<html><body>Shannon,<br /><br />I would like Thomas to spend a few minutes describing how this Measure can be coordinated with other future measures and eventually a county charter. When I spoke to Ben he described that CELDF has worked on charters as well.<br /><br />If we are passing a community bill of rights, do we have to pass another one, or add to this one later when we want to do other things?<br /><br />Doug <br /><br /><br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:500px;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Shannon Biggs" <shannon@globalexchange.org></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"Meg Courtney" <mcourtney1@mcn.org>, "Community Rights Network" <crn@lists.mcn.org><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:20:44 -0700<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [CRNMC] ADDING TO AGENDA on call with Thomas Linzey Wednesday at 5:30 PM<br /><br /><br />
Re: ADDING TO AGENDA on call with Thomas Linzey Wednesday at 5:30 PM<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;">OK – please send me the others by tomorrow, please consolidate and send them to me together if possible. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
On 8/25/14 5:12 PM, "Meg Courtney" <<a href="mcourtney1@mcn.org">mcourtney1@mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br /><br /></span></font><blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Hello Shannon et al,<br /><br />
This is clarification for the issue Huffman raised that I would like to have on the agenda: It is called <b>UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES</b>. <br /></span><font size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">Does the Community Rights approach open the door to other initiatives where communities can assert THEIR rights which may NOT be "GOOD" and may in fact be used to <b>dismantle</b> "GOOD" existing State and Federal Laws that now protect the environment, etc.? <br /></span></font><span style="font-size:11pt;"><br />
Think: <b>3 Strikes Initiative</b> (funded by the prison industry) and<b> Prop 13 </b>(by Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assoc. cutting taxes and leaving CA with (for one thing) one of the most underfunded school systems in the States)<br />
These sounded "good" at the time (unless you really studied up) and yet they are really harmful<br /><br />
I struck out the Public Trust Doctrine (below) that Huffman mentioned because you have apparently already found that it is not viable for us. <br /><br />
I probably can't make the call unless I can get out of a previous commitment. :-( arg. <br />
Carrie will be my stand-in<br />
Meg<br /></span></font><blockquote><ul><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Single subject rule of our ordinance (or are folks now clear on this?)
</span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Public Trust doctrine – why it doesn’t actually protect us (regulatory fallacy)
</span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Traditional legal pushback (and why this isn’t a legal strategy, but an organizing framework)
</span></font></li><li><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Community rights as supreme over fed and state does not mean “majority rule” <br /></span></font></li></ul></blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">ADD: Community Rights, possible unintended consequences?<br /></span></font></font><blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><br /><br /><br />
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