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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/30/2012 11:12 PM, Scott Dredge
wrote:<br>
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It's a non-issue.</div>
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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. <br>
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<div dir="ltr">It's tantamount to claiming Obama is ineligible to
be president because many believe he was born in Kenya.</div>
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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.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
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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.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">That'd just be far too logical and it won't happen
so this flap is much ado about nothing.<br>
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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.<br>
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"Much ado about nothing" serves better as a Shakespearean play title
than as a description of this discussion.<br>
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Ken<br>
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