<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I agree. Legislative elections come up in 2008, and we need to know where they stood - if rural legislators, in particular, exhibited more loyalty to their leadership than to their constituents, then they need to be defeated.<DIV>Lynne Williams, Bar Harbor</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 6, 2007, at 8:42 AM, pete wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Friends and neighbors and those concerned about our schools,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">It is time to consider <STRONG>what to do if</STRONG> the legislature fails to protect our schools by preserving local control and fails to act on providing equitable funding for our system.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">It will become important to record for future action those who are responsible for the outcome and reward those who support education in rural Maine and to hold accountable those who are responsible for changes that will weaken local control and ultimately close schools.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Suggest that when the vote record is available that it be posted on this site. If no record is available we should poll all representatives and senators to get them on record as to their vote.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Pete Johnson</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Greenville, Maine</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Local-Maine-Schools mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To send a message to the list, write to:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:Local-Maine-Schools@mainetalk.org">Local-Maine-Schools@mainetalk.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To unsubscribe or change subscription settings:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://mainetalk.org/mailman/listinfo/local-maine-schools_mainetalk.org">http://mainetalk.org/mailman/listinfo/local-maine-schools_mainetalk.org</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">– Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>