LAST CALL: Not Signed a Petition Yet? AND A Toast

Not sure what all this is about? Click HERE to get up to speed.

If you have not as yet signed the referendum petition, would like to, and have not been able to find a circulator, you may want to put in a request to have someone bring you a petition TODAY.

While the deadline is Monday at 5pm, the scarcity of notaries on weekends and holidays means that most circulators will likely have returned their forms by NOON on Monday.

Linda and I will be turning in our forms in this afternoon. IF any of the volunteer circulators who contacted us plan on waiting until Monday morning to turn in their forms (or if they can somehow get their forms notarized later, Monday afternoon), and are available to take petitions to anyone, we will leave the request form available. But please do not count on this.

Click HERE to request that someone bring you a petition to sign.

AND

Since we’re on the subject of the “Fairness” ordinance generally, I wanted to take the opportunity to call for a toast to three Lincolnites who wrote Letters to the Editor since the Council’s May 14 vote. Each of the letters covered a different aspect of the problems with the ordinance and the process by which it was passed – one of them we’ve not raised here before (the third of the three).

I recommend giving each of these letters a full read – all are written and none of them are long. Click the images to read each on the LJS website.

“Tyranny by ordinance”

Tyranny by ordinance

Click to read the Letter to the Editor on the Journal Star's website

“Anger at council members”

Anger at council members

Click to read on the Journal Star website

“Unfair hearing”

Unfair hearing

Click to read on the Journal Star website

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Shelli Dawdy is first and foremost the mother of three children whom she has taught at home via the classical method since removing her children from school in 2001. During her early years as a homeschool mother, she worked part-time as a freelance writer. Born and raised in the Iowa, Shelli and her husband moved to the state of South Dakota in 1997, attracted to its more limited government and friendly tax environment. In 2006, Shelli and her family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, when her husband’s employer offered a new position. She took a break from work and politics for a time, recognizing the need to focus solely on her childrens’ schooling with two now of high school age. Distressed by many things she was witnessing on the national political scene and disillusioned about the Republican Party, she decided to start writing again, this time online. Motivated to get involved with others at the grassroots level, she networked with activists on the social media tool, Twitter. She was involved in organizing the first tea party rallies inspired by Rick Santelli’s “rant” on CNBC in February 2009. Recognizing that activism should generate on the local level, she founded Grassroots in Nebraska in March of 2009. The group’s mission is a return to Constitutional, limited government, according to its original meaning. While the group has held several tea party rallies, it’s focus is to take effective action. Among its many projects, GiN successfully coordinated testimony for the hearing of the Nebraska Sovereignty Resolution, networked with other groups to ensure a large show of public support at the hearing, and coordinated follow up support to ensure its passage in April 2010. While working to build up GiN throughout 2009, she was asked to work as writer and producer of the documentary film, A New America, which lays out how Progressivism is responsible for how America has moved away from its Constitutional roots. You can see more of her work on Grassroots in Nebraska (GiN) and StubbornFacts