As we had Janet from HomeTownDemocracy, who was for Amendment 4, as a speaker this past month, this month we will be having a speaker who is not in favor of Amendment 4, so we will have a somewhat complete picture of Amendment 4 and many of the pros and cons. Hopefully, all this information will help us in our decision about how to vote on this amendment in November.

We will also have more information on "constitutional conventions" with copies of 2 articles about this subject that Ted and Lu were nice enough to provide, and we will also have a printed 5 page handout covering all the factors of Article 5 of our constitution, what it means, types of constitutional amendments, the different processes and the ratification process. This is quite an important issue right now as a number of states are talking about a constitutional convention to force a balanced budget on the federal government amoung other things. We have tried to get enough information together, so that we will all understand the importance of such an event or even if we think a thing should take place at all. Certainly something that is very important to know about and why we may not want one to occur.

It was good seeing everyone for the May meeting.