[Vision2020] recall election

[Tom Hansen]

Thank you very much, Bill, for sharing such a revealing column.

 

This article should clear the air of all the smoke and mirrors brought on by
Mr. Weitz.

 

Thanks again, Bill.

 

Tom "who encourages everybody to tune in to KRFP (92.5 FM) at 2:00 this
afternoon for the unrehearsed truth of Rose Huskey and Saundra Lund" Hansen

 

Footnote to Kimmell - We haven't forgotten.  It's just that you aren't up to
bat yet.  But, you will be.  And we will.

 

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Bill London
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 10:53 AM
To: vision2020 at whale2.fsr.net
Cc: Linda Pall; Nancy Chaney; John Dickinson
Subject: [Vision2020] recall election

 


 


The editorial from today's Lewiston Tribune (below) summarizes well the
problems with Gerry Weitz' recall fantasy.  I do not not think it likely
that the petition will get enough signatures (if it even begins
circulating).  Pathetic, really. 

BL


 


J.F. - In Moscow, a tantrum masquerading as a recall






Jim Fisher
Lewiston Tribune, January 2, 2005

Moscow dentist Gerald Weitz is a known firebrand. The question today is
whether he is also a saboteur. 

Weitz, who earlier served a stormy tenure on the Moscow School Board, is
currently spearheading a campaign to recall three members of the Moscow City
Council. And he isn't shy in how he characterizes Linda Pall, John Dickinson
and Nancy Chaney. 

A sampling of his fulminations: 

"They are the kings and queens of despair." 

"We will crush them. They don't care about our community or our children." 

"These councilmen are elitists, educating the peasants. People are scared to
speak up, but I'm not. This council represents the dark ages, and we need a
renaissance." 

What has Weitz so exercised is apparently a conclusion that Pall, Dickinson
and Chaney are standing in the way of growth, of business and of education.
He objects to the questions they raise about the effects developments will
have on the community. He says their denial of a request by the Catholic St.
Mary's School to expand in a residential neighborhood represents intolerance
and antagonism to education. And although he once expressed support for
Pall's former congressional campaign, he accuses her of foisting an unwanted
building, the 1912 Center, on the city. 

"No tax revenue was supposed to go into that facility," Weitz says of the
former school. "But Linda Pall has shoved it down our throats. We pay
millions every year to maintain it and it's still not being used." 

Millions every year? Not being used? What's he talking about? 

Actually, recalls like this are almost always misguided. Dickinson, Chaney
and especially the veteran Pall did not present themselves as anything other
than what they are when they ran for office. And if voters decide that
electing them was a mistake, there is plenty of time to correct that, at the
next regular election. 

In the meantime, none of the three has done anything to bring disrepute to
the city, or dishonor to themselves. There is no reason to short-circuit the
election calendar by recalling them. 

Weitz, however, gives plenty of reasons not to sign his petitions: his own
intemperate words. -- J.F. 

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