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1.: NEW JERSEY'S $450 MILLION STEM CELL RESEARCH PROGRAM: YES, OR NO

Posted by: "Stephen Meyer" meyer74@bellsouth.net stephen_meyer_stemcells

Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:57 am (PST)

NOTE FROM DON REED

The following is an editorial I helped write, with Russ Oster and the
New Jersey for Hope campaign. These are good people, fighting to advance
stem cell research. Please take a minute to help preserve half a billion
dollars for stem cell research in the state of New Jersey.

Sincerely, Don C. Reed (and please feel free to share this email with
friends of research!)

NEW JERSEY'S $450 MILLION STEM CELL RESEARCH PROGRAM: YES, OR NO?

21 days from today, New Jersey voters will vote on if the state should
spend forty-five million dollars a year for 10 years on stem cell
research. The funding would go toward advancing medical treatments and
attracting leading scientists and research companies to the state.

The New Jersey for Hope political committee is a group of citizen
activists, medical professionals, and elected officials who have come
together for the purpose of advocating the passage of the public Stem
Cell Ballot Question.

Today we are asking help from all who believe in the promise of stem
cell research. Support the campaign in New Jersey by contributing $21
today by visiting our website:

www.njforhope.org <http://www.njforhope.org/> .

Voting YES offers the best hope we have today for treating and curing
diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, heart
disease and cancer.

Stem cells also hold great promise in addressing spinal cord injuries
and birth defects. Scientists are making tremendous progress. We want to
do everything we can to support this research.

Please support us today so we can keep moving forward towards
groundbreaking treatments and cures. Again, New Jerseyans vote for Hope
in just 21 days. Please consider contributing $21 today to our campaign
to fund stem cell research by visiting www.njforhope.org
<http://www.njforhope.org/>

Think of elections that have been lost by a narrow margin—what would
we give to have a chance to change that? We don't want to look back
on New Jersey , the day after the election, and say, it might have been.
We almost got half a billion for research—almost? Not good enough
for so many who are depending on the treatments and cures that will come
from stem cell research.

There are 21 days until the vote: let us use those days. We can make
sure our stem cell research supporters know what is at stake, and rouse
the State to turn out and vote, this coming November 6th, and stand up
for stem cells!

Also, be sure to read a profoundly moving Op-Ed authored by Carl Riccio,
a longtime stem cell research advocate and a hero to New Jersey
residents who favor stem cell research, that ran in last Sunday's Bergen
Record. In it, Carl makes a compelling argument for Voting YES on
November 6th. Read Carl Riccio's Op-Ed Here
<http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNC\
ZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NzIwNjk3Mg==>

If New Jersey wins, everybody wins-- cures have no boundaries.

But first, the New Jersey Stem Cell Research Bond Act must pass

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