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| Steve Spinnett and Family |
There's been a systematic attack on the Mayor of Damascus Steve Spinnett. The attacks have taken the form of defacing and "mutilating" Spinnett for Mayor signs and accusing his wife of "recording" documents with her phone on a visit to the information desk at City Hall. She handed over her phone to police which found no such images.
And now there's a meeting tonight--controlled by those who have contributed to Spinnett's November opponent--huh?!--to remove some of his responsibilities.
It's getting ugly out there.
This is how the left plays when their utopian plans meet with opposition. They vandalize, frighten, lie about and otherwise create chaos in order to taint someone. Spinnett, Dan Phegley, Mel O'Brien and Bill Wehr all members of the anti Metro group Ask Damascus have been targeted.
As one insider puts it, these are judges of Spinnett at tonight's meeting:
It will be voted on by councilors whether to strip Mayor Spinnett from his official duty to communicate with the City Manager. Included in this will be appointing Council President Diana Helm in this capacity to set the Council agenda each week with the City Manager.
Show up tonight to make sure this travesty doesn't happen.This is a power grab to derail the campaigns of Mayor Spinnett and Phegley, O'Brien,Wehr (POW). It is to protect the city staff from the consequence of bad judgement. It will place unwarranted authority in the hands of the city staff, rather than what is given the duly elected Mayor, who represents the citizens by majority vote of the citizens.
The judges:
Diana Helm- Will be in the position of appointing herself. She is a supporter and financial contributor to the Wescott campaign for Mayor. She is a supporter of the slate running for councilors against Ask Damascus slate. She is also major advertiser in Sunrise Times. It is an anti- Spinnett anti- Ask Damascus newspaper distributed by mail to each household in Damascus. Attended now famous secret meeting in April 2012.
Councilor Wescott- Running against Steve for Mayor. Hosted now famous secret meeting.
Councilor Jackman- Running for Mayor
Councilor Shannon- The one earlier in the year who entered the motion and was passed to censor Steve from writing in the city newsletter until this December. Attended and provided security for now famous secret meeting.
This will be the majority- the other two Councilors usually follow suit.
Here are the evil plans of the four candidates:
- Businesses and jobs: We pledge to change our City Council from being business unfriendly to business friendly. We have had several instances where entrepreneurs inquired about business start ups but were denied for one reason or another. Council attempted to force Goodwill out of their place, but fortunately we prevailed and allowed them to stay.
- Local Control: We will work to complete a Comprehensive Plan that will make sense for our citizens that want local control rather than dictated control from outside our City. We work for you not the state, Metro or anybody else. We realize we have laws we have to abide by, but let’s design our city our way because we do have a lot of options!
- Private Property Rights: We will pass no unnecessary and/or redundant ordinances. The rights of property owners are foremost as we complete the Comprehensive Plan.
- Responsible spending and taxation: We insist that every property tax dollar be accounted for and justified. We support a YES vote on measure 3-404 which will limit city spending, taxes and debt with the intent to refund the remainder back to you.
All the more reason to vote for them.
obviously a plant by the Spinnet campaign to portray themselves as victims. he will win the mayor race, he doesnt need to worry about signs being stolen, 1 out of 3 houses and properties in Damascus have his signs on them.
ReplyDeleteComment above is an exaggeration. 1 of 3 ?
ReplyDeleteHowever, the council meeting tonight was a circus bent on suspending the mayor's authority wuth the council stacked with 2 council members running against Mayor Spinett and councilor who lost the mayor's race 2 years ago.
Also discussed was protecting councilors from drive by shootings (Randy Shannon, Councilor)and video taping citizens when they come in city hall (City Manager). YES ! Unbelievable !
The Mayor is using this entire incident as a propaganda piece, in his continued need to be a perpetual victim. Why does it do it? Much the same reason that Obama attack Romney! He has NO record of accomplishments. He has yet to learn that being a bully, does not work when you are one vote out of six!
ReplyDeleteGo the the City of Damascus website, and view the video of 9/13. You will clearly see the man who wants to "control" the agenda, allow Randy Shannon to add a discussion about the incident to the agenda. At that time, a man who didn't want this in the open, could have easily turned to the City Manager and say "Mr. Baker, since this is an ongoing investigation, should we not reserve discussion." But no, that did not happen. Why? Because then Spinnett could not dramatize it.
Watch at the 52:00 minute mark, where the Mayor calls on Shannon to start the discussion. The City Manager gives the Mayor an out, by stating almost verbatim what I suggested the Mayor could have done. The Mayor states, "well this is on tape, so it's out in the open". What was out in the open? There is NO mention, about taking pictures, NO accussations, NO allegations! In fact, Mrs. Spinnett's first name is NEVER even used.
It was only two days later, when the Mayor published a letter on his and the Facebook page, his "letter", which let the cat out of the bag. It should be noted that this letter can no longer be found on his web site or Facebook page.
This conspiracy is self contrived, and now the Mayor has put the City of Damascus in severe legal jeopardy. If I were Mr. Baker, I would take this city for all its worth. His reputation, and integrity have been questioned, without merit. Watch the Council meeting of 10/1 and you will see that the Mayor himself, cannot find a violation of the protocol at City Hall, should this incident been Mrs. Spinnett, or Mrs. Smith. And there is significant argument (validated in an email sent out by Dan Phegley of Ask Damascus) that the Mayor's wife was given preferrential treatment. It should also be noted, that when first called in, the Mayor as much as said that his wife was out of line, and that "he" would ensure that she was "no longer allowed in City Hall." His words, not that of Greg Baker, or City Council.
Folks, please don't buy into this RINO's act! He's not a conservative! He's a self serving meglomaniac, that has to pull in people from outside our city to attach the staff and council. He is not an honest man, and as proven it time and time again. The rest of the Council should all be voted out as well. They are just as much to blame for where we are at. But the Mayor has been the ring leader, and created more problems that we could have ever imagined.