DEAR EDITOR
FIRST CAPITOL NEWS
I would like to thank all the residents that came out and voted. It was great to see the people speak about how this country is being run and want a change. The issues about the war in Iraq, the health care problems, education, jobs, energy prices, etc. They were tired of the “stay the course”, “my way or the highway” approach. They did a good job of changing elective members to congress. I only wished it would have been done @ the state & local levels. I guess enough people were ok with the “best Gov’t that money can buy” and thought it was ok for state elected officials to get laws changed that only affected St. Charles and sub-divisions to hook up to our sewer lines, etc.
The city officials had people to vote on a “strong” mayor at last election without telling them what that would have meant, that the mayor then would run everything and could hire and fire anyone they wanted for any reason known only to them.
Now they let the people vote on the mayor’s salary but they don’t like what the people voted, so they made statements like “they didn’t know what they were voting on because there were (3) different versions. So I guess they think people were stupid so they would set the salary. I would like to know if the ones like Mr. Weller and Dottie who stated they think it should be over the $100,000 to $120,000 range. What they don’t tell you that they would also get many benefits, like health-care, expense accounts, car or gas mileage, trips which would probably be paid for by the taxpayers, etc. I can only wonder if they are running for mayor, also. It would also be nice to know if the ones who wanted $100,000 or more also voted for raising the minimum wage? The really sad part is what they think of the city residents. The same as calling them as dumb or stupid because they didn’t vote like they wanted them to.
Walter Dietz
EDITOR’S NOTE
WE RECENTLY RECEIVED AN E-MAIL THAT BECAME CORRUPTED. WE THINK IT WAS REGARDING JUDGE ELECT THORNHILL. WE WOULD LIKE THE AUTHOR TO RESEND IT SO WE CAN PRINT IT.
