MONEY FOR VOTE SOUGHT; GROUP PURSUES SECESSION ELECTION.Byline: David R. Baker Daily News Staff Writer Exploring secession doesn't come cheap. Anticipating a long and costly campaign for a public vote on San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. secession, Valley Voters Organized Toward Empowerment launched its fund-raising drive Noun 1. fund-raising drive - a campaign to raise money for some cause fund-raising campaign, fund-raising effort crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported Monday. The group hopes to raise $500,000 in the next three months to help pay for attorneys' fees and the printing of petitions, said Valley VOTE Co-Chairman Jeff Brain. That amount may prove to be just a fraction of the total cost of Valley VOTE's campaign. The group plans to circulate cir·cu·late v. cir·cu·lat·ed, cir·cu·lat·ing, cir·cu·lates v.intr. 1. To move in or flow through a circle or circuit: blood circulating through the body. 2. petitions early next year calling for a local government agency to study secession. Although technically neutral on whether the Valley should secede se·cede intr.v. se·ced·ed, se·ced·ing, se·cedes To withdraw formally from membership in an organization, association, or alliance. [Latin s , Valley VOTE ultimately wants a citywide, public vote on the issue. Brain said the effort's final price could range from $2 million to $5 million. ``It all depends on how many obstacles we run into,'' he said. The fund-raising drive, dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. Friends of the Valley, started with a salvo of 2,000 faxes to Valley VOTE members and area residents and business people. Although the missive states that no contribution is too small, it encourages donors to join the ``Valley 2000 Team,'' a list of benefactors giving $1,000 or more. Fork over $10,000, and you earn the title ``Forefounder,'' even though Valley VOTE's current mission statement doesn't call for founding a separate community. ``It's forefounder of a movement, not a city,'' Brain said. Fund-raising events, such as dinner dances, will follow the faxes, Brain said. The group also is planning a series of four ``summits'' at Valley colleges this spring to give residents more information on the process of detachment from Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Brain said. |
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