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[phrigndumass]

Hello David, Dave and Brian,

I am writing on behalf of 31 fellow DU Members who are DU Donors. We humbly request that you consider creating a new forum listed under the Big Forums on DU, to be called "General Discussion: General Election" (or GD:GE for short).

We believe we have followed the rules set forth by you to make this request:

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One of the best things about DU Groups is that members have the ability to suggest new groups to the Administrators of Democratic Underground. If you wish to suggest a group, please follow this procedure:

1. Start one discussion thread in the forum of your choice to tell people about your idea for a DU Group.

2. In that thread, you must get responses from at least ten DU members who agree to be active participants in the suggested DU Group. All ten members to respond must have donor stars.

3. In that thread, members must agree on a proposed mission statement for the DU Group.

4. When enough members have signed on to join the group and have agreed on a proposed mission statement, one member must officially suggest the DU Group to a DU Administrator (Skinner, EarlG, or Elad), by sending an email. Please be sure to include a link to the thread where members have discussed the proposed Group.

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I posted a thread in GD-P entitled, "I PROPOSE A NEW FORUM - GD:GE". Here is the link to this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5987650

In this thread, 31 DU Donor Members agreed to the creation of this new forum, agreed to be active participants, and agreed on the proposed mission statement.

During the course of the thread, one DU Donor Member suggested an addendum to the original mission statement. I made an appeal to the original petitioners and at least 10 of these DU Donor Members agreed to the amendment to addend with the new language in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=388x5182

The roll call of DU Donor Members includes:

1. TBF
2. grantcart
3. FrenchieCat
4. Kukesa
5. SoonerPride
6. RoadRage
7. AtomicKitten
8. In_Transit
9. backscatter712
10. panAmerican
11. DearAbby
12. crimsonblue
13. Doityourself
14. me b zola
15. shadowknows69
16. asSEENonTV
17. ClassWarrior
18. Holly_Hobby
19. IDemo
20. BushDespiser12
21. mmonk
22. mbergen
23. Jawja
24. bigbrother05
25. Labors of Hercules
26. myrna minx
27. HawkeyeX
28. K Gardner
29. spokane
30. WIllo
31. jakem

We are not asking that GD-P be dissolved. We are simply asking that the new forum be created so that the transition to the general election cycle may begin.

Thank you for your consideration, and for the opportunity to be a member of Democratic Underground!

Respectfully submitted,
Sven Sundberg, aka "phrigndumass"