Reply #55: I think we need to slow this all down and get organized.......

[DagmarK]

HHNF, you have really taken the ball and run with it. Outstanding job you have done! But we need to really slow this down, get organized, get unified in purpose and get a cohesive plan in place. The power of this project is dependent on it being a totally grassroots project, from the bottom up. The "spririt" of the grassroot organization from the get-go IS the fuel that is going to take this project to a successful completion.

HHNF, I think you have taken too much on yourself. This is a BIG job and a very important one. I can't even envision the degree of impact this recall drive will have. As such, I think we need to reign this in a bit.....form a steering committee and caucus as to exactly the PLAN from what's in the petition to how it gets out to the manner of delivery of the final one. A mindful plan from the get-go that can be implemented in a coherent, organized fashion will be the gauge with which success will result.

And for a PLAN to be designed, we need a a group of people to put their minds together and design pretty much the matrix of how this is all going to come together. And for that, we need discussion followed by thinking time and then coming together to discuss it again. Success for this campaign is not contingent upon it gettig off the ground THIS WEEK. We really do have the time to think it through.

If it stops being a grassroots consensus type of project in the first 24 hours -- the spirit of it will not grow.

Let's be mindful. Let's be grassroots oriented from the get-go. Let's do a MISSION STATEMENT and then implement the plan by staying true to the principles of that mission statement.

Let's take all this fire and energy and focus it.

(ONE EXAMPLE: Being one person, you are seeing the petition language as having to be limited due to space. If I were on the committee to write the petition, I would have quickly pointed out that the petition can be in landscape format! You can get a lot of text in landscaope. So......a committee on the language of the petition is probably the most important thing. It would take a book to list why we want bush out. But I saw and copied a post from someone the other day.....I couldn't believe they summed up the entire evil cabal in 1 paragraph!! So.....everything can be better and improved just by having a consensus of folks adding to the process.)