Well, money-as-power does not bother me. The idiotic city council does. Gonzales is the the only one not on the council IIRC.
But my big deal is the internet. Small minded of me, I'm sure. But the insane council anti-fiber stand is certainly not pro-growth. My bet is that at least Gonzales can at least *spell* On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Merle Lefkoff <[email protected]>wrote: > ...and why would local voters wanted to reinforce the problem with > democracy today: campaigns and politicians bought and sold. > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So why would anyone even think of voting for a guy who is running to be a >> public official (Dimas) who doesn't show up in public (Dimas)? Oh yeah, >> also a guy who took $60k in public financing of his campaign. I look >> forward to seeing his expenditure reports. >> >> -tj >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Sorry to be local here, but this came as a surprise to me, from the New >>> Mexican editorial today: >>> Our View: For mayor, no perfect choice >>> http://goo.gl/PIKlCl >>> >>> For a couple of weeks, it looked like Gonzales was their favorite. >>> Certainly unique and not a City Council member (they all are pretty horrid >>> and simply cannot understand networking nor computing .. let alone >>> economic development). So he looked pretty good. >>> >>> But the problem is that he's unfairly having PACs and others pay for >>> electioneering, which goes against the Santa Fe voting laws. And he's not >>> stopping it, even tho not being done directly from him. >>> >>> So big money backing him. >>> >>> Our choice now reverts to two city councilors, death by ignorance. >>> >>> Anyone with experience and insights that may not make the papers? >>> >>> -- Owen >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ========================================== >> J. T. Johnson >> Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM >> USA<http://www.analyticjournalism.com/> >> 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) >> Twitter: jtjohnson >> slideshare.net/jtjohnson/presentations >> http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] >> ========================================== >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> > > > > -- > Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. > President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy > Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA > [email protected] > mobile: (303) 859-5609 > skype: merlelefkoff > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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