Marvin,

Despite what the Edwards campaign would have you believe from their e-mail which you just forwarded, no presidential candidate owns this event.

As you know, I am a Hillary Clinton supporter and I'm hosting a Live Earth house party thru MoveOn.org, as are other HRC supporters. I was about to send you my invitation and ask you to forward it to the 504 list serve (which I still have difficulty getting into direct) when your Edwards e-mail arrived. So I'm responding first--to set the record straight and then will send you my MoveOn invite, which I would appreciate your forwarding to the list serve.

Thanx,
Trudy

Dear fellow John Edwards supporter,

The John Edwards community has been on the forefront of the effort to stop global warming. This weekend could be a watershed moment in that effort worldwide, and we have a key role to play.

As you've probably heard, Saturday's "Live Earth" concerts will reach an estimated 2 billion people worldwide. To transform all that awareness into action, the campaign behind the concerts created the "Live Earth Pledge" — asking supporters to raise our voice and roll up our sleeves to solve the global climate crises.

The pledge commitments are quite familiar to John Edwards supporters: revolutionizing the energy economy to reduce CO2 emissions, halting all new coal production without carbon capture technology, and taking steps to reduce carbon consumption in our personal lives.

If each of us signs the pledge and then gets just one more person each to join us in the next 72 hours, we can add the full weight of the John Edwards community to millions of other voices at this critical moment. So please sign the pledge yourself, and then ask your friends and family to do the same — it's time to put our address books to work for the cause of a generation.

You can sign online, at: www.johnedwards.com/liveearth

Or you can sign by texting the word 'EARTH' to 30644 from your mobile phone.

Also, on Saturday (July 7th) MoveOn.org, the League of Conservation Voters and other progressive groups are organizing hundreds of "Parties for the Planet" in living rooms all over the country.

It's a great chance to join with other likeminded folks in your area, tune into the Live Earth broadcast, and watch John Edwards and other Democratic presidential candidates lay out their plans to solve global warming as part of the next MoveOn.org "issue primary".

To find a Party for the Planet in your area and RSVP, just go to:

http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/index.html?action_id=86

These are the moments that remind us why this campaign is so different, and so worthwhile. While the pundits obsess over haircuts, John Edwards is committed to using this campaign as a vehicle for real change, right now.

On global warming and the other big issues that affect our lives, John is asking for more than our money and more than our vote—he's asking us to lead.

Thank you for answering the call.

Ben Brandzel
John Edwards for President
Thursday, July 5, 2007

P.S. We had a great finish for our end of quarter fundraising last week—ending with over $9 million dollars for the quarter and over 100,000 donors for the campaign. Amazing! We need to keep up a strong fundraising pace to stay on target in the months ahead, so please consider an early donation to help us get a head start on meeting our 3rd quarter goal:

www.johnedwards.com/action/contribute/form