[Summit] Jackson Recall election set for May 2

[Michael McGlynn]

>>I had not known until her post about the proposed Community Safety Act,<<

That fact is not for the want of ready information sources.

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Robert Mathiesen <rmath13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think Mikaila has raised a very important point here.  For a good part
> of Ward 3, police misconduct is a huge problem, and it stinks.  I had not
> known until her post about the proposed Community Safety Act, nor about how
> Jackson's vote on the council might make possibly the difference in its
> passage.  Corruption, even outright theft of public funds, is a hugely
> important issue, but for me it does not automatically outweigh every other
> issue under every circumstance in a city such as Providence.  I would
> welcome further commentary on this from other Ward 3 residents.  --  Bob M
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Emlyn Addison <noisyblocks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> No one, least of all me, said anyone is obligated to fix every issue.
>>> Rather when people are involved in working really hard and doing a good
>>> thing, they may also want to think about and work to mitigate the potential
>>> direct consequences of those actions, unintended though they may be.
>>>
>>
>> No but that was the takeaway, evidently. I thought I had misread your
>> first message, but I really hope you're not suggesting that leaving Mr
>> Jackson in office would have been preferable because the outcome would be
>> more predictable for other issues? We're going to tolerate yet more
>> corruption and deceit because it *might* imperil another initiative? Sorry,
>> I don't follow.
>>
>> I don't believe anyone in the Recall Jackson effort launched into this
>> carelessly; I certainly didn't. But enough is enough; when do we send a
>> message to other would-be freeloaders that government jobs are not money
>> machines? We need to make an example. The time is now.
>>
>>
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Thank You,
Michael McGlynn
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