[fvc-wat-disc] Food for thought from provincial

[Shannon Adshade]

Hello All, I believe a research partnership with LSPIRG;analyzing
post-referendum voting patterns would be an excellent and very useful
way to spend our surplus funds.Some thoughts about the MMP campaign that
I wanted to get your opinions on!!I believe future electoral reform
campaigns/referendums must work hard at ensuring the younger voting
population;which generally supports our views; comes out to vote.Also,
although during OCA presentations and consultations I thought the 3%
threshold for list member representation was appropriate;I now believe
this is too low and should be raised to official party status in any
future votes.The rationale behind this is because our opposition can
successfully argue that fringe parties or groups could realistically
obtain these results and thus have representation.I really enjoyed
meeting and working with everyone on our campaign! I really learned a
lot from the experience and hope we get the opportunity to get involved
in a similar situation in the not too distant future. I think we should
have an FVC-WR post-referendum  executive meeting in the near future.
Shannon Adshade FVC-WR Executive Member  




-----Original Message-----
From: fvc-wat-disc-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org
[mailto:fvc-wat-disc-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org] On Behalf Of Brian
Tanguay
Sent: October 16, 2007 12:38 PM
To: kevedsmith at gmail.com; FVC Waterloo Region Discussion
Subject: Re: [fvc-wat-disc] Food for thought from provincial

I think if provincial knew that we were planning a research partnership
with LSPIRG that they would be even more supportive.

So it looks to me like we should move ahead on this, if the rest of the
executive is willing.

Cheers,
Brian

>>> kevedsmith at gmail.com 10/16/2007 11:30 AM >>>
Hi folks:

Asked Bronwen, our CFO about using the donations for research.  Here
is her response, which is further food for thought.

Kevin.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bronwen <bbruch3 at cogeco.ca>
Date: Oct 15, 2007 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: Another surplus -- can we spend it now?
To: Kevin Smith <kevedsmith at gmail.com>


What were you planning on doing locally?

Centrally, we are considering using our surplus for post referendum
polling.
We would have to raise more funds, but some members have shown interest
in
contributing to that venture. However, before we put the money into it,
we
are finding out if the people that did post referendum polling after
the
B.C. referendum are doing the same for Ontario.

But to answer your question, that is an appropriate way to use your
surplus
funds if you wish.  Or if we end up going with a poll, another choice
for
you is to put your surplus into the pot.  However, it looks like you
are
looking for local referendum research, which I doubt our poll will
deal
with.  It will probably look at regions though.


Bronwen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Smith" <kevedsmith at gmail.com>
To: "Bronwen" <bbruch3 at cogeco.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: Another surplus -- can we spend it now?


> Hi Bronwen:
>
> There's been some discussion about spending the surplus on doing
some
> post-mortem research on the referendum results locally.
>
> Would that be an OK use for the campaign money?
>
> Kevin.
>
> On 10/11/07, Kevin Smith <kevedsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Bronwen:
> >
> > The Cambridge folks ended up spending $440 on their mobile signs
> > rather than $550, because the one sign didn't get placed.  They
were
> > wondering about putting an ad in the paper to thank people for
> > supporting the referendum.
> >
> > Can they still spend this money at this point?
> >
> > BTW, how did you make out with spending our surplus?
> >
> > Kevin.
> >
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