First things first. My hat’s off to John Lee for his stance on the pipe dream of building the Taj Mahal in a time of poor economic reality. Also similar applause goes to Alex Kuhn for indicating he might try and think for himself. Turncoat’s comments are suspect, they sound foreign after being under the boot of the fat man for such a prolonged period. If he isn’t careful, Solberg and Hickey might become confused and not know what is going on or what to do next. Look what happened to Pam Myhre when she had the gall to speak in public about what was on her mind….gone, El Zippo, on the spot. The axe fell.
The plan was a unified council under the auspice of the fat man…how dare they, such cheek. Once discontent begins to set in it could spread as quicky as the fat man’s waistline.
According to the majority of the bloggers on this site, the general contention is no to the skating rinks. The more prudent thing would be to shelve this dark comedy until more industry comes to town, and I am not in any way referring to or in favor of polluting the air with carcinogenic waste material when I speak of industry.
Now there is talk of yet another feasibility study done at an estimated cost of 100K; shocking. In 2004 we had one done and the results were dismal. There will be more on that later.
Talk now of another panel/committee. The last “citizens” committee was carefully hand picked by the fat man and produced exactly what he wanted, most of which you could spread on your garden were it would have been better suited. Now they want to take another run at it? Listen…having the fat guy in charge of the selection process would be tantamount to picking a group of horny guys to decide if a whore house would work here. Close…. but no cigar.
Peter Children
17 thoughts on “Op-ed: Hats off to John Lee (by Peter Children)”
The fat man? This sounds like a poorly written loony version of Cassablanca…
This Website is no different that the local newspaper. They both spew BS in hopes of generating sales and traffic. The paper was against MW and this website is against EB. So in the interest of fairness you both suck. I wouldn’t meet with you either MM.
JEREMY
It is what it is; I am what I am and you are what you are….and the fat man….well he is what he wants to be. More importently he wants to be in public office and receive respect? You think? Perhaps he’ll get you to respect him but not I, not now, not ever. I invited him to call me for lunch…we could talk, he could tell me things and I would tell him things…but no deal. So you see Jeremy I tried, once, but not twice. The invitation is still open…and I’ll pay, even for beer.
John Lee is a good ol Newman boy! He will not be bullied, and will govern in the direction HE sees fit.
Definatly not a rubber stamp for the mayor and the rest of the rubber stamp crowd.
Your use of degrading nicknames and focusing on things like the Mayor’s weight are childish and remove all merit from your point.
Try again, but share your opinion like an intelligent adult.
Thanks.
Do you really think an “adult” (your words) would go out in public and get totally wacked to the point the bartender had to cut him off and others had to help him walk? Do you really think the “mayor” of this city would get so loaded at the Country Club that he walked into tables? Do you reall think that individual derserves my respect? Is that what you think? If that is what you think…well then you can think again…
I didn’t force this guy to double his size, his weight isn’t from cheeseburgers its from copious amounts of beer…that’s all his choice. If he’d tender his resignation, I’d stop writing about him.
No Peter, all that I am saying is that your writing “style” overshadows your opinion, which you are most certainly entitled to, and that I agree with on a few levels.
You might be taken more seriously if you drop the monikers and cheap shots. Unless of course your goal is straight sensationalism. Then you seem to be on target.
If the Mayor is public property, why can we not flush him down the stool with the rest of it.
Cuz some turds float.
You mean that same committee that when asked if the citizens should be able to vote the majority did not raise their hands. This project has been rigged to be shoved down our throats from day one. Remember the study done a year ago that said 9 out of 10 could not positive cash flow causing more hardship on the taxpayers. The only difference now is a nearly whitewashed council and city personal fearing for their jobs if they do not comment the way their leader says. Example Pam Myre being removed from the CES project because she was asking questions backdoor did not like.
Thank you Mr. children for a more positive article. You didn’t win a Golden Pen award for nothing.
Matt, you thank Mr. Children for a more positive article. Couldn’t you have printed that one instead of this tripe?
Peter, the citizens committee that looked at the hockey facility (because that’s what it actually is) were appointed by the Council. Each Council member got to appoint one person. Interestingly enough, I’ve heard through the grapevine that Don Nelson’s pick came into it opposed to the idea but eventually changed his mind somewhat.
Thank you for pointing that out to me; but you must remember that three of the council were hauling his water…doing his bidding, and I know of one committee member who said he was recuited directly by the fat man.
Peter-Once again you continue to call our mayor names and to insult him at every turn. I too don’t agree with what he is trying to do but think name calling is unprofessional and causes people to turn off your real message. We all know you don’t like him and most of us agree with you about that on a professional basis but, personal attacks just diminish your cause. As to John Lee, I am very pleased to see that we may at least have one council member who has some common sense and thinks about the average taxpayer. Maybe there is hope yet. Hold off on the slander.
I refer to his appearence as evidence to his inabilty to control himself in everyday life. This includes both food & drink. He has no shame in his insistence as to what he wants and you must agree because you don’t mention it. I am not of that ilk. You forget, what I say is the truth, he made himself what he is and when he steped into the public arena, he became public property.