<div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="600" style="border-collapse:collapse"><div style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><center><img src="http://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/email_templates/logos/000/007/248/original/gayle-mclaughlin-logo-wide.png" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="outline: none; max-width: 940px; width: 412px; margin: 20px auto;"></center><p style="margin:1em 0px">I’m running for Lt. Governor in order to transform a citadel that has surrendered to corporate influence.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">I have been in Southern California this last week meeting with and hearing from many wonderful people.  I tell them that ours is an<strong>organizing campaign</strong> and that the successful experience of the Richmond Progressive Alliance is what I bring to share.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">&quot;S<span class="gmail-m_-8539426319660257458redactor-unlink">haring our Experience: The Richmond Progressive Alliance</span>&quot; is a video that also shares our story:  <a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/3gA/ni0YAA/t.2b5/I-fL4UYYQiyJ2OSWODG6hw/h0/laCycbjzuDwe-2BXNTOL9-2FdrzxTW5bOpCM-2F1xZud55EVfEKa-2B0KeYqeaHZSSibwHjdtLfjXo6QmdAKJ-2FB-2FqZPM2-2BR9wWOlAngDwMrz-2FJBqaNismtusGhhMoyTGmSRaJrpMXIQC0f0k9ODgMvuokOCE-2F6cWZ8Ng7u-2BhGPh2hWA5DA4kxmHZZCGfTqCQfMLNBbEpoCIBxAnryqwJpDXx-2BB3duS9Xd2UEyMPVCcM5fGlHNbz-2FAvb3TdyZDD8okdYwLuXtVrRY2y7o2QzWZMGWmxRR0LzGG5Fve-2FswkPK6SolcLad722UICX626QeUg4fK0g0TKhJU44cks6zb-2Fx4kEvmpBQ-3D-3D" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr>watch? v=UxthsOj2yhc</a></p><p style="margin:1em 0px">Friends, it is not just Washington, but also Sacramento that is lost to the corporations. Sacramento is infested by corporate lobbyists carrying big checkbooks and threats. Both corporate-Democrats and corporate-Republicans have the California Bear on a chain and make it dance for the 1%.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">Sacramento recently gave us an expanded cap-and-trade bill written by oil industry lobbyists, which maintains high pollution and takes away local pollution control. Sacramento shelved single-payer to please insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Sacramento just puts measures on the ballot for us to tax ourselves further.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><strong><em>Local organizing</em> is the key to building the California that we need and want.</strong><br></p><p style="margin:1em 0px"></p><p style="margin:1em 0px">The local organizing road is there for you and your community to walk. We are in this together. Corporations don’t just want more, they want it all. It is up to you and me and the teachers, workers, activists, nurses, bus drivers, builders, plumbers, writers, students, civil servants, tellers, poets, caregivers, and artists to get in the way and stop them. Build local political power. Be inclusive and diverse. Find local progressive common ground. Take no corporate money. Run for office.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">If we did it in Richmond, it can be done anywhere and everywhere.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/3gA/ni0YAA/t.2b5/I-fL4UYYQiyJ2OSWODG6hw/h1/3aH1yiqDNJZyWfxAsJS-2FBEDG-2F1X-2FPQVEvytdyXwzqQWMp3MrepLp7qkjW68OLC7LcNEq9kyixBEbf4iQBQ4NGECGid85CRSUgotTREKLsufBRA6RqZDq1MvF4WmCXu-2BtAqzTli-2BJI-2BvmFmT41VuaVCUhMAuZX3N9nhctYOBRVuZ2WammZRbgm5i9h38O34fzvhKcLaPqtig50e7Zki545lGCOvjxx71JipNbNM-2BwIQ-2F7fvn9KIGLnLE393q0WXGw05uYYB7fzJffC10sYLuxvif8aRihI-2FzsxhiLl921KxnYGYdxAoEpuM23ADafn3-2BGqfrMvg99WiYjPClj6Ki8jw-3D-3D" target="_blank"><img src="https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/data/000/119/304/original/Screenshot_2017-09-29_16.37.31.png" width="800" alt="" title="" align="center" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; border: none; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; width: 412px; max-width: 800px; display: block; margin: auto;"></a><br></p><p style="margin:1em 0px">&quot;Sharing Our Experience: The Richmond Progressive Alliance&quot; offers some insights on the criteria with which we built the Richmond Progressive Alliance (2003-2017), and introduces you to some of our great members. You can watch it above and also join in my campaign as we close the third quarter.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">I’m running for Lt. Governor to spread this message of organizing and to help people build in their own communities. When I am Lt. Governor I will continue to support local progressive corporate-free organizing and rally people together everywhere to fight for policies that benefit all California working families.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">I appreciate your financial help to our campaign - would you donate $27 or more by <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">Saturday&#39;s</span></span> deadline?</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/3gA/ni0YAA/t.2b5/I-fL4UYYQiyJ2OSWODG6hw/h2/d0ZdvxZM74jVA6bCuFNj4G3YVvZrn-2FEpUV7kZ-2Bz9eZ2-2FX-2B5TvXrj0bZY-2FSwsryDjsi5QDVWI2cSzFReq52lxfqwxk-2Bz5esI9-2BZWUG55GPTXdwQMhzmirT9OqDerLFTwFGw8BZPXuMGscpqGBg-2Fyq1yHK4sCQJmM8M6Flyl-2BJvKwr-2BL1-2F9FEZhdFPafaJ84kqQCDBbYxcle7C0hmsJM2Ls9FRgHvU7ehLPPS93DaszTgaNgFKwCIbbVx-2BqQ8Do8hq98VyS0bENAOZb2chiLOXmsJtyFBSYNiYlxO7TbITikkDI56qXESVBDjVFcfDcz6SC06ZVERoC7bHNEsCmbrQWSoJ22T1EQFnYJ286oa1THo-3D" target="_blank">http://www.gayleforcalifornia.<wbr>org/donatetogayle/</a></p><p style="margin:1em 0px">Thank you,</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">Gayle McLaughlin</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">Corporate-free Progressive</p><p style="margin:1em 0px"><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/3gA/ni0YAA/t.2b5/I-fL4UYYQiyJ2OSWODG6hw/h3/d0ZdvxZM74jVA6bCuFNj4G3YVvZrn-2FEpUV7kZ-2Bz9eZ0M1vh4QqR62sLUJFRas62kl0Xi5s38pZPgShiMRlwGCMhGyCqWCWL3AAwDctJ2eWImFMIxvrzthTs9DecRFUvMagJKDnluq6-2BpwB3sH33qIKzE-2FYF5UlqN-2F0jaDLrka8r9JCmhrSPkVinFhaDtbEBlwx-2B93bSffOpj-2B-2FbtR0nNdcKGdyA3kZerjoO9t53P3Pya16PBJG6-2BU3c79-2Fz0yw47AIAN6zizWY9vJsHIlyzImuu2yVqzyjc8qappOWxoJWQkr0KnUnK3wDl7ffQK1ZbyGZtaQwgSKMY16ZMIE-2FtnOg-3D-3D" target="_blank">http://www.gayleforcalifornia. org/</a></p><div><br></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>