Stop the LENS and its leadership, in good faith, agreed to hold
the petitions and have the Stop The LENS vote on the August referendum. Primarily to save the City the $250,000 cost
of a special election.
Their reward?
An attempt by Foster and his staff to add questions, lengthen the
ballot and generally muddy the waters by starting a rivalry about what the new
Pier proposal should be.
Brings to mind the old saw, "no good deed goes
unpunished"
The proposed ballot, which puts the LENs issue last after a
question about recycling, shows just how far the administration is already willing to go to make this thing
difficult for the public. Put their straw poll questions up front, put the
public's issue last.
The Foster administration will stay within their legal rights as
they attempt to manipulate the ballot, and we can only hope that City Council
will not go along with this charade.
That is likely hope wasted.
The view of the peoples' opinion and their desires by Mayor
Foster, Danner, Dudley, Kennedy, Kornell
and Curran seem to grow uglier each day.
The Mayor's questions include: should we continue having a
pier, allow a private company to build and operate a pier or build a simple
wooden pier for fishing.
Read those again.
Not one of those suggestions is in the Pier Task Force
recommendations.
These questions show either just how much the Mayor really
is out of touch with the public and his own Task force, which he has touted up
to now, or reveal the true vindictive nature of a mayor who is about to lose an
election.
There is not much the Stop The LENS committee can do at this
point, except make a note that Bill Foster cannot be trusted.
The questions proposed by the Mayor are an attempt to confuse the
voter not gather information.
Let's get the LENS issue decided, up or down then if it gets
voted down the administration can gather some information on the November
ballot.
e-mail Doc at: dr.webb@verizon.net, or send me a Facebook Friend
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