Some citizen placed these colorful fliers on cars along the perimeter of Chico State the other day.
Sue received this picture from a friend who spotted these fliers over near Chico State campus last week. We can only guess who put these out, and be really thankful that there are some other people out there who aren’t afraid to act.
We had our regular First Sunday meeting yesterday, library, 9am. We have a core of diehards, willing to come down to the library on a Sunday morning when they could be snuggling up to a plate of blueberry pancakes! We have people who have spent time reading and yakking over documents and boiling them down to half-size bullet point sheets, people who have literally stood out on street corners to hand them to fellow citizens, and taken time to explain this measure to people who were hearing about it for the first time.
We have a group who was willing to put up their own dough to print signs, and then move out in unison to get those signs placed around town. We have Toby Schindelbeck, who not only set us up with a printer but went about putting out ‘NO on J’ signs right alongside his own. He and Andrew Coolidge are the only candidates in this race who have taken on Measure J – where’s Bob Evans? Was his signature on the ‘argument against’ just a one-night-stand? And, I sure haven’t seen Ann Schwab speaking on behalf of this measure that she brought forward herself. Where are the ‘YES on J’ signs Ann?
At times I fear ‘Democracy’ is just a pipe dream. It’s really hard work, and a lot of people don’t seem to be willing to put into it what they expect to get out of it. It’s frustrating talking to people about issues, and then hear what one of our members heard in a door-to-door conversation – “I vote however the newspaper tells me…”
The Chico media has said there’s “no organized opposition” to Measure J. School Administrator Magazine defines “organized opposition” as “two or more individuals banded together to fight a local school bond or operating levy proposal…” Well, gee, that would be, The Chico Taxpayers Association. There’s at least four of us at every meeting, with seven regular members on the mailing list. Our meetings are wide open to the public and noticed here, where anybody who can string together an intelligible sentence on topic is allowed to join the conversation. You can also spy on us via the library website – the meeting room schedule is there for everybody to see. It’s as if the proponents of Measure J are just wishing us away – David Little edited “Chico Taxpayers Association” off the letter I sent to the paper, I thought that was kind of weird.
Meanwhile, here’s the website for the Chico Democrats:
http://www.chicodemocrats.org/index.html
Or you might approach them at their HQ over on Mangrove, but don’t ask any pokey questions or Bob Mulhullond will show you some Chicago style politics.
And here’s Guzzetti’s joint, Chico Conservation Voters:
http://www.chicoconservationvoters.org/index.html
it says, there’s three members – Kelly Meagher, who pays for everything, Dave Guzzetti, who issues all the orders, and little Jessica Knothead, who does the bidding of Guzzetti.
Where’s their public meetings? Where’s their public discussion?
And then there’s the Democratic Action Club of Chico – that’s Mark Stemen and Maria Phillips – they have a Facebook page which you can only look at if you have Facebook. When Stemen had a meeting at the library, he got in trouble for trying to kick out a woman who was not a member of his club – he’s not allowed to do that at the library. I guess that’s why I haven’ t seen them schedule another meeting there.
Isn’t that funny – the “Democrats” don’t seem to believe in Democracy!
Thanks whoever you are, anonymous stranger. I hope you will continue to spread the alarm. Wow, Paul Revere could have used a good copy machine.
Chico Taxpayers Association 