Save the Date! Our Annual Breakfast Meeting

Save the Date! Annual Breakfast Meeting
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2012
Lochmoor Club
1018 Sunningdale Drive
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236
8:30 Registration/9:00 Breakfast

The featured speaker will be Susan Smith, President of the League of Women Voters Michigan. She will discuss LWV advocacy efforts based on positions at all League levels.

Please mail or call Peggy Hickey (881.1324) with your reservation by April 30. Cost is $22 and checks should be made out to LWVGP.
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LWV MI Open House

The LWV MI Board will be holding an Open House at our new state office:

Suite 3G,
600 W. St. Joseph Street
Lansing, Michigan 48933

on Wednesday, May 2, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.

We are proud of our new, professional-looking work space, and believe it demonstrates to Lansing decision makers that the League plans to be an important force at the state and local level.

Our advocacy efforts in Lansing have increased dramatically in the past year and our centers of influence are growing.

An RSVP is requested (email office@lwvmi.org) by April 27th so that we can get an idea of the number of people coming as we plan for refreshments.

Members who cannot attend the open house on May 2 are encouraged to stop by and visit the office anytime between 8:30 and 5:00, Monday through Thursday.

Sue Smith
President LWV MI

REDISTRICTING CONSENSUS MEETING

A LWV Grosse Pointe membership meeting will be held as follows, for the purpose of voting on our group's consensus for the LWVMI position on the redistricting issue.

DATE: Saturday, March 31
TIME: 12:00 noon-3:00 pm
LOCATION:
City Kitchen Restaurant (lower level)
16844 Kercheval (in the Village)
Grosse Pointe, MI 48230

There is no advance charge for the luncheon. Members attending the luncheon will order individually from the menu.

Susan Leithauser-Yee will lead the meeting. For background information on the redistricting issue, refer to the February issue of the LWV Grosse Pointe Voter.

All members are encouraged to attend this important event.

If you will be attending, RSVP TO PEGGY HICKEY IN ADVANCE (881.1324)

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Town Hall Meeting: The Emergency Financial Manager Law

To date, seven Michigan communities, and the Detroit Schools, have had emergency financial managers. In March of 2011, the state legislature passed a new law, which has both proponents and critics.

This LWVGP Town Meeting will provide an overview of the EFM Law and offer some of the opposing viewpoints regarding its legality, followed by a Q and A period.

Speakers include:
John Mogk, a Professor of Law at Wayne State University, will speak in favor of the law and its constitutionality.

John Axe a financial advisor, will speak to the application of the law from his experiences in Hamtramck, Ecorse and Pontiac.

Eva Packard, Voter Services Vice President of LWVMI, will speak to the lack of voter representation due to the application of the law.

This meeting is an opportunity for all members of LWVGP, and voters in the Grosse Pointes and Harper Woods, to become more familiar with this law and the arguments for and against the EFM.

Date and Time: Thursday, February 16, 2012, at 7 p.m.
Place: Grosse Pointe Woods Council Chambers
20025 Mack Plaza
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236

LWVGP Member Vicki Granger is organizing this meeting. If any LWVGP member would like to assist, please contact Vicki at grangergpw@aol.com or call 313.460.5250.

The Clean Air Promise

LWV is calling upon our Congressional representatives, community leaders, League members and other citizens to make the Clean Air Promise.

The Clean Air Promise campaign is a national effort to protect children and families from dangerous air pollution by obtaining commitments from our leaders to safeguard the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) enforcement authority. The League of Women Voters U.S. has initiated the campaign at the national level, along with several environmental and public health organizations. More information on the League's campaign can be found at LWV.org

Go to The Clean Air Promise and show your support for clean air and public health!

Important Links to the Secretary of State's Office for important voting information

Michigan Voter Registration Application

Michigan Absentee Voter Ballot Application

For more information go to SOS Michigan Voter Information Center

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Download your copy of the 2011-2012 calendar here

Read LWVGP's April/May Voter newsletter

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Read LWVGP's Feb/Mar Voter newsletter

Read LWVGP's Jan/Feb Voter newsletter

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