<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<TITLE>Message</TITLE>
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>A few sentences from a recent article by PI
columnist, Joel Connelly are quoted below.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>"The mayor's race is dormant, but voter unrest
may be about to vent in a different direction.<SPAN class=671285723-19042005>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Pickets bearing signs with
such slogans as "King Communist County" showed up when King County Executive Ron
Sims spoke last week to the 34th District Democrats. </FONT><FONT
color=#0000ff><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Rural rebels, angry at the county's
"critical areas" ordinance, will dog Sims all year. They are long on hyperbole,
decidedly short on the capacity to reason and persuade.
</FONT></FONT></FONT></STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Still, the King County
executive seems off his game: Seeing Sims on Wednesday evening was eerily
similar to watching Randy Johnson serve up home run balls to three Red Sox
hitters a night later."</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mr. Connelly is in a business that turns a deaf ear
to well-reasoned arguments and gentle persuasion. He promotes hyperbole because
it is useful to him. Exaggeration, spin and outright lies provide better
entertainment and he is, after all, in the entertainment business. That is why
you see thousands of column inches of environmental hyperbole for every inch of
"rural rebel" hyperbole. But we are learning. Perhaps with a few years of
practice at exaggeration and spin we will hit the right level of entertainment
that even Mr. Connelly will have the necessary reasoning capacity to be
persuaded that we have a place in the politics of the region.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yeah, right!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>What if, instead, we just hit him with the proverbial
2x4, i.e. Initiative 22. If we can get it on the ballot, it will pass, and we
will start getting 2 or 3 column inches per thousand. The "rural rebels" won’t
be quite the rubes we are currently seen to be by the urban
sophisticates.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is up to you. To gather the necessary signatures
we will have to work the streets. We can’t rely on the mail distribution alone
as that method is untested. We know we can gather signatures if we get out and
work a bit. <BR>We did it before when limited to only a small fraction of the
county. Initiative 22 has much more support all across the county and we can
gather anywhere. We need you to be a Captain for volunteers in your area to
rally around. It will be less work than the referendum Captains were faced with.
The initiative is a single page, you only need a single signature and there are
many places to collect. One group is planning to go to Mariner games; with
enough people they might get most of the signatures we need in two or three
games.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you are willing to consider being a Captain,
please come to an organizational meeting at the McFarlands<SPAN
class=671285723-19042005>'</SPAN>, 15019 SE May Valley Road, Renton, 98059 at
7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 21. If you can’t make the meeting but want to help
gather signatures or be a Captain, send me an email at rod@sage1.com.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>You can sit at home and complain or you can do
something. The world is run by those who do something and show up. Five people
gathering signatures together is much more fun than doing it alone. See you
Thursday.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rodney McFarland, President</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Citizens’ Alliance for Property
Rights</FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>