Should County Governments establish an ordinance giving first preference to local businesses?

Steve Hamm — Mon, 15 May 2006 12:33:24 -0700

INTRODUCTION: This forum subject is offered as a topic for discussion to determine if people think creating a County ordinance giving preference to local businesses in the competitive bidding process is an important issue.

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Joining the Running on Empty caucus

DickMcManus — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:11:42 -0800

Joining the ROE caucuses

We have started a Running on Empty (ROE) caucus of Washington State Democrats . We have also started a national ROE caucus. The goal of this caucus is to bring more emphasis by our Party to the coming end of cheap oil and natural gas which will result in an extreme disaster.

To become a member of our caucus we require some more information from you. If you agree or basically agree with the following statements and you are a Democrat, then we will accept you into our caucus.

We request you comment on our below listed platform statements.

1. There are no sustainable energy sources that will rescue us at our current population levels.

2. Population reduction must be a part of any plan to rationally deal with peak oil (the end of cheap oil, natural gas, and coal), atmospheric destabilization, biological/species decline, and natural resource depletion.

3. Absent immediate attention to peak oil, our government and/or political system have no chance whatsoever to react soon enough to help us.

4. We need a US Constitutional amendment defining a corporation as not a natural person and therefore, the rights to equal protection under the 14th Amendment do not apply.

5. Whereas, We the Democratic party) think, based on evidence accumulated since these two elections, that the last two Presidential elections were won by the Democratic Party candidate. In 2000, the US Supreme Court stole the election by stopping the recount and in both 2000 and 2004, the Republican Party stole the election by intentional misconduct and illegal acts, therefore be it resolve that the election laws need to be enforced.

I came up with the idea of this caucus after reading the following books, The Party's Over and Powerdown by Richard Heinberg, The Long Emergency by James Kunstler, and Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann.

Cut and past onto a search engine to visit our websites:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmptyDemocratCaucusWA

and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RunningOnEmptyCaucusDemocratsUSA

my N&V newsletters: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose
my book (a draft) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SomeUnknownUSHistory/

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Should County Governments establish an ordinance giving first preference to local businesses?

Joining the Running on Empty caucus