[Citizens-Resolution] Brookline Resolution on Money in Elections and Citizens United filed today
Heleni Thayre
spirit17of76 at verizon.net
Thu Mar 8 14:15:27 EST 2012
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> A Warrant Article, attached, has been filed for the Annual Brookline Town Meeting in May. The deadline was today at noon.
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> Title: "Resolution concerning a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United and control the influence of money in elections"
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> Working with some Brookline folks to submit a resolution here I contacted the Town Hall to verify the procedure for doing so. The Town Counsel informed me that another group, Brookline PAX, was submitting an Article on the same subject. She gave me their names and I recognized them as people I had met before in the course of doing election reform work. We were able to reconcile our proposals, which were very similar actually, and this morning we filed a joint Warrant Article - clearly better than filing two highly similar Articles.
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> Heleni
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Frank Farlow
>> Date: March 8, 2012 11:26:27 AM EST
>> To: Jennifer Dopazo Gilbert, Town Counsel
>> Cc: "David Klafter, Heleni Thayre
>> Subject: Warrant article
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>> ......the revision I sent you earlier this morning is now the single submission of Farlow/Klafter/Thayre.
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>> Here's the final:
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>> Frank Farlow
>> Co-chair (with Marty Rosenthal), Brookline PAX
>> www.BrooklinePAX.org
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>> On ThuMar8, at Thu,Mar 8,2012, Jennifer Dopazo Gilbert wrote:
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>>> Heleni Thayre was also going to submit a similar resolution which I
>>> reviewed. I suggested she connect with you.
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>>> Jennifer Dopazo Gilbert
>>> Town Counsel
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