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

[Prajna Marcus]

What an amazing moment!!! Congratulations to all!!

Wahooooooo!!!!


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Shannon Biggs <shannon at globalexchange.org>
wrote:

>  CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!  Thanks to those who were able
> to attend the meeting at such last minute!
>
> Quoting Steve Scalamini, So *THE CAMPAIGN IS ON!*
>
> Prajna is holding the 17th to do campaign planning, but hasn’t heard from
> the team, so do let us know.
>
> BLESSINGS TO ALL!
> SHANNON
>
>
> On 8/5/14 12:23 PM, "Steve Scalmanini" <sscalmanini at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>    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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