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

[Bob Jonkman]

I'll be seeing Larry Gordon this weekend for the Municipal Election 
Finance Reform meeting.  I can ask if/when he is available.  I doubt 
he'll be available for the "Rally to Resume Parliament (Waterloo 
Region)" on 23 January; I expect he'll be speaking at the Toronto 
rally.  Here's info on the Waterloo rally:  
http://www.fairvote.ca/en/WaterlooRegion#Events


How about it, mailing list members?  Who would be interested in coming 
to a presentation by Larry Gordon or someone else?

--Bob.


lanickerson at b2b2c.ca wrote:
> Interesting point, Kevin. I think interest in the issue of proroguing parliament
> is happening right now - by the time we got something like a speaker organized
> trying to tap into that momentum the parliament might be back to work and the
> issue might have lost interest and coverage... Wish I was super resourceful to
> pull something together right now! I think just attending the Democracy rally
> and handing out some flyers with our local sites Bob has made might get our
> message out to new people.
>
> Thanks for the response and discussion!
>
> Anita
>
> Quoting Kevin Smith <kevedsmith at gmail.com>:
>
>   
>> 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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