[fvc-wat-disc] Surplus not spent including Cambridge funds

[Jan Liggett]

Food for thought.

I am speaking as someone who not only volunteered on this project but also donated money.  I want to place my support behind a research project on the condition that the local and the national media are asked to report on it when finished.  Therefor I believe that all leftover funds should be spent on it.

If we as a group do not ask for an independent unbiased report on what happened leading up to and including last Wednesday's vote, we haven't finished the job and we can not keep moving forward for the next time.  It will serve notice that the government can't ignore us.
While it would be inappropriate to help fund it without asking for it to be unbiased upfront. I believe that we can and should ALL support the project.  Money spent on thank you advertising and gas bills could be better spent as anyone voting for the change to the system doesn't need to be thanked for voting responsibly.

That's my two cents worth anyway.

It was a pleasure working with all of you.

Jan Liggett
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bryn Ossington 
  To: FVC Waterloo Region Discussion 
  Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [fvc-wat-disc] Surplus not spent


  I am entirely bias on this. For one I am a board member with LSPIRG and for two I was involved in the conversation that caused Anthony to call Brian. LSPIRG typically pays students about $1000 to complete a research project. What is proposed is between LSPIRG and a partner they split the cost and together higher a researcher. I think there is some great data to go over and this could make a great case as to the short falls of this referendum. So as I said, I am entirely for this and entirely bias. 

  Bryn 


  On 10/12/07, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
    I'm in favour of research! It's money well spent.

    -- Bob.


    >>> 12 Oct 2007  Brian Tanguay <fvc-wat-disc at listserv.thinkers.org> 
    >>>

    > Hi all,
    >
    > Regarding leftover money: Anthony Piscitelli of LSPIRG phoned me this
    > afternoon to ask whether we would be interested in (or able to)
    > co-sponsoring a student to conduct a research project on the 
    > referendum. We mulled some ideas over and one that came to mind was to
    > try to determine if the pro-MMP vote was higher in polls that were
    > canvassed (or had literature drops) in this region than in those that 
    > had no contact. There should be some interesting ways of trying to
    > test this, and Anthony thought that the project might cost around
    > $1000 in total, to be shared by LSPIRG and us. It could lead to a 
    > publication or two for the student doing the research, which would be
    > excellent for anyone planning on applying eventually to grad school.
    >
    > So, do you think we would have maybe $400 to devote to this project? 
    > Should we do something like this? I would vote yes, but then I'm an
    > academic ...
    >
    > Anthony promised to send me some more information about this idea, and
    > I'll forward it if you think it's something worth pursuing. 
    >
    > Brian
    >
    >
    >
    > >>> kevedsmith at gmail.com 12/10/2007 1:05:02 pm >>>
    > Hi folks:
    >
    > Bronwen (our CFO) has informed me that provincial didn't spend our 
    > surplus, aside from the $1350 they spent on radio ads.  Indeed, they
    > had a surplus of their own.
    >
    > I would encourage everyone who's put a lot into this campaign to fill
    > up their gas tank, and keep the receipt for possible reimbursement. 
    >
    > Cambridge had an unexpected surplus which they're spending on
    > thank-you ads.  Did we want to do something similar?
    >
    > Kevin.
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