Originally Posted by r8ingbull
You could be right. However I would hope as long as e-mails remain civil and have some kind of reasoning that the board members would at least read them. If they get e-mails from all over the country with people talking about what kind of town they'd like to live in, maybe it would show that we don't all "need" Wal-mart? If people write about how mixed use residential is an attraction and Wal-mart isn't, maybe the will see the potential for growth in a different more unconventional way.
That's what you're hoping they think but I seriously doubt any board member would think much beyond "this is from someone who doesn't live here and doesn't know the town, it's irrelevent". Frontline had a program about walmart and included footage from some council meetings in a smaller town here in CA and council members specifically stated they didn't want to hear from any activists or groups from outside the city. You don't know what people will write to them and you don't know how the people receiving it will react, one thing you can be sure of is the city council (or however it's structured) is there to serve the residents of your city so opinions and thoughts from some random person 1,000 miles away
are irrelevant, no matter how reasonable. IMO it would be better to focus on data gathering that you can present to them yourself.
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