There is a time to leave partisanship behind. Charter government is such an issue. In a county where most precincts had more voters casting unaffiliated ballots in the recent presidential primary than either Republican or Democratic, partisans on all sides should come together in the center that we may create good government under a charter of our choosing that will serve us well through the rest of this new century. They suggest the move is unpatriotic or anti-military. Actually, the main problem is access.
Military security requires that names of participants be approved in advance.
Foreign nationals have difficulty attending. Last year, I took a delegation of Mexican ecological activists to the conference, only because numerous individuals spent many hours getting my guests permission to enter. In previous years, my organization has paid for high school students in advance, only to have one or two absent the day of the conference. We were then unable to substitute other students because military security required that names match registration. The past four or five years of conferences at military sites have been excellent.