[PAA-Discuss] How did the Clean Elections Resolution resolution do in Hou...

[ChasMauch at aol.com]

Thanks for the feedback, Cheryl. Great to hear about CE passing in SD 6! I  
am curious about the other resolutions you all passed when you have the  time 
and energy to tell us. 
Was also curious about how many of the 125 resolutions your committee  
received were actually passed on to the floor for a vote. A member of the  
resolutions committee at SD 7 told me they received over 200 but only passed 20  on and 
eliminated the rest. Kind of a shame to eliminate so many but on the  other 
hand it took us over two hours (until 9:30pm) to consider the 20 we got,  so if 
we had received them all we would probably still be there - at least  those 
who stayed for this process, since I would estimate only between 100 and  200 
stayed out of a total of over 2,000. 
And after they finished the 20 from the committee the chair asked  if there 
were any resolutions from the floor, and about a dozen people raised  their 
hand, so I left at that point. Can't imagine how anyone else had the  energy to 
keep it up. 
This election has been amazing, and it ain't over yet. This democracy  
business is pretty messy and definitely not for the faint of heart! 
Charlie M  
 
In a message dated 3/31/2008 11:32:50 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
cheryl at crosierbiomed.com writes:

My apologies if any of you receive this response more than once.


In SD 6, the CE resolutions was received from at least 21  precincts.  Of the 
approx. 125 resolutions received, the next highest  number of duplicate 
resolutions received was the Abolition of the Death  Penalty and that was turned in 
by 5 precincts in SD 6. Both breezed through  the committee at the SD and 
were passed easily on the floor.  There were  no comments from the floor on CE.   
On the death penalty  abolishment, there may have been a few comments from 
the floor against  abolition.   One amendment was offered from the floor (which 
was  turned down at the floor) that the death penalty apply only to public  
officials.   I think that gave everyone a laugh.  I don't know  if it was 
offered in seriousness.  A  precinct resolution which was  handwritten also had the 
wording about public-official exception but it had  been marked out at the 
precinct level.  On the floor the abolition  resolution was amended, but with the 
addition of two "Whereas's" in support of  abolition.


I chaired the resolutions committee.  It was a long day (and a long  week of 
preparation) but was fun and amazing and inspiring to know that so  many 
people care about progressives issues.   We can't empower our  candidates to carry 
out these issues because the corporation money needed to  get them elected has 
hobbled them into blocking our will.   Let's  keep working on CE to take the 
corporations out of the loop so that our votes  are more important than 
raising money.


I wll try to send out a list of the other resolutions that passed in SD 6  
when I get time later this week.


--Cheryl


At 10:19 PM -0400 3/30/08, ChasMauch at aol.com wrote:

Does  anyone have information that we can pass on to TCAN about how the CE  
resolution fared in their Senatorial District Convention, or others  that they 
know about? Herb? Judy? Jan? Anyone? So far we know it passed  SD 7 here and 
two others (8 and 23) in the Dallas area, so it looks  promising. Thanks!

Charlie M








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