Dear PARA Member,
If you are wondering why you are receiving this and you are NOT a NYS resident, it is because we are asking
ALL PARA members to do whatever they can to get out the vote in NYS on general election day:
Tuesday, November 7, 2017. Please remind your family, friends and neighbors who are NYS voters to
vote
NO to a ballot referendum that will ask NYS voters whether or not they want to hold a NYS Constitutional Convention (ConCon). Use Facebook, email, handouts and whatever other ways you have to spread the word.
For a vote to count on the NYS ConCon referendum, the box (on the back of the ballot) has to be checked yes or
NO. A box left blank next to the ConCon referendum = zero: it counts as nothing.
Our pensions are protected under the existing NYS Constitution. This protection, a "non-impairment clause," could be modified
or eliminated
as a result of a NYS ConCon.
Here is the next key deadline: Tuesday, October 31, 2017
. That is the date by which absentee ballots must be postmarked (that means the post office must have them, not just that you dropped it in your mailbox) to be counted in the general election on November 7, 2017.
Please keep up the effort to help us protect our earned pension!
Your PARA Board
