2: Know your opposition. Identify your opposition early. Analyze your opponent's position and attempt to neutralize it. This analysis is as important as your own case. Carefully prepare rebuttals to your opponents views.
Ensuring that prisons are used only for those who absolutely must be incarcerated and that prisoners have all the resources they need to turn their lives around.
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THERE IS HOPE
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Ten Commandments of Citizens Lobbying
How to Influence Legislators
What's It Take?
As citizens, we have both the right and the responsibility to participate in the democratic process. This involves more than just voting. It means informing your legislator of your position on issues and specific bills as they go through the legislative process. The best ways to communicate with your legislators are through letters, phone calls, and personal visits.
Personal letters are best. Be brief and address only one issue. Your first sentence should explain why you are writing. State what you would like the Legislator to do and why. If a bill is pending, include the bill number. Know if your Legislator is one of the authors and acknowledge it. Your letter should be dated, including your home address, and properly addressed. Thank the Legislator in writing when they vote your way.
Let’s look at getting the Governor out of the parole process. The Oklahoma Criminal Justice Resource Center (OCJRC) has estimated it would save Oklahoma taxpayers $2.5 million a year if we removed the Governor from parole. But the politicians would rather use it against the other party saying they are soft on crime, because the Governor signed a parole. Since it would take a constitutional amendment to make the change, we could try it by an Initiative Petition for Constitutional Change. At this time the requirements would be getting the signatures of over 219,000 registered voters in only 90 days.
For years we have told the inmates that we know where you are, it’s up to you to tell your families and friends on the outside where we are and ask them to get involved. With this newsletter we are attaching our info cards, give them to other inmates, your families, friends and volunteers that want to help make change happen.
For years we have allowed any inmate to join for free if they tell us they are indigent. We haven’t raised the rates for the families either; we get by with pennies and volunteers. No one gets paid to do anything, to answer the phone, write letters, put the newsletter together and mail it. I pray if only everyone that wants change would just donate a dollar, I wouldn’t know what to do with all that money. (Yes, I do, we could do more to get the word out and educate the public.)
If your are a member won’t you renew your membership; and if not, won’t you join and help spread the word to others to join and get involved.
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P. O. Box 9741
Tulsa, OK 74157-0741
ph: 918-744-9857
okcure