...It isn’t enough that the voter writes your name in, if he/she/it/they do/does not fill in the oval, the vote doesn’t count because the computer only reads ovals! Tech has undermined democracy six ways from Sunday, yet its use only increases. Go fig.
Tues, ironically Voting Day, I happened to tune into an NPR program describing the damage the Fed has done to American democracy by tipping the scales in favor of the banks and other inequities. One of the speakers seemed to think the whole financial industry is culpable for the disastrous inequity in the U.S.--moving money and resources from the middle and lower classes into the pockets of the wealthiest companies and people. Not totally, of course, the tax code does its bit. Muchas gracias, Senor Trump.
Ironically enough, meanwhile the citizens of Cascade were putting not one, but two financial types on council—Riley Rausch who is routinely lead by the nose—and Megan Oliphant, who we’ll see how she votes. Cascade reelected Mike Delaney, the least independent of the council people, also on Andy Kelchen’s leash.
The person with the most understanding of city ordinances, Bill Hosch, was not elected.
Steve Knepper was voted in as Mayor, so thank God, we haven’t lost his fund of understanding of infrastructure, or we’d really be up the creek.
I don’t know if it was out-and-out lying, but Knepper, Rausch and Delaney all insisted in the candidate forum that the Sidewalk Ordinance was legal because the National League of Cities gave them it (as a model ordinance). They didn’t bother speculating on if it was fair; they don’t care about that. I went home and emailed NLC, they say “No Way!”
Tune into Monday night’s council meeting to hear the exchange and their reactions
Shirley K, you have whined, complained and thrown tantrums, much as a elementary school child would to gain attention. But, the election is over, so you can go back to being irrelevant now.
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