tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21349297.post5898294456718107164..comments2023-08-04T02:20:34.075-08:00Comments on SOL in SOLdotna, Alaska: Carey Prevails – For NowSouldotnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09590310067380434662noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21349297.post-34616132287953461062009-07-10T07:29:28.693-08:002009-07-10T07:29:28.693-08:00ACT has no idea, and I doubt they actually care, w...ACT has no idea, and I doubt they actually care, what the people of this borough want. The Assembly is doing the right thing in not letting ACT push them a specific direction. <br /><br />As noted in a letter to the Peninsula Clarion from Assembly President Milli Martin on July 10, two of ACT's mouthpieces have outright lied about actions of the Assembly related to the term limit issue. <br /><br />ACT has fomented this non-issue into a signature gathering project to prohibit the Assembly from acting per statutre to alter actions of a proposition after two years. <br /><br />ACTs McBride "sees a double standard". Reasonable folks see a legal statute providing local government an alternative to minimize damage caused by corn roasting wannabe anarchists. <br /><br />Rather than spin their wheels with local propositions that can be changed every two years, maybe the mayor's army should work on changing state statutes related to assessments of homes (their tax cap mission), term limits and all the other wonderful nonsense they clog our local systems with.<br /><br />Put issues on the ballot and let "the people" decide their fate or trust the Assembly to make decisions as they were elected to do. <br /><br />Let us decide whether we want a manager or a mayor, a sports dome or not, term limits or not.<br /><br />ACT should focus more on what their yes-man mayor is doing to the borough financially. <br /><br />They should step up and speak against the tens of thousands in raises he budgeted for his staff, the loss of experienced folks for cronies (these folks are gone becasue of uninformed descisions by the mayor and staff, not due to incompetence as he would like you to beleive), and ask him for substance rather than sound bytes on issues (please, can anyone describe what he has actually accomplished since October?).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21349297.post-35680849705454295342009-06-17T09:29:24.858-08:002009-06-17T09:29:24.858-08:00As I posted earlier... I listened to about as much...As I posted earlier... I listened to about as much of the meeting last night as I could stand.<br /><br />The ACT folks made my head hurt.<br /><br />Frankly, I expected the Assembly to overturn the veto, and was surprised they didn't.<br /><br />Interesting times.Wolfe Tonehttp://oneceltsview.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com