{"id":436,"date":"2009-07-22T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/?p=436"},"modified":"2009-07-22T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T16:14:00","slug":"city-council-election-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"City Council Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: 7\/30\/09<\/strong><\/span>
In a SUN story headlined…Move to change charter for elections under way<\/em><\/strong>
is this quote by City Councilor Kazanjian “Let the people decide. It is their primary.” <\/em><\/strong>http:\/\/www.lowellsun.com\/local\/ci_12936636<\/a><\/strong>
<\/strong>
I prefer not to call anyone a hypocrite because on any given day depending on the circumstances\u2026there’s a chance I could become one myself (if that happens I hope someone calls me out on it). Just in case\u2026 I will say good for him for “seeing the light”. It is the people’s primary and those are the people who should decide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, this just in from Greg’s blog:
http:\/\/anewenglanderinlowell.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/quick-5w-fair-vote-lowell-organization.html<\/a>
What:<\/strong> Fair Vote Lowell Organization Meeting<\/strong><\/span>
Who:<\/strong> ANYONE interested, regardless of past or current involvement level with this initiative
When:<\/strong> Friday, 31 JUL, at 6:00 p.m.
Where:<\/strong> Saint Ann’s Church, 8 Kirk Street
Why:<\/strong> To discuss strategies for gathering enough valid signatures to get the petition on the ballot
Best Point of Contact<\/strong> on this, or any other upcoming related events, would be Dr. Victoria Fahlberg — vfalhberg@onelowell.net<\/a><\/p>\n

The saga continued last night\u2026 there will be no primary election!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you were not able to attend or watch on television\u2026please take the time to watch your current city government in action before they start asking for your vote this November.<\/span><\/p>\n

Simply stated by Bob Forrant<\/em> comment on <\/span>www.RichardHowe.com<\/span><\/a>
I\u2019ve said elsewhere and I will say it here too, using my real name, that it is a perversion of democracy to have individuals in power vote to change the rules of the game while the game is in progress.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I was happy to see that Dick Howe has video posted of each councilors reasons for\/against holding the primary<\/span>
http:\/\/richardhowe.com\/category\/2009-election\/<\/a><\/span>
\u2026except for CC Lenzi, he was absent; as he has stated in the past, it is only convenient for him to attend two CC meetings per month.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to see more of CC R. Mercier’s reasons for “NOT” holding a primary, hop on over to <\/span>www.leftinlowell.com<\/span><\/a>
In addition there is the statement by CC candidate Partick Murphy\u2026he sounds like a reasonable guy\u2026we should get to know him better.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: 7\/30\/09In a SUN story headlined…Move to change charter for elections under wayis this quote by City Councilor Kazanjian “Let the people decide. It is their primary.” http:\/\/www.lowellsun.com\/local\/ci_12936636I prefer not to call anyone a hypocrite because on any given day … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,96,82,14,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-council","category-election","category-elections","category-one-lowell","category-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ldna01852.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}