FRIEND - WE'VE GOT SCARY TRUTHS & WELCOME NEWS & ... YOU GET TO CHOOSE

Dear Friend,

-In fact, you've got to choose - because 'Not to decide is to decide' (to let others run your future!).

I am writing with a sense of urgency, to ask for your help, your partnership, and your immediate financial support.

The project to which I've devoted my energy and talent since retiring from the Legislature is at a crossroads.

You know I've devoted my adult life to public service, to improving the prospects for our People and our State.  I've even been accused of being ahead of the times when I was trying to find a fair and honest new way forward.

Since leaving the Legislature we have built the "Vasconcellos Legacy Project,"  of whose progress I've kept you advised. We've upgraded our mission, yet are now at a turning point: the money supporting our project runs out in two months, and I need your help now to continue.

What an irony that I might have to stop, just when we have refined the politics of trust: an approach to policy and public life which a friend has described as "The most complete, both comprehensive and coherent, package essential for advancing a whole new politics."

I'm so sure I've found a truly creative and innovative approach to politics that I've invested my time and my own $10,000, called upon my closest friends and advisers to join in, and now call upon you as well.

I've been there for you when you needed me, I now ask for you to be here for me. It would be heartbreaking to close our project before we have full opportunity to reach out & engage the People of the State of California in looking directly at the choices we face with a whole new approach.

Please look at the following three documents that elaborate our work:
            --A summary of our program's assumptions and approaches
            --A summary of 16 practical applications in the world of policy and public life
            --Our next 3 steps in advancing the Politics of Trust

Please take a moment and decide: will you generously match me and help us stay alive to help turn California around?

Your friend,

John Vasconcellos
California State Senator (retired - not entirely)
38 years representing 'The Heart of Silicon Valley'

P.S. Don’t miss the video of my special and inspiring remarks at the Pat Brown Institute 30th Anniversary Awards Dinner!