Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Tune In For a Tribute to the Election Integrity Movement

The City Council of Arcata, CA is currently in session and you can tune in live here. The player opens with a copy of the agenda so you can figure out where they are in the meeting. Toward the end, which I don't think will be too late tonight, probably 9ish PT (no guarantees), they have oral communications. This is when the public can address the Council. Watch for me.

Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of this Council being the first in the nation to adopt the Voter Confidence Resolution. I want to make sure they know how strongly the "no basis for confidence" sentiment has surged lately. They need to be thanked, and encouraged. I don't have it all worked out in my head yet so I'll sign off now to get it together.

Note that the meetings are archived so if you read this well after I've written it, you can still find out what happens/happened. I'll be back here at We Do Not Consent later on with more on the occasion.

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you should tell those slowpokes in city hall to post the meeting vid already, unless we are to believe it only lasted 9 minutes.

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