An intriguing but not unexpected development

Look like we just might have some competition...

Pro SB5 group will become official on Tuesday


The group that will lead the effort to save Senate Bill 5 from a November referendum effort is expected to officially file with the secretary of state’s office on Tuesday.


The group is expected to file as a nonprofit 501c4, with an affiliated political action committee. Such a setup could allow the group to hide the sources of its contributions, but those familiar with the effort say the plan is to voluntarily disclose all contributors to the secretary of state.


The group will battle head-to-head with We Are Ohio, the coalition of union supporters that is currently collecting the 231,000 signatures needed to place the collective-bargaining-slashing law on the ballot in an attempt to overturn it. One month into signature gathering, We Are Ohio was well on its way to getting enough names.


Vaughn Flasher, a veteran lobbyist and Republican political consultant who since 2006 has run the Senate GOP’s campaign committee, will lead the pro-Senate Bill 5 team.

A good first step

Nice headline today: Wisconson judge strikes down collective bargaining restrictions.

Not quite perfect because it was only struck down on a technicality, but it's a good start.

Now we just need the ones in Tennessee, Indiana, New York, and especially Ohio struck down / overturned / repealed, too.

By the way, thanks to Rachelle Williams, Linda Pope, and Pat Walden for turning in their petitions.

A favor to ask

We're supposed to be collecting signatures before tonight's middle school band concert at PHS (from 6:15-7:15 at the corner of Sharon and Chester Roads). If you have any sort of magical weather-controlling powers, do what you can to get us some good weather, would ya?

Another petition signing opportunity

From Michelle Turner...

I will be collecting signatures outside of the Sharonville Public library Thursday, May 26^th, from 4:15-4:45 (for Hamilton and Butler County residents only). A Sharonville parent is sending it to their distribution list.

Outstanding, Michelle. Thanks for the notice.

Spread the word, folks.

Circulators, any of you have any other signing opportunities coming up?

Standing out on the corner

Just wrapped up two outstanding nights hanging out on the corner of Chester and Sharon visiting with the parents of our middle school music students. Well, maybe not visiting with them exactly but at least speaking with them and watching a number of them support our cause by signing our petitions. A few passed us by with a congenial 'no thank you', but a lot more passed us by with an 'already signed'. We didn't mind that second comment nearly so much.

Hopefully we'll get a lot more signatures before Thursday's PCMS band concert, when we'll be back out working the corner...

...with our petitions, c'mon, folks.

By the by, big thanks to Maggie Jones of Lincoln Heights for being the first to turn in her petition. Remember, all circulators, we need your petitions turned in post haste so the OEA can begin verifying the signatures.

PS - For those of you who might've been around PCSD for a year or two, Gretchen Tash passed along this photo of a certain past PCSD superintendent <cough Richard Denoyer cough> signing our petition with his wife Saturday at Washington Park. For those of you who are newer to PCSD, ask somebody around who remembers Dr Denoyer.

Evening signing times

If Saturday afternoon didn't work for you - and a big thanks to those of you who did come join us at Washington Park this weekend - see if you can convince a spouse, a neighbor, a friend, a relative, a recent grad to come out and sign the petitions at any of this week's evening concerts at PHS.We'll be at the corner of Sharon and Chester Rds from about 6:15 - 7:15 on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

Or, if you're up Mason or West Chester way, the Lakota Education Association will be at Voice of America Park Wednesday afternoon from 2:30-5pm to rally their signatures as well.

As a fellow PACE member today said, "240 thousand isn't that many...as long as everyone doesn't say 'oh, I'm sure they'll get that. I don't need to sign'."

We need your signature, and we need those of everyone that you can muster.

In happy news, it looks like we may need to do this all again next year, anyway...

C'mon out to the park

The weather looks to be absolutely gorgeous,so why don't you come on out to Washington Park with us this afternoon?

We'll be there from 12-5 offering petitions to sign.

Calling in the troops...and the drinks

Got an email from Ann Bayou today. She's our local OEA rep.

Her bosses are calling in all the petitions, so we're going to need to give petitions to Ann by Monday at the latest. She'll give us more petitions for each one we turn in, but she needs to get our petitions by Monday.

So, we're calling in all the petitions - whether you have ten signatures or fifty. They have to come in.

The best way would be to bring them to Saturday's community event (12-5 at Washington Park, have we mentioned?) so we can check off what's come in and make sure the back page is filled in correctly. If you can't make it to Saturday's event (and that's going to have to be something pretty big for us to understand that), then give an email to the PACEForKids@gmail.com address so we can arrange an in-person pickup. These can't go through the Pony service at PCSD.

And separately, thanks to Kevin Lawhon for being the first donor to get a 12pk to the high school for Saturday's event. We got a few through the day, but we're still in need. Bring 'em on, folks.

Drinks anybody?

Three things today...

One...

So, PACE has been kind enough to donate some money to buy snacks for Saturday's event, but we're hoping we can get some of our members to donate drinks for the festivities. We're looking to go with bottles and cans to keep things a little more portable in case people want to stop by and take off.

So, we're asking you to donate a 12pk (or more if you're feeling generous) of your favorite soda. Feel free to swing by the high school and drop off the drinks by the end of the day Friday (if you're at the elementary school, remember that we're in session before you guys are, so you can just roll up front and give the case to the front desk to deliver to Lonnie Dusch if you want to). We'll take Coke or Pepsi, bottled tea or water, orange or grape, diet or regular (no adult beverages, we'll save those for once we get this thing on the ballot). We're not proud. We'll get things cooled down and ready to serve on Saturday then. If you are willing to donate,  please email PACEForKids@gmail.com so we know what to expect.

Two...

We had a signer at Heritage Hill ask if we had a Montgomery County petition available. Initially we didn't, but we do now. So, if you're from Montgomery County and weren't able to sign earlier, give Becky Brown a holler (or just email PACEForKids@gmail.com), and we'll get you all hooked up.

Third...

A few folks passed along today that they saw/heard in the news that a recent survey suggested that fifty-four percent of those surveyed are in favor of repealing Senate Bill 5. That's obviously not the same as saying fifty-four percent are willing to come out to the ballot box in November, but it's at least encouraging news. Now we just need to get all those people to sign our petitions.

Stewart, here we come. We'll see you folks Thursday afternoon. We're hoping to roll to Evendale on Friday before we go food shopping.

PS - Just heard that Lisa McDaniel will be at the Back Porch Saloon on Thursday (5/19) afternoon from 3:30-5ish with her Hamilton County petition. She'll be there with some of the PCMS staff who are saying goodbye to some of their departing colleagues. Stop by if you haven't had a chance to see us at any of our other events.

Where else can I sign?

Yes, we desperately want you at this Saturday's event at Washington Park. I think we've mentioned that.

Heck, we want you at Stewart Elementary School this Thursday afternoon after 4pm when we'll be there with petitions.

But, we desperately need you to sign, and if you're going to give your signature to a different organization, we'll put up with that, too. So where else could you sign other than at our events?

Well, there's the Lakota Education Association's couple of upcoming events...

• West Chester Public Library - 10am-2pm on Saturday, 5/21 (yes, opposite our big community event)
• Voice of America Park - 2:30-5pm on Wednesday, 5/25

We Are Ohio's website has tons of resources for the campaign, and their Facebook wall has a great and constantly-updating list of upcoming signings (including a mention of our Saturday Community Event.) Their twitter feed is also pretty quickly and constantly updated, but c'mon, who uses Twitter anymore?

We can't quite figure out where the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers is taking their petitions, but they're still offering a lot of training opportunities. (Speaking of which, you can still get your own petition by emailing us. We have a few still to give out.)

The Hamilton County Democratic Party has a community canvasing planned for this weekend (seriously, May 21 is apparently popular) and has petitions available seven days a week at their office on Tennessee Ave.

The Butler County Democratic Party also has a bunch of events - in Oxford, Hamilton, West Chester, Middletown, and Monroe. They're busy all over the place.

Heck, if you're a Montgomery County voter, the Democratic Party of Montgomery County has a website and Facebook page, but it mostly sounds like they have petitions at their offices from 10am-5pm (not necessarily all that convenient if you're driving home from room 520 of Princeton High School (or from Heritage Hill as we learned on Monday afternoon). Luckily, we have a Montgomery County petition now.

The Warren County Democratic Party doesn't have much posted online, but the Clermont County Democratic Party will be in Old Milford this weekend (10am-12pm).

The Wyoming Education Association doesn't have anything posted on their site. The Northwest Association of Educators hasn't apparently been updated online since 2007.

Honestly, it looks like we're doing a pretty good job of keeping you folks updated. Wanna reward us? Bring lots of people out this weekend.

Where's Washington Park?

In starting to spread the word about this Saturday's community signing event at Washington Park in Glendale, the most common response we've gotten has almost without fail had three parts...

• Great!
• I'll be there!
• Wait, where is it?

So we thought it might be a good idea to give a few hints as to just where Washington Park is in the world.

Let's start with a couple of maps from Google...

The best way to describe its location is a block north and a block or two west of the PCSD Central Office. (Central office is directly behind Friendly Stop Cafe on the lower of those two maps.)

Here's an aerial view from Bing...

We'll be at the shelter house next to the basketball court. There's a playground for the kids, space to set up a few games of cornhole, and - most importantly - a place to spread out our petitions to get 'em signed.

If anybody needs directions, here's what we suggest you offer up.

From the north...

• Drive south on 747.
• From the intersection of Kemper (right by Tri-County Mall), go about 1 mile.
• Turn right on Washington Ave (at a stop light by Glendale Florist & Gaslight Cafe)
• Go about 1/2 mile on Washington Ave.
• Park is on the right, head into the driveway for best access.

From the south...

• Drive north on 747 (Congress Ave in Glendale)
• From the intersection of Sharon Rd & 747, turn left at the next stoplight.
• Go about 1/2 mile on Washington Ave.
• Park is on the right, head into the driveway for best access.

From the east or west, get to Tri-County Mall and head south or get to the Sharon/747 intersection and head north.

It's actually really easy to get to, and we're looking forward to Saturday.

Major congrats to Becky Heckman at PHS who already has 18 registered voter grads pledging to come and bring their friends.

What are you doing to bring folks?

It's Washington Park

Just spoke to Paige with Glendale Youth Sports, and we are set for Saturday at Washington Park.

The event will run from 12-5, and like we wrote yesterday, we need you to be there.

Today's task

Today, there's one task for each of you, one simple task.

Put next Saturday's community event on your Facebook page. Make it an event. Tell people we'll have food and games and petitions. Direct 'em to either Summit Park or Washington Park (We promise that we'll know which by the end of the day Monday). Tell everybody you know that you're going to be there.

That last part is key. We want your friends there. We want your family there. We want your neighbors there. But we need you there, because if those people know you're going to be there, they're a lot more likely to actually show.

We'll be at the park from 12-5 next Saturday (5/21), so work around your kid's baseball games, your aunt's birthday, your lawn cutting, your whatever else you have planned for the what'll hopefully be a gorgeous Saturday afternoon, because when it comes right down to it, there isn't much that you could have planned that is more important than the future of your job, your retirement, the middle class, Ohio's kids, Ohio's economy, Ohio's future.

Because, in the end, Senate Bill 5 is an attack on every one of those.

If you want to take the soft sell route, then tell people about coming out and spending a beautiful afternoon with the Princeton community. (Though we'll be there rain or shine...)

If you want the hard sell, then tell 'em about the ruination of Ohio's schools, Ohio's unions, Ohio's economy, Ohio's future if theirs - if yours - is the one signature that we don't get and that we needed.

Either way, be there on Saturday.

Things are heating up...literally...

This afternoon was magnificent.

We got most of the Glendale staff signed on the petition and handed out three blank petitions to Glendale staffers, all of whom promised us at least fifty signatures by taking it around their neighborhoods, to their local police force, through the stands at soccer and baseball games, and generally finding anybody and everybody who wants Senate Bill 5 repealed. That's the kind of excitement and dedication that we're looking for.

Then, after a brief break in the air conditioning (and we use the term loosely) of PHS, we headed out into the swelter of the warmest day of the year so far to receive a bountiful blessing from the Princeton community on their way into for the final choir concert of the year (and of Jamie Holdren's PHS tenure, congrats, Jamie). We saw parents, aunts, uncles, retired staffers, alumni, current teachers, and lots of our union brothers and sisters signing for us. We saw wives telling their husbands to sign, parents bringing back their graduated children as they'd promised us from Monday night. We saw seniors filling out their voter registration forms just so they could sign and support their schools.

We've filled two petitions entirely and have nearly full Butler and Warren county petitions. Those'll be turned in to Ann Bayou on Friday so we can get new petitions and hand those out as well.

Our Glendale connection came through, so now we just have to get Glendale to give the okay to us using the park (we don't think it'll be a problem, but the form has to filed). Hopefully May 21st will work out just fine.

Heritage's signing has been moved to Monday of next week, and we're still on to see the Sharonville staff at the Blue Goose on Friday. Let's make this one a three-way signing by bringing out Evendale and Stewart, too. Anybody on either of those staffs willing to do the organizing work to get people excited? Heck, I'll promise to buy a drink for the first Stewart and first Evendale person who stops in at the Goose. Just to make it fair, I'll buy one for the first Sharonville staffer, too.

Princeton in the news

From the WCPO news team, presented without comment.

A day's respite...back to the grind

The weather at the Ice Cream Social last night was gorgeous, and we want to give a shout out to the jazz band parents who stopped by our table to voice their opposition to Senate Bill 5 as well as Pat Walden who manned the table and brought in parents by the bucketload. Also nice to hear from a fellow union man who stopped by to cheer us on and mentioned that he'd gotten 120 signatures by taking a petition to his kid's track meet the past weekend (speaking of which, read on to see how you can get your very own petition - yes, a teaser, take that.)

Tuesday was a bit of a day off from collecting signatures, but Wednesday is right back at things as we'll see the Glendale crowd at O'Charley's and hopefully see the choir parents outside Matthews at PHS for the choir concert (apparently we should show up a little sooner as the students' call time is 6:30 meaning that there are a lot of parents who are there before that 6:30 time - lesson learned). If the weather's dry, we'll be at the corner of Matthews to catch 'em as they cross over to the school. If it's raining, though, we'll be inside keeping our petitions dry.

Thursday, then we're trying to get over to Heritage Hill to do a quick signing on the sidewalk.

Friday, then we'll be at the Blue Goose to hang with the Sharonville (and maybe Stewart and Evendale) folks.

We're still working toward a district-wide event at Summit Park on May 21. We're looking for a Glendale resident who's friendly to the campaign and would be willing to talk to the park board about making that reservation for us, though. If you know of a such a person, can you make the initial contact and then pass their info along to your humble webmaster, Lonnie Dusch, at the paceforkids@gmail.com email? I have a contact or two, but I'd take a more solid one.

We also have - big news - enough petitions that we can start handing those out to anyone who's a trained circulator (or who wants to be one and is willing to listen to one of us talk to you for about ten minutes) and is willing to pledge to get fifty signatures. We're including that last part to make sure we get our good union money's worth out of the petitions that we've had printed up. You can take the petitions to your kid's baseball game, your bunko night (does anybody play bunko anymore?), your pilates class, your family reunion, or just around your neighborhood like I am this weekend.

Give a holler in the comments or to the paceforkids@gmail.com email if you're interested in having your very own petition to help the campaign.

Where from here?

First, off, thanks to the staff of Lincoln Heights for hosting a fun happy hour/signing event at The Pike on 747. Never been there before. Think I'll be going back.

Second, coming up this week we have our first public event - Monday night on the sidewalk (we can't be on school grounds but the public sidewalk at the school is fair game) at the PHS Jazz Band Ice Cream Social. To see what the event is like, check out these photos from a couple of years ago. Hopefully it'll give some of our more active/involved parents a chance to get their names on the petition.

Third, Wednesday afternoon we'll be at O'Charley's in Tri-County to see the Glendale folks. It'd be a great chance for any staffers from the other schools - whether they're ones we've already visited or ones we haven't visited yet - to stop by and help us out.

Fourth, turns out that Sharon Woods is all booked for the 21st, but Glendale has a couple of nice parks - Summit and Washington - that would be perfect for our purposes. We'll need a resident of Glendale to get the actual reservation, but I'm thinking that's do-able. PACE had already agreed to foot the bill for the shelter house at Sharon Woods, and the Glendale reservations are even cheaper (free with a deposit) so we should be able to have some food to grill out there. Plus there's space for cornhole and nice playgrounds around. Bring the kids out...have some fun.

What we need from you...

• Talk to everybody in your building to make sure everyone has signed the petitions. If they haven't send 'em our way on Wednesday at O'Charley's.
• If you're at Heritage Hill, Evendale, Stewart, or Woodlawn, we need to know when and where you want us to have the petitions to get your staff signed up. Feel free to make Wednesday's O'Charley's visit a multiple-school event, but if you want one of your own, we need to know soon.
• Start talking up the May 21st event with parents and staffers. We're going to want to get friends, family, EVERYBODY out to sign on that afternoon.

It's been great to get out and see folks from schools that we don't get to visit often. Thanks for everybody at PCMS, PHS, Springdale, and Lincoln Heights especially for getting on board early.

The regulations...why we have to pay attention

Yup, coming down to The Pike on Friday afternoon. Looking forward to meeting the folks from Woodlawn and Lincoln Heights.

Thought I'd take a moment to provide a glimpse into the sort of panicked world that this petition signing drive leads to. In our petition circulation training, Ann Bayou, our local OEA rep, conveyed a number of things that we have to be careful of...

• can't sign at school unless we rent the room (if one political side gets free access to school, the other side has to get the same free access)
• can't use school email to discuss the petition drive in any way
• can't spill anything on the petition or scribble a pen anywhere or tear the petition apart in any way at all
• have to keep every petition purely one county (all Hamilton, all Butler, all whatever)
• opponents trying to sabotage the process

The last one echoed particularly strongly to me when I got this email from Ann Bayou (our OEA local rep) today on my personal email. I'll admit to having some skepticism what with the total lack of location, specifics, or anything else, but I thought I'd point out that these are the thoughts that are floating around with the campaign. (Just to be clear, this didn't happen to me but supposedly did happen to another petition circulator here in Ohio.)

These are the reasons we have to be careful and follow the absolute letter of the law when it comes to these petitions.

Hello, everyone,

We all knew it was just a matter of time, but the shenangins have already started with regard to the OEA members' petitions and when / where  they are being signed.

The following information was sent to me as the OEA staff reassigned to the We Are Ohio campaign in Southwest Ohio by another LRC.  I am forwarding it to all OEA Professional Staff so that you are able to share this information with members as you deem appropriate.  The We Are Ohio campaign has indicated that they expect legal challenges to the petition signature effort, and we are hopeful that those challenges will be unsuccessful.  At the same time, however, I think we can all agree that it's imperative for our members to be reminded of the important points made in this email from a local leader:

Sincerely,
Diana

As past and current officers, you need to be aware of a potential issue.  I am suspicious of a series of phone calls I have received...

Last week on Wednesday I got a message here at school from someone named Steve Osborn who claimed to be a Union Arm Worker.  He asked if I had a petition to repeal SB 5 that he and his family could sign.  He left his phone number.

I called back and said that I did not have a petition and that I was not sure where  he could sign one yet, but I would find out and call him back.

Later that day I spoke with a friend who is very involved in the referendum efforts and she indicated that this was suspicious for a few reasons:

• If he was a union worker, his union would be who he would turn to for signing.
• The opposition is looking for illegal activity among the union groups and taking signatures during the school day is not permissible.
• It is possible that he was trying to get me to allow him to do just that...sign or admit to letting others sign during the school day.

Now suspicious myself, I never called him back.

I got a call from him just this morning.  The audio sounded funny...was I being recorded?  He asked how the signature collection was going here and asked if we had petitions in the building.  He offered to bring me a petition so I could collect signatures.  I told him we had petitions and did not need him to bring one.  He asked for clarification and said, "So you have petitions at school now for people to sign?"  And I said no..."not at school during the school day.  Some people have petitions and people can sign after school hours."  Then I told him I needed to get back to my students and he should contact the Warren Co. Democratic Office for any questions he might have and I hung up.

I FELT THAT HE WAS TRYING TO GET ME TO SAY THAT THE PETITIONS WERE BEING CIRCULATED DURING SCHOOL HOURS OR THAT I WOULD INVITE HIM TO SCHOOL TO OBTAIN HIS SIGNATURE.

I'll admit that I'm a little bit of all freaked out with the awesome weight of responsibility that comes with circulating these petitions sometimes. Thankfully it's easy to remember that this issue matters.

If we fail, we lose a lot, but the students of Princeton and the students of Ohio lose even more in the long run.

I promise to be a little more light-hearted in tomorrow's update, folks.

Let's make a Friendly Stop

Glendale is now on the calendar for a petition signing at The Friendly Stop on May 11 from 4:15-5:00.

Anybody wanna ask the CO folks to stop in and sign on their way out from work?

Success: Day 2

Good turnout today from the staff at PCMS as well as a few community folks and PHS teachers who stopped by as well.

Nothing big planned for signing on Thursday, but we'll be back at things on Friday at The Pike in Woodlawn. We'll get started around 4:00 when school lets out, and we'll be welcoming in any community members who want to join us in giving the people of Ohio a chance to make their voices heard about Senate Bill 5.

After Friday, we'll be available next at the PHS Jazz Band Ice Cream Social on Monday evening. Technically, we'll be on the sidewalk encouraging friends and family of Princeton's kids to sign our petitions.

We're still looking for somewhere to hold a community-wide event on May 21st. Sharon Woods has been proposed. Can anybody think of a better place, or should we start looking into a shelter house in Sharon Woods?

Wherever we end up, I'm thinking cornhole, snacks, maybe jarts to keep things interesting?

PS - We noticed today that a surprising number of people didn't know the city for their voter registration. It seems like it should be easy - you have a mailing address, and that's easy enough to remember. It turns out that in a lot of cases, though, your mailing address and voter registration don't always match. One specific example saw a PCMS staffer check online because his mailing address is Symmes Township, but he lives in Sycamore Township. When he checked online, he found that his voter registration is actually listed as being in Loveland.

Take a second and check your voter registration by clicking on the Voter Registration tab at the top before you join us on Friday. It's easy to do and will save you a lot of consternation when you come to sign.

Oustanding work today, folks

We're still counting up the signatures, but we can say with no doubt that Springdale and PHS made today a fine start toward getting the 231,149 signatures that we need state-wide.

The afternoon started at PHS with dozens of staffers clad in their I Helped Make Princeton Excellent shirts (thanks, PACE, for getting those printed, by the way) showing their solidarity and signing the petitions to repeal SB5. We even got a visit and signature from one of our building administrators.

From there we headed to the UDF across the street from Springdale Elementary where nearly the entire Springdale staff found us tucked under shelter from the threatening skies and signed their names to the petitions.

Today was a great show of support, folks, and tomorrow will only be better as we'll be at Princeton Community Middle School's library from 3:15 (if that's the end of the Middle School contract day, it might be 3:30) for an hour.

If anybody from PHS missed their chance today, come on over to PCMS.

If anybody from Springdale missed your chance, come on over to PCMS. We'll wait for you.

If anybody from Glendale or any of the other elementary schools wants to go ahead and sign, come on over.

We're still looking to nail down details of visits to

• Woodlawn and Lincoln Heights (Looks like maybe at The Pike on Friday afternoon)
• Glendale (what about the Friendly Stop so our CO folks can visit, too?)
  
• Heritage Hill (Is there a better option than Crescentville Rec?)
  
• Sharonville (Anybody wanna spend some time in Gower Park?)
• Evendale (Would the church across the way let us hang out for an hour?)
• Stewart (I'm pulling for a shelter house at Francis Recreacres.)

We'll also have the petitions on the sidewalk at the Jazz Band Ice Cream Social at PHS on Monday evening, May 9 if anybody wants to bring some friends in.

We're thinking that an all-Princeton event on the afternoon of May 21 would be a great way to bring the whole district together - friends, families, neighbors, everyone.

Here's my question for you - where is the best public place (park shelter house, rec center, somewhere cheap/free) that we should have a large, district-wide event?

Bonus: Governor Kasich made a proclamation that this week is Public Service Appreciation Week. Seriously.

Tuesday we pass our own test

Tomorrow...Tuesday...May 3rd...We are tested.

We have our first opportunities to show that we are better and bigger and stronger and more determined than those who oppose public education in the state of Ohio and in the nation.

We will take the first step toward repealing Senate Bill 5 because that's what's best for our kids, our coworkers, our communities, and all of Ohio.

We'll see all of the high school staffers in PHS room 519 (right on Times Square) from 3-4pm. (We've rented the room to make it all legal.)

Then we'll see all the Springdale staffers (and anyone else who wants to join us) after that. We'll be to you with the petitions that we haven't filled from the high school.

But we need your help. We need you to grab every coworker - your neighbors, your lunch buddies, the people you never talk to, the people you always talk to, the guy across the hall, the gal by the office - and bring the to sign on the line.

Tomorrow we aren't just being tested...


Tomorrow we are passing our first test.

Follow the blog...by email...by RSS

We'll promise you no more than one email from the PACE For Kids email address a day. Promise...cross our hearts, hope to repeal SB 5.

We won't promise you the same with the blog. We'll be updating this as often as we can, as often as there's something to say.

To make your life easier, we've put up two gadgets over there to the right...take a look. We'll wait...

...seriously...go ahead and look off to the right...

The first says Subscribe to and lets you add an RSS feed to your newsreader (we're fans of iGoogle, but you may have your favorite - if you don't know what RSS is, check out this video.)

Below that it says Follow by email, and that's even easier. All you have to do is put in your home email (remember, we're not using school emails for this campaign), and the new posts will be emailed directly to your email account. It couldn't be easier.

So, my advice is to pick one of those and hop on the blog with us.

Warren in the house!

This just in...we have a Warren County petition thanks to the efforts of Becky Brown.

So, we'll see you Warren County folks Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, too.

Yeah!