Initiative Update - Lafayette Fails to Comply with Election Law

[ANGELA FLOOD]

Media Release

Election Law Deadlines Pass - City of Lafayette Fails to Respond to
Initiative Filing

Chief Petitioner, Darrell Flood, filed an Initiative at Lafayette City
Hall at 10:00 am Tuesday, July 15, 2008. The timeline has passed to
provide the Chief Petitioner with a response as to the
constitutionality of the filing. Instead, the Elections Official,
Trena McManus has provided a statement advising a potential conflict
of interest to Mr. Flood as well as to the Lafayette City Council. The
City Administrator, Diane Rinks, and City Attorney, Andy Jordan, of
Jordan Schrader Ramis, PC, have also filed letters advising the
Council of a potential conflict. That leaves it to the City Council to
determine a course of action, one that should have already been
decided.

A complaint was filed, by Mr. Flood, at the Oregon Secretary of
State’s Election Office on Thursday, July 24, 2008 advising the City
has violated election law. Mr. Flood has still not received a response
to the initiative and the issue has been forwarded to the Council for
their next scheduled meeting on August 14, 2008, per correspondence
from Ms. McManus. At that point, several more timelines will have
passed. Mr. Flood advises he will continue to work with the State
Elections Office until the issue is resolved.

The State Elections Office advises a city refusing to comply with the
law has not generally been an issue before Lafayette.

For more information on the Initiative, and the responses, please
visit www.lafayetteoregon.org.

Darrell Flood can be contacted at 503-857-2555

Council may be contacted at the following:
Mayor Don Leard 503-550-1522
Council President Michael Roberts 503-864-8004
Councilor Bob Cullen 503-864-4942
Councilor Matt Smith 503-550-3451
Councilor Art Bixman 503-864-4265
Council Robert Schweitzer 503-864-8437

[LafayetteOregon.Info]

A BIG UPDATE!!

Today, I received a response to my complaint filed at the State
Elections Division. I have posted the text of the complaint and the
response in the file area. Happy Reading.

Darrell Flood

[Darrell Flood]

There is another update. There was an article in the News Register
today and we also received the Letters of Inquiry to the City of
Lafayette from the State Elections Division. I have posted the letters
in the file area and here is the link to the story
http://www.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no=238586 Enjoy
the Show.

Darrell Flood

On Jul 26, 7:39 pm, "LafayetteOregon.Info"