Republican Club -- Council Forum Tonight > Rexroad.com

Well I have gotten a few reports from the Republican Club forum tonight.

It appears that Fred Lopez, Art Pimentel, and Martie Dote were the only ones to show up.

Jeff Monroe was not able to make the City Council meeting or the forum due to a family emergency. Frank Sieferman was a no show and Bobby Harris did not attend.

I think it is great the the Republican Club put this on and invited everyone.

Comments

By Charlie in Esparto @ Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:13 PM

Matt....

There were two guys named 'Fred Lopez' there...you wrote ..."It appears that Fred Lopez, Art Pimentel, and Fred Lopez were the only ones to show up"....or is that just a type error? (laugh)

Charlie-san

By Matt Rexroad @ Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:15 PM

Martie Dote is on there now. Thanks for the catch. I am just an idiot.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:44 PM

Matt:

For your information, I received no invitation or notice of this Republican Party sponsored event. I believe that lapse was likely intentional, and I certainly would have attended if I was aware of it. So why do you think this oversight occurred?

I did attend the Latino Community Council's event last evening, where only I, Art and Martie showed up (though Jeff was excused by a family emergency).

Art said he was "offended" by my statements that he and Martie weren't visionary or creative enough to adequately resolve Woodland's need for affordable home ownership and affordable housing in general.

I pointed out that city dependence on housing developers in the Southeast Area Plan to provide some reasonable amount of affordable home ownership -- totally failed, resulting in zero (0) affordable housing. City staff refers to the "checkered history" of the city in these matters.

And Martie's talking about how we "couldn't afford" to build senior oriented, affordable housing. It looked bad. They both really helped me prove my point.

Art will likely saturate this city with some version of political rhetoric with all of the thousands of dollars in his campaign coffers, not necessarily a good sign for Woodland.

Without vigorous citizen involvement, based on sufficient information / education, Woodland's future will often be decided by those special interests with the most resources and the most to gain personally and financially from any given decision.

Art's splendid war chest, for such a local election, says a lot about such circumstances. You may make fun of Art, Matt, but I imagine you wield a lot of influence over him - just your nature in this situation.

My commitment is to open the process to greater citizen participation, especially from the folks in our community who can't afford to each pony-uip a hundred dollars to make $10.000.

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