By: mickie

mickie — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:31:32 +0000

At least we know the people attempting to smear Frank De Micco failed. Try again folks the people spoke and your dirt did not stick.

By: Amanda Rice

Amanda Rice — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:06:07 +0000

I appreciate your opinion, but I disagree with the premise that biased comments are necessarily invalid. Filing this under the two-to-tango category, it’s hard to have a conversation with only one side talking. This site started as a resource to exchange information during the the effort to stop the first rate increase. It has some distance to go before Cambrians on all sides see it as a place for their voice to be heard. My aim is to have a resource that is accurate and is a place to discuss and perhaps better understand the multiple viewpoints of Cambrians.
In my opinion, it was inappropriate to spend CCSD employee time or energy to track down credentials of someone who had been outspoken critic and potential board member and sending the information to the Board. That could be misconstrued too easily.
Throughout this campaign I have made an effort to give the candidates a forum where they could express their views and explain their positions as they relate to Cambria. A few in the community wanted to use the space to discredit candidates or launch personal attacks. While Mr. DeMicco’s experiences as a water/wastewater executive are hardly irrelevant, comments made by an individual to a reporter about their water company (not Mr. DeMicco specifically) are hardly a “track record”. It wouldn’t take much effort to find similar articles with similar sentiments being made about the incumbent CCSD directors in our local paper.
That said, I think it’s just as dangerous to evaluate whether someone would be a good director based solely on a CV that could be out-of-date. That is why I have been posting the responses from the candidates and why I organized the Forum at Rabobank. I want to know (and share with other Cambrians) about what the candidates will do once elected (or re-elected), if they would make the same decisions or different ones.
As for bias – this site is loaded with it. I’d like to claim there is a balance of opinions expressed here that is representative of the variety of views in community. And there are more than two sides. Steve Figler explained it this way: Ask three Cambrians what they think about something and you’re likely to get at least four different answers. Please continue to add your voice to the conversation.
Director Funke-Bilu quoted Sarah Palin near the end of the Rabobank forum: “Let’s go forward in the future, stop looking in the back.” (He also quickly noted he is not supporter of Governor Palin, causing some laughter in the room.)

By: mark landgreen

mark landgreen — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:40:02 +0000

I don’t see much of a problem with the above mentioned emails. If however, they would have mentioned sharing with the public info re said candidate’s track record ( published in the NY Times Oct. 21 1999) as “stonewalling” and “bullying” rate payers and issues with “conservationists” (while he was President of United Water) or his documented support and funding of the Swift Boat Vets for Truth (exaggerated and deliberate misrepresentation of political opponents in the 2004 presidential campaign)… then your comments would probably be valid and less biased.

By: mickie

mickie — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:57:34 +0000

Shades of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby! Thank you director Muril Cliff for defending the castle from the barbarians.

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