I was driving home a couple days ago, when I saw a pick up truck at a pull out with a "Gwen Lachelt Recall Petition" sign and an old gal with a clip board in hand. Driving by I started thinking about why she was doing it, so I turned around and drove back to ask. She had the basic boilerplate complaints. Gwen went to Washington D.C. to raise a stink about oil company Fracking and Methane leak regulations. What's wrong with that, I ask? She was fulfilling promises that helped get her elected by citizens like myself, there was nothing secret or inappropriate about it.
There was no answer forthcoming, instead she continued to the next point of contention, the awful Draft Land Use Code. Well, okay, but is that really a justification for starting a recall petition, which is normally reserved for extreme misconduct and dereliction of duty, not for differences of opinions. Why is only one of three commissions who shared blame for the Draft Land Code disaster being attacked? Incidentally, what about the reality that the Draft is being reworked and already much improved, thanks to the normal run of our democratic process. Again, not much of a response, instead we moved on to her trump card.
(This time I get personal and finish this post with pictures of my current renovation project.
Yup, you guessed it, making excuses for my sporadic posting record.)
