[CRNMC] my last version of the press release

[Kelly Larson]

Ed,

Thank you for your work on this.  This press release still has weird
formatting, though.  Did you get my and other's editing suggestions?  I am
concerned that we don't look professional putting out an unedited press
release.

Blessings,
Kelly


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:40 AM, edward Oberweiser <edoberweiser at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Here is my final version of the press release for Measure S. I put myself
> as a contact for the PR because media like to have a local person to
> contact. Is that alright with everyone?
>
> Ed
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                         July 29, 2014
>
> CONTACT:
> CRNMC Media Team
> crnmc-media at crnmc.org
>
> Ed Oberweiser CRNMC
>  964-7965
>
>
> Shannon Biggs, Global Exchange 415.575.5540  Shannon at globalexchange.org
>
>
> Mendocino County Verifies Signatures
>
> Ordinance seeks to reassert our inalienable rights to protect water
> with a Fracking Ban on November Ballot
>
>
>
> The Community Rights Network of Mendocino County has placed an ordinance
> on the November ballot that asserts Mendocino County has the right to
> protect its water from fracking.
>
> The Community Rights Network gathered almost double the signatures needed
> to qualify for the ballot in just 35 days so voters can make the final
> decision in November. The Board of Supervisors voted to approve the measure
> for the ballot.
>
> .Measure S will establish a Community Bill of Rights for the people and
> natural environment of Mendocino County  new civil, political, and
> environmental rights., all built on the right of local, community
> self-government These include the right to live in a healthy and safe
> ecosystem and the right to protect local water from danger. In order to
> uphold and protect those rights, the initiative bans all fracking related
> activities within the County including the transportation of fracking
> fluids, and the use of local water for fracking.
>
> Measure S states that Mendocino County citizens have the right to
> safeguard the county's water both on and beneath the Earth's surface by
> banning fracking in Mendocino County. It says that Mendocino County
> citizens have the duty to ensure that local water is safeguarded by
> decisions made by local people.
>
> Measure S elevates the rights of the people of Mendocino back where they
> belong, above the claimed "rights" of corporations and state agencies
> that enable fracking corporations to profit from the destruction of
> local ecosystems and to harm residents and communities
>
> California and Mendocino County are both in emergency drought status and
> Measure S will protect our water from being used and polluted by the highly
> controversial natural gas extraction process known as fracking.
>
> Fracking places a toxic mix of largely unknown chemicals into the earth
> that has leaked into the  water supply of many communities on the East
> Coast, Colorado and Texas.
>
> If Measure S passes, Mendocino County will join 170 other communities in
> the U.S. that have passed community rights ordinances against corporate
> harm to their ecosystems.
>
>
>
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