RE: FW: ballot typo

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

I've apologized for lots of stupid stuff that I've said. I don't find this
language all that confusing. I think that people would like to find a reason
to stop this election. So right away I'm having a problem with that idea and
it taints everything else that I think about the idea and even the people
promoting it. I'm only human.

Confounding the elections process is a bad idea. It reduces choice. Even
doing it once crosses the line, for me.
I believe that the whole thrust of this 'investigation' of poor wording is
simply being done to needle the clerk(s) and the city council. The entire
movement is to discredit the government. It is simply not constructive.

While Bo and I certainly want smaller government, deconstruction not
implosion is the road to success.

I said before that I wasn't all that interested in a boycott. I am also not
interested in seizing up an election in legal red tape over nonsense. That's
what this is.

And that Evan, is the big picture.

Paul Tiger, Outreach Director of the Libertarian Party of Boulder County
Outreach@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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"The government that governs best, governs least."
                            Thomas Jefferson


-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Daniel Ravitz [mailto:evan@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 9:37 PM
To: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FW: ballot typo


Looks like Alison is right and Paul is wrong, again. This reminds me
of how Paul repeatedly, and on occassion, insultingly, claimed that
hand counting was illegal. He never apologized for this. This
behavior discredits the Libertarian party.

You're a good detail man, Paul, now pay attention to the big picture
and the people in it.

I will email everyone i can about the Thursday meeting, and ask them
to vote against the ballot issue.

Evan

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Peter or Alison Richards wrote:

> From:  Peter Richards
>
> To:  Paul Tiger, at al...
>
> Re:  Typo on City ballot...
>
> Paul;
>
> There is a huge typo... in the paragraph below.
>
> The word 'November' was left out...
>
> Send this email below to every lawyer you know...or just one,   starting
> with Dick Lyons !!
>
> (My computer crashed, so I have lost all those email addresses, including
> Dick Lyons, or I would do so myself..)
>
> The word 'November' should have appeared a second time in the paragraph
> below.
>
> Stith Bennett wrote an email about the problem on Monday, 1 February,
> when he figured out the problem existed...  Joe Pezzillo or someone else
> will have to find that email...
>
> The way it is written means we will be voting in January, according to
> attorneys I have spoken to, one of whom worked in the City Attorney's
> office for many years.
>
> Some of those attorneys may be at Council tomorrow night to explain...
>
> Bye, Peter Richards
>
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:47:12 -0700 "Paul Tiger - LPBC - Outreach"
> <LPBC-O@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Okay - show me the typo (scroll down). There isn't one.
> The word 'November' appears once in the sentence, which is all it needs
> to.  If there had been a comma the first appearance of the word 'year',
> then a second occurrence of the word 'year' might be warranted.
>
> This was written by lawyers. Lawyers tend to create the world's longest
> run on sentences. It is simple and I understand what it says. Calling it
> the 'other issue' means to me that you don't know what it says, or what
> it is about.
> This is about coordinated elections. If this does not pass then Boulder
> may very well have to have a separate election from the county. This is
> very costly and really quite pointless.
>
> I urge everyone in COB to understand what this issue is about and vote
> you opinion accordingly. And if you still don't get it, then OVERVOTE
> your ballot to prevent fraud.
>
> Paul Tiger
> PS: this was a snipe hunt. Thanks so much for enabling me to completely
> waste my time looking into this (albeit I had a very pleasant chat with
> Alisa Lewis, whom you could have called on your own).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alisa Lewis
>
>
> AMENDMENT OF THE MUNICIPAL GENERAL ELECTION DATE TO CONFORM WITH THE
> CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
>
> Shall Section 22 of the Charter be amended to change the date of the
> general municipal election from the first Tuesday after the first Monday
> in November of each odd-numbered year to the first Tuesday in each
> odd-numbered year in order to allow Boulder elections to conform with the
> dates specified in the Constitution of the State of Colorado?
>
> For the measure ________                  Against the measure ________
>
>
>

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