RE: County initiative IS far easier than recall

["Paul Tiger - LPBC - Outreach" <LPBC-O@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was told 8% in 03 by the commissioners to get my home rule initiative on
the ballot.

paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Daniel Ravitz [mailto:evan@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:12 PM
To: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: County initiative IS far easier than recall


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