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As described in my March 4, 2008 post on Disney's Chief Magic Official contest in conjunction with CareerBuilder.com, a good friend, Justin Muchoney, made the final ten.  At 12:01 this morning Disney announced after close to 500,000 votes were cast, Justin made the final three!

Here is Justin's note of thanks and plea for one more round of voting commencing on April 14th:

Thank you SO much for all of the votes and support you have given me as a part of this CareerBuilder.com / Disney Dream Job C.M.O. contest. I really appreciate you waiting around so patiently (for the most part!) with me for the official announcement of the final three.

Without further ado, I am thrilled to be able to tell you that your tireless voting efforts have paid off!

I am one of the top 3 candidates!

There is absolutely NO question that I couldn?t have made it this far with out all of you ? your enthusiasm, passionate support, and very active voting fingers!  So, given how much you have already done for me, I feel bad coming to you asking for more.  We have just a little work left before things are all said and done.

There will be one last round of frantic voting ? only one week this time, though!  Monday, April 14th ? Monday April 21st.   You can go to the main contest page to vote; starting on the 14th (my guess is it will start at the stroke of midnight eastern ? for all you night owls out there!)

On April 22nd, at an in-park ceremony in the morning, the Grand Prize winner will be announced.  The winner will then take on the role of Chief Magic Official for the Disney Parks for a 12-month period! 

SO, what can you do to help?  Well, here are a couple of things:

1.      Please accept my sincerest thanks!  You have been such an amazing support structure for me and I am overjoyed to be able to share this experience with so many of you.  THANK YOU SO MUCH!

2.      SPREAD THE WORD!  Please forward this email to as many people as you feel you can.  Especially if you know there were folks who voted in the last round.  I really want to make sure that they get word of the results and that they know how much I appreciate everything!

3.     VOTE.  The site should still be http://www.dreamcmo.com/.  If there is a direct link to a voting page just for me, I?ll send it along.  Hopefully we can get enough people on board that the voting craze will once again sweep through our community, our friends, our churches and schools, and all of the people we have contacted throughout the country and world.  With only one week to vote ? and two other VERY deserving and talented finalists ? I?m sure we will need to maintain some pretty high levels of momentum!

Again, sincerely, thank you so much for everything.  The laughter, stories, questions, enthusiasm, interest, jokes, etc, etc, etc, have really made this an incredibly magical experience for me.  I?ll be working hard to prove that I?m worthy of your votes ? you can be sure of that!

For now, thanks for indulging me in a very long-winded email.

Keep smiling, keep laughing, and keep dreaming!

  ~Justin