charter amendment

It’s Nashville’s new parlor game, poring over the “English First” petition to see who’s signed up for xenophobia. One name that sticks out? Judge Carol Soloman. Why would the judge who presides over Nashville’s family court, hearing cases involving scores of immigrants, favor such a Charter amendment?

"Another English First post on the same day?" you may be asking. But a charter amendment proposal this colossally stupid demands rigorous ridicule.

Nate Rau reports:

The second round of English Only petitions earned 5,000 signatures last week alone, according to Councilman Eric Crafton, more than double the amount necessary to force a special election.

Nate Rau on the regrouping effort by Eric Crafton’s English First to force a special election:

Nashville English First, the local group pushing the effort, has started a fund-raising drive in support of its second attempt at amending Metro’s charter to make English the official language.

Crafton changes wording to try to satisfy critics
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • September 11, 2008

Eric Crafton is trying to regroup.

It’s undeniably a victory by technicality, but here’s hoping that today’s developments from the Tennessee Supreme Court will give Council Member Eric Crafton time to focus his energies elsewhere:

Nathan Moore is among a minority of “enlightened conservatives” who oppose Eric Crafton’s English-Only charter amendment:

Group says attorneys twist the law
By MICHAEL CASS • Staff Writer • August 29, 2008

A group that hopes to make English the official language of Nashville filed suit against the city Thursday in an effort to put the issue up for a vote this fall.

So say the backers of English Only: