[CRNMC] Success! We'll be on the November ballot!

[Steve Scalmanini]

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.

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.

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.

So *THE CAMPAIGN IS ON**!*

Looking forward to our meeting on the 17th, and congratulations again to 
everyone for getting the initiative this far,

Steve

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