[Vision2020] Question, V-Peeps . . .

[Tom Hansen]

Bottom line:  The law is the law; the spirit of the law being that our governing city council WILL NOT be comprised of nonresidents. 

Reasoning for noncompliance:  There was no explanation given as to why the city code will not be enforced.

Options:  As residents, subject to city code enforcement, we can either request, in a letter to the city council and Mayor Chaney, that action be taken or we can join Mr. Dredge in burying our heads in the proverbial sand.

I have NEVER been known to sit on my hands.

As one quote goes . . .

"Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!"

This IS important, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


 

On Oct 31, 2012, at 3:34 AM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

> On 10/30/2012 11:12 PM, Scott Dredge wrote:
>> It's a non-issue.
> 
> One of the essential characteristics of municipal government is that it is relatively local, i.e., close to those who are governed and, ipso facto, those who are governed are close to those who govern them. If one of those governing changes one of his characteristics from local to non-local, that change creates an incongruity with local government characteristics which may be resolved by resignation from office by the incongruous person. 
> 
>> It's tantamount to claiming Obama is ineligible to be president because many believe he was born in Kenya.
> 
> That is maldirective nonsense. Many people believe incorrect information to their individual and our collective detriment. The fact of their belief does not justify it, nor does it serve as a basis for argument that because it is true that anything else is true.
> 
>> If this Tim Brown character is not eligible to be sitting on the council, then someone who cares about this should follow the processes in place to remove / replace him.
> 
> Tim Brown initiated the processes necessary to place himself into membership of the Moscow City Council at a time when his characteristics were consonant with such membership. Apparently he has changed those characteristics, so he should initiate the processes necessary to remove himself from membership of the Moscow City Council.
> 
>> That'd just be far too logical and it won't happen so this flap is much ado about nothing.
> 
> Asking other people to expend the energy to collectively act to do what the incumbent could, and should, do individually with less energy, and more grace, is neither "logical" nor efficient, and represents a level of counterproductivity that is counterintuitive to better local government.
> 
> "Much ado about nothing" serves better as a Shakespearean play title than as a description of this discussion.
> 
> 
> Ken
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