--- Fred Juergens <FredJuergens@charter.net> wrote:
>
> Here is a present for you -- the list of cities,
> towns and villages in
> Wisconsin where efforts to put a troop withdrawal
> question on next
> April's ballot have been made, and their status at
> this time. From
> west to east and north to south, people all over
> Wisconsin will have an
> opportunity to have their voices heard on this
> issue. Thanks to all
> who have circulated and/or signed the petitions in
> our home town.
>
> As you probably know, Evansville's city council will
> take up the
> question on January 10. Then I'm sure Evansville
> will be moved from
> "likely" to "certain" in the first category, as will
> other
> municipalities as soon as their local governments
> receive the certified
> petitions from their clerks.
> -----------------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:57:57 -0600
> From: Jeff Peterson <peterson@lakeland.ws>
> Subject: updated list
>
> Here's the latest list of municipalities where it is
> likely that a
> troop withdrawal referendum will appear on the
> ballot in April:
>
> 1. City of Algoma (Kewaunee Co.)
> 2. City of Amery (Polk Co.)
> 3. City of Baraboo (Sauk Co.)
> 4. Village of Casco (Kewaunee Co.)
> 5. Town of Draper (Sawyer Co.)
> 6. Town of Edgewater (Sawyer Co.)
> 7. Village of Egg Harbor (Door Co.)
> 8. Village of Ephraim (Door Co.)
> 9. City of Evansville (Rock Co.)
> 10. Village of Exeland (Sawyer Co.)
> 11. Village of Frederic (Polk Co.)
> 12. Village of Forestville (Door Co.)
> 13. City of Kewaunee (Kewaunee Co.)
> 14. City of LaCrosse (LaCrosse Co.)
> 15. Village of Luxemburg (Kewaunee Co.)
> 16. City of Madison (Dane Co.)
> 17. City of Monona (Dane Co.)
> 18. Town of Newport (Adams Co.)
> 19. Town of Ojibwe (Sawyer Co.)
> 20. Village of Osceola (Polk Co.)
> 21. Village of Shorewood (Milwaukee Co.)
> 22. Village of Sister Bay (Door Co.)
> 23. Spider Lake Twsp. (Sawyer Co.)
> 24. City of Sturgeon Bay (Door Co.)
> 25. City of Watertown (Dodge/Jefferson Co.)
> 26. Village of Winter (Sawyer Co.)
>
> And here are the municipalities where efforts --
> including efforts to
> convince city councils to put the question to voters
> -- are still
> underway and appear likely to be successful:
>
> Village of Radisson (Sawyer Co.)
> Village of Couderay (Sawyer Co.)
> City of Hayward (Sawyer Co.)
> City of Green Bay (Brown Co.)
> City of Milwaukee (Milwaukee Co.)
> City of Oshkosh (Winnebago Co.)
>
> And here are the places where I don't know where
> they're at:
>
> City of Eau Claire (Eau Claire/Chippewa Co.)
> City of Superior (Douglas Co.)
> City of Portage (Columbia Co.)
> City of Ladysmith (Rusk Co.)
>
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>
> Fred Juergens, for CUUE
> 401 Badger Drive
> Evansville, WI 53536
> 608-882-2489
> " Be the change you want to see in the world.",
> Mohandas Gandhi
>
I'm reminded of Alice's Restaurant. Arlo asks us to walk in, to sing one chorus of the song and walk out. And I quote;
ReplyDeleteYou know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
That's kind of what's happening with this resolution. If only Madison has a resolution the administration can scoff at the results. Once Milwaukee and Eau Claire are on board it may start to feel like a movement.
I'm not a big fan of referenda but in this case it may be just as important to have a record of the sense of the people as anything. Now that the level of pol;itical discourse is rapidly approaching "Yes it is" vs. "No it isn't" "Is too" we need to go on record to show our disgust with the path America has been walking.
What a bunch of nonsense and a waste of taxpayers $$$$$$.
ReplyDeleteDoe's anyone really think a lame duck President from a state the Republicans have'nt won since Reagan cares what you think????
We need to finish the job in Iraq or all of the lives lost were for nothing.
Unlike Madison we have general elections this round I will vote no ton this ridiculous resolution.