{"id":2631,"date":"2011-08-24T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/a-setback\/"},"modified":"2011-08-24T13:12:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:12:30","slug":"a-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/a-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyquist setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sdim2482-copy.jpg\" title=\"Elbert County BOCC meeting 8\/24\/11\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sdim2482-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Elbert County BOCC meeting 8\/24\/11\" height=\"186\" width=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/commissioner-schwab-announcement.mp3\" title=\"Commissioner Schwab's announcement (audio)\">Commissioner Schwab&#8217;s announcement (audio)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 &#8220;This is in case they vote yes,&#8221; she whispered with a knowing glance. \u00a0 The notices contained an email address and a call for a recall of the commissioners.\u00a0 I told her I didn&#8217;t believe in recall elections and to pass out her own notices.<\/p>\n<p>Nyquist withdrew his amendment because he knew he didn&#8217;t have the votes to get it passed.\u00a0 Watch and see how much credit our local lefties give to the commissioners over this decision&#8211;and it was a decision, it wasn&#8217;t just one side giving up.\u00a0 My bet is they&#8217;ll keep sailing their recall boat upwind and simply tack in a new direction.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>:\u00a0 I left at the beginning of the public venting segment after I spied the lineup of characters preparing to share.\u00a0 Turns out the prediction above was no stretch.\u00a0 I heard the public comment segment became a bitch session about recalling the commissioners.\u00a0 Talk about ungrateful.\u00a0\u00a0 From screaming elation to a series of screeds.\u00a0 Perhaps there&#8217;s something in the water around here that causes mass bipolar disorder.\u00a0 Maybe the commissioners should have let Nyquist sell it to the Springs after all.<\/p>\n<p><em>2nd Update<\/em>: What was in that second letter anyway?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pipeline-project-on-hold-after-hundreds-pack-meeting-kmgh-denver.jpg\" title=\"Pipeline Project On Hold After Hundreds Pack Meeting\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pipeline-project-on-hold-after-hundreds-pack-meeting-kmgh-denver.jpg\" alt=\"Pipeline Project On Hold After Hundreds Pack Meeting\" height=\"599\" width=\"526\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner Schwab&#8217;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.\u00a0 &#8220;This is in case they vote yes,&#8221; she whispered with a knowing glance. \u00a0 The notices contained an email address and a call for a recall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-the-mob","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}