9 p.m. Wednesday night
The list sees white pages of unspoken cyberspace words by Council Member
McDonald and Mayor Sayles Belton on campaign finance reform. I guess when
you are on the inside of city hall where the walls are safe and lined with
money, it is easy just to ignore all of us little people and go about your
daily task of raising money from the big people (whoever they are) and keep
it secret or worse take it to your committee and never get back to the
challenge. Where is the leadership? The next time your voting, remember who
spoke up and got out on a limb for all of us. And, remember who was
silent - the status quo who continues to spend big tax subsidies for wealthy
developers.
By the way, I've just had two of my good friends on this block sell their
houses and move out. They were the best two in my block club. One of them
who was a great city person and had urbanity in her bones, left because she
was tired of the non-responsiveness of our city government and the big tax
subsidies downtown. She said, "The only people left in the city were going
to be the wealthy and those who couldn't afford to leave." We witness
tonight that the two insider mayoral candidates continue to tow my
neighbor's line. What a tragedy.
Russell W. Peterson
Ward 9
Standish
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