What a great emailfrom Mike! I have been a strong proponent of community involvement. Eureka has shown us that an organized citizenry can tackle and win against the BIG corporation.

As a community, we elect local representatives to speak on our behalf, but that does not mean we give up our right to speak out nor be heard. We do not give our local representatives a blank check to act in any manner they so desire, especially when there is a collective outcry for or against a specific issue.

The US Constitution gives us the right to assemble and speak freely. It appears to me our elected representatives have considerable consternation about community involvement. Rather than praising the various grassroots? groups, some council members have resulted to using derogatory terms when describing some of the grassroots? groups. If the community felt they were being adequately represented, the community would not feel the need to form specific interest groups to draw attention to their issue and fight their own fight. It would be nice if the City Council would fight as vigorously for your cause as they fight for their own self-serving cause(s).

Remember, we elected the council members into office, we can vote them out of office.

– Written by rich grogan