<DIV>Donovan,</DIV> <DIV>There are a few assumptions to your post. For all we know, the Mayor did Ms. Craine a favor by appointing her after the deadline. Perhaps Ms. Craine did not want to run for office this time around. Appointing her before the deadline would put an undue amount of pressure on Ms. Craine from constituents who want her to run. Appointing her after the deadline, then, would have lessened the pressure on her. You are also assuming that all of the Council members who wanted to wait until after the filing deadline were incumbents. The bad thing about assumptions is that they often lack fact. -Tom<BR><BR><B><I>Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV>The Mayor has indicated that she could not appoint anyone to the city council because members of the council were
unwilling to approve any appointment until after the last filing date to be placed on the ballot. <A href="http://www.moscow.id.us/pressrelease.asp">http://www.moscow.id.us/pressrelease.asp</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In my opinion it is unethical behavior to use the power of your office to rig the ballot as to not have any serious competition on election night. Kit Craine should have been appointed long ago, and for other members of the city council to keep her (or any new appointee) off the ballot so they have a better chance of reelection seems unbecoming of an elected official and this clearly moves AGAINST the best interests of the people of Moscow to have as many qualified candidates as possible on the ballot. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In my opinion, the incumbent candidates on the City Council have demonstrated they are willing to use the power of their office to make damaging decisions against the
people of Moscow, like preventing a quality candidates like Kit Craine from being on the ballot, for their own selfish interests and personal gains. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>MOSCOW DESERVES BETTER. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan J Arnold</DIV> <DIV> <HR SIZE=1> Got a little couch potato? <BR>Check out fun <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48248/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz">summer activities for kids.</A>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net <BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>Tom & Liz Ivie<p> 
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