[fvc-wat-announce] Meeting Reminder, Invitation and Info

[lanickerson at b2b2c.ca]

Hi Fair Vote Waterloo Region supporters!

First, just a reminder of our meeting to plan our next Fair Vote and CAPP
sponsored event on Wednesday September 8, 7:30, at the Queen Street Commons
Cafe (across from the Working Centre). Everyone is very welcome and
contributions of ideas or help is always appreciated.

Second, in June I sent out packages to the high schools inquiring about doing
Fair Vote presentations (on electoral reform/pr)to classes of high school
students. I have four tentative grade 10 classes so far and I hope more to
come! If anyone is interested in doing these presentations with me, or coming
to assist, I would be most pleased to have company - just send me an email.

Finally, making very clear that Fair Vote is non-partisan and does not endorse
candidates (that is very clearly not my intention), on a personal note, I live
in Ward 9 and have been visited by some of the local city candidates going door
to door. I know proportional representation is not a city issue, but Fair Vote
does have a campaign to bring PR to cities and boards of non-profits, so I
always ask a candidate's position on proportional representation, among other
local issues. I queried Frank Etherington about his opinion of bringing a
proportional voting system like STV to local elections and he thought this was
a "great idea". It's not a bad idea to ask our local candidates. When I looked
up the articles he's written in the Record later, I found this good one from
2008 calling for electoral reform:

http://news.therecord.com/article/432762

Take care and hope to see many of you at the planning meeting, and especially,
at the next Fair Vote event!

Anita