[Local-Maine-Schools] Talking Points handout (was: A periscope view...)

[Dick Atlee]

George Crawford wrote:
> The talking points are scary and remind me of some of the Governor Baldacci's and Susan Gendron's testimony when they were on the road with Local Schools, Regional Support roadshow in January. They are just answering a question with another question or are deflecting the issue. 
>    Has anyone made up a summary sheet to hand out to people explaining the Appropriation Committee's proposal? I think it would be nice to have a one page handout for people to look at and to post up around the area. I have seen the talking points on the website but think a 1 page flyer might be a good idea along with the names and contact information for local legislators. 
> George Crawford 
> Harrington, Maine  

There is a link on the site right next to the Talking Points item (first 
item in the "Positions and Critiques" section) that provides a Word 
document format for the Talking Points:

    http://mdischools.net/20070403_TalkingPoints.doc

The document consists of two pages, which, printed back-to-back, make a 
single sheet handout.

There are only 4 talking points, taking up about 1/3 of a page.  The 
remainder consists of

1. A link to a state website that provides ALL the contact information
    for anyone's legislators (we're hoping this will be used all over the
    state, and there's no room contact info for every legislator)

2. Ten brief pieces of background information in support of the four
    talking points, since we believe it is a mistake to talk or write to
    legislators without providing a bit of information to indicate that
    you know what you're talking about.

We've otherwise kept this to a minimum.  The only way to effectively 
bring it down to a single side of a single sheet would seem to be to 
shrink the font to where many of us antiques would need serious 
magnification to see it.  But any alternative suggestions would be MORE 
than welcome.

Dick