We now have 112 supporters and 5,649 views!  Well-done to all those who have helped promoting, and welcome new Eclipse Escapaders.  With the number of Eclipse Escapaders now having broken triple digits, it is time for me to contact the politicians and other community leaders, both those ten originally designated in the petition and others who have been responsive.  Please continue to contact politicians and other movers-and-shakers who could become allies in this endeavor.  I can only contact a few on my own, and besides, I am just one dude with an idea. However, if each Eclipse Escapader could help spread the word, and get our leaders thinking about how exactly the Eclipse Escapade could happen, this endeavor could become an actuality.  The Eclipse Escapade is an endeavor Western New Yorkers must do TOGETHER if it is to come to pass.  And besides, is not the total solar eclipse for all of us?  Please continue to share the petition and the original rock anthem, an anthem distinct for our time and our place.  

I am being very careful about how I compose my contact with politicians and other community leaders.  It is important that I display the real possibility of the Eclipse Escapade, while still allowing our leaders to be leaders.  At this point, I have ten salient points on the Eclipse Escapade for our community leaders.  Please use these in your own promotional work as you see fit, always while being true to your own ipseity.  (For my new signers, the word "ipseity" is an unusual word that means "selfhood," or "one's radical individuality."  Though this most definitely a group effort, in your personal promotional work, to quote Shakespeare, "to thine own self be true.")  

So, let your own ipseity guide your promotion of the Eclipse Escapade.  Here are ten salient points to use as you see fit.  

1. This is a distinct moment.  Every given patch of real estate on Planet Earth gets a total solar eclipse only every three to four centuries. Yet here we are, betwixt and between two Great American eclipses.  We should not be thinking about this moment the usual way we think about business, or housing, or tourism, but we should adopt ways of thinking befitting the extremely distinct moment we find ourselves in, as citizens of the solar system.
2. The second point is derivative from the first.  Any impetus or opportunities we might have arising from this distinct moment will not be repeated, ever. The next total solar eclipse over Buffalo will not be until the 1100's.  We thus have a one-time chance to respond in a proactive way to the wonder the physics of the solar system is presenting.  The movement of the sun, the moon, and the earth present a total solar eclipse.  How we earthlings respond arises from our volition to make a positive difference.
3. Eclipses DO attract tourists.  There is even a special word for an eclipse tourist, an "umbraphile"  400,000 tourists went to Colombia SC for the eclipse of August of 2017.  Umbraphiles will not miss a possible once-in-a-lifetime chance to witness a total solar eclipse.  True, there is a chance it will be cloudy, but there is a better-than-50-percent chance it will be clear, and only the sky in front of the sun has to be clear for the eclipse to be an ethereal spectacle.  Umbraphiles will come, and we should welcome umbraphiles to Buffalo.
4. An eclipse tourist number of 400,000 is the equivalent of 5.5 Highmark Stadium's worth of people.  There is only lodging for about 11 thousand people in Buffalo.  However, the lack of lodging will not keep people away.  If there is no room in the inn, they will have to drive out when the eclipse ends at 4:30 PM on a Monday, right during rush hour.  So, think of how traffic is on the throughway during a Bill's game, and then multiply that 5.5 times.  Since none of us want calamitous traffic congestion, it would be best for everyone if we could find a way for the umbraphiles to stay one more day, and enjoy all that Western New York has to offer.
5. Buffalo has had a problem of abandoned and vacant properties for decades.  Why not see the approaching eclipse as an impetus and an opportunity to address this perennial problem?
6. We should find a way to make vacant properties into hostels for eclipse tourists, or, as I like to say poetically, we should make domiciles for umbraphiles. 
7. While the East Side is not specifically mentioned in the petition, if we are to focus on a neighborhood, that neighborhood is where the science museum is, and the science museum will have programming for the eclipse.  Plus, MLKJR park is in the neighborhood, and this will be a good viewing area.  The East Side was an attractive place to focus the Eclipse Escapade on even before the atrocity of May 14th.  Now that the neighborhood is thirsty for unity and renewal, we have all the more reason to focus our efforts here.
8. Even if we focus on just one neighborhood, the Eclipse Escapade is still an endeavor all Western New Yorkers can participate in, together.  If we find a way for crowdfunding to be used to garner investment for the Eclipse Escapade, Joe Buffalo and Wendy Western New Yorker might participate financially. Furthermore, if Erie County were to offer tax credits for those who invest in the Escapade, we could get a lot of investment, rapidly, because people would be more confident in investing.
9. Even if I am wrong in my prediction about getting a torrent of tourists to witness the total solar eclipse, housing renewal on the East Side would still be a good idea. Indeed, housing renewal everywhere would be a good idea.
10. After the eclipse, houses that are renovated could become houses for immigrants and refugees in the future.  Mayor Brown has already proclaimed Buffalo a refuge city for climate change refugees.  The Eclipse Escapade therefore should not be thought of as just an idea for one day in 2024.  Rather, the coming eclipse presents an impetus and an opportunity to act in a way that we should be acting anyway. 

Please take these salient points for what they are worth.  Feel free to eliminate, embellish, and edit as seems befitting to you.  Whatever next step seems appropriate, step up, and step up rapidly. The sun and the moon won't wait for us!