From: To: Cc: Subject: Date: David Rolf M. Lorena Gonzalez; Sejal Parikh Teresa Mosqueda; Sage Wilson; Christian Sinderman; Lindsey Grad; Cody Reiter; Adam Glickman; Christian Sinderman; Nicole Macri; Samantha Grad; Sarah Chern; Zach Silk RE: referendum paid gatherers Thursday, June 7, 2018 9:59:30 PM Yes! Being scheduled for Saturday I think.     From: M. Lorena Gonzalez [mailto:lorena206@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2018 2:10 PM To: Sejal Parikh Cc: Teresa Mosqueda ; Sage Wilson ; Christian Sinderman ; Lindsey Grad ; Cody Reiter ; Adam Glickman ; Christian Sinderman ; David Rolf ; Nicole Macri ; Samantha Grad ; Sarah Chern ; Zach Silk Subject: Re: referendum paid gatherers I hunk we need to schedule a call/meeting to be briefed on our polling results. ASAP. ------M. Lorena González Sent from my iPhone On Jun 7, 2018, at 3:19 PM, Sejal Parikh wrote: (to a smaller subset of the original chain): Teresa got word that the referendum folks are planning a press conference at City Hall next Tuesday. Given this news, we think we should expedite the hiring of a campaign manager. Happy to help recruit if needed. What do people on this chain think? On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Teresa Mosqueda wrote: Also - this, in addition to the story idea I mentioned below, the national attention could be building: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/22/amazon-workers-food-stamps-jeff-bezos-rakes-275-million-day-sanders-says-what-rigged Published Tuesday. If Sanders comes to a fulfillment center that could be a good media hook for us in the PNW during the campaign. Teresa On May 23, 2018, at 10:01 PM, Teresa Mosqueda wrote: Might that be an interesting story? The anti-homeless folks taking advantage of homeless folks who need the money and more importantly need housing working against their own interest because the repeal efforts are so misleading? Teresa On May 23, 2018, at 6:28 PM, M. Lorena Gonzalez wrote: I seriously need to start farming my own food. ------M. Lorena González Sent from my iPhone On May 23, 2018, at 6:06 PM, lisa daugaard wrote: In a particularly sad/tragic moment: I (along with Pete Holmes incidentally) was at a mtng at Community Passageways in Rainier Beach last night.  One of the charismatic brilliant young leaders CP is training/supporting was talking about how he has a job petitioning.  People asked what topics, and he said "to stop population, and to keep groceries affordable."  I got a bad feeling and, sure enough ... "keep groceries affordable" = the head tax referendum.  This kid could get all the signatures they need all on his own, he is THAT delightful.   The ultra-tragic part is that he is a chronically homeless and near-homeless justice system-involved young man whose particular experience of homelessness is what prompted some of us to propose CP's housing advocacy for such young people to be the sort of thing that the head tax could fund, in order to target funding to those facing greatest barriers.   We all had a good, painful, laugh about the ironies -- and he said "ok then, I'll slow it down as much as I can." :(   On Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 5:43:29 PM PDT, Christian Sinderman wrote:     fyi-  4:57 PM (44 minutes ago) Angelo Paparella to The Seattle head tax referendum is out.  The pay is $3 per signature with a bonus of $1 so a total of $4.  The firm heading the drive is Silver Bullet headed by Tim Mooney.   We are doing everything we can to dissuade petitioners away Mooney has a checkered record to say the least and in my opinion its underpriced to petitioners so we will see. On the statewide front the gov’t transparency bumped the price to petitioners to $1.50.  And they seem to have a volunteer network, who knows   Egan v. City of Seattle_038952 Egan v. City of Seattle_038953