[CUADPUpdate] Who do YOU know in New Jersey?

[Abraham J. Bonowitz]

Sent to CUADPUpdate & a Few Others


Greetings All,

Read the latest news items on the New Jersey situation at 
http://www.NJADP.org - including a link to this evening's interview 
on National Public Radio with former death penalty supporter James 
Abbott, Chief of Police for West Orange and a member of the NJ Death 
Penalty Study Commission.....

For the first time in the modern era, a state-sponsored death penalty 
study commission has officially recommended that the Legislature end 
the death penalty for good.  Now we must move that recommendation 
into action.

I want to ask you to join us.  Who do you know who lives in New 
Jersey?  Please forward this message to them, or if they don't do 
e-mail, call them, and ask them to take the following simple actions 
immediately.

Everyone who lives in New Jersey who opposes the death penalty needs 
to speak up loudly, clearly, and consistently until the abolition 
bill is  signed.  There are five more steps to final victory - the 
Assembly and Senate committees, the Assembly and Senate floor votes, 
and the Governor's signature.

The first action in this final phase is to contact your state 
legislators about the report.  Please do this as soon as 
possible.  The New Jersey
Legislature created the study commission and now it should heed its 
recommendations.

To find your state legislators, go to 
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/municipalities.asp or email 
<abe at njadp.org> with the name of your city and I will send you their 
complete contact information.

PLEASE take the time to send them in the regular postal mail a HAND 
WRITTEN note including your name, where you live, and in your own 
words, the following: "I oppose the death penalty.  Now that the New 
Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission, which was created by the State 
Legislature, has recommended replacing the death penalty with life 
without parole, I strongly  urge you to sponsor and actively support 
S-171 (A-795), bills that would accomplish that worthy and just goal."

Also, make sure your information is up to date in the NJADP 
database.  If you are unsure, just fill out the form at 
http://www.njadp.org/exec/gdmembership&what=join  --  This way you 
will get all updates and subsequent action alerts as soon as they are issued.

Then, please take time to celebrate.  Rejoice.  And, 
most  importantly, rejuvenate.  Because we need you for this last 
round  and it's the most critical round of all.

Finally, I want to say that there are many many people working on 
this both inside and outside of New Jersey, and it is my honor and 
privilege to be among them.

paz!

--abe

Abraham J. Bonowitz
Field Manager, New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
abe at njadp.org  *  http://www.NJADP.org
mobile: 561-371-5204  *  office: 609-278-6719  *  fax: 609-278-6859
986 S. Broad St., Trenton, NJ  08611