Commissioner Schwab’s announcement (audio)
After the meeting began, and before the above announcement, a woman quietly tried to hand me a bundle of notices to pass down my row. “This is in case they vote yes,” she whispered with a knowing glance. The notices contained an email address and a call for a recall of the commissioners. I told her I didn’t believe in recall elections and to pass out her own notices.
Nyquist withdrew his amendment because he knew he didn’t have the votes to get it passed. Watch and see how much credit our local lefties give to the commissioners over this decision–and it was a decision, it wasn’t just one side giving up. My bet is they’ll keep sailing their recall boat upwind and simply tack in a new direction.
Update: I left at the beginning of the public venting segment after I spied the lineup of characters preparing to share. Turns out the prediction above was no stretch. I heard the public comment segment became a bitch session about recalling the commissioners. Talk about ungrateful. From screaming elation to a series of screeds. Perhaps there’s something in the water around here that causes mass bipolar disorder. Maybe the commissioners should have let Nyquist sell it to the Springs after all.
2nd Update: What was in that second letter anyway?
