Dear Fellow Conservatives,   
            Primary Election Day, June 3, 2008, is rapidly approaching and I wanted to touch base with you before you go to the polls.
            First of all, let me again thank you for your wonderful support during my run for the US Congress in 2006.    I learned a lot in that campaign, and the most significant thing I learned is that there are a lot of disgruntled voters who do not like the present group of elected officials. I also learned that many voters are questioning the direction the Republican Party is heading.
            I, too, share those concerns with you.   And in spite of continuing to hold down a full-time job, I’ve gotten involved in trying to bring the party back to its conservative roots.
            Let me fill you in on some of the things I’ve been involved with since I ran for Congress in 2006:
ELECTED MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE PARTY
            In 2006, I also ran and was elected to the Republican Party of San Diego County Central Committee.  This is a core group of people (6 are elected in every state district), who determine the planks of the party platform, and steer the party in the direction of the party platform.  They also maintain the bylaws of the party.
ELECTED AS A DELEGATE TO THE CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY
            Once elected to the Central Committee, I was elected to become a State Delegate to the California State Republican Party.  This allowed me to vote on issues that arise at the Conventions, pertaining to the party’s platform.
STOPPED PLANNED PARENTHOOD FROM REMOVING THE RIGHT-TO-LIFE PLANK
            When some members of the Republican Party, who support Planned Parenthood, decided to try to get the right-to-life plank removed from the party, I attended the State of California Delegate Convention to stop them.  I had already talked to a number of other state delegates and we knew we had enough votes to stop them.  When they realized that we had enough votes to stop them from removing the right-to-life plank from the party platform, they did not even make a motion to bring the issue up for a vote.  We stopped them last year, but they will try again.

             STATE-WIDE PETITION DRIVES FOR the
   PROTECT MARRIAGE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT,
             REPEAL OF SB777, and SARAH’S LAW

PROTECT MARRIAGE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
            I worked for months with hundreds of people throughout the state to get petitions signed that would allow voters to vote for a California Constitutional Amendment that would maintain legal marriage between one man and one woman.
            You’ll recall fewer than 35% of all the voters in 2000 opposed Proposition 22 – simply stating that marriage is between one man and one woman.  This opposition to the cornerstone of our society has filed a lawsuit against this law.   If the court decides the law is unconstitutional, they will overturn the law.[ALERT! The California Ninth Circuit overturned this law. To save marriage, you MUST vote for this initiative in November!]  Our efforts collected nearly 2,000,000 signatures to qualify as an initiative on the November ballot.  Once this initiative becomes a Constitutional Amendment, California will join more than 20 other states in taking the subject of marriage out of the hands of activist judges.
            SB777 – You may recall that this bill, passed in 2007, and signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger, makes the words “mommy”, “daddy”, “family”, and “marriage” hate speech.  These words are no longer allowed in California public schools, and the penalties for violation of this law are harsh. SB777 also gives people in school the dubious “right” to determine their own gender on a day-to-day basis. This means if a boy feels gender-confused, he can change his clothes in the girl’s locker room, even when girls are present. If the girls are NOT gender-confused and want their privacy, SB777 has removed the girls’ right to privacy.
            This is the most asinine and dangerous law California has passed, and that is saying something.  As I write this to you, it looks like this petition will not be on the ballot.    We’re in the process of gathering signatures for this initiative to be on the 2010 ballot.
            Sarah’s Law requires that parents be notified if a school representative is going to have any medical procedure done to their children.    The need for this law arose when a young girl, known only as “Sarah”, was pregnant and fearful of telling her parents.     Without notifying her parents, ”Sarah” was taken by her school official to have an abortion.  As happens so often, “Sarah” died as a result of this procedure.  Once again, we have a law named for a dead child.   This death should never have happened. For “Sarah”, we gathered more than 1,200,000 signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
           

When you get your ballot for the June 3rd primary, under “CENTRAL COMMITTEE”, you will notice that the names are on the ballot in no particular order, so you may have to find my name to vote for me, John “Woody” Woodrum.  Please take a couple extra moments to do that.
            I also encourage you to vote for Kim Tran for California State Assembly District 76.    Kim is married more than 25 years to attorney Rob Sutton.  They have 2 children; one daughter flies jet fighters in Iraq.  They are staunch pro-family, and worked tirelessly with me to get the signatures on the afore-mentioned petitions.
            Kim’s opposition for the Republican nomination is Ralph Denney.  Mr. Denney is a self-confessed homosexual.  The current elected official for the 76th is Lori Saldana, a devout advocate of the homosexual agenda, and she is also running again.  Clearly, Kim Tran is the best choice of these three candidates.

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