Friends, Several of you replied on the previous updates asking for the number to call Governor Holcomb's office. His number is . . . 317-232-4567 Again, we are coordinating the effort for this Thursday. I am linking again the Facebook Event page; please do join us, share the event, and invite people you know to the event. I don't yet know the exact number of those committed to calling Holcomb, but I believe it's between one and two hundred. Good, but we can get more. After all, 113,100 people have signed this petition. You're all invited. An article was published in the Indianapolis Star about several people, including Keith Cooper, who have been wrongly convicted and incarcerated in Indiana: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2017/01/22/bills-offer-money-indianas-wrongfully-convicted-how-much-enough/96410428/. Several details are interesting in this article which may merit later action: (1) Indiana is considering a law to compensate those who have been wrongly convicted and incarcerated. Such a law can be a good thing, but in my opinion, the proposed compensation in this bill is much too low for what the wrongly incarcerated have had to endured. There is a difference between justice and working to avoid having to face justice. I am making a general statement here about the nature of the proposed law itself. For Keith Cooper, he has to be legally exonerated before he can receive any compensation, so our efforts are to advocate for the first step, his full pardon. (2) The proposed law puts Indiana's new Attorney General Curtis Hill in charge of the compensation. For those new to our effort here, Hill has had a direct hand in prolonging the injustice Keith Cooper has endured. And the article mentions yet another case I have not previously been familiar with that Hill prosecuted and which was overturned on bad evidence. I do not support having Hill in charge of the compensation fund. (3) The article does say that Governor Holcomb is considering Keith Cooper's pardon. That's the best news in the article about our effort, but consider it as motivation to call: We support a full pardon for Keith, and we want to see it get done. To my previous update, one person had commented that we should give Holcomb time to investigate and consider the pardon. I take it that the 113,100 people who have signed this petition have taken days, weeks, and months to be persuaded of the argument for Keith's pardon. Holcomb promised to consider the pardon back on October 25, 2016. Three months later, now that he is governor, he can pardon Keith Cooper today, as far as I am concerned. So, on Thursday, let's give him our encouragement to get it done. I am looking forward to Thursday. Please join us, whether you join the event page or not. Cheers, Jack Heller