What are the facts about the campaign buttons?

Let's look at the facts on the issue of my campaign button fiasco: On the night of September 1, 2010 I placed a small 5" X 5" Easter Basket with no handle filled with homemade campiagn badges on the table near where we sign in for a city council meeting. Before the meeting was called to order City Manager Michelle Amberg brought that little basket to me and said, "We can't let you have these there because it looks like city hall is endorsing you."

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I told her she was wrong, but I did not want to make anything of it then. Frankly, there was someone there in the gallery already that had a grievance for three meetings before and I did not want to contribute to the confusion that might come to be that night.

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Over the next two days I had email exchanges with the city manager in which I told her I thought she had denied me an Article the First, First Amendment, right. She kept sending me rules for State Elections prohibiting campaigning with-in so many feet of a polling place. Three times. Then I told her in no uncertain talk that she had violated my Rights. Ms. Amberg did not like that all all, and she made or had made a complaint to the Secretarty of State's Office.

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Folks, there was no violation at that time. It was all in the city manager's head. At no time was she able to send me a copy of even some city article or rule disallowing my putting out my buttons.

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The city manager needs to understand that barring any written law, regulation, whatever, of the City of Toldeo, Oregon, she has made false report to the Secretary of State's elections compliance office.

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How likely are we to see a written policy in Toledo?

Not! Never! Nada!

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There is no "case" here. Just watch it go away.....

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It is going the way of the Dodo bird, the Carrier Pigeon, and a host of wrong ideas that, like the city manager's idea, puts limits on or infringes otherwise on our Constitutaional Rights. Do you suppose we are going to see any proposed ordinance? NOT! If we do, do you imagine it is going to get through the discussion periods at council sessions without a war of words and ideas?

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NOT!

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In the near future, can we please talk about and really seek and find a solution to the problems the folks up on Canyon Way are having in their immediate neighborhood?

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PLEASE!