Signature-gathering pledges: 10,000!

So we've got pledges for 10,000 signatures! That's a lot less than we need, but it's a start :)

At our next meeting (Th June 4 12-1pm) we should set up a target for the year. I'm thinking pledges for 100,000 signatures (i.e., about 110 people pledging 900 signatures) would be a good number to line up by January 2010. That's a lot of pledges---about 5 pledges of 900 signatures each week for the remainder of the year---and of course that's only a down-payment on the 241,153 valid signatures we'd need by early July 2010 to get on the November 2010 ballot. But I think 100,000 is a good number to target because (1) we'd get extra pledges as we go along in 2010, (2) it's a number that will hopefully help bring some bigger guns on-board, and (3) five 900-signature pledges each week seems daunting but potentially do-able :)