Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

S'okay

It will be alright.

In fact, I am glad David will remain in charge of Pickerington City Council.

BTW, my name is not Bob...it is Robert



By Bob

NOW They Will JUDGE YOU

His opponents were behind this. Now they will JUDGE YOU>

Revolt Against Dave Shaver

First I would be curious about hearing more about the hurt feelings and burst egos as a result of the elections. Are you saying that someone not successful is making all these postings to subvert this new council makeup or something else? As to the reorganization votes, is it not safe to assume that any challengers that were going to make an attempt to take over or maintain the leadership of the council simply withdrew their attempt upon hearing that you and Mr. W had enough votes to render them impotent? So in other words, they were trying to save face and protect their fragile egos by not getting embarrassed and thus giving the illusion of solidarity?

From what I have been reading here, I didn?’t see a rebellion against the mayor and his policies but a revolt against the mayor and his apparent exclusive faction. He simply didn?’t have an accurate head count. If I am interpreting the Alpha Male inference correctly there seems to have been a faction of politicians and select staff members started that had other interests than the city at heart. I apologize. I am sure that in their opinion they had the city?’s interests at heart mixed thoroughly with their own agendas.


Finally, taking credit for slowing residential growth, which is what I assume you are saying ?“we will continue to tighten the screws on building?” means. This is now an easy win for you as the industry has taken such a downturn that you can?’t really take credit for. The industry, in addition to facing increasing costs for raw materials is also plagued with increasing interest rates and a plethora of other issues that is more reckoned to the industry naturally righting itself as it did in Texas in the 80?’s. Now you might be twisting the knife with your fees and design rules and I?’ll give you that. The Dominion scandal is just starting to open up political eyes as what has been prevalent for such a long time. Dominion itself may precipitate manageable growth to slow growth to zero growth once higher leaders take a studied look at who else is offering this shell game. We know that zero growth is not healthy for a community or a school district. You may have set too much store in the collection of impact fees in your money managing and if you say instead the collection of commercial impact fees will still fill the pot, please think again. Our commercial growth is directly related to residential growth. If the customer base (rooftops) is not provided, these retail developers we see looking at us now will look elsewhere faster then you can say the sky is falling. Their development plans are based on the future and not the present.

Sorry if I crossed the line in response to you sir, but when you accuse us of being chicken littles, remember that there are also those that, in spite of what goes on around them will never admit that while the sky is not falling, something sure as heck is going on up there. There seems to be a common thread of what may be fact lurking just below the waves you or we see on the surface.


By Anti-Exclusive Faction