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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!!!! WOOOHOOO!!!! Thanks to those who were able to attend the meeting at such last minute! <BR>
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Quoting Steve Scalamini, </SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> So <B>THE CAMPAIGN IS ON!</B> <BR>
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Prajna is holding the 17th to do campaign planning, but hasn’t heard from the team, so do let us know. <BR>
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BLESSINGS TO ALL!<BR>
SHANNON <BR>
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On 8/5/14 12:23 PM, "Steve Scalmanini" <<a href="sscalmanini@yahoo.com">sscalmanini@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The vote was unanimous this morning to put the initiative on the ballot for November! Thanks to Dan Hamburg for making the motion early in the discussion and to Dan Gjerde for the second. <BR>
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The 'other news' is that the vote occurred after an embarrassing attempt by John McCowen to obtain a legal opinion from a Superior Court Judge before putting it on the ballot (which would likely have delayed the item to another election.) That was bantered about for a while, with Care Brown supporting it, until a vote on it failed 2-2-1 -- John Pinches abstained due to being 'so confused he didn't know how to vote.' Then just before the final vote, McCowen, Brown, and Pinches all expressed their non-support of the initiative, but also that they didn't want so many voters (over 6,000) to not vote on what they wanted, and so would support putting the initiative on the ballot. <BR>
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Eight of us were there to support the item, five of whom spoke -- Carrie Durkee, Jim Tarbell, Beth Riedel, Sandy Marshall, me, and two others whose names escape me; and Barry (& Jan) sat in the back listening to it all. <BR>
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So <B>THE CAMPAIGN IS ON!</B> <BR>
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Looking forward to our meeting on the 17th, and congratulations again to everyone for getting the initiative this far, <BR>
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Steve <BR>
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