[fvc-wat-disc] [fvc-wat-announce] Happy New Year Fair Vote Supporters

[Kevin Smith]

Hi folks:

It's all about how you market it.  If it's a talk about democratic renewal,
and linked to the whole proroguing parliament issue, I think there would
be a lot of interest.

Kevin.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Shannon Adshade <sadshade at lutherwood.ca>wrote:

> Hi Anita, We had Larry come out to Wilfrid Laurier University to do a
> public talk about 5 months prior to the MMP Referendum and the turn out then
> was very poor!!  I don't think we would get a good turnout right now!!
>
> Shannon
>
> ________________________________________
> From: fvc-wat-disc-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org [
> fvc-wat-disc-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org] On Behalf Of
> lanickerson at b2b2c.ca [lanickerson at b2b2c.ca]
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 12:20 PM
> To: FVC Waterloo Region Discussion
> Subject: Re: [fvc-wat-disc] [fvc-wat-announce] Happy New Year Fair
>  Vote    Supporters
>
> Hey, Shannon. Good to hear from you! It was actually Bob - bless his
> heart!! -
> that wrote the message and requested I send it out!
>
> Shannon, what do you think about organizing something like London did,
> where we
> have Larry Gordon come do a public talk? I'm willing to do as much
> publicity as
> I can. I'd just be worried about getting enough people to show up to make
> it
> worth his while.
>
> Anita
>
> Quoting Shannon Adshade <sadshade at lutherwood.ca>:
>
> > Thanks Anita!!  Happy New Year to all Fair Voters!!
> >
> > Shannon
> >
> > From: fvc-wat-announce-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org
> > [mailto:fvc-wat-announce-bounces at listserv.thinkers.org] On Behalf Of
> Anita
> > Nickerson
> > Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 10:27 PM
> > To: fvc-wat-announce at listserv.thinkers.org
> > Subject: [fvc-wat-announce] Happy New Year Fair Vote Supporters
> >
> > Happy New Year to all Fair Voters!
> >
> > While there was not much activity for our chapter in 2009, the Fair Vote
> > Canada office continues to work on all aspects of Electoral Reform.
> Working
> > in conjunction with Vote Toronto, there was a major electoral
> > reform victory in Toronto in December, when the Toronto city council
> voted to
> > ban corporate and union campaign contributions.
> >
> > Fair Vote Canada is planning an informal followup meeting with Vote
> Toronto
> > to discuss how to further advance this and possibly other campaign
> finance
> > reforms for all municipal and provincial elections in Ontario. Queen's
> Park
> > is now surrounded on this issue - the ban is in
> > place federally, to the west in Manitoba, to the east in Quebec, and now
> in
> > the province's largest city. More info on "Funding City Politics" can be
> > found at http://votetoronto.ca/
> >
> > There have been a few changes on the FVC Waterloo Regional Chapter
> executive:
> > In November Neil Dietrich stepped down as Co-Chair due to work
> committments.
> > In his place Member-at-Large Shannon Adshade took up
> > the Co-Chair position for the remainder of the term. Elections for the
> > Chapter executive will take place again in April or May. Nominations can
> be
> > made at any time; if you're interested it's OK to nominate yourself.
> >
> > The Internet has come to FVC-WRC: We now have Identi.ca and Twitter
> accounts,
> > http://identi.ca/fairvotewrc and
> > http://twitter.com/fairvotewrc Links to news and opinions are posted
> every
> > week or so; follow fairvotewrc to get the latest. And FVC-WRC has come to
> the
> > Internet: We also have a Facebook page:
> >
>
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fair-Vote-Canada-Waterloo-Region-Chapter/272005040345
> >
> > Finally, if you have not yet signed the Declaration of Voter's Rights you
> can
> > do so at http://www.fairvote.ca/en/declaration-of-voters-rights
> >
> > Happy New Year from the Fair Vote Canada Waterloo Region Chapter!
> >     * Anita Nickerson - Co-Chair
> >     * Shannon Adshade - Co-Chair
> >     * Bob Jonkman - Secretary
> >     * Angela Yenssen - Treasurer
> >     * Donna Reid - Member at Large
> > mailto:waterlooregion at fairvote.ca
> >
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