Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:13:21 EDT
From: RegistrLBT@aol.com
Subject: (no subject)

Dear Committee Members, Contributors and Friends:

       At the Outreach Meeting on Tuesday, Tom Rawles discussed the ruling 
and outlined our options. The bottom line is that a successful petition for 
appeal is highly unlikely to be accepted. Tom said that he would not handle 
any such appeal. 

       Both Powell and myself, the only Steering Committee members present at 
the meeting, and Linda, believe that we shouldn't do it. Therefore, at the 
next Business Meeting, we will put forth a motion to either disband or 
reorganize. 

       The fate of the registration project must be decided before then; like 
NOW. At this time, we are 863 registrations short of the projected threshold 
on October 1st. We have $260 cash in hand, and a (nominal) pledge of $1,325 
outstanding. I have asked all of the pledgors to reaffirm their commitment, 
and so far we have $750 reaffirmed. That means we can expect to get a total 
of about 650 valid paid registrations (given a validity rate of 80%). With a 
little push I'm certain we can make it.
       At this time, we need a clearly defined reason for doing it. I for 
one, don't believe in being a good sport when the beneficiary is Peter 
Schmerl. However, I also think Peter's horse is just about dead, even in Pima 
County. I believe that, now that he has killed the ALP, the very LAST thing 
he wants is Maricopa ballot status. Maricopa will have almost twice as many 
potential precinct committee slots as Pima, and he really has very little 
presence here. I think an organized effort here, combined with the dissenters 
in Pima County would easily be able to put an end to them in January, 2003.

       If we do continue, they'll know why we are up to, not that they can 
stop us. We really floored them with what we've done so far.

       The question is; should we do it? The floor is open for discussion.

                         Tim