My letter

[Tom Emerson]

Changed "County Council" to read "County Board of Supervisors".  Also, put 
your email address and telephone number under your address and sig.  Real 
people with telephones and addresses in the district carry more weight.  
If you're not in the district, why should your message be read?

Everybody, please please proof this, reword if needed.  When you send this 
message to any of the County Board of Supervisors, it will first be 
screened by their staff.  This email may, or may not be read by your 
Supervisor.

Variation on the theme may help the message get noticed.  Certainly a few 
hundred will get attention.

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Councilman Brock,

I am writing you in regards to the news that the Maricopa County Board of 
Supervisors is debating an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft.  However, 
I have read  that according to Maricopa County Policies, Microsoft should  
be disqualified from any contractual business with the County. I would like 
to declare my support for Microsoft's disqualification.

According to MC1-902 DEBARMENT AND SUSPENSION OF CONTRACTORS, I read the 
following:

"B. The causes for Debarment or Suspension shall include, but are not
limited to, the following:
2. Conviction of any Person or any subsidiary or affiliate of any Person
under any statute of the Federal government, this State or its political
subdivision or any other State for:
k. Any other offense indicating a lack of business integrity or business
honesty which affects responsibility as a Contractor.
3. Conviction or civil judgment finding a violation by any Person or any
subsidiary or affiliate of any Person under State or Federal Antitrust
Statutes."

Microsoft, having been convicted of Federal Antitrust Statutes (penalties 
pending), clearly falls into the catagory described in part 3, and several 
court cases past and pending show a clear lack of integrity and business 
honesty as outlined in part 2.  I cannot find that ANY government body 
would be willing to work with such contractors, let alone having rules 
against it and clearly ignoring those rules.

There are many alternatives to Microsofts products.  Alternatives that 
have broken no laws, Federal or Local, are well supported and used by many 
large governments (Germany, Taiwan, et al).  As a concerned voter in 
Chandler, I must point out that I cannot support criminal behavior and 
would hope that my County Board of Supervisors would see fit to do the 
same and ONLY consider alternatives as Microsoft is clearly unqualified to 
meet County requirements.

Thank You,

my name and address