We the People of Johnson Co MO Saturday, April 15, 2023 🎪 DQS for Kids Follow Up & Next Meeting!
Hi Folks!
Had another fruitful meeting last evening to follow up on our plans for blocking the June 3 dqs for kids.
Mike Compton has made a website where EVERYBODY can get involved!!! Go to: jococitizensfortheprotectionofchildren.org It may not be particularly short, but it is definitely descriptive! On the website you can sign a petition to stop the show. Go to the site, sign up, and send the link for the site to ANYONE you know who cares about protecting children!!! Do it NOW!!
Our plan is to attend the next City Council meeting en masse!!
The next City Council meeting is:
Monday, April 24 at 7:00pm.
Location is: City Hall Bldg, 200 S. Holden St.
A few of us want to speak, and whoever is not speaking will clap LOUDLY after the person presents. If you would like to speak, just sign in on the clip board laying on the table when you enter the building. A specified City Council member will call each person signed up.
We’ll present the signed petitions we’ve collected to City Council at that time. We’re hoping to have a STACK of names, so SHARE THAT WEBSITE COPIOUSLY!!!
Vicky and Mike Gibson have made a letter to deliver to churches so they know what’s going on and can help as desired. Vicky is putting the website on the letter so anyone can easily sign the petition.
If you think your pastor would share the website from the pulpit and/or put it in the church bulletin, please ask them to do that!
Mike will be updating the website as we plan and do activities. If you have an idea of something that would be good to put on the site, go there, and enter the info on the comment/contact us page. It’s a way to keep our communications going!
I sent a letter to the editor of the Warrensburg Star Journal last Wednesday morning. I haven’t heard back from them so will call Monday to see when it may be published.
I found a Warrensburg City Ordinance: 13.2; Item 10-11 that applies to outlawing “nuisances” in the city that looks like it would apply to the dqs for Kids. I’ve called the city attorney, Doug Harris, for an appointment to discuss with him. I haven’t heard back, so will call him again Monday.
Chris Barrett, one of our speakers for Monday night, is with Gays Against Groomers, and has been a BIG help for us. He, Mike Compton, and several other folks attended the previous City Council meeting Monday, April 10. I think our folks attending were Pete Zwally, Jennnifer & Luke Wiley and some of their family members, and Kit Lindsay and Amy Castro. If I left out somebody, my apologies! Jerry and I were out of town, so didn’t get to attend.
That meeting is where we got the instructions to speak with the City Attorney.
Mike Gibson called the owners of Center Stage who we believe is one of the sponsors for the event. Things did not go well on the call, so I’ll let you ask him about that!
SO much is going on and I’m SO GRATEFUL for God’s work in this group!!!! You are AWESOME PEOPLE, and I feel privileged to be working on this with you!!!
OKAY! UPCOMING MEETING!!!!!
FUN STUFF!!!
Chuck Quesenberry from We the People of Jackson County will speak with us about how his We the People group got started, and share his vision for the future of having a We the People in every county in Missouri!!
We have a request from the podcast “Dale Carter’s America”!!! You may recall when Kurt Wheeler from the podcast visited our group a little over a year ago. Well, they have a poll they’re requesting we fill out, ranking our “most important topics” for the show! They’ll be using the poll results to fashion their podcasts. That’s cool! We’re “influencers”!!! Dale will be with us via video, and we can fill out the poll request. Jerry & I will get those back to him.
Chris Barrett from Gays Against Groomers will speak about what their role is in stopping dqs for Kids, and share his journey of coming to work with the group. He’ll also update us on the interaction our group had at City Council.
From there we can have further discussion about how any of us would like to help stop the dqs for Kids show BEFORE June 3!
We may go over, so be SURE to bring your CHAIR CUSHIONS!!!😁
Bring a few dollars for the Expenses Bowl
Bring LOTS of business cards for the Book of Business
Bring paper and pencil so you can remember all the stuff we’re doing!
Bring any ideas you may have to stop the dqs for Kids!!!
LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU MONDAY!!!!
I think I heard someone say Hy-Vee is a J3DQS sponsor. So today when I was in Hy-Vee, I spoke with Manager Brian Stevens. He assured me Hy-Vee didn’t receive a request of support. He also said he doesn’t believe Hy-Vee is supporting the event. I asked him to confirm this because I had heard a rumor and I wanted to squelch it if it wasn’t true. He has my phone number and said he’d call me. I will keep you posted.
I went to the website to sign the petition but it shows it’s not up, yet. I entered my email address for notification. Do you know when the petition will be live? Thank you!