<div dir="ltr"><p>Michael Dean wrote this.... I Rrrrrembered to put my name....</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3 id="sites-page-title-header" style align="left"><span id="sites-page-title" dir="ltr">Ban Fracking Initiative - [looks like a rights based initiative!!!! - see attachment] <br>
</span></h3><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/sanbenitorising2/ban-fracking-ballot-initiative">https://sites.google.com/site/sanbenitorising2/ban-fracking-ballot-initiative</a><h3 id="sites-page-title-header" style align="left">
<span id="sites-page-title" dir="ltr">[San Benito Rising has already collected all the signatures to qualify]</span></h3><p><font color="#073763" face="arial, sans-serif"><b><i><br></i></b></font></p><p><font color="#073763" face="arial, sans-serif"><b><i><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/sanbenitorising2/">https://sites.google.com/site/sanbenitorising2/</a><br>
</i></b></font></p><p><font color="#073763" face="arial, sans-serif"><b><i>San Benito Rising</i> </b></font>is
a grassroots group of volunteers. We are working to make San Benito
County the first "frontline" county in California to ban fracking &
extreme extraction in California. We have some oil and gas drilling in
our county, but we're working hard to stop it from expanding into the
rest of the county.</p><p>Our ballot initiative is scheduled for the
November 2014 election, so we're gearing up for a big campaign against
the fossil fuel industry. We're optimistic about winning because we've
been canvassing already and have gotten very encouraging support from
the vast majority of residents in our county. </p><p><font color="#073763" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Join us in this fight to protect our water, health and way of life!<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"> [see how they look in the attachment] </span><br>
</b></font></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>[i didn't know] San Benito County</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_%28United_States%29" title="County (United States)">county</a> located in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Coast_Ranges" title="California Coast Ranges">Coast Range Mountains</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, south of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_California" title="San Jose, California">San Jose</a>. As of 2010 the population was 55,269. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a> is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollister,_California" title="Hollister, California">Hollister</a>, which includes nearly two-thirds of the county's population. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Camino_Real_%28California%29" title="El Camino Real (California)">El Camino Real</a> passes through the county and includes one <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_missions_in_California" title="Spanish missions in California">mission</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_Bautista,_California" title="San Juan Bautista, California">San Juan Bautista</a>.</p>
<p>San Benito is included in the U.S. government's 11-county designation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area_Combined_Statistical_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area Combined Statistical Area" class="">Combined Statistical Area</a>.</p>
<p><b>[omni.rm]</b></p><p><br></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_California_highlighting_San_Benito_County.svg" class="" title="Location in the state of California"><img alt="Location in the state of California" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Map_of_California_highlighting_San_Benito_County.svg/200px-Map_of_California_highlighting_San_Benito_County.svg.png" height="230" width="200"></a></p>
<p><br></p><p><img style="margin-right: 0px;" alt="Inline image 1" src="cid:ii_145d7980f61b8497" height="66" width="188"><br></p><p><br></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Beth Brenneman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:storyteller2069@gmail.com" target="_blank">storyteller2069@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><h2>San Benito Initiative on Nov. Ballot! (It's Official!)</h2><br clear="all"></div>Beth B<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><h1 style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:normal"><font>"The
trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've
seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as
speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.”</font></span>
<font><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6134.Arundhati_Roy" target="_blank">Arundhati Roy</a></font>
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