[fvc-wat-disc] More library news

[Anita Nickerson]

Well, to bring these two ideas together - pressuring the elected officials
(which Fair Vote Waterloo probably does more than any other team in the
country and I agree is priority #1!) and educating the public, I wonder if
after the library event you could have the participants fill out a survey
and submit the results to the committee as a dialogue report? You'd need to
keep the questions simple, around the idea of fairness and openness to
change - can't expect most people who show up to be huge PR fans.

Anita

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Les Kadar <leskadar at rogers.com> wrote:

> I realize that most may already know this but here goes anyway.
> While it is vital to inform the general public, it is far more important
> to  impress upon our elected local officials that we need it adopted.
> Why ?
> Because it is they who will be making the decisions to accept or deny it
> from being implemented, not us.
> People need to continually contact their elected officials and remind them
> that their future depends upon this change in how vote results are
> tabulated is a must.
>
> As changes to the status quo are not generally acceptable, especially to
> anyone who has been in office for a decade or more, without serious public
> pressure for them to change, it will not happen.
>
> So what I am saying is, educate the public to pressure their politicians
> to vote for change.
> No vote no change.
>
>
> Les Kadar
> iPad email
>
> On Aug 5, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Jennifer Ross <2jennross at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's absolutely fantastic Paul!  Thank you for this work.
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> I got some more news about library outreach today.
>>
>> First, the good news: The Region of Waterloo library (which services
>> the townships) is potentially interested in having a couple of
>> electoral reform information sessions. Having only one FVC
>> representative is okay, but we must be clear about our biases up
>> front. The timing is towards the end of September, on a Tuesday,
>> Wednesday, or Thursday. They will get back to me with some potential
>> dates. The time is likely to be in the evening.
>>
>> The format will be approximately the same as the KPL presentation: 45
>> minutes of presentation followed by 45 minutes of Q&A.
>>
>> They are interested in having one presentation in Elmira (!) and one
>> in New Hamburg. I offered our services to other branches but I do not
>> think they are interested.
>>
>> Do we have some people who are willing/able to do these information
>> sessions? Transportation is going to be an issue for some of us, I
>> fear. In the worst case I might be able to do something, but
>> transportation will definitely be an issue for me.
>>
>>
>> Next, the bad news: the Idea Exchange (aka Cambridge library system)
>> is not interested.
>>
>> I have also contacted the WPL but have not heard back from them.
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>>
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>> Electoral reform committee is happening! Submissions due Oct 7!
>> See http://fairvotewrc.ca for local events.
>>
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