I just read your blog and you gave excellent testimony Butter. Well measured and the right tone. :-)
A statewide petition would be a good idea. In Colorado, for a statutory initiative, “the number of valid signatures required for a successful petition effort is equal to 5% of the total number of votes cast for the office of Secretary of State in the preceding general election. The number of signatures required is the same for constitutional amendments, statutes, and referenda. “
I see that the total votes casted was 317,083 in 2010 for the office of Secretary of State. So 5% of 317,083 of the votes casted is a little over 15,000 signatures needed.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Colorado_signature_requirements
Lets see what’s required for Kansas...
Thank you. There’s so much that could be said and so little time. I was glad they asked good questions.
Turns out the AP jumped the gun. I contacted my senator and asked if they had voted yet and he said they would probably vote on it next Wednesday. So there is still time to urge these senators to do what’s right. And pray.
If God can speak through the mouth of a donkey.... lol
I was just praying I wouldn’t botch things too badly, and I think the prayers of people who knew I was going to be there did make a difference.
I had looked up the numbers for Nebraska and now I’ve forgotten what they were. I’ll have to look again. The signatures have to be so many from each county too, so it’s not something I could just do where I’m at; we’d need people to go all over the state.