.
I need your help if I am to keep getting our message of achievement and inclusion out to the community. Though we have raised close to $25,000 already, the opposition keeps raising money faster. We need to raise another $25,000 between now and October 30 to stay competitive and keep the electorate informed. Every contribution, no matter what size, helps. There are no contribution limits in this race, and thus no limit to your generosity.
And it is to your generosity that I am appealing, as well as to your commitment to progressive, city-building values. What we have accomplished in Cathedral City is largely the result of those values in action. We can't let what we've worked so hard to accomplish be dismantled.
If you haven't contributed, but would like to help
If you've already contributed, but are willing to contribute again
If you've contributed all you can, but are willing to volunteer or (in Cathedral City) to display a yard sign.
If you're willing to send a link to the blog (www.councilmembermarchand.blogspot.com) to like-minded friends.
Your support will be greatly appreciated.
Contributions can be mailed to:
COMMITTEE TO ELECT PAUL S. MARCHAND
No. 1245357
68-860 Perez Road, Ste. F-1
Cathedral City, CA 92234
Thanks,
Paul
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