Title: COS Volunteer Rocks Granby Fair!

Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/cos-volunteer-rocks-granby-fair|cos-volunteer-rocks-granby-fair]]

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Created: 2022-05-31 15:54:12

Updated: 2022-06-08 03:00:00

Published: 2022-05-31 02:00:00

Converted: 2025-04-14T21:17:25.210431936


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Jane LaBorde is relatively new to the Convention of States movement in Massachusetts, but as she demonstrated at the Granby Fair during Memorial Day weekend, her passion, dedication, and action is unrivaled.

Jane and her husband set up a booth at the annual western Massachusetts event and generated a terrific response despite thunderstorms that greatly reduced attendance at the fair. 

Inside the booth amid patriotic decoration and hand-painted paperweights with the COS logo and business cards, fairgoers could find the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution (as originally written and amended), and the mammoth annotated Constitution that documents how the Supreme Court has altered the Constitution throughout our history without ratification from three-fourths of the states -- or even one.

A hand-made poster, reading "Use the Constitution to Fix the Constitution," attracted 30 people to whom Jane and her husband spoke. 

As all of us who have been with COS for any length of time can relate, over half of the visitors to the booth had neither heard of Article V nor Convention of States. Jane changed that in short order and every visitor expressed an interest in becoming involved with the movement once they heard Jane discuss Convention of States and the work we are doing to limit government and expand liberty. 

According to Jane, she also spoke with a few people following the fair who expressed interest in COS and who in turn, grabbed business cards to distribute. 

Following the day's work and the several days of preparation that went into it, Jane said: "Even though it was not much, I feel it was progress."

But it was much more than "not much." 

Jane's effort is the embodiment of grassroots federalism in action. The amount of work she and her husband put in will pay dividends for Convention of States in Massachusetts. The 30 people with whom she made contact will tell others, who will tell others, and the wave will roll on. 

We should all follow Jane's example: Spread the word. A Convention of States is coming because of the grassroots -- because of Jane and because of you.