There are Arizona households we can still reach before November 3.
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A ballot measure is not won by argument. It is won by ordinary Arizonans who already agree and simply need to know the measure is on their ballot. Most of them are not undecided. They are uninformed, which is a far more solvable problem.
Solving it is a distribution question. Paper, postage, and households.
Early ballots were mailed in the first week of October. Voter Guides are already on their way because of friends like you. Every gift from here reaches homes we have not reached yet. After November 3, it will not matter how good the Voter Guide is. The ballots will already be counted.
This is also why we chose a measure rather than another bill. A law is only as durable as the next legislature. What the voters pass, politicians cannot repeal and cannot veto. This one should not have to be won twice.
Here is what I keep picturing, and it is not a rally. A Saturday morning two springs from now. Same girl, same scraped knees, same early bus. The difference is that nobody is in court about her. The roster spot she earned is hers, and it stays hers. A soccer field in Gilbert. A track in Yuma. A volleyball court in Flagstaff. A thousand ordinary mornings nobody will ever write about, because nothing went wrong.
You can create those opportunities. That is not a figure of speech.
Grateful for you,
Peter Gentala
President, Center for Arizona Policy