Posted on 12/06/2005 6:52:52 PM PST by William Tell
Seventy volunteers are listed on the unofficial web site for organizing volunteers, rkba.members.sonic.net.
The first month and a half of volunteer recruiting has resulted in a doubling of listed volunteers approximately every 12 days. Your name added to the list will ensure that this pace continues and that the petition drive is successful.
The map indicates in red and gray the counties where volunteers have yet to be identified.
Especially critical is the very populous Ventura County. San Luis Obispo County is also critical because volunteers are needed to gather signatures at an upcoming gun show on December 17th. Volunteers are requested to contact Dave at rkba@sonic.net to be added to the list. Only then can coordinated county level activities begin.
Volunteer if you can, no matter how limited your time or abilities, or pass the word to people you know in the critical counties. We cannot have too many volunteers.
If volunteers are already listed for your county, contact them now to offer whatever help you can.
Best of luck from a displaced native Californian now living in the free Commonwealth of Virginia.
Am I the only one who finds it strange and sad you have to ask you state gov't to grant you a right enumerated by the Constitution?
From what I hear out of the clowns in Hollywood, the first amendment seems to be safe in CA.
The success so far indicates that you are getting the word out. Keep up the good work and volunteer if you can.
Contact the listed volunteers in your county to get a supply of petition forms so that you, your family, and your friends can sign.
The success so far indicates that you are getting the word out. Keep up the good work and volunteer if you can.
Contact the listed volunteers in your county to get a supply of petition forms so that you, your family, and your friends can sign.
Can we do this with our members?
The federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (affectionately known as the "Ninth Circus") has ruled that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution is not an individual right. The US Supreme Court has refused to reverse them.
It is certainly strange and sad that we should have to ask our state government to grant us a right to keep and bear arms.
But the fact of the matter is that we aren't wasting our time asking the anti-gun legislature of California, or its RINO, gun-banning Governor, to grant us anything.
California's Constitution, like that of nine other states, includes the right of "Initiative". By this process, the people themselves can gather signatures for an amendment to their constitution and, if the required number of valid signatures are gathered, the amendment is put on the general ballot.
If a majority of California voters approve the amendment, then it becomes the law of the land. Approval of the legislature or the governor are not required.
I rarely use the McClintock ping list for anything else, but I think he would approve ...
PING!
Downloaded and signed. I'll see if I can fill it all up this week.
Printed double-sided on 8.5" by 14" legal size paper?
Please keep in mind that only registered voters of the county named on the petition can sign.
There is a page of instructions for gathering signatures on the volunteers web site, rkba.members.sonic.net, which contains important instructions for circulating such petitions.
If, while gathering signatures, you should come across a particularly energetic signer, please suggest that they volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net.
Thanks for signing.
The original Constitution limited only the Federal government in most instances. The Fourteenth Amendment incorporated some of the BOR, but the Second Amendment is still considered applicable only to the Feds while firearms regulation has been left to the States.
If you want to learn more about the Orwellian selective incorporation doctrine, consider this piece.
>>Printed double-sided on 8.5" by 14" legal size paper?
Yep! I followed the instructions exactly (and got the right county). :-) I've been through this drill a couple times now.
I should be able to fill it up with friends and family. But if I happen across some eager helpers, I'll send them Dave's way!
Thanks for the ping!
BTTT
Can the petition forms be downloaded online?
Found the place to download, but I cannot print them out in the specified format. Which of the volunteers can send me a petition form or two. I can probably gather a few names.
Let's try this again...
Found the place to download, but I cannot print them out in the specified format. Which of the volunteers can send me a petition form or two. I can probably gather a few names.
You can also take the electronic file to a Kinkos or OfficeMax and they can make copies. They will want about 18 cents a copy, which is why we are recruiting people who can print and ship petitions at cost.
There is such a volunteer in Sacramento, Kirk Haley, who will print and ship at his cost, using his own printer. Kirk's email address is also on the volunteers list.
Let me know if you still need help. Also, there is no pre-determined commitment to being a listed volunteer. We are all just doing our best to get this measure on the ballot. If you can sign up, it will reduce the work others need to do by whatever help you can offer.
What county are you in?
He would indeed. Thanks.
Damn! My HP printer doesn't do anything but 8.5 x 11.
Will have to take other steps to get copies.
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