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Dave Barry, Loser

Dave Barry, the inveterate suer of all things MLS, has lost. Again.

After having failed to get his Open MLS initiative on the 2007 Maine ballot, he said this in February of this year:

Early returns from an initial 2 month effort to collect signatures for the Maine Open MLS Initiative show it heading toward being the most popular initiative in Maine history, with over 80% voter support. To date 14,000 of 55,087 required signatures have been collected.

Upon collecting 55,087 signatures, the Open MLS Initiative will appear on the Maine ballot for the November 2008 election.

Right. 

Inman reports he’s walking away from the effort.  Apparently Maine voters are a bit skeptical of putting someone’s career ambitions up to a popular vote.

There will be a tendency of MAR to take credit due to their $200 special assessment.  No.  It failed because it was a seriously dumb idea badly written, and people are much more discerning than we sometimes give them credit.

Incidentally, Barry is for the time being retiring from the suing and initiative grind to concentrate on a providing agents and consumers a new lead generation system.

Can. Not. Wait.