[Vision2020] recall petition

[Kit Craine]

There were enough people in Moscow who were dissatisfied with the 
decisions the previous council was making that they worked within our 
constitutional system to a change our leadership by electing Chaney, 
Dickinson, and Pall. Now an unnamed group of "business owners" are 
demanding a recall of those individuals.

Why? Supposedly because they disagree with ONE decision the current 
council made as part of the job they were elected to do.

All without having to put their names on the line.

Is this the democracy people are dying to establish in Iraq?

Kit Craine

On Dec 27, 2004, at 10:34 AM, Bill London wrote:

>     Gerald Weitz, spokesperson for a group of local business owners 
> who plan to remain anonymous, is now selling some especially sleazy 
> snakeoil.  Weitz is collecting signatures on a recall petition, hoping 
> to drive John Dickinson, Linda Pall and Nancy Chaney off the Moscow 
> City Council (Daily News front page, Dec. 23).
>     Weitz is angry since these three council members are thoughtfully 
> examining development plans, seeking the community's best interest and 
> hoping to maintain our quality of life, instead of rubberstamping any 
> project like previous council members did.
>     Weitz is very angry, and the irrationality of his position was 
> clearly revealed in his overblown rhetoric.  For example, in the 
> article, Weitz was quoted as saying in reference to the three council 
> members, "We will crush them." 
>     That level of irrational anger is the driving power behind this 
> petition.  Some local business interests, who have enjoyed years of 
> virtually no oversight by Moscow city staff or council members, are 
> very upset that their goal of more profit, more houses, more roads, 
> more of everything is now receiving some scrutiny by our council 
> representatives.  So, they are venting their anger through this recall 
> petition.
>     If you care about the quality of life in Moscow, don't sign this 
> petition.
>     BL
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