Fw: MORE WAITLIST HELP NEEDED, PLEASE

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Subject: MORE WAITLIST HELP NEEDED, PLEASETo: deniseslist@...Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 10:46 PM

 MORE WAITLIST HELP NEEDEDThank you for signing the NOEWAIT (National Organization to End the Waitlist) waitlist petitionWe need your help to make the petition drive a success and help reduce the terrible waitlists. 1. We urgently need you to send the message below to any listservs in which you participate and to all of your friends, professional acquaintances and others. There are 4 million folks with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Right now, we have over over 7,000 signers of the petition. We need 500,000. Other organizations have done this. So can we.2. NOEWAIT is a non-funded organization. Everything we do is by volunteers. Are there individuals or organizations out there who would like to help as a financial backer of NOEWAIT? If

so, please contact NOEWAIT@.... We are associated with a long-standing and reputable 501 C 3 organization.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS MESSAGE, INCLUDING THIS REQUEST TO CIRCULATE IT FURTHER, TO ALL LISTSERVS IN WHICH YOU ARE INVOLVED AND TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS.Over 300,000 individuals with disabilities are on years-long waiting lists for vital services.NOEWAIT'S PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESSThe National Organization to End the Waitlist (NOEWAIT) has a petition directed to the President and Members of Congress:"Health Care Reform Must Eliminate Waitlists and Allow for the Continuation/Portability of

Services Across State Lines"PLEASE GO TO THIS WEB SITE AND SIGN THE PETITION http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/noewait.html