Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
Radio Programs: Dr. Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty that broadcasts from Santa Cruz has had Deborah on several of his national radio talk shows that go out to about 55 stations across the nation. She has also been on a local Santa Rosa station and on Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum national radio show.
Leafleting – Cindy in Tennessee Doing Her Own Paper Toss Delivery: I sent out an e-mail to contacts all over the nation giving the first article I had written October 21, “Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters” that is shown at the beginning of this booklet. I also sent a copy of the Resolution against Smart Meters that was it passed by our Sonoma County Republican Central Committee (shown in the next chapter). I sent it to all the state Eagle Forum presidents, and it has been sent to many other places since. I received a telephone call from Cindy Turpin, a lady in Tennessee, who made thousands of copies of what I had written, rolled the copies up as newspapers with rubber bands around them and has been tossing them off in people’s front lawns as one would deliver a newspaper. She is determined to save her whole community. She said that she has heard from people in Tennessee who already have the meters, and their rates have tripled. She has also been contacting her state and national elected representatives. She told me she is appalled at how many “supposedly conservative” Republican Congressmen are on board with this, totally supporting the SmartMeter Program and the bill authorizing all the appliances. One of her representatives supporting it is Lamar Alexander.
Bumper Stickers: Many of us are driving with bumper stickers on our cars that also warn about the Smart Meter installation.
the following website
www.RefuseSmartMeter.com.
Speaking at Hearings, Contacting Elected Officials: Where the following resolutions and ordinances have been passed, it first happened because of many diligent people speaking before their city councils, board of supervisors, school board meetings, and writing letters to elected officials.
Protest Rallies: Several rallies have been held in Rohnert Park (close to Santa Rosa) where the Wellington trucks are stored. They are the trucks and drivers who are doing the installation of the meters for PG&E. For the first one, November 4, we made
the mistake of alerting everyone about it via e- mail, and the newspaper, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat the night before. The PG&E spy that you read about in the previous chapter tipped off the Wellington Truck Company about it, so all the trucks were moved when we arrived that morning at 7:00 a.m.
Protesters in San Francisco in front of City Hall A reporter and photographer from the newspaper arrived and wrote a story about the November
4th rally, but it was kind of hard for us to protest the Wellington truck drivers who were no longer there. The article that came out in the paper made us appear rather “fanatical,” giving only one quote about our concerns about the health and privacy issues, and many quotes from PG&E saying there is nothing to worry about and the Smart Meters will be for everyone’s best good.
Successful Rally, November 22: Someone from our group discovered that the Wellington trucks were back from their trip up north so this time we staged a very successful rally only letting people know by telephone calls or by word of mouth. We also did not call the newspaper until the
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