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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Lot of questions, will try to answer them all briefly here. <BR>
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We do not know if we will face a challenge from the industry, but we can be sure we are on their radar, along with the other counties and municipalities. <BR>
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Our rights based ordinance like any other is subject to the rules and regulations of the initiative process. If the oil lobby or industry or or or finds fault with our application, that is the easiest and best possible option for our opponents. Its why getting the petitions perfect is so important, as is our process of collecting them etc. We need to be impeccable because the scrutiny is obviously happening. As I mentioned in Democracy School and beyond, 51% of all ordinances are pulled for a technicality. The system again, making democracy hard. <BR>
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Only the county can pull our ordinance off the ballot. <BR>
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The process for challenging depends on what reason an initiative was pulled. Most likely its forcing a court to rule, or asking the county council to put it forward anyway in respect to the voters who signed the initiative, it really depends on many factors including the timing of the challenge. <BR>
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Best, Shannon <BR>
On 6/25/14 7:32 AM, "Baile Oakes" <<a href="baileoakes@gmail.com">baileoakes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Sounds like we need to prepare ourselves for like action from the INDUSTRY.<BR>
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Is Barry open to helping us answer a challenge ?<BR>
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Our Rights based ordinance has much more to legally challenge than bold face type.<BR>
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Who "removes" a citizen based initiative from a ballot ?<BR>
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What is the process of a challenge to the removal ?<BR>
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The continuing education course continues..<BR>
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with love,<BR>
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Baile<BR>
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On Jun 24, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Lanny Cotler wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Shannon, and all...<BR>
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I just checked out Butte County's crowdfunding campaign. While I thought it was great, it is falling far short of their goal. And they have only three days left in the campaign.<BR>
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What could they have done better--to make the campaign more effective? Their video was wonderful!<BR>
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Lanny<BR>
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On Jun 24, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Shannon Biggs <<a href="shannon@globalexchange.org">shannon@globalexchange.org</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Butte County and Fundraising example <BR>
Hi Robin and all, <BR>
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So I know many of you are aware of the Butte ban issue, but in case not, here is information on their petition, which is currently kicked off the November ballot, making Mendocino (fingers crossed) one of 3 counties on the ballot for November. ;-) <BR>
I know that Robin is looking at how to do fundraisers, this is a great example of a community using online fundraising via Indigogo. Very easy to do. Let me know if you need more help on this, happy to walk through it together. <BR>
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Blessings, Shannon <BR>
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<B>Subject: </B>[CAF_Members] Frack Free Butte County fights dirty energy money<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT FACE="Arial">Dear Friends,<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>On June 1st the all-volunteer group, Frack-Free Butte County</SPAN><FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> <<a href="http://frackfreebuttecounty.org/">http://frackfreebuttecounty.org/</a>> ,</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> successfully raised the 10,000 signatures needed to secure a citizen initiative to ban fracking on the ballot this November.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Last week</SPAN><FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> <<a href="http://www.chicoer.com/News/Local/ci_25998257/Antifracking-initative-hits-roadblock-with-challenge">http://www.chicoer.com/News/Local/ci_25998257/Antifracking-initative-hits-roadblock-with-challenge</a>> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>, a law-firm hired by Californians for a Safe, Secure Energy Future – a group funded by the oil & gas industry – challenged their petition on the superficial grounds that certain sentences were not in bold-font and the word "enacts" was used instead of "ordained" and their initiative was rejected.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT FACE="Arial">They have <B>FOUR days left of their Indiegogo campaign <<a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/frack-free-butte-county">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/frack-free-butte-county</a>> </B>, so please donate as soon as you can. Let’s send a strong message that we will not let the will of the people go unheard!<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><B>This is the classic example of the will of the people being crushed by the money of the fossil-fuel industry, and they are determined to put their initiative back on the ballot! </B>However, this will cost thousands of dollars to hire an attorney and counter the onslaught of oil industry money pouring into Butte County and they need a strong coalition of people like you to donate to their campaign.<BR>
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<B>Please visit their Indiegogo campaign here <<a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/frack-free-butte-county">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/frack-free-butte-county</a>> and donate to their fight against Big Oil & Gas!</B> And please forward this email to at least 5-10 of your friends, family, and allies to spread the word.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Thanks so much,<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">The Frack-Free Butte County Campaign<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">P.S. Please spread this message far and wide across your social networks! Here is a tweet to get started!<BR>
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Dirty energy money blocks a fracking ban in Butte County: DONATE and SHARE if you agree that the fossil-fuel industry has gone too far. <B>igg.me/at/frackfree <<a href="http://igg.me/at/frackfree">http://igg.me/at/frackfree</a>> <<a href="http://igg.me/at/frackfree">http://igg.me/at/frackfree</a>> <BR>
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