[Rory]

>>Rory was looking for a way to have his customers feel more secure about hiring contractors.<<


I haven't heard any customers (other than the&one below) feeling unsecure about hiring contractors, all this started by a city councilman hiring the cheapest man he could find to put up the cheapest siding he could find and then when a big wind came up some of his siding blew off. One city councilman decided to start this whole mess.



>>If a contractor does something wrong and has no supporting organization--the local government will start saying, "see, we tried to tell you that you needed us! Let us have them register with us so we can punish the shady contractor."<<


We already have a judicial system in place to take care of this situation....we don't need to add another level of government to handle these situations.


>>Quit chest thumping and organize<<


We have been organizing, we will have to see just how effective we have become in about a week.


>>You have to give something to get something>>


This reminds me of the movie "Braveheart" the Nobles would always negotiate and what would happen is the Nobles would get more land but the common people would have to give their wives up to the local administrator on their wedding night to say the least.


Also tell me what they (gov)&are giving up in this situation. You tell me to give something up to get something. If I do that it will be steps toward their position not toward mine.


I have time for one more point. If you go back a couple of pages here &you will see a survey that we put out. We mailed out, handed out and e-mailed out hundreds of surveys and the results came in.& Over %95 of the respondents wanted the city to repeal all this and said that they believe that they should be able to hire ANYONE they wanted to to work on their property. They (over&%95) also said that the city did not have the best interests of the people in mind when they passed all these new rules. Also we circulated a petition for 3 measures that will be on the ballet to get rid of this. People we calling us up to asking where they could go to sign. Like I said before we will see in about a week how effective we have been.


Rory


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