From LetPBDecide.com: I received a letter from the Missouri Ethics Commission on Thursday, Dec 1, stating Joseph Pulliam from Bernie, Mo, was a concerned citizen who would “like to know who supports this cause in the community where I work!” [read more]
semotimes.com posted an article about the open access debate on Friday (Dec 2). Below are some excerpts, but you can read the entire article on their web site. Please consider posting their article to your facebook or twitter feed. “There has never been an issue where 600 people in any ward reached out against their council members,” Becker said.
From the "Let PB Decide" web site: A letter from an attorney at the Eastern Missouri division of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) was sent to Wally Duncan, City Attorney, demanding that the petition be certified because Mr. Duncan had mis-read and mis-applied the Missouri statutes. Grant Doty, ACLU attorney, notes that only 609 signatures are necessary to file a petition:
At 3:59pm today, the Open Access Petition group submitted 1,195 new signatures collected over the past 10 days. That is TWO MORE than the 1193 voters the city disenfranchised by invalidating their signatures on Nov 17th. The total number of signatures gathered from both drives is 4,633. Because people were required to sign again, there are now duplicate signatures in the petition.
As soon as your Thanksgiving time is complete, LetPBDecide.com need your help. Please go to our List of Invalidated Signatures and look for anyone you know. Contact them and have them call us at 686-1124 and leave their name & phone number...we will arrange to have a driver come to them to resign the petition. If you don't think they will mind, you can call us and leave their information. Use Facebook, use twitter, use Google, the phone book...whatever way you can to get this message out there for us. Thanks, Brian
