[CRNMC] Butte County and Fundraising example

[Shannon Biggs]

Lot of questions, will try to answer them all briefly here.

We do not know if we will face a challenge from the industry, but we can be
sure we are on their radar, along with the other counties and
municipalities. 

Our rights based ordinance like any other is subject to the rules and
regulations of the initiative process. If the oil lobby or industry or or or
finds fault with our application, that is the easiest and best possible
option for our opponents. Its why getting the petitions perfect is so
important, as is our process of collecting them etc. We need to be
impeccable because the scrutiny is obviously happening. As I mentioned in
Democracy School and beyond, 51% of all ordinances are pulled for a
technicality.  The system again, making democracy hard.

Only the county can pull our ordinance off the ballot.

The process for challenging depends on what reason an initiative was pulled.
Most likely its forcing a court to rule, or asking the county council to put
it forward anyway in respect to the voters who signed the initiative, it
really depends on many factors including the timing of the challenge.

Best, Shannon 
On 6/25/14 7:32 AM, "Baile Oakes" <baileoakes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds like we need to prepare ourselves for like action from the INDUSTRY.
> 
> Is Barry open to helping us answer a challenge ?
> 
> Our Rights based ordinance has much more to legally challenge than bold face
> type.
> 
> Who "removes" a citizen based initiative from a ballot ?
> 
> What is the process of a challenge to the removal ?
> 
> The continuing education course continues..
> 
> with love,
> 
> Baile
> 
> 
> On Jun 24, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Lanny Cotler wrote:
> 
>> Shannon, and all...
>> 
>> I just checked out Butte County's crowdfunding campaign. While I thought it
>> was great, it is falling far short of their goal. And they have only three
>> days left in the campaign.
>> 
>> What could they have done better--to make the campaign more effective? Their
>> video was wonderful!
>> 
>> Lanny
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 24, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Shannon Biggs <shannon at globalexchange.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Butte County and Fundraising example
>>> Hi Robin and all,
>>> 
>>> So I know many of you are aware of the Butte ban issue, but in case not,
>>> here is information on their petition, which is currently kicked off the
>>> November ballot, making Mendocino (fingers crossed) one of 3 counties on the
>>> ballot for November. ;-)
>>> I know that Robin is looking at how to do fundraisers, this is a great
>>> example of a community using online fundraising via Indigogo.  Very easy to
>>> do. Let me know if you need more help on this, happy to walk through it
>>> together. 
>>> 
>>> Blessings, Shannon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ------ Forwarded Message
>>> From: Sarah Craig <sarahcraig815 at gmail.com
>>> <x-msg://398/sarahcraig815@gmail.com> >
>>> Reply-To: <sarahcraig815 at gmail.com <x-msg://398/sarahcraig815@gmail.com> >
>>> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:09:54 -0700
>>> To: "CAfrackattack at cafrack.org <x-msg://398/CAfrackattack@cafrack.org> "
>>> <cafrackattack at cafrack.org <x-msg://398/cafrackattack@cafrack.org> >,
>>> <CAF_Members at googlegroups.com <x-msg://398/CAF_Members@googlegroups.com> >
>>> Subject: [CAF_Members] Frack Free Butte County fights dirty energy money
>>> 
>>> Dear Friends,
>>> 
>>>  
>>> On June 1st the all-volunteer group, Frack-Free Butte County
>>> <http://frackfreebuttecounty.org/> , successfully raised the 10,000
>>> signatures needed to secure a citizen initiative to ban fracking on the
>>> ballot this November.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> Last week 
>>> <http://www.chicoer.com/News/Local/ci_25998257/Antifracking-initative-hits-r
>>> oadblock-with-challenge> , a law-firm hired by Californians for a Safe,
>>> Secure Energy Future ­ a group funded by the oil & gas industry ­ challenged
>>> their petition on the superficial grounds that certain sentences were not in
>>> bold-font and the word "enacts" was used instead of "ordained" and their
>>> initiative was rejected.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> They have FOUR days left of their Indiegogo campaign
>>> <https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/frack-free-butte-county> , so please
>>> donate as soon as you can. Let¹s send a strong message that we will not let
>>> the will of the people go unheard!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is the classic example of the will of the people being crushed by the
>>> money of the fossil-fuel industry, and they are determined to put their
>>> initiative back on the ballot! However, this will cost thousands of dollars
>>> to hire an attorney and counter the onslaught of oil industry money pouring
>>> into Butte County and they need a strong coalition of people like you to
>>> donate to their campaign.
>>>  
>>> Please visit their Indiegogo campaign here
>>> <https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/frack-free-butte-county>  and donate to
>>> their fight against Big Oil & Gas! And please forward this email to at least
>>> 5-10 of your friends, family, and allies to spread the word.
>>>  
>>> Thanks so much,
>>> 
>>> The Frack-Free Butte County Campaign
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> P.S. Please spread this message far and wide across your social networks!
>>> Here is a tweet to get started!
>>>  
>>> Dirty energy money blocks a fracking ban in Butte County: DONATE and SHARE
>>> if you agree that the fossil-fuel industry has gone too far.
>>> igg.me/at/frackfree <http://igg.me/at/frackfree>
>>> <http://igg.me/at/frackfree> 

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