Post by Scott L » Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:51 am
Evidence to consider when wondering if your City Council represents you or sells you out:
When voters speak with a loud voice that they want truck traffic routed differently, if City Council doesn't engage with the public on the matter and rather deflects and rolls over for other interests, you are not being represented well. You are being sold out.
When citizens overwhelmingly say they want Mount Holly to remain a small town and not grow into a Charlotte suburb, having a council that will embrace and even lobby for growth, expansion, and higher density development is serving the interests of someone other than the voters.
If there is evidence or even indications that are left unaddressed that back-room meetings and secret negotiations are being made outside of the public's view, then it's time to consider installing elected representatives that will put a stop to it and have open and transparent government.
These kinds of issues are serious and if not addressed in the next council elections will corrupt Mount Holly's future towards something other than what the owners of this town want. The owners of this town are the voters. They elect people to represent them. ("Representing" someone is to negotiate on behalf of them.) And our government serves them. Anything less is just bad government.
Evidence to consider when wondering if your City Council represents you or sells you out:
When voters speak with a loud voice that they want truck traffic routed differently, if City Council doesn't engage with the public on the matter and rather deflects and rolls over for other interests, you are not being represented well. You are being sold out.
When citizens overwhelmingly say they want Mount Holly to remain a small town and not grow into a Charlotte suburb, having a council that will embrace and even lobby for growth, expansion, and higher density development is serving the interests of someone other than the voters.
If there is evidence or even indications that are left unaddressed that back-room meetings and secret negotiations are being made outside of the public's view, then it's time to consider installing elected representatives that will put a stop to it and have open and transparent government.
These kinds of issues are serious and if not addressed in the next council elections will corrupt Mount Holly's future towards something other than what the owners of this town want. The owners of this town are the voters. They elect people to represent them. ("Representing" someone is to negotiate on behalf of them.) And our government serves them. Anything less is just bad government.