Let Duluth Vote really got its start in the last two weeks of a heated and crowded Mayoral Race with twelve candidates vying for attention. Our meetings have grown despite only limited press attention from 23 to 33 to 45 participants. Tonight we meet again on the eve of the Primary election which will sweep out 10 of the mayoral candidates. It will be interesting to see how much attention we will get from a hungry press in the vacuum of the primary candidate fallout.
Hopefully, the losers will pick up their signs quickly and go home. This will give our signs just that much more visability. We sent out two groups and put signs up in both East and West Duluth on Sunday. We also added more signatures to our petitions. In our first disorganized week we got enough signatures to force our own referendum on a building plans if we wanted to do it. Goodness knows how many we have now or will have by the next School Board meeting. We’ll be counting them tonight. And we probably won’t stop there. Momentum has a funny way of continuing to build as an election looms.
I just got a call from Lakewood Township. A fellow just read my commentary in the Reader called and asked for petitions and signs. We’ve got a new recruit. I told him he’d find what he wanted on my patio.
