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November 9, 2008

Update:

Issue 52 is now being reported on the Board of Elections website ...
Even with another 2000 votes counted (paper votes?), the 52% margin still holds!



And what is the city's reaction?

 Quote unquote from the city in the Dispatch article from November 8 ...




"It's a moot point because residents had been told that votes wouldn't be counted."

In other words, they don't care at all what we think.
I guess we're just supposed to write them checks and not hold them accountable for abiding by our preferences.

I don't know about you, but I have a problem with this.

Which way is the money flowing??
  
City staff provides a service.  We pay them for that service.
City Council provides oversight.  We vote for them to represent us.

WE, the resident/taxpayers, are the customers of city staff.

City Council members owe their positions to those who voted for them.

Both groups seem to have lost sight of the fact that we pay their salaries (and substantial benefits) to do a job for us.

For the city to take the "we don't care" approach is unacceptable.  If this were the private sector, city staff would have been fired and a new supplier, one who is willing to respect its customer's preferences, brought in to replace them.

And City Council?

Four of them can be replaced in less than 12 months.
Now is the time to start planning ahead. 


November 5, 2008

The results accidently got reported.
 (They shouldn't have because the issue was off the ballot as a result of the City's Supreme Court action to block our right to vote.)

Issue 52 won!

See the results for yourself ...
52%/48% with 14,300 UA residents voting!

(click on the image to enlarge)



What does this mean?

It means that we don't like the new service or the fee.

It means we want our old service back.

It means that we don't like what city staff and Council did,
 nor the way they did it.

We don't like their unfounded emergencies that intentionally lock us out of the right to vote.

We don't like their "shoving this down our throat" approach to government.

We don't like their misrepresenting the facts to get their way.
(See "One UA Voice" to show how they spin things.)

We don't like having our tax dollars spent on lawsuits to prevent us from voting and "informational pieces" and ads that have no foundation in the truth and are designed to mislead us.

Next November, four Council spots are up for grabs.
That's the time to take back our government.

Until then, be very wary of the shenanigans
they will try to pull.
They've done it before -- the Solid Waste Initiative was just one example -- and will do it again.

It's time to say, "ENOUGH!"

Thank you to everyone who supported the Solid Waste Initiative!