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Don'e blame me, this is from an email sent by democrats.com

Call Showtime's American Candidate Vote Line at 877-786-9116 to
support the one remaining progressive candidate. We are down to the
wire. Call Sunday night (NOW!) between 9:45 EST and 11:45 PST. Calling
this number is a vote for Malia.

The last votes are being tallied. It will either be the arch
conservative Park Gillespie, or our favorite, the progressive Malia
Lazu. Use your opportunity to vote to support the Malia as the
progressive candidate and let our progressive voice be heard far and
wide.

http://www.sho.com/site/americancandidate/hq.do?content=malia

Malia Lazu is the National Field Coordinator for the Young Voter
Alliance a progressive 527 targeting youth voting in 5 states
throughout the country. YVA is a coalition of the League of Pissed Off
Voters, Hip Hop Political Action Convention, Young Democrats and
Stonewall Democrats and Clickback America.

Ms. Lazu was the project director for Democracy Action Project, a
national youth electoral reform organization, focusing on rebuilding
trust in government and ensuring that every vote counts. Democracy
Action Project has a signature annual event called "Democracy Summer".
Last year over 300 youth activists from 30 states participated in the
week long training school.

Ms. Lazu is the founding Executive Director for Mass VOTE, a statewide
non-partisan coalition of community-based organizations, faith-based
institutions and neighborhood associations working to increase voter
participation in urban neighborhoods. She has been recognized by the
Massachusetts State Senate and House for her role in the rise in voter
turn out in the state. Ms. Lazu was named "Activist of the Month" by
MTV in June 2000, and is a board member of the Youth Council of The
Partnership for Excellence in Government as a representative of MTV.
Ms. Lazu currently sits on the following boards; YouthVote, Dunk the
Vote, Council for Excellence in Government, Declaration Generation and
the Center for Voting and Democracy-education committee.

Ms. Lazu moved in 1995 from her home in Honolulu, Hawaii, to enroll in
Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. While pursuing her
undergraduate degree she interned in the Women and Politics program at
the Commonwealth Coalition, a statewide progressive politics
organization. While there she played a key role in helping to elect
the first Haitian-American to the Massachusetts House of
Representatives, the highest elected office in the country for a
Haitian-born elected official. Ms. Lazu went on to become a statewide
college organizer for the Clean Elections campaign, winning a landmark
statewide ballot question in 1998 for sweeping campaign finance reform
in Massachusetts.