By Barb Buntin
In politics transparency is hard. Hard to be transparent and hard to find transparency. Lots of questions, lots of concerns and the need for an attorney to be taken seriously.
Attorneys are wordsmiths. This can be good and it can be bad.
It can be used to better explain a legal argument or it can be used to obfuscate. If someone claiming that they did something voluntarily you would want to know the context under which this voluntary action happened.
Or, if you wanted to rescind 401/402, you could declare an emergency and avoid the need for 2 public hearings and enact your anti-citizen code the next day you would want a wordsmith.
Speaking of which, 401/402 was passed with a 60% vote in favor of unlike the votes for the town council members being around 33% in favor of them.
One thing that got a previous mayor ousted was his arrogance and attitude toward the citizens he represented. I remember him saying he didn’t need the vote of the citizens to do the ice hockey academy project. Yep sure ‘nuff.
Everyone wants to be the one…in the meantime…there is a huge lack of trust that has been created by a lack of transparency.
