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The last few days on our city’s unofficial forum have been
really crazy. At the last council meeting one of our Councilmen was trying to
argue a very important point on behalf of the citizens of our city and since
the meeting date fell on July 3rd, the day before the 4th of July, three out of
our eight Councilmen were absent which left us with a quorum of five plus the
Mayor, City Attorney and the City Administrator.
The point being argued was on the new budget and how they
arrived at the amount they did. My favorite Councilmen was arguing on behalf of
we the citizens and the others, including the Mayor, were trying to get him to
vote on raising our utility rates by 10%. Now I’m not going to go into the nuts
and bolts of the argument b/c to be frank a lot of it went over my head but
what happened was very shocking.
When my favorite Councilmen saw that the others were not
going to budge he, as he put it, “fell on his sward” and promptly got out of
his seat and walked out of the meeting! BRAVO COUNCILMAN!!!
A lot of people have been calling him out for it on the
forum but the people who are trying to put him down for it were NOT at the
meeting so they did not see what happened! The other councilmen were, in a
sense, ganging up on him so he did the only thing he could do. He has told us
that a decision like that was too important to vote on with only five
Councilmen present so he left plain and simple. Personally I’m very proud of
him and I’m so very proud to have such an intelligent and passionate gentlemen
representing our city.
My prayer for him is that he keeps the faith and stays with
it, we need him on that council but more importantly I think he needs to run
for mayor! I know that’s a lot for him to take on but I think as mayor he would
be very fair and he would do what is best for this city and not try to carry
out his own agenda! And while I can’t get into it here I can tell you that the
more I find out about our current mayor the more it turns my stomach!
It’s times like this when I miss my old friend Ronnie from
Arizona. He was one of my best friends and he knows politics inside and out!
When I first arrived in Bisbee they had just had their elections and he had run
for Mayor but at the very last minute his opponent hit him with a smear
campaign and he didn’t have a chance to recover from it before the elections
and he ended up loosing but only by a small margin.
