QUOTE(Robert Giacometti @ Jul 20 2008, 10:44 PM)
To get the council to change their vote, I believe you will need at least 2 of those who voted yes to ask for reconsideration.
The best way to pursue this would be to start a petition and try and gather about 5000 signatures or roughly about 15% of the registered voters in Folsom. This would probably encourage council members to reconsider their vote.
Another option would be to get a petition and request a vote of the people through a charter amendant naming the bridge after Cash, but that would take more signatures and a lot of work.
Issues like this, generally transform into some other debate during the campaign. Naming the bridge after Cash isn't a right or wrong thing to do, so here will be a significant amount of people who will just vote NO on things no matter what. Couple that fact with many people will see Kerri being behind this movement. To be blunt, she just doesn't have the widespread suppport like her colleagues have and she has done a fairly good job of antagonizing many different groups and other community leaders. On issues where there really isn't a right or wrong, they probably would oppose anything she gets behind, because that is what she has done to so many herself. There are reasons why she consistently gets less votes than her colleagues when she runs.
These are the reasons why I'm fairly confident that an election regarding naming the bridge Johnny Cash would NOT be successful. Of course I respect everyone's right to their own opinion.
Those of you who want to tar & feather me for speaking bluntly, get in line. That still won't change the facts that the best way to get the name changed will probably be to get a petition started and try to get 5000 signatures.
Good luck!
Nobody wants to tar and feather you, Robert. Even though you seem to have no problem doing that to Kerri every single time she posts something here no matter what the subject. Your arguments contain a lot of
probably and fairly confident, language along with innuendo and insinuation but no real facts.
Why does everything have to end in a petition in this town? They can claim to be showered with compliments, but I'm still embarrassed by the new name. If anyone asks me for directions once it's open, I'm calling it the Johnny Cash Bridge. If they can ignore this voter, I can ignore them just as well.
I still think you have good intentions, Robert. It's just my opinion you're going about things the wrong way. Of course my opinion isn't worth a hill of beans, being someone who enjoys some of Johhny Cash's music, since Mr. Cash is - how did Mr. Miklos put it? - a person of "lesser character."
