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Posted: Jul 25th, 2007 10:36 pm |
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Dern I'm glad someone else has the SM job.
Mister........er Miss.......er Yer SM Honor, your doin' a fine job !!
Y'all behave !!
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Posted: Jul 25th, 2007 11:26 pm |
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 12:24 am |
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| Sandra to answer your question. When I went to my first school at the League for new council people there was a Town, Emerald Isle I think that had had all their council people voted off that year so they had a whole new council. Dena and I talked about it at the time that the same thing could happen in Summerfield and that just didn't make sense. Then after I was on the council for 2 years and realized that it took a good 6 months at least to learn the job and then you had to start running after a year and and a half I brought it up to the council. Bill Trevorro advised we had to go to 4 year terms in order to stagger the terms. Bill Peterson absolutely bet me the refferendum would not fly and the rest is history.
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 02:40 am |
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DOGGETTJA wrote: Sandra to answer your question. When I went to my first school at the League for new council people there was a Town, Emerald Isle I think that had had all their council people voted off that year so they had a whole new council. Dena and I talked about it at the time that the same thing could happen in Summerfield and that just didn't make sense. Then after I was on the council for 2 years and realized that it took a good 6 months at least to learn the job and then you had to start running after a year and and a half I brought it up to the council. Bill Trevorro advised we had to go to 4 year terms in order to stagger the terms. Bill Peterson absolutely bet me the refferendum would not fly and the rest is history.
Thanks, Jane. Since the original post was on the last page, here's what Jane's referring to:
My understanding is that the problem (with the election to fill the rest of Dwayne Crawford's council seat) came about when Summerfield changed their charter so that council members serve 4-year staggered terms instead of all seats being up for election every 2 years. I believe the thought behind that was that it would be extremely disruptive in trying to run the town if most or all of the council was unseated because of the "learning curve" where it takes new council members time to get up to speed. I believe Jane Doggett and maybe Mike Stewart were on the council then, so maybe they can give some more background on this.
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 10:32 am |
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| Those kinds of things happen all the time because the laws and rules are so complicated. Now whether it needs to be changed to the seat will be filled until the next election I don't know. Hopefully this is not something that will happen very often. But it is hard when voting to know what the person is going to be like until after they are seated. A lot of hidden agendas!
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 11:07 am |
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I guess that's why it's good to get as much info before the election as possible! Those public forums can be very helpful. Of course, the one that was on here last year was good, it's just that not everyone participated.
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 11:59 am |
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DOGGETTJA wrote: Those kinds of things happen all the time because the laws and rules are so complicated. Now whether it needs to be changed to the seat will be filled until the next election I don't know. Hopefully this is not something that will happen very often. But it is hard when voting to know what the person is going to be like until after they are seated. A lot of hidden agendas!
Everyone please make an effort to contact the people running to get their story on where they stand on issues important to you. There are a lot of hidden agendas as Jane speaks of. Know the person who you vote for. Do the research and homework and you will pass the test.
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 01:07 pm |
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I'll be lookin' fer candidates who represent themselves and the issues responsibly and who understand the obligation to be responsible with the power they are asking the voters to give them.
We need candidates who understand more than one issue and know more than one answer.
Caveat venditor (let the SELLER beware) should be just as applicable at election time as Caveat emptor (let the buyer beware).
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Posted: Jul 26th, 2007 01:37 pm |
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Baseball Buddy wrote: DOGGETTJA wrote: Those kinds of things happen all the time because the laws and rules are so complicated. Now whether it needs to be changed to the seat will be filled until the next election I don't know. Hopefully this is not something that will happen very often. But it is hard when voting to know what the person is going to be like until after they are seated. A lot of hidden agendas!
Everyone please make an effort to contact the people running to get their story on where they stand on issues important to you. There are a lot of hidden agendas as Jane speaks of. Know the person who you vote for. Do the research and homework and you will pass the test.
I could not agree more... as I said earlier... please educate yourselves and ask the hard questions! Make us (the candidates) think and prove ourselves worthy of the responsibility that you the voter will temporarily give to us. And then ...maybe ...just maybe you can gain the insight that you need to make an informed decision... start asking questions early because things will get more and more charged right before the November election
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Posted: Jul 27th, 2007 09:43 pm |
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Election time is close- For some who don't know who I am and what I stand for- go to my website http://www.electdonw.com. I pay close attention to this town, via minutes of the meetings in the NWO.
Thanks,
Don
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Posted: Jul 29th, 2007 12:59 am |
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dw wrote: Election time is close- For some who don't know who I am and what I stand for- go to my website http://www.electdonw.com. I pay close attention to this town, via minutes of the meetings in the NWO.
Thanks,
Don
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How many Town Council meetings have you attended this year? How many since the night when John Wray was appointed?
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Posted: Jul 29th, 2007 01:00 am |
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lovettrp wrote: I could not agree more... as I said earlier... please educate yourselves and ask the hard questions! Make us (the candidates) think and prove ourselves worthy of the responsibility that you the voter will temporarily give to us. And then ...maybe ...just maybe you can gain the insight that you need to make an informed decision... start asking questions early because things will get more and more charged right before the November election
Same question, how many TC meetings have you attended this year?
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Posted: Jul 29th, 2007 12:20 pm |
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Sandra,
In response to your post of July 21st, thank you for responding to my post. It's great that the NWO offers several options to the citizens of Summerfield to become more informed regarding the upcoming election/candidates this year. The town forum on the internet sounds very interesting and the individual profiles of the candidates in your newspaper, is a good thing too. I personally prefer the public forum. If the NWO decides to present a public forum this year I would be willing to volunteer in any capacity needed.
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