Sustainability, Urgent Election Action, More!
Items of Urgent Nature Requiring Action - Today - This Week
Light Rail Meeting - Lake Oswego 7pm
Sustainability, Urban Planning, Action 21 and what it means to Property Rights
Election URGENT Follow-up -- Make Sure Your Vote COUNTS!
Keep Redistricting out of Legislature's hands in OREGON -- Action Needed
Get Involved in Local Groups (City and County) or Start One!
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Light Rail Meeting - Lake Oswego May 26th, 2010 7:00 pm
John Charles of Cascade Policy Institute with present information about light rail, street car, and bus transit options. METRO and the Street Car Task Force have their own presentations and this one by Cascade is one the City of Lake Oswego does not want you to hear. Regardless of your stand on this project, you will want to hear this talk which points out the actual costs, national trends, usage of existing street cars, and the extremely shaky financial status of TriMet.
Please pass this on to your mailing list. Even our friends in Milwaukie would be interested as they are facing the light rail project. This is not a partisan issue – this is information that all citizens need to have to make an informed decision.
The City will be presenting their side in numerous venues in the weeks to come. They have so far refused to let this be presented to the citizens. The Sustainability, Urband Planning and what they're doing to take away property rights. TOP
Sustainability, Urban Planning, Action 21 and what it means to Property Rights
This is a link which explains more in depth about what the real reason behind the CLOUD they're hiding behind. There is much to read and digest. This is coming to EVERY town like it has to Lake Oswego. There are even maps that show the plan to restrict limit and control everyone and everything. TOP
Election URGENT Follow-up -- Make Sure Your Vote COUNTS!
The race for State Superintendent of Public Instruction isn't over yet and your help is needed. Republican Rep. Ron
Maurer is still alive in the race for Superintendent of Public
Instruction versus failed 8 year incumbent Susan Castillo. This race
has turned out to be much closer than the media and pundits thought.
Apparently a lot of voters, and not just Republicans, think Oregon
being 43rd in the nation in K thru 12 academic results is a good reason
fire Susan Castillo after 8 years and hire Ron Maurer to lead the
educational system in Oregon. (see below under HERE IS WHAT WE ARE ASKING YOU TO DO IMMEDIATELY to find out how you can help)
In the last week, this non-partisan race is turning out to be the
closest statewide race since Vote-By-Mail was instituted as the gap
between Maurer and Castillo has narrowed to within 0.41%. More
significantly, Ron Maurer's teachers union-backed incumbent opponent
Susan Castillo is only 0.04% (four one hundredths of a percent or 307
votes) above the "50% + 1 vote" threshold she must reach to win the
race outright now and avoid a run-off with Ron Maurer in November.
Castillo's margin over 50% has been dwindling all week. Here's the
latest numbers:
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As of May 21st statewide, there are at least several thousand ballots have not been "accepted" (=counted) because the voter's signature didn't match from outside of their May 18th ballot with what their County Elections have on file. Voters have 10 days from election day to fix this with their County Elections office. By the way, the Secretary of State Elections Division and every County Elections office has officially refused in writing to supply us the list of folks receiving this letter. So now it's up to you and me to reach as many of these folks as possible without knowing who they are!
HERE IS WHAT WE ARE ASKING YOU TO DO IMMEDIATELY
Please spread the word to every Republican (or anyone you think voted
for Ron Maurer) about the need for voters who have received letters
from their county elections office stating that their signature didn't
match from outside of their May 18th ballot with what their county
elections have on file - they need to get in to county elections before
this Friday May 28th at the close of business to update their signature card in order for their votes to count. They must bring photo identification with them and sign a new voter registration card
so their signature can be matched. BTW - if they don't do this now,
they will have to do this in November anyways - so best to get it done
now!
Here's a link to find the County Election offices http://www.oregonvotes.org/other.info/clerk.htm
PLEASE NOTE: We have learned that many new registrants who have used the new online registration option may be receiving these letters because their ballot signature is being match with their DMV signature from when they first got their driver's license, for instance, at age 16, but, due to some lack of clarity of some DMV images and the fact that signatures can change significantly during a voter's teenage years, these voters are getting these letters more often than your average voter.
Don't wait to get this message out, but do try your best to target folks that you think voted for Rep. Ron Maurer in this election. As you can see in the email below, Castillo's supporters are already out there getting this word to Castillo's supporters. They know that this election is a potential "bellwether" of where 2010 is going. Don't let them steal this election. Take action today!
Very truly yours,
Kevin Hoar, Field Director
Ruth Bendl, Voter Integrity Chair
Oregon Republican Party
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SIGN PETITION 50 to keep Oregon REDISTRICTING out of the hands of the legislature.
"The
proposed constitutional amendment needs 110,358 valid signatures by
July 2 to qualify for the November ballot. Day didn't provide an
estimate of how many signatures his group has collected, but by the end
of April, his group had reporting collecting 23,500 signatures from
paid petitioners."
Phil Knight involved in helping the fight as reported at OregonLive
Here is the link to the petition: http://www.petition50.com/
Get Involved in Local Groups (City and County) or Start One!
Two newer local groups have formed which have their monthly meeting is the first Saturday 10:30 am montly. Molalla which meets in their Local Library, and Washington County, which will meet in June at the Tigard Chamber of Commerce. These groups are the eyes and ears of their local city councils, local school boards and county commissioners!!
Yamhill County group is going strong meeting in McMinnville meets on the third Thurs/ monthly.
SALEM got people attending by putting a placard out on Monday, stating "Community Meeting this Friday 7pm Here!"
NOW is a very important time to be watching (and attending) School Board meetings. Most School Board positions are due for elections in 2011 -- and NOW is the time to get to know WHO is on your local school board, who must be voted out, and in finding people who will hold to values and principles that cut spending and keep a tight reign on the budgets so you can get them elected!
WE need more local groups! If there isn't a group in your area, start
one. We have a flier which you can download from the DOWNLOADABLE FILES
page, for you to print and post in bulletin board locations in your
area. We're working on setting up the groups pages so you can post meetings and have group specific message forums. (still connecting this feature), etc.
By talking with your neighbors or friends asking them what do you think about "mention your congressman's name?" get a feel for what they are thinking! If they say, somethings not right, or they're upset, then invite them to your local meeting, or to an event. (Meet & Mingle is a great way to start) As a collective force we can learn togther and take united action to restore the communities to the principles upon which our nation was founded upon. Remember, good representation starts from the community and spreads only so long as we start talking and getting involved.
Please forward these alerts to your friends and neighbors of like minds!
