Those of you who want to contact Darcy Mc Naboe her phone number from Press Enterprise article was listed as 909/824-1506, perhaps you would like to share your thoughts with her.
This is the only winning strategy for me and all of us who care about GT:
1. This is not the only mid-term vacancy as a result of an elevation of a council member to Mayor, leaving a unexpired term. When Ferre was elected there was an appointment to the Council.
2. Of the six mid-term resignations all were filled by appointment except for the Miller seat as it coincided with an upcoming election.
3. This is the first time the council is faced with having to consider how an electorate voted when looking to fill a seat. You are very right in challenging Darcy's view of democracy. You are very right in challenging Leeann's own ascension to the council by appointment.
The issue in this election and all others for Mayor or Council in which there was only two-contenders, the winner garnered over 60 percent of the vote. If Mr Wilson was in a 2 way race he would have gotten only 40 percent of the vote at most. Where as Robles got 49 percent. Wilson has already lost prior elections, by wide margins.
Bernardo and Walt face two years of a 2-2 dead lock if there is not an appointment. The public has seen the difficulty of having only 4 people on the council. It takes 3 votes to approve anything.
The City of Rancho Cucamonga just did made an appointment , based on the next highest vote getter--so can we. They did not consider others who ran for Mayor, and now or wait a minute I want to be on the council. If Wilson wanted to sit on the Council as a Council Member he should have run for one of the two seats on the council. There is little reason to justify his appointment if he were to apply.
What the new council have to do is have the courage to move forward with an eye to put GT on the path to sustainability and community building in a way that restores and preserves the rights of individuals and offers the community good governance.
