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Ever laugh ’till you snort, then laugh more and so hard that no sound comes out but tears roll on like Columbia roll on? Oh my, I wish you could read the latest email I just got from Larry Stickney. Alas, he hasn’t posted it to his website yet. Despite Twittering on June 17th “Updating our websites!”, the most recent news is still from mid-May. You’ll just have to make do with my cut & paste. But it’ll be worth it, trust me.
UPDATE: Gary Randall continues to actively divert Referendum donations into his non-referendum PAC. To borrow a lyric, “Sheeple get ready, there’s a shearing coming…”Item 1. I got this email at 12:05 AM on Friday morning, June 19th. Would I have had time to make myself available for this event, even if I wanted to go?
R-71 Rally TODAY (June 19) in ColvilleIf you live in Stevens County or if can (sic) make the drive up from Spokane, you may want to attend the Pro-Marriage Rally TODAY (Friday, June 19th) between 10:00am and 2:00pm at the Colville City Park….R-71 campaign volunteers and state legislative leaders will be discussing the ramifications of SB 5688 (if it is allowed to stand) with the Colville community and gathering lots of R-71 signatures.
Colville? Colville? Colville is a tiny town of 5,000 people. Just who do you think you’ll be collecting “lots” of signatures from. Especially since you were so late in getting notice out that I doubt many will be able to drop everything at the last second, if they even check their email in time to learn of it. And a mid-day event on a work day? Certainly it is laughable to think anyone from Spokane will drive 70 miles for this, especially without advanced notice. WhyTF waste your time in Colville? Oooohhh, riiiight, your only Washington Values Alliance board member, Lisa Shinn, works in Colville. Somehow this feels, well, pitiful.
Item 2.
Exciting News from the R-71 campaign team! We have recorded a short video (under 4 minutes) that we will make available online as well as on DVD early next week. Senator Val Stevens and Representative Matt Shea are featured in the video making the case for Christian participation and activism in the R-71 signature gathering campaign’s “Referendum Sunday(s)”.We want to make this DVD available along with additional R-71 petition packets as needed to as many churches around Washington State as possible! Will you help us with this endeavor? Costs for this project are substantial as we need the funds to pay for the DVDs, print more R-71 petitions, and continue to mail and/or hand deliver many hundreds of the R-71 petition packets to churches around the state.
Please encourage your Pastor to participate in the upcoming “Referendum Sunday(s), June 28, July 5, 12, and19. We will post more information regarding this effort on the Protect Marriage Washington website early next week.
Couldn’t get it together to make Father’s Day a “Referendum Sunday”? No problem Larry, you have all the time in the world. And Larry, honey, if the Christians aren’t with you by now, do you really think they’ll be persuaded by a commercial featuring the divorced Matt Shea talking about how marriage is between one man and one woman forever. You poor, deluded dear.
Reading this, I do wonder if the Stickney family always finds itself under mountains of credit card bills. Dim Bulb Larry claimed to hold tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt during his 2nd divorce proceedings. Larry just keeps spending without the money being there, it seems. Protect Marriage Washington has only collected $3,300 so far, and hasn’t reported their printing costs yet so I doubt that any of that money is still in the PMW account. Too bad Larry’s bff, Oregon Gary, keeps diverting and diverting and diverting and diverting referendum donations to his organization. Larry, wake up Treasurer Craswell, he’s letting you make a hash of the books!
And count me skeptical, but I’ve heard “next week” promises from Larry before. Will this DVD materialize with the same alacrity as the petitions?
Item 3. This is my most favoritest part of all.
ATTENTION R-71 SIGNATURE GATHERERS:
With nearly 60,000 R-71 petitions now in circulation, we are receiving a large volume of the completed petitions and we want to make sure we can use them all, so please read the following:PLEASE DO NOT CUT THE SIGNATURE PAGE OUT AND MAIL TO US. WE NEED THE ENTIRE PETITION MAILED OR RETURNED TO US INTACT BY JULY 22, 2009.
I guess there’s more than one dim bulb in that box. 
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Cross-posted at Washblog.
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It Breaks My Heartto see homeless people out on the streets.
But in the case of these guys, they can spend themselves into homelessness for all I care. Maggie Gallagher, Peter LaBarbera, Larry, all of them.
For the crap they’ve spent “donations” on when they could have spent it on something better (less fortunate families, etc.), they’d deserve an end like that.
Oh myThis is almost up to the level of Homer Simpson writing “OKAY” where the form says “Do Not Write Below This Line”.
(what can I say; the kids are big Simpson fans…)
You were right.Too TOO funny. [Wipes away tears.]
My friends have a little code term we use to make the point that somebody did something stupid/weird/inappropriate: we laugh and then say, “Bless his heart.”
It’s all I could think the entire time I read that.
Thanks for sharing.
What would it cost to mail the whole thing?
I bet that’s happening a lot.
Did someone weigh the damn thing in its totality? Because IIRC, it’s 119 pages long or something. Which would mean that if you filled up three petitions, you could be looking at shipping costs in the…dozens of dollars.
Bless his heart.
here it isthey were able to shrink it down to 6 point font and it covers what you see here plus the entire back of the sheet. but without that bill text attached, the petition is invalid. my guess is that people aren’t concerned so much about postage (although envelope size might be a problem), but more are just trying to “help” by removing “extraneous” material before they send in their testimony to bigotry.
OMFGas much as I would love to exclaim “REF 71 IS GOING DOWN IN FLAMES, HURRAY!”
I can’t. . .yet.
The incompetence of these people is astounding.
Colville???? Really???? Lurleen, You didn’t even begin to explain how desperate that sounds to us Washingtonians. Not only Eastern WA, but NE-Eastern WA
http://www.colville.wa.us/defa…
I can’t WAIT for their VID!
And so . . .we keep up the fight, but I will say in a low tone under my breath . . “it looks more and more like ref71 is going down in flames . . .HURRAY!”.
Bwahahahaha!Oh, the visual is PRICELESS!
Gary Randall says they have 75,000 signatures with 2 weeks to go.Talked with one traveling paid signature gatherer that had ballots for several ballot issues a couple weeks ago at the local Safeway in Seattle – he had only gotten one signature for R-71 and said ‘no one wanted to sign it’ BUT said he was going to go east of the mountains because ‘they will sign anything’.
So they are gathering outside the Seattle metro area, and probably mostly at churches. Hopefully they’ve saturated their available ‘easy target’ signature pools and won’t be able to get the remaining 5,000+ a day they will need to get R-71 on the ballot.
If anyone sees signature gathering please leave a note explaining where and the results they were getting – I have a strong impression this is church and related gathering for the most part but would like some confirmation.