Foul! District Rigs Vote!

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Is tonight's meeting by invitation only?

Did you receive this mailing?

Probably not, unless you're a "resident employee."

Note to employees: If you're a "resident employee" you were specifically invited to tonight's meeting. Taxpayer money was spent to get you to the meeting. Do you suppose they expect you, as a "resident employee", to vote any particular way? How do you feel about this?

As detailed elsewhere on this site,there's been very little publicity for the informational hearings and particularly for tonight's straw vote. In other words, the average citizen has received damned little notice of the meetings (and damned little information to boot). Now we see that this lack of publicity, far from being due to sloppiness or a lackidaisical approach, is in fact calculated, deliberate, and part of a plan to get only the "right people" to the straw vote tonight.

In the post linked to above (and here),we dismissed the question of whether the District leadership is incompetent -- or worse -- as unimportant. After all, the net effect is the same -- or so we argued there.

We're rethinking that issue. This mailing is proof of a blatant disregard for citizens and cynicism about the democratic process. The public's right to be informed has to be respected to the same degree as that of "resident employees."