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Title: Petition Faces Big Road Blocks
Post by: Shana A on February 28, 2008, 07:11:54 AM
Petition Faces Big Road Blocks

http://www.thesentinel.com/298545837547408.php (http://www.thesentinel.com/298545837547408.php)

By Nathan Carrick

Staff Writer

A top attorney with Montgomery County said that some if not all of the signatures gathered by Citizens for a Responsible Government for a petition may be invalid if it is born out that petitioners were misrepresenting the contents of the petition to potential signers.

Citizens as diverse as members of the media, church goers, county council members and their staffers have reported that the CRG, a group responsible for a petition drive to try and get a referendum vote on County Council bill 23-07, which protects transgender individuals from being discriminated against in employment, housing and public accommodations, have been misrepresenting the content of the bill and their petition for several weeks.