Petition

Ray Walker wrote the following for this blog:

"We are rolling!

"Our petition has been approved for circulation and we can begin to collect the required number of signatures in order to get the City Council to enact or take it to the ballot. We have learned that the previous number of required signatures was based on the 2003 Mayoral election and we need to base our effort on the April 3, 2007 election at

"http://www.colecounty.org/clerk/files/04-03-07_Cumulative.txt.

"That election saw a total of 4,118 votes so we need 20% of that for a total of 824 qualified signatures!(Recall that Landwehr was not opposed and received 4,027 votes with 91 write-ins for the 4,118 total votes.)

"We have purchased an advertisement that will be published in the Sunday 4/18/10 paper. Check it out!

"We are NOT garbage cans but we can still ATTACK!"