[committee] Support UCC's purchase of Stampy, the full-grown African Elephant.

[Save Stampy]

Howdy,

I'm Ben, from the "savestampy.com" campaign, and I'd like a minute 
of your time to talk about how you can support this motion at the 
Thursday 15 August Special General Meeting, Economics Conference 
Room ECONF 3.73, at 5:30pm:

  12. Motion for the club to purchase a full-grown African elephant, 
  with a budget of $10,000, to be named "Stampy".

Unfortunately, a rouge group of UCC outsiders has made it clear that 
they will oppose this motion, and that they will use branch stacking 
and other nasty tactics to vote it down. They claim that they are 
doing it to ban some life member with 10 years of service and remove 
the only woman on the UCC committee, to "increase diversity in the 
club", but we think it's pretty clear that this is all actually an 
attack on poor Stampy. They've written to the committee list calling 
it a "frivolous purchase order", implied that the agenda item is not 
"legitimate", said that it's against "logic and common sense"; they've 
even tried switching their public position to supporting Stampy, to 
put us off guard, but we're not falling for it.

If you support Stampy, please show up to the meeting early.

If we're unable to overcome the opposition, and the vote on the motion 
fails, we're hoping to pass a slightly amended version:

  12. (Amended) Motion for the club to adopt a full-grown Asian 
  elephant, with a budget of $116, to be nicknamed "Stampy", from the 
  Perth Zoo "Adopt an Animal" program.
  (https://perthzoo.wa.gov.au/adoptions)

In either case, we also believe an honorary UCC membership for Stampy 
would be proper.

Thanks, and hoping to see you there,
The savestampy.com campaign.