[Vision2020] Lurking

[DonaldH675 at aol.com]

Visionaries:
 
Perhaps one of our legal minds can answer this question.  Are emails  to city 
officials part of the public record?  If so, and if any one gives a  hoot, 
they could make a public records request to any of the city council  members for 
copies of the emails they received today and learn the identity of  our shy 
correspondent.  However, for most of us, particularly those of us  who 
recognize phrases and writing style, it's already apparent.  And,  of course it points 
out a major difference between Councilmen Ament, Dickison,  and Stout and our 
shirking lurking Visionary.  Those public  servants attach their name to what 
they think and say and do; they are  responsive to their electorate; and 
above all else - they treat  seriously the oath they gave last night to uphold the 
laws of the  state and city statutes.
 
There can not be, in my mind, any compromise that chips away at the  
Comprehensive Plan for the city.  The trap which was so easily sprung on  our former 
city council and a holdover member of the current council  (not that they 
weren't mostly willing, indeed eager victims) was that somehow  not allowing 
educational institutions downtown was darned  rude.  Wrongo - Bongo!  Eroding the 
integrity of the  comprehensive plan was simple-minded, transparent, and  rude; 
pandering to arrogant law-breakers, falling for the easy flattery of  
silver-tongued devils, cozying up to the dog-collar dragoons, was even  ruder; selling 
out down-town retail to a non tax paying bible college - that was  the rudest 
cut of all. 
 
 Unbossed, unbought, uncompromised, and smarter than whips, Councilmen  
Ament, Dickison, and Stout signal a new day in city government.  Thank  God.  And, 
quite aside from that piece of gigantic good news, at long last  we are spared 
the sight of kittenish simpering, coy eyelash  batting, and the junior high 
gum-popping routine which has marked  the past several years of council 
meetings.   
 
Rose  Huskey

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight  you, then 
you win." Mahatma Gandhi
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