<pre>The earliest draft county charters of the Mendocino County Public
Banking Coalition <br />included every issue we wanted codified into a
charter. Besides a right to the <br />scenic beauty of the county, we
also included prohibitions against nuclear passing <br />through the
county, fracking, and neoncotinoid pesticides, and in favor of instant <br
/>runoff voting for county officials, and a change in the job description
of the <br />County Recorder requiring her to have a copy of the Affidavit
of Authority for any<br />robo-signed document, and the right to install
composting toilets to save fresh <br />drinking water. <br /><br />We had
a meeting somewhere around draft 8, and decided to remove most of those<br
/>so there would be less to vote against once it gets on the ballot. So
we stripped <br />these provisions out leaving only the public bank, a ban
on bee-killing pesticides, <br />and instant runoff voting, since we
couldn't imagine any opposition to those 2 clauses. <br /><br />Here is
an excerpt from our very first charter draft: <style type="text/css">
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:120%">ARTICLE VI:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:120%">In accordance with the will of the voters of Mendocino
County, no genetically modified organisms shall be grown or sold in
Mendocino County.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The Board of
Supervisors may impose penalties for violation of this
regulation.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:120%">ARTICLE VII.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>CORPORATIONS.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:120%">In accordance with the will of the voters of Mendocino
County, in Mendocino County corporations shall be considered business
entities that can be regulated by county, state or federal law.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They shall not be considered to
have the rights of citizens granted by the writers of the U.S.
Constitution to natural persons.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:120%">ARTICLE VIII.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>CAMPAIGN SPENDING REGULATIONS.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:120%">In accordance with the will of the voters of Mendocino
County, in Mendocino County the Board of Supervisors shall regulate
campaign spending in county elections and may disallow funding from
outside the county.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
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</span>NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.0pt;
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accordance with the will of the voters of Mendocino County, there shall be
no nuclear weapons or nuclear power plants in Mendocino County nor shall
nuclear material be transported across Mendocino County.</span></p>
<pre>We in the MCPBC are very excited about the CRNMC moving ahead with a
county charter.<br />We welcome your involvement. <br /><br />In Peace,
Robin<br /><br /><br />Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:39:04 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello community rights
folks, I found a research paper entitled "The Prospects for County
Charter Reform in California" interesting because in the conclusion
it said: "Many [California home rule] charter reforms fail because
of errors such as failing to follow a process that will build public
credibility or needlessly alienating key groups." I interpret that
to mean that, if we are going to pursue a home rule charter, we need to
build a broad base of support with many different groups including local
agricultural businesses, local tourist businesses, local logging
businesses, local residents, County government officials, etc. To have the
charter pulled along by a single issue, like a public bank, risks that the
effort will fail. That same research paper offered some advice:
"There are several elements in a winning [California home rule]
charter campaign: 1) a local constituency for reform with the motivation
and interest to push for change, 2) a set of proposals that engage the
public, [note plural word -- "proposals"] 3) a process that
allows a commission to be formed that will develop credibility with the
public, 4) substantial opportunity for public access to the work of the
commission, and also access and input from institutions that would be
affected by the proposed changes, and 5) a method of bringing commission
recommendations to the public without substantial reworking by
institutions that would be affected by the change. All of these factors
were in place during the Los Angeles Charter reform process, and helped to
account for its success." So it sounds to me like if we are going to
be advocating for a county home rule charter, we would be best advised to
get the public and other key groups motivated by multiple compelling
reasons (projects) to adopt such a charter, not just the establishment of
a public bank. Establishing a citizen's commission to set-up a home rule
charter is one way that we could proceed. You can read more about it at:
<a target="_blank"
href="http://www.csus.edu/calst/government_affairs/reports/countyreform.pdf">http://www.csus.edu/calst/government_affairs/reports/countyreform.pdf</a>
/s/ Charles </pre>
<br /><br /><br />Read my blogs:
http://bodhis-ruminations.blogspot.com/<br /><br />The next step in the
growth of Liberty and Democracy is for our sovereign People to take
control of our government's funds with a Public Bank; make the People's
money work for the People! We will non-violently take back our government
from within the system set up by our Founding Fathers by amending the
Constitution to eliminate corporate personhood rights, declare Community
Rights, declare financial independence, and make Mendocino into a charter
county. <br
/>https://www.facebook.com/pages/Move-to-Amend-Ukiah/331350666895175<br
/>http://www.facebook.com/MendoPublicBankCoalition<br
/>http://www.crnmc.org/<br />www.facebook.crnmc.org