I plan on attending the Bham meeting. Will yard signs and tshirts be available to purchase?

We are in need of volunteers to help with the Save Alabama PACT Birmingham Division meeting on Aug. 27th at 6:30 pm at Dawson Memorial Baptist Church in the Homewood area of Birmingham. If you would be willing to give of your time to help, please contact Rebecca Thrasher, Save Alabama PACT secretary / treasurer, at rebecca@savealabamapact.com . Thanks so much in advance for your help.

Karen Gandy
Save Alabama PACT Birmingham Area Leader

Just a reminder the Save Alabama PACT Birmingham Area meeting will be this Thursday, Aug. 27th at 6:30 pm at Dawson Memorial Baptist Church in Homewood. Please look for signs around the perimeter of the church to direct you to the location of the meeting. We have an impressive agenda for the meeting. Patti Lambert, Save Alabama PACT President, and Rebecca Thrasher, Save Alabama PACT Secretary / Treasurer, will be in attendance. Further information on the Save Alabama PACT organization can be found on the website http://www.savealabamapact.com/
Ms. Lambert will speak on the events surrounding the PACT program since February 2009. Also scheduled to speak are the following state legislators and political candidates: Paul DeMarco,46th District (Jefferson), Artur Davis, Democratic candidate for Governor, Greg Canfield member of the House (District 48-Jefferson and Shelby Counties). We also are awaiting confirmation from others. This is your opportunity to speak with our elected representatives directly about your concerns. Also, several print media and TV stations are expected to attend.

Please help us get the word out about this important meeting by going to the Save Alabama PACT website and printing out a sign to be placed at your churches, schools and businesses. http://www.savealabamapact.com/data/fil … rdSign.pdf Please write with black marker across the top “Birmingham Area meeting Aug. 27th 6:30 pm”

We are still in need of volunteers to help with several functions at the meeting on Thursday the 27th. If you are willing to give of your time to help, please contact Karen Gandy at karengandy@savealabamapact.com.

When attending the meeting, please keep in mind that many, including our elected representatives, media and PACT holders, speak about and focus on the investments securing the PACT contracts. We as PACT contract owners did not purchase investments, we purchased contracts – for a purchase price we bought a commodity, 4 years of college. We had no say in what investments the PACT Board made with the payments for PACT contracts. We had no contractual right or obligation to participate in any gains or losses from these investments. Please pay particular attention to how you refer to the PACT, always refer to the PACT contract and do not use the term “investments”. We need to be consistent in our discussions with legislators and the media.

Please make every effort to attend this meeting on the 27th. We need to show our elected representatives that we are serious about reaching a resolution so that all PACT contracts are honored. Their commitment to this effort will be driven by our commitment to make an effort by attending meetings and contacting our representatives by phone, letter, e-mail and in person. There are 48,000+ PACT contracts in the state of Alabama. That can make a pretty impressive statement if we all make the effort.

If you have any questions or would be willing to give of your time to volunteer on the 27th, please contact Karen Gandy. We look forward to seeing you on the 27th!

Karen Gandy
Save Alabama PACT Central Alabama Leader
karengandy@savealabamapact.com

This was a great meeting. Good job Bham group! Thank you Karen for your leadership and willingness to coordinate this group.

If you attended the meeting lets post up a discussion about your thoughts of the meeting and get some feedback on what you took from the meeting.

I personally was very impressed by the three state reps that attended the meeting and the fact that they had prepared for the meeting together by heading to Montgomery that morning and speaking with Ivey's office, RSA, and the Governor's office.

Yes, they went over their time limitations, but I enjoyed seeing their willingness to discuss the issues with the crowd, and stay for the entire meeting and serve to answer Q&As. We have not seen this in all areas of the state so far.

The agenda has been added the Documents section of the website and linked on the home page.

I have been watching this quite a bit and was wondering what are the proposals by the Save Alabama PACT group on where the state should get the money to pay for the debt in the PACT program. Not a trick question and there may not be a proposal I was just wondering. I am looking around at different ideas on how we can come up with the money without cutting $600 million out of education. I am open to any and all ideas Ruth! Thanks again for the invite and I look forward to talking with you some more about this in the future.

Cam Ward
Cam for Senate Campaign
P.O. Box 1749
Alabaster, Alabama 35007
(205) 664-1066
www.camforsenate.com