Citizens in Charge

When we heard about the trouble that folks in Big Spring, Texas were having with the city council stifling their petition rights, we decided to head down to the Lone Star state and see if we could help out. Trevor Ford and I arrived in Big Spring this afternoon, and we will be attending a meeting of the Concerned Citizens Council or Big Spring/Howard County to talk with voters whose rights are being taken away.

This isn’t the first time Trevor and I have gone to Howard County to cover citizen’s rights being threatened: only the last time we were covering Howard County, Maryland’s effort to deny county residents their right to referendum. Voter’s right to initiative and referendum are under threat all over the country, not just in Texas and Maryland, and as part of our effort to protect those rights we will be telling the stories of those whose lives are affected. Watch for a new video later in the week with a lot more on what is happening here in West Texas.