City of Newcastle, WA -- Council Meeting of
10/2/12
By a vote of 6 - 1, with Bill Erxleben dissenting, the Newcastle City Council voted to hire a police detective for the city, with some councilmembers noting Newcastle's burglary problem as a reason. Erxleben, the council's foremost budget hawk (at least in terms of speechmaking), said he opposed the motion by Gordon Bisset for a detective, because it was premature prior to the preliminary 2013 budget, not on its merits. In support of the motion, John Dulcich said, basically, that security concerns were too important and that the budget could be worked out or adapted to provide for a detective.
Later on in the meeting, the council was in a tizzy for 15 minutes-or-so over a motion by Erxleben to essentially upgrade proposals regarding the 116th Street pedestrian improvements in the overall economic plans of the city. The motion, which failed on a 4 - 3 vote, caused verbal brickbats between Erxleben and Bisset, who accused Erxleben of budgetary inconsistency as general disarray reigned throughout this segment of the council meeting until the city manager, Rob Wyman, and Mayor Rich Crispo brought about order by chiding members and closing out the motion proceedings. Erxleben supported Bisset's election to the council in 2011, and wrote a letter on his behalf in the Newcastle News prior to the general election, essentially, requesting citizens of Newcastle to vote for Bisset. Bisset had been on the council several years ago before taking office, again, in January of '12. There seemed to be general agreement that Erxleben's motion was not that crucial in deciding how all of this would play out; apparently, because of the preliminary nature of the budget and more decisive votes to come.
Votes regarding Councilmember Erxleben's Motion about 116th St.:
Yes (Approving Motion): Erxleben, Crispo and Dulcich.
No (Disapproving Motion): Buri, Simpson, Bisset and Jensen.
[revised on 10/4/12]
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By a vote of 6 - 1, with Bill Erxleben dissenting, the Newcastle City Council voted to hire a police detective for the city, with some councilmembers noting Newcastle's burglary problem as a reason. Erxleben, the council's foremost budget hawk (at least in terms of speechmaking), said he opposed the motion by Gordon Bisset for a detective, because it was premature prior to the preliminary 2013 budget, not on its merits. In support of the motion, John Dulcich said, basically, that security concerns were too important and that the budget could be worked out or adapted to provide for a detective.
Later on in the meeting, the council was in a tizzy for 15 minutes-or-so over a motion by Erxleben to essentially upgrade proposals regarding the 116th Street pedestrian improvements in the overall economic plans of the city. The motion, which failed on a 4 - 3 vote, caused verbal brickbats between Erxleben and Bisset, who accused Erxleben of budgetary inconsistency as general disarray reigned throughout this segment of the council meeting until the city manager, Rob Wyman, and Mayor Rich Crispo brought about order by chiding members and closing out the motion proceedings. Erxleben supported Bisset's election to the council in 2011, and wrote a letter on his behalf in the Newcastle News prior to the general election, essentially, requesting citizens of Newcastle to vote for Bisset. Bisset had been on the council several years ago before taking office, again, in January of '12. There seemed to be general agreement that Erxleben's motion was not that crucial in deciding how all of this would play out; apparently, because of the preliminary nature of the budget and more decisive votes to come.
Votes regarding Councilmember Erxleben's Motion about 116th St.:
Yes (Approving Motion): Erxleben, Crispo and Dulcich.
No (Disapproving Motion): Buri, Simpson, Bisset and Jensen.
[revised on 10/4/12]
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ReplyDeleteDean Logan's Protege
The continuing malfunctioning Potemkin Village called the King County Elections Office has been run by the director, Sherril Huff, ever since her shady and controversial mentor, Dean Logan, was run out of town in 2006 by Reagan Dunn & Co., a.k.a., the King County Council. The best thing Reagan Dunn has done since he's been on the council. Despite being propped up by the Seattle Times and the general Establishment in Seattle, Huff & the Elections Department failed to mail out ballots on time to thousands of voters in King County's Eastside at a critical moment when she, herself, was on the ballot in the 2011 General Election, probably disenfranchising scores of voters. No one knows for sure if the million dollars worth of Diebold/Premier election machinery she bought from the most controversial manufacturer of election equipment in the United States, although now outsourced to Canada, is counting votes correctly, but we now know that it can't send out ballots in a timely manner to qualified voters. Huff, who is on a pace to soon collect a million dollars in elections salary since her few years in King County, after she left her old county in a lurch for the big bucks (Mark Greene proposed reducing in half the salary of the elected elections director after the '11 election), is almost sure to run for re-election in 2015, and keeping with her, her sidekick, Sandy McConnell, another one of Dean Logan's understudies. Huff also chooses, through recommendations to the council, her own "umpires" (the so-called Citizens' Elections Oversight Committee) to oversee her office. Imagine the scandal in the baseball commissioner's office if some team or a few were allowed to pick their own umpires for their particular games. It's time to finally vote out the last remaining remnants of Dean Logan's House of Cards come 2015, all symbolized by his protege, Huff. Please, help in this endeavor by sending a donation and signing Mark Greene's new petition for Director of Elections (2015), and writing-in Mark's name for Secretary of State (2012).
(See Mark Greene's book about election reform at the following site: http://www.electionadmin.blogspot.com.)