"With new battles over individual rights in the age of terrorism, attacks on our gun rights from the UN, a number of Second Amendment cases in the courts and an important upcoming election, your attendance is critical," the e-mail reads.
Since his election last year his attendance at city council meetings had been sporadic.
The main candidates for July's presidential election were in attendance, as well as Mexican tycoons including Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world.
He has some political experience after winning a seat in parliament in 2005 elections, but resigned when attendance records were published showing he barely turned up.
Non-voters also face difficulties getting a job in the public sector Australia The Australians brought in a system of compulsory attendance at elections in 1924.
Researcher Massimo Introvigne, a sociologist and head of Italy's Centre for the Study of New Religions (Cesnur), found that 51% of 250 priests he interviewed reported a significant rise in church attendance since the election of the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio in March.
Upon the acceptance by the new pope of his election, all other cardinals in attendance would each pull a cord and lower the canopies above their respective thrones signifying an end to the period of collective governance and only the newly elected pope's canopy remained unlowered.
Eighty-seven per cent estimated that women comprised at least half of those in attendance at the election.
Primary-election votes for a candidate or attendance at a rally often won't lead to the change we like.
The 2014 budget funds the Coalition's election commitments to improve policing and school attendance in the Northern Territory's indigenous communities.
