Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 16:21:34 +0800
From: Edward Turner
To: ca-firearms
Subject: Seastrand for Congress


Yesterday, I called Congressman Bill Baker's office to thank him for his
opposition to the AW ban and offered to support his future campaign.

When I got home last night, I had a message from Baker asking me to 
call him back in Washington.  I called back this morning.  He wasn't 
there, but the office gave me his home number.  I got through to him 
at his home.

We talked about the heat he was taking because of his vote on the 
AW ban.  But the reason he had called back was to try to raise support 
for Andrea Seastrand who is running in the Republican primary for the
congressional seat Huffington is vacating in the 22sd district.  This 
is the Santa Barbara - San Luis Obispo area.  

Seastrand is presently in the California Assembly.  Baker says that she 
is a strong pro-RKBA candidate.  He believes that Seastrand can win this
election with 30-40k votes.  If she wins, she would be the only Republican
woman in the California delegation.  And Baker asked me to send Seastrand
any contribution I might have otherwise made to him.

I then called John Stoos at Gun Owners of California.  He says Seastrand 
is rated 100% on the firearms issue and is the candidate they have endorsed
in this election.  

This is an election that can be won "on the margin".   It's an opportunity
to replace Huffington with a strong pro-RKBA Congresswoman.  As the only 
woman in the Ca. Republican delegation, she would be positioned to take a 
leadership role.  And she would be speaking for us!  And it sure wouldn't
hurt if she believed it was the gun owners who put her over the top.

So... I called Seastrand's campaign headquarters and told them I would put
this information out on the net and asked if we might be able to assist 
them in other ways.  They immediately asked for money and if we could 
mobilize people to attend a rally.  They are going to get back to me with
other requests.

The NRA and GOC are hosting a membership meeting in Santa Barbara next 
Tuesday, May 17.  Seastrand will be there as will other local area 
candidates endorsed by NRA and GOC.  Details are below.

Do we have people on this list in the Santa Barbara-San Luis Obispo area who
could attend this meeting?  Do we have people who would be willing to 
work in her campaign?  Would we be willing to conduct a mailing party 
for Seastrand?  Is this one we can rally behind?  (We could sure use a win
now.)  Her primary is June 7.  The primary winner will win the general 
election.  So, the fuse is short.  If we help, we have to act fast.

What do you all think?


Ed


Details on the meeting:

Date:      Tuesday, May 17

Time:      Check-in at 6:30 pm.  Meeting starts at 7:00 pm.

Place:     6185 Carpinteria Ave,  Carpinteria
           (Take Bailard Ave. exit off 101.  Proceed south on Carpinteria
            Ave. to the 2sd building.  Park in the rear.)

Contact:   Steve Coombs   556-3351



Contributions can be sent to:

           Seastrand for Congress
           P.O. Box 14002
           San Luis Obispo, Ca 93406