<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>From Ben Price. I will be hard to reach between now and the 27th, around yes, but busy and slow to respond. happy holidays. </div><div><br></div><div>Shannon </div><div><br></div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Ben Price <<a href="mailto:benprice@celdf.org">benprice@celdf.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> December 21, 2014, 10:16:27 AM PST<br><b>To:</b> Shannon Biggs <<a href="mailto:shannon@movementrights.org">shannon@movementrights.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Elaine and Ed <<a href="mailto:elained@mcn.org">elained@mcn.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Re: what's our next best move</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>I would have the community group get busy pushing back publicly: if the county thinks it can pocket-veto the vote of 60% of the people, the people can veto the supervisors through the ballot box, and can enforce the ordinance as per its language. The formality of placing the duly enacted laws of the county into the code is not discretionary, and if the county supervisors think they can disrespect the democratic rights of the people by not doing their jobs, they can be replaced. The supervisors can not choose which laws to obey as a way of claiming that the people's law is not authorized. <br><br></div>Not certain what recall options there may or may not be.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Shannon Biggs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shannon@movementrights.org" target="_blank">shannon@movementrights.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi Ed, </div><div><br></div><div>I will respond to this in more detail, but your ordinance I believe (most of ours do) allows for citizen enforcement which means you as a group can force the county to enforce the law. </div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div><br></div><div>Shannon </div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Dec 19, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Elaine and Ed <<a href="mailto:elained@mcn.org" target="_blank">elained@mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Shannon,<span class=""><div><br></div><div>My education in the corruption of US and local governments continues. I received this disturbing news from Baile.</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#3600fc">We have all helped to manifest Measure "S". At the same time, it has no
real teeth of enforcement until such time as it is written into the
enforcement codes of Mendocino County. This process takes place through
the office of the county counsel. The county counsel can choose to
refrain from writing into the codes of law in the county any part of
Measure "S" that the county counsel deems to be unlawful. Since the
State of California presently does not ban fracking and has passed
legislation clearly stating that the right to frack is solely determined
by the State, than the county counsel could make the decision that no
part of Measure "S" can legally be written into the county enforcement
codes.<br>
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Norman has urged us to get busy contacting and lobbying our respective
Supervisors in order to educate them and persuade them to direct the
county counsel to "codify" all parts of Measure "S."</font></div><div><font color="#3600fc"><br></font></div><div>What options do we have to make sure the will of the people is carried out by the county supervisors now? I know from my limited experience here that it will be extremely hard " <span style="color:rgb(54,0,252)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(54,0,252)">to get busy contacting and lobbying our respective Supervisors in order to educate them and persuade them to direct the county counsel to "codify" all parts of Measure "S." </span>What other options, if any are open to us at this point in time?</div><div><br></div></span><span class=""><div>Thanks for any help or suggestions you can give us</div><div><br></div><div>Ed Oberweiser</div></span></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div>
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