[Vision2020] Daily News Letters: Expected better from Ament

[Area Man (Dan C)]

Fellow Candidate Joe,

I can understand your frustration at the lack of "news".

I don't know if I'd call it "arrogance" on Aaron's part either.  I'm
sure his heart is in the right place.  The thing that gets me is that it
does not matter who applies for a CUP, that has to go through hoops, has
to be approved by the Board of Adjustment, where they set conditions
(hence the name).  At that point someone can appeal the Board's
decision.  Then it goes to City Council for their approval/denial.  I
also believe that the City Council can take any of those that make it
beyond the Board of Adjustment and set even more conditions, within the
law of course.  I believe that is why Linda Pall came down on the side
she did.

No matter what comes down the pike, the Council has a chance at the last
say with a CUP.

DC

P.S.  One guy's shenanigans is another guy's decorum

-----Original Message-----
From: joekc at adelphia.net [mailto:joekc at adelphia.net] 
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 2:06 PM
To: Area Man (Dan C)
Cc: 'Vision 2020'
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Daily News Letters: Expected better from Ament


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
> ________________________________________
> 
> 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
> ________________________________________________
> 
> Sittin' back and watchin',
> 
> DC
> 
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