Thank YOU Eileen. ..cheers paula
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The petitions for the ballot questions will be on my porch again tomorrow.
Feel free to come by any time.
Also, remember there are two sheets to sign, one for each ballot question.
Thanks to everyone who has already stopped by.
Eileen
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 7:28 PM Sorensen, Glorian
<Glorian_Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Glorian_Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
You might need more pages, eileen. We signed the last spaces.
- Glorian
On May 25, 2020, at 6:03 PM, Elodia Thomas
<elodia.h2otown@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:elodia.h2otown@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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Eileen,
Will these petitions be on your porch tomorrow? Bruce and I can sign then.
Thank you,
Elodia
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Elodia Thomas
617.926.3952
We Are All Watertown
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 10:46 PM Eileen Ryan
<eileenelizabethryan@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:eileenelizabethryan@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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From: Eileen Ryan
<eileenelizabethryan@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:eileenelizabethryan@xxxxxxxxx>>
I am helping Ann Munson and Watertown Faces Climate Change collect signatures
for two ballot questions to get them on the ballot for this November's
election. The message below was written by Ann Munson. Petitions will be on
my porch, 48 Pearl Street, on the green bench for the next couple of days. I
will leave out a couple of pens, but best to bring your own. Please sign each
ballot question legibly and write in your street address. All signatures on
each sheet are for Watertown residents only. Thanks. Eileen
Hi friends and fellow citizens of the 29th Middlesex,
I'm writing to ask you to do something for me, and well frankly for yourselves.
To cut to the chase would you come over to my porch at 48 Pearl Street and
sign 2 petitions to put 2 different questions on the ballot in November. (Note
that you can also download your own forms *double-sided per order of the Secy
of State* at the website at bottom of this email, get your family to sign and
then return to my porch.)
One question is about climate and frankly a no brainer (see both questions
below). The other one, about the Mass State House of Representatives, might
take a bit of explaining.
In Massachusetts, important progressive legislation is blocked year after year.
Many
issues — like climate change, voting rights, protecting immigrants, LGBTQ
issues and reproductive
justice — enjoy strong popular support and Democratic legislative
supermajorities yet
nothing seems to happen.
Why? A major problem is that Massachusetts has one of the least transparent
state
governments in the country. Massachusetts is in the minority of states that do
not make
committee votes public. In most states, you can go to the website of the
legislature, and
look up how your elected representatives voted. Not here. Here a bill can have
a majority of sponsors, including committee members, but it won't get voted out
of committee and no one ever knows how their representatives is voting. They
can literally sponsor a bill and then not vote for it behind closed doors.
In November, you will get a chance to vote on two questions, IF we are able to
qualify
for the ballot with a non-binding referendum:
To get both questions on the ballot in November, we need just 200 people in to
fill out a simple petition form. Here are the questions:
Democracy Reform Ballot Question•
“Shall the representative for this district be instructed to vote in favor of
changes
to the Legislature’s rules that would make the results of all votes in
Legislative
committees publicly available on the Legislature’s website?”
100% Renewable Ballot Question•
“Shall the representative for this district be instructed to vote in favor of
legislation that would require Massachusetts to achieve 100% renewable energy
use within the next two decades, starting immediately and making significant
progress within the first five years while protecting impacted workers and
businesses?”
If you would like to help in the effort to both qualify for the ballot, and to
get it passed in Middlesex 29th, you can also go to
https://maclimatedemocracy.org/vol/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://maclimatedemocracy.org/vol/__;!!PVKG_VDCxu5g!8SWGFtukaWyQI5Sxm2bKiGroIpyk8pJEtgm21sXClTUBoxkjZo5yxIKSij4FZyJkOYw$>
for information.
This ballot initiative is sponsored by
ActOnMass.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://actonmass.org/info__;!!PVKG_VDCxu5g!8SWGFtukaWyQI5Sxm2bKiGroIpyk8pJEtgm21sXClTUBoxkjZo5yxIKSij4FZT2P2oo$>
and
350Mass.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://350mass.betterfutureproject.org/__;!!PVKG_VDCxu5g!8SWGFtukaWyQI5Sxm2bKiGroIpyk8pJEtgm21sXClTUBoxkjZo5yxIKSij4FxKN1LL8$>
Thanks for reading all the way to the end!!
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