Media Contact:
Patricia Lesko
PDLesko@GOAskVoters.org
*For Immediate Release*
GO Ask Voters Announces Approval of Petition and Petition Language by Ann Arbor City Attorney and State Attorney General’s Office.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 20, 2009—On March 30, 2009, GO Ask Voters, a group of neighborhood activists from all five of Ann Arbor’s Wards, announced a drive to amend the city’s Charter to require voter authorization of GO municipal bonds. The nonpartisan group has 365 days to collect signatures from five percent of the city’s registered voters (approximately 5,400 voters).
GO Ask Voters is pleased to announce that the group’s petition language and petition format have been informally vetted and approved by officials from the Ann Arbor City Attorney’s Office, as well as officials from the office of Michigan State Attorney General. The examination of the petition and the language was done as a courtesy. This preliminary approval of the petition format and language should not be interpreted to mean that officials from either the City Attorney’s Office or the State Attorney General’s Office support or are involved with the GO Ask Voters drive to amend Ann Arbor’s City Charter.
The petition and petition language were submitted to the Ann Arbor Attorney’s office on behalf of GO Ask Voters in an effort to make certain that the format of the petition (many aspects of which are mandated by state statute) and language would be acceptable to the Ann Arbor City Clerk, when submitted. It was the Ann Arbor City Attorney’s office that, in turn, elected to send along the petition language to the Office of the State Attorney General.
Tags: Ann Arbor City Attorney, GO Ask Voters petition language, Michigan Attorney General
