[Vision2020] Daily News Letters: Expected better from Ament

[joekc at adelphia.net]

I appreciate your posting letters from the DN, Dan.

I have to say, I'm a bit shocked by the uproar. All Ament did was ask for a moratorium. That doesn't seem like a display of "arrogance," as the letter below suggests. I know that many folk think that we've talked about this issue too much. Also, there were some shenanigans at the last meeting of the last council, otherwise Ament would not have asked for the moratorium.

Again, it upsets me that more of these facts have not been reported in the DN.

Thanks! Joe

---- "Area Man (Dan C)" <areaman at moscow.com> wrote: 
> >From the Jan 12 Daily News Letters to the Editor
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> 
> Expected better from Ament
> 
> Gordon Johnson suggests (Opinion, Jan. 5) the Democratic Party need look
> no further than our own front doorsteps for the major reasons that we
> have been, for the most part, unable to win many presidential elections
> in the past 40 years. 
> 
> The stunning arrogance displayed by Aaron Ament within 10 minutes of
> having officially taken his seat as a member of the Moscow City Council
> is, I believe, a prime example. This is a man whose central campaign
> message was that the previous council and the city of Moscow in general
> were conducting too much business behind closed doors, and his primary
> obligation and focus as a councilman would be accessibility and openess
> to input. Yet his very first act as a councilman was to blindside the
> council with a proposal designed to circumvent more than a year's worth
> of work by the Planning and Zoning Commission and the previous council,
> inclusive of the public input that was part of that work, and to
> circumvent the required public notice in order to do so. 
> 
> To call him a hypocrite would be giving him the benefit of the doubt. I
> can think of other less flattering terms. Is there some difference,
> Ament, in the astonishing level of arrogance displayed in such an antic
> and the level of arrogance our president has displayed? If so, I can't
> see it. 
> 
> Thankfully, Mayor Nancy Chaney cut to the heart of the issue in the end
> and changed her vote, despite her support for the underlying premise.
> Kudos to her for doing so, and to councilmembers Weber, Pall, and
> Lambert for immediately recognizing the proposal for what it was. 
> 
> Ament, you were not elected to council to attempt to unilaterally
> implement your own personal biases. We expect better. 
> 
> Hopefully, we'll demand it. 
> 
> Curt Parsons, Moscow 
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> 
> Sittin' back and watchin',
> 
> DC
> 
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