If They Find Any, Will They Get Health Care?
[Guest post by DRJ]
Residents of Denver, Colorado, can put an ordinance change on the ballot by complying with a ballot initiative process that includes submitting a proposed ordinance for review along with a petition containing verified signatures equaling 5% percent of the last mayoral vote. In 2008, 5% of the last mayoral vote was 3,973 signatures.
Since the 2008 mayoral vote was low, this resulted in at least one unusual ballot initiative — a successful petition requesting the establishment of a UFO Commission that will be on the ballot in August 2010:
“A proposal to create a Denver commission to study visitors from outer space will go before voters this summer after supporters gathered the required signatures to get it on the ballot.
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The seven-member commission would be tasked with collecting evidence that extraterrestrials and their “UFO vehicles” have been visiting Earth.”
The petition is the idea of Jeff Peckman, 55, a self-described entrepreneur who previously sponsored a petition to implement “peace-inducing techniques” in schools and public buildings, an initiative that voters turned down. Peckham predicts the UFO Commission initiative will encourage UFO believers to turn out in support:
“[Peckman] predicted that the election would cause high-profile believers in extraterrestrial to come out and tell Denver voters about what they know.
“They will see there is an attentive audience, and that people are digging into this issue,” Peckman said. “They will see there is an opportunity to say something when people are paying attention.”
Undoubtedly.
— DRJ
Maybe they’re the cause of global warming, emittin those interstellar fossil fuels into our Earth atmosphere.
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (9eb641) — 12/19/2009 @ 7:51 pmEvery community has need for such a commission. It will give meaning to the lives of those individuals who populate the audience at every council meeting who could be appointed to serve – you know the ones, the
AD - RtR/OS! (88245d) — 12/19/2009 @ 7:56 pmcrankscurmudgeons whowaste the time ofbring important issues before the council, etc.they might get health care, but they won’t find any intelligent life……
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 12/19/2009 @ 7:56 pmhey AD: what’s the difference between them and the people on the council most days, besides a few votes and some deep pocket contributors?
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 12/19/2009 @ 7:58 pmThat sounds like something I’d have expected from San Francisco.
Steven Den Beste (99cfa1) — 12/19/2009 @ 10:00 pmJesus Humphrey Christ–and Denver residents are supposed to be the “reasonable liberals” in Colorado. When did they get a bunch of Boulder migrants in town?
Another Chris (470967) — 12/19/2009 @ 10:36 pm“Pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space,
’cause there’s bugger all down here on earth.”
Monty Python wins again.
Icy Texan (522bf2) — 12/20/2009 @ 4:23 am