Too Crafty By Half?
Posted on August 18, 2008 at 11:36 amNate Rau reports that some downtown lawyers are trying to hang up Eric Crafton’s English First charter amendment on legal technicality:
According to the charter, a petition-driven amendment proposal, like English Only, may only be submitted once every two years.
“The council shall not adopt a resolution proposing amendments to this charter more often than twice during the term of office of members of said council,” the charter reads, “nor shall any such amendment or amendments be submitted by petition more often than once in each two years.”
In 2006, Davidson County passed a petition-driven charter amendment, giving voters the power to approve property tax increases. The amendment passed on Nov. 7, 2006.
The English Only charter amendment proposal would be up for approval at the federal election on Nov. 4.
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The Enlightened Stay Home?
Posted on at 5:58 amS-Town Mike seems to believe that most reliable voters are nativist:
Once this appears on the ballot, Crafton doesn’t have to mobilize a majority of Davidson County voters to win. He only has to mobilize a majority of the 20-30% of eligible voters who turn out for general elections. English Only is probably going to win with the votes of only a small fraction of the County’s total adult population and with the help of mostly tainted outsider money, which Eric Crafton couldn’t raise at home. It’s going to be a minority exercising mob rule over everyone else.
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Talking On Your Cell Phone Is Not Mobilization
Posted on August 6, 2008 at 12:47 pmMike Byrd doesn’t think local Democrats have what its gonna take to insure Eric Crafton’s English First does not become law in Metro Nashville:
Unless the Democrats are making themselves useful by organizing block-by-block to GOTV or finding money to throw into the fight, their paper opposition won’t amount to much, and it may serve as fodder to mobilize the opposition.
You have got to come with more than words if you want to win this. You’ve got to come with mobilized numbers and money. That’s what Crafton’s got. That’s why he’s going to win. And the Democratic Party will have let us down once again.
Ronnie Steine Steps Up Against English First
Posted on July 28, 2008 at 12:14 pmFrom Michael Cass:
The Metro Council could go on record next week against a proposal to make English Nashville’s official language.
A memorializing resolution introduced by Councilman Ronnie Steine would have the council ask voters to reject the English-only push led by Councilman Eric Crafton, who is trying to gather enough voters’ signatures to place the idea on the ballot in November. Under Steine’s non-binding resolution, the council would urge voters not to sign the petition cards Crafton has been sending out.
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Turning Down Free Money On Principle
Posted on June 17, 2008 at 12:16 pmMike Byrd wonders if Councilman Eric “English First” Crafton will have the minerals to stand on principle and fight against accepting a grant from the State of Tennessee to pay for interpreters for indigents:
We’ll see if he chooses to fight this bill even though it requires no matching funds from Metro. It’s free money. But according to Crafton, his fight is on principle and patriotism; so, if he is as authentic as he claims to be about English, then he should fight this resolution tonight.
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The Highest Common Denominator
Posted on June 16, 2008 at 8:50 amChris Sanders notes Gail Kerr’s strident editorial against Eric Crafton’s English First:
Here’s the truth, y’all. Crafton is appealing to the lowest common denominator to get his name in the paper. If anyone thinks this referendum is going to stop illegal border crossings, he or she is truly naive.
This law is not necessary. It is cruel. It is unconstitutional. And it is racist.
Sanders mentions that Kerr does not “mince words” in the column. Certainly true. But might she thought about it? I understand elite opinion in Nashville hardly blinked an eye while reading this column and I realize a column is different that a news article or even an editorial but would as dismissive a column appear in the Tennessean over any other issue about any other politician?
“Councilman Crapton”? Again, I’m sure those words have been spoken but what was the point of printing them? The column reads more like a furiously written blog post than a carefully considered, edited and vetted column, does it not?
We can certainly argue about what kind of fear and ignorance motivate folks to wish that there government only dealt with folks in English but if one wants to see an example of hate one seems like they would only have to read Gail Kerr’s column on Eric Crafton.
SEE ALSO:
Grand Divisions
The City Paper editorial
And Don’t Ya Come Back Here Lest You Come Correct
Posted on June 13, 2008 at 12:23 pmThe NashvillePost.com staff gives Eric Crafton a bit of an English lesson.
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