PRESS CONFERENCE TO DELIVER PETITION URGING REP. CUNNINGHAM RESIGN IMMEDIA

[The Blue Flower]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 17, 2005

Contact: Matt O'Connor, [phone], Communications Chair

"PRESS CONFERENCE TO DELIVER PETITION URGING REP. CUNNINGHAM RESIGN IMMEDIATELY
TO BE HELD THURSDAY, AUGUST 18"

North County Unity Coalition and partner organizations to announce plans to urge
member of Congress forward complaint over numerous alleged violations to House
Ethics Committee

SAN DIEGO, CA-North County Unity is holding a press conference at the Escondido
Transit Center on Thursday, August 18 at 12:00PM, to discuss its drive to urge
Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham to resign his 50th Congressional District
seat immediately. As part of the conference, the coalition's Communications
Chair, Matt O'Connor will deliver petitions the organization and its partners
have been gathering for the past 2 weeks from constituents and area residents
alike to Cunningham's District Office, located 1 block away at 613 West Valley
Parkway. The event is open to the public, and signatories to the petition are
encouraged to attend.

An additional function of the conference will be to call attention to the need
for a member of Congress to forward a complaint with the House Ethics Committee
to initiate a formal investigation of the numerous charges of corruption Rep.
Cunningham has been accused of. In a previous e-mail to over 3,000 activists in
the region, the North County Coalition has called for residents of surrounding
districts to step forward and formally request their Representative stand up
for open and accountable government.

Representatives with the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility
and Ethics in Washington (CREW) will be joining the North County Coalition at
the press conference. Their Executive Director, Melanie Sloan is traveling to
San Diego from Washington, DC for the event, to discuss the formal complaint
they have prepared against Rep. Cunningham, available for a member of the House
to forward "in good faith." The complaint is on the CREW website at
www.citizensforethics.org. Sloan contributed an op-ed piece to the San Diego
Union-Tribune in June in which she declared, "common sense tells you that in
the people's House, members of Congress should be held accountable for their
conduct."

The designer of the new ResignRandy.org Website, created to collect signatures
for the Cunningham resignation petition online, Rick Hall, will also speak at
the press conference. Hall will discuss his involvement in organizing community
activists who have been outraged by the charges of bribery and corruption
leveled against Rep. Cunningham over the past 2 months. In an e-mail message to
signatories to the RebukeDuke.org Website he launched in June, Hall appealed for
Cunnigham to resign so his constituents "can elect his replacement as soon as
possible, because the people he represents deserve representation."

A downloadable flyer with details on the conference is available online at the
organization's 'Supported Action/Advocacy' page at their Website, at
www.ncunity.org/action.php. Members of the press who wish to cover the
conference may contact North County Unity's Communications Chair Matt O'Connor
at 619/647-9306, or by sending e-mail to [e-mail].

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Matt O'Connor
Communications Chair
619 647 9306
[e-mail]


North County Unity Coalition
P.O. Box 2302
San Marcos, CA 92079
760 690 4015
www.NCUnity.org

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