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Breaking News:
Measure T Challenged!

On August 27, 2008 Pacific Legal Foundation, representing Mercer Fraser Corporation and O & M Industries, filed a lawsuit challenging Measure T in federal court.

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People's Victory!

On June 6, 2006 Measure T passed with 55% of the vote. Big thanks and congratulations to all the volunteers who helped pass Measure T!

If you have questions, would like an interview with the organizers, or would like information about how you can run a campaign like Measure T in your community - please contact us.

Measure T went into effect on July 6, 2006. This was exactly one year from the date we handed in our notice of intent to circulate the petition to the Elections Department.

We have decided to leave the website up and as is so that people can see the campaign we ran (with a few small changes to make it easier for the people tuning in now to follow what happened during the campaign).

We may create a new website to follow the rest of this story as it develops. You can check the News Articles Archive for more information about this historic victory and for follow-up news stories and press releases about the campaign. We will also update the Announcements page when there is significant information to report.

For ungoing information about the movement to challenge corporate rights and assert community rights, visit the website of Democracy Unlimited.

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
- Thomas Jefferson

The Boston Tea Party was an act of defiance by our Founding Fathers against unchecked corporate power.

In Humboldt County we also know what it's like to be pushed around by large corporations. In 1999 Wal-Mart spent $250,000 in an attempt to change Eureka's zoning laws. In 2004 Maxxam spent $300,000 trying to recall our District Attorney after only three months in office. The price to fight these giants and defend our democracy came at a tremendous cost.

Unelected judges and corporate lawyers claim that corporations are legal "persons" with the same rights as human beings. "Corporate personhood" weakens people's rights to free speech and equal protection. Our Founding Fathers never intended corporations to have this kind of power.

Any corporation rich enough to sue can claim that laws protecting workers, the environment, communities, or small businesses violate their "rights."

Large corporations have used their "personhood" status to gain access to the ballot box and spend obscene amounts of money on push polling, paid petitioners and high-priced consultants.

It's time for a "T" Party of our own...
It's time for Measure T!

Measure T will protect local control by ensuring that only individuals, local organizations and local businesses can make financial contributions in Humboldt County elections.

Measure T is backed by the Humboldt Coalition for Community Rights, a group of local citizens dedicated to protecting our right to local control of our community.

Humboldt Coalition for Community Rights
Mailing Address: PO Box 610, Eureka, CA 95502-0160
(707) 269-0984 | info@VoteLocalControl.org