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Tell Fruita City Council no.
Now is the time for all Fruita citizens, regardless of their position on the recreation center issue, to urge the City Council not to put this community through another divisive election. The last election showed what a dividing issue this is and to feed that division will only fracture our community further.
Our City Council has other, more vital, issues to deal with and need a united city to manage them well. This issue is not critical enough to cause wars between different factions.
Please write or call your council members and tell them it is a bad and harmful idea. It is important to make yourselves heard on this as the council will be deciding on whether to call for another vote soon. The council is being pushed very hard by the group that lost the last election, which resulted in a remarkable tie vote, and without a counter effort will get a unequal measure of the communities desires.
O. BRUCE JONES
Fruita
5 Responses to “Fruita should give up rec center plans”
Posted July 30th, 2008 at 1:39 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Is the author suggesting that only “slam dunk”, sure to win or lose, measures be put before voters? Controversy is a bad thing? As an outsider, I was interested in the reports that advocates for “No” votes the first time around had spread false information about taxes, in particular, that would result from the measure. If advocates for the Center feel that the vote was tainted what’s wrong with the measure coming up again? Who are those that prefer sweeping the issue under the rug rather than facing the devisiveness that already exists? Half the voters alredy disagree with the author.
Posted July 31st, 2008 at 12:03 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
I think that the author is afraid that when the next election comes around he might be in the minority. Let the people have their say and put this issue to rest.
Posted July 31st, 2008 at 10:19 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
I have no personal interest in the Fruita Rec Center but if you think about it another way, say it passed by one vote, then would the people that opposed it get a “Do Over” or would the developer have already broke ground on the project? The author of this letter is probably right about the fact that the City Council has other things to deal with.
Posted July 31st, 2008 at 10:27 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Does this mean that we get to have do overs on all elections?
Well, obviously, we have elections on a regular basis.
How about a do over vote on social security?
Posted July 31st, 2008 at 10:51 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Jen, the original vote was a tie, after a recount, and there is no question that opponents put out false information about the proposal: AKA–lies. If a new vote is that close, a recount would probably result but if the measure then was proven to have won by one vote the vote would stand. Opponents could take it to court and maybe get an injnction if they could show that there was a chance the vote was questionable. But, in the end, you only have to win by one vote.
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