[Community Rights Network] About limiting contributions to $1000

[Rebecca Johnson]

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Rebecca (Reba) Johnson

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> [Original Message]
> From: Charles Cresson Wood <ccwood at ix.netcom.com>
> To: Community Rights Network Mendo County <crn at lists.mcn.org>
> Date: 4/20/2014 12:55:12 PM
> Subject: [Community Rights Network] About limiting contributions to $1000
>
> Hello community rights and anti-fracking friends,
>
> I have been having some misgivings about the notion that
> we should be limiting contributions to $1000 or less. Yes,
> I appreciate that we can get in under the limit for filing
> certain paperwork, and our lives will be made easier if we
> keep the total under $1000. But this seems to be a short-
> term way to look at our effort. This is a tremendous and
> very important effort, and it will cause the big guns at the
> fracking companies to throw their high-priced talent at us,
> with public relations, disinformation, and marketing tricks.
> We need to open the spigots, we need to allow the public to
> give to us, to support us, to get the best talent can hire
> to counteract that public relation stuff, that disinformation, 
> and those marketing tricks. I suggest that we retain someone
> who has been through this before, like Prajna, and perhaps
> some other activist experts in marketing and public relations.
> In order to be able to pay for this type of support, we will
> need to be able to receive contributions far in excess of
> $1000. Let's not let our concern about a little paperwork
> prevent us from doing what's truly necessary to not only get
> this on the ballot, but get it passed in November.
>
> Let's be clear about who the treasurer is, and what their job
> will be, and I would be pleased to help define that role. 
> Such paperwork would be submitted typically by the treasurer.
>
> In general, I believe it would be helpful if we identified 
> a few other critical roles, such as media point person. This
> will help focus the work, and expedite communications. 
>
> In community,
> - Charles Cresson Wood
>
>
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