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• 'Ask Voters First' has cash for paid petition circulators, Ann Arbor News, May 2008

With limited time to try and collect almost 9,400 signatures, the Ask Voters First campaign has turned to paid petition circulators. Organized to try and force a citywide vote on borrowing for a planned City of Ann Arbor police-court building, the group received some donations and decided to put paid circulators on the street, said spokesman Ed Amonsen.

• Ask Voters First campaign members, Ann Arbor News, April 2008

Ed Amonsen, a business management consultant and write-in candidate for a City Council seat in the 2nd Ward last year

Karen Sidney, a CPA and critic of the city administration who is a regular participant in public hearings and community meetings

Glenn Thompson, Sidney's husband, also regularly appears at public forums

City Council Member Mike Anglin, a first-term representative from the 5th Ward whose 2007 campaign included opposition to the police-court building.