[Vision2020] recall petition

[Full Circle Studios]

For those of you that would like to develop some useful community dialogue,
I'd like to hear some ideas/comments/suggestions/etc. on the issues I raised
in "Their Veiw" printed in the Daily News 12/24/04.  Whether it's about St.
Maries School, 1912, MSD, residential, or whatever development - how can we
make it better?

Mark

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Mark Seman, Architect
Heather Seman, Landscape Architect
Full Circle Studios
1404 East 'F' Street
Moscow, Idaho 83843
v208-883-3276
f208-883-0112
FCS at Moscow.com
  -----Original Message-----
  From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]On Behalf Of Kit Craine
  Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:28 AM
  To: Bill London
  Cc: vision2020 at whale2.fsr.net
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] recall petition


  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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