Re: County initiative IS far easier than recall

[Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear CVV members:

God, I'm good.

I have on my answering machine a message from County Atty Leslie Lacey.  She
_did_ tell Evan that there can be a county-wide initiative.  The message she
left me was that she was in error.  There is _no_ authority for an
initiative.

If you want to listen to the message, call me and I'll play it for you.  It
will be on my machine for a few days.

Boy, had Evan been right then I would have withdrawn from politics since
Alzheimer's would have set in.

Ralph Shnelvar



On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:39:42 -0700, you wrote:

>Dear Evan:
>
>I'm really confused.
>
>Under what authority does County Atty Leslie Lacey assert that citizens have
>the right of initiative?
>
>Home rule *cities* have such a right.  Boulder is a home rule city.
>
>I am unaware of any means for a statutory county (Boulder County is a
>statutory county) to put a citizens' initiative on the ballot.
>
>I left a message for County Atty Leslie Lacey to call me back.  I'll report
>here what she said.
>
>Ralph
>
>
>
>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:12:18 -0700 (MST), you wrote:
>
>>
>>Folks,
>>
>>I just talked to County Atty Leslie Lacey and she told me that an
>>initiative petition needs only 5% of the registered voters in the
>>County. She said that their were about 218,000 registered before the
>>last big voter reg. drive, the new figures will be available soon.
>>
>>5% of 218,000 is less than 11,000, far less than the 10% of those
>>who voted for county clerk last time, which is what's necessary to
>>recall Linda Salas.
>>
>>Joe, it's both much easier and much more productive to pass an
>>initiative for what we want than to punish Linda -and almost
>>certainly get what we don't want, again.
>>
>>Having personally collected close to 15,000 signatures in 10 years,
>>paid and unpaid, for all kinds of initiatives, I disagree with you
>>that it would be easy to get 25,000 in a week.
>>
>>People were quite upset with Linda for a while after the election
>>but by now know that there's plenty of blame to go around, and that
>>she is just another tool of secret voting machine corps. in bed with
>>self-serving politicians and bureaucrats.
>>
>>"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the
>>merger of state and corporate power."  - Benito Mussolini
>>
>>Evan