Re: Direct Legislation Petition re Iraq troop withdrawal set for Evansville City Council action Jan 10, 2005.

--- Fred Juergens <FredJuergens@charter.net> wrote:

> As many, if not all of you, know, CUUE has
> circulated petitions for
> direct legislation to put a resolution for troop
> withdrawal from Iraq
> on the Evansville City ballot for April 4,
2006...... I am pleased to announce that,
> after consultation
> with the City Attorney, the Clerk has reviewed and
> certified the
> following resolution to the Evansville Common
> Council.
>
> It is scheduled to appear for action on the Agenda
> of the Council at
> its meeting on January 10, 2006:
> ----------------------------------
> WHEREAS, the educational and political group called
> Citizens United of
> Union/Evansville has collected and submitted many
> more than the
> required 206 signatures of Evansville electors on a
> Petition for Direct
> Legislation to the City Clerk of the City of
> Evansville, Wisconsin
> (“Evansville”), pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 9.20; and
>
> WHEREAS, the Evansville City Clerk has reviewed and
> certified this
> Petition for Direct Legislation and submitted it to
> the Evansville
> Common Council, pursuant to Wisconsin law; and
>
> WHEREAS, Wisconsin law requires that the Evansville
> Common Council
> either adopt the resolution in question itself, as
> set forth in full
> below, or refer it to a vote of the electors of
> Evansville, Wisconsin
> in the next general election, in April 2006;
>
> NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the following
> resolution is referred
> to a vote of the electors of Evansville on April 4,
> 2006, so that the
> citizens of Evansville may have their voices heard
> on an issue of local
> and national interest:
>
> “It is hereby resolved that the people of the City
> of Evansville,
> Wisconsin request that the United States Government
> immediately begin
> an orderly and rapid withdrawal of all its military
> personnel from
> Iraq, beginning the with National Guard and
> Reserves.”
>
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> Needless to say, I am delighted that CUUE has
> accomplished the first
> phase of this effort. I assume the Council will
> pass this resolution
> in January; under Wisconsin Law, its only other
> choice is for the
> Council to adopt the Resolution itself as the sense
> of the city. It
> cannot bury the resolution by any legal means.
>
> I invite you all to come to the Council Meeting to
> see how it goes down.
>
> CUUE will begin an educational campaign beginning in
> late February
> within Evansville to encourage a large turnout in
> the April 2006
> election and to educate its citizens on why this
> resolution should be
> overwhelmingly approved on the ballot. We will
> surely have a public
> forum on the issue in the weeks immediately
> preceding the election. I
> invite you to participate in this campaign as we get
> closer to election
> time.
>
> Fred Juergens
> 401 Badger Drive
> Evansville, WI 53536
> 608-882-2489
> "The voice of intelligence is drowned out by the
> roar of fear. Most of
> all, it is silenced by ignorance."
> --Karl Menninger
>