I try to read the blogs to get a feel for the pulse of those writing them. In order to do this effectively you must be able to discern those who are your basic ignorant individuals, those who have skin in the game and benefit from Bookmeyer being where he is, and those who just dislike me for reasons that only they know. I am used to that…it’s OK.
No one can see into the future, no one can really tell if the person standing next to you is an ax murderer or suffers from pathological schizophrenia, and believe me when I tell you, we have a few of those on this site. Now let’s re-visit that election that brought us Eric Bookmeyer; who knew? If we could find out who it was that brought this dark cloud down on this community, we could shun them forever and even that wouldn’t adequately compensate us for what this part time mayor and full time Napoleonic pretender has wrought upon us.
The CES concept was a window into this nightmare; in it we got a glimpse of a severe personality disorder that was centered on self satisfaction and disregard of those who made his position possible; the voters. Remember he tried to circumvent the public vote. This guy runs the gamut on unpredictability; one day he wants to blow tens of thousands of dollars just to move his desk, next he want to dump the Sanitation Department, overhaul the Fire Department, put us in debt for close to thirty million to put in a hockey rink. The Budweiser has got to this guy.
He looks the other way at the fairgrounds, which is in the city limits and is integral to our best interest. Maybe Eric could summon his hand picked panel, I know the council picked them but he had half of the council in a trance and now they are all deep asleep waiting for him to snap his finger and tell them what to do…..and for your information; contrary to what a half a dozen people might believe, there is not one person on that council who, “is his own man.”
All of this from a guy who went from being featured on the police blotter in Clinton, to becoming the part time mayor of this city. God help us to get through this…..give us strength…….
Peter Children