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DESCRIPTION:RALLY to demand that the city count the Signatures!\nAugust 17, 2007\nNOON 
 Rally - City Hall - Frank Ogawa Plaza\n\n"When you sign a petition to put 
 an issue on the ballot, do you read the whole thing, including all the 
 attachments? Have you ever met someone who does? Would it bother you if a 
 thousand-page petition was missing some inconsequential pages? What about 
 our elected officials, the people we pay to write and enact laws --should 
 they read a proposed law in its entirety before approving it?"\n\n"Oak to 
 Ninth Yin-Yang: How can a valid city ordinance be based on an invalid 
 document?"\nBy Robert Gammon, April 25, 
 2007\nhttp://eastbayexpress.com/2007-04-25/news/oak-to-ninth-yin-yang/\n\nBring 
 Signs Expressing Outrage, Frustration and Curiosity\n\nAs most of you well 
 informed, justice minded citizens of the lovely waterfront city of Oakland 
 know:\n\nOn August 17, 2006 we handed in 25,068 signatures requiring 
 Oakland to put to a vote the sale of 64 acres of publicly owned waterfront 
 land known as the Oak to Ninth.\n\nThese signatures have never been 
 counted.\n\nWhy is that?\n\nJohn Russo, the man in charge of disqualifying 
 the petitions says that we did not attach the entire ordinance which 
 approved the sale of the property.\n\nWe point out that we attached the 
 entire ordinance as it was approved by the city council; later additions 
 were never seen or commented on by the public (a charter requirement of 
 Oakland) and indeed were not part of our petition.\n\nA year has passed; 
 lawsuits have been filed; money spent but the people of Oakland are no 
 better off. The land remains undeveloped. The signers of the petition 
 remain unheard. \n\nWhere is there in Oakland a leader who will at least 
 try to come to terms with this situation? How can a responsible city 
 council continue to ignore the express wishes of the citizens? Why doesn't 
 the mayor concern himself with this huge transfer of public land into 
 private hands? \n\nWhy has there been no accommodation of the many 
 objections to this land transaction?\n\nSee:\n\nOakland Residents Seek A 
 Better Oak to 
 Ninth\nhttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/09/18295871.php\n\nFor 
 updates and history: www.abetteroaktoninth.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/16/18441155.php
SUMMARY:Fri. Noon Oakland - Demand the city count the signatures!
LOCATION:Oakland City Hall - Frank Ogawa Plaza\n1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza,\nbetween 
 14th and 15th Streets\nat Clay Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/16/18441155.php
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