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.
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
The city of Poplar Bluff has decided to invalidate 1200 signatures. Those include any that were mailed in and over 1100 who signed a petition where the first page was the language of the ordinance and the 2nd and 3rd pages were stapled to it with lines for 20 names. Though we are convinced that the City has violated Missouri Law, we only have 10 days to correct this or our entire petition is thrown out. HELP US get this done. Go to
More than the 2900 signatures were gathered to put Open Access to a vote of the people as promised by City Manager, Doug Bagby. Now, the Open Access Petition group turns its attention to protecting the voters who signed the petition. The group’s new web site, www.LetPBDecide.com, is designed to keep the citizens updated on progress and encourage valuable input. Brian Becker, group spokesperson, stated, “It appears to us that these 3400 voters have no advocate within City Hall. City Hall is working to figure out ways to throw out voters. For instance, we’ve heard City Hall is considering throwing out any voter who mailed in their petition. That is sad.” LetPBDecide.com features video clips of Poplar Bluff citizens giving
