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
Becker was asked about being removed from the City Council meeting on November 21st, “I apologized to the mayor for speaking out of turn, but my wife, Toni, told the Council that each of her petition signatures were stapled to the full page of text of the petition. Mr Duncan said he didn’t know that to be true. He kept parsing words, saying my wife lied, and then repeatedly and condescendingly would say ‘‘I’m not calling you a liar.’ In my frustration I defended my wife and the City Manager kicked me out.”
The Open Access Petition group has kicked off their "Let PB Decide!" campaign with videos from Poplar Bluff Citizens. Check it out at www.LetPBDecide.com
Dear council members and neighbors, I’ve appeared before you on a number of occasions over the last 18 months. I apologize for any counter-productive or offending behavior which set our paths at odds. My business and livelihood, as well as the livelihood of my staff, were in jeopardy. I was thrust into this political world I was not prepared for. Thank you for the opportunity to address you this evening.
