Barbara Van Auken sent out campaign lit stating her predecessor should be tossed from office because of her Station 11 vote. The campaign piece claimed that Station 11 was vital to public safety and Marcella had endangered the Second District by voting to take crucial equipment out of service. Now that Barbara has the seat, there are other priorities. Like preserving the stupid flower baskets dripping from light posts on Main Street. (Talk about putting lipstick on a pig.)
Bob Manning and Bill Spears merely said the Fire Chief should have been allowed to make the decision as to where Fire Department budget cuts should be made, not the Council. It's disappointing that the new guys won't bring back Station 11 to full capacity, but we can't say they out and out lied.
Van Auken is a disappointment. I know people who worked hard on her campaign who say she doesn't give them the time of day now. Added to my Station 11 annoyance is Van Auken's reversal on buying the water company and her condescending speeches. I'm thinking I'm not the only one experiencing voter's remorse.
I want to like Van Auken, I do. However, knowing that Station 11 was a primary reason for her election and also why Firefighters turned out en mass to work on her campaign, I'm beginning to feel Van Auken is just another political hack who uses people. Imagine Marcella Teplitz turning liberal and chain smoking. You'd have Van Auken. Someone who picks her favorites and ignores the rest, thinking she's fooling people.
I know Bill Dennis will rip me a new one for saying this, but I'm already sick of her. Time for a recall.
If your mind is too open, your brain will fall out. Warning: Names, identities, descriptions, and pictures have been changed and/or used to protect the innocent as well as the guilty. PollyPeoria should not be used or quoted as a source for your senior college thesis.
Friday, October 14
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16 comments:
Thank you! You said it! I feel like a dope for voting for her. I feel like an ass because I distributed her campaign B.S. Hag. Total hag.
Disappointed doesnt cover it. SHe needs to go. Drunk, chain smoking, HAG.
A little harsh Polly. Not ready to recall but Im worried. Its a way too early to go back on campaign promises.
She didnt fool anyone. 2nd Dist knew what they were buying. Lesser of 2 evils.
Unfortunately, Illinois does not have recall.
No wonder so many Illinois politicians suck.
This is exactly the kind of stuff I was worried about. I try to be as transparent as possible on my blog, and I'll do the same here. Barbara is a friend of mine, an advisor who helped me through a very difficult situation. So she wold have to be personally manning the construction equipment tearing down Woodruff High School to make room for a taxpayer financed raquetball court for the exclusive use of members of the Peoria Civic Federation for me to turn on her.
But trust me on this: If there was a shot of getting back Fire Station 11 this year, she would be fighting for it. She has just shy of 3 1/2 years to go before the next election. I've got a feeling that full funding is going to come up next year (possibly not) or the year after that.
And there's a big difference between not seeing it in the budget now and what Teplitz did, which was present a lousy compromise than vote to close it out of spite because the didn't get her way.
And I was never under the impressive that there was a promise to get it back in the budget right away.
And she always returns my calls.
I want ONE person who isn't getting a return call from her to state their name. Have the balls to go on the record.
"And I was never under the impressive that there was a promise to get it back in the budget right away."
I was. Thats why I campaigned for her. Was told thats why she was running. Right away? Shes had six months to figure something out. Manning had a plan to buy a $300 million water company. I expect Barb to put up at least as big a fuss and fight as she did for the dumb flower baskets on Main Street.
Love is blind and youre a loyal guy Bill. Wish we could say the same about Granny Vanny.
"I expect Barb to put up at least as big a fuss and fight as she did for the dumb flower baskets on Main Street."
Are you smoking something? She was accused of KILLING the flower program by the JS, not you are accusing her of making too much of a fuss (relatively speaking) over it.
The debate hasn't even started. All Barb's doen is acknowledge there aren't enough dunds to bring it back. She's not arguing now that it was right to CLOSE it, just that it might have to wait a year or two. Essentially, she's saying there probably aren't six votes to bring it back.
Listen folks, I'm going to agitate for the Fire Station. I'm just not going to lob hand grenades at decent council members, unlike anonymous critics.
And why is it when I speak up for Barb I am accused of being in love with her? I speak up for Chase Ingersoll (pain in the butt though he is at times) or Gary Sandberg and no one accuses me of having romantic intentions toward them.
It's sexist drivel.
Feh.
"I speak up for Chase Ingersoll (pain in the butt though he is at times) or Gary Sandberg and no one accuses me of having romantic intentions toward them."
Hmmm...this could answer so many questions. So is the eye candy a subtle subterfuge?
George just said you love her, not that you're IN love with her. Chill, Bill. Unless, Thouest protest too much?
Sorry, but you are not nearly young, thin, or blonde enough for Sandberg.
Chase? Ew! Can't even go there.
VanAuken is a fraud. Fake smile, fake hugs, fake-o all around. User is right.
Whaddya mean there's no recall in Illinois?! Explains a lot, actually.
Would one of you fire station proponents please explain to me how you think a fire station improves your quality of life in Peoria?
I'll not doubt that the nature of the city is to provide some level of public safety, but where do you draw the line -- a station on every block? Behind every house? There have to be affordability limits dialed into this. Much of the surrounding area survives on volunteers...
As for vanAuken, I was no big fan of Marcella's but could see this coming. Always beware the candidates who emerge after difficult political decisions -- all campaign and no governing... VanAuken is going to have to do more than show up at neighborhood picnics and wheeze into the microphone on Tuesday nights to prove anything to me. Let's see her DO something, not just blab.
Now, see, arguing in extremes SO annoys me. No one is whining for a "Fire Station on EVERY corner." You don't hear pro-Station 11 folks saying, "You want us to use our garden hoses to put out five alarm fires and perform CPR on ourselves." What we are asking is to MAINTAIN the number of Fire Stations and equipment mandated for safety reasons. Every consultant the City has hired, the last being the Matrix plan, has said older parts of town lack enough fire fighting equipment/personelle. I don't know what you consider "quality of life" - flower baskets on Main Street perhaps? I think having a fire truck show up before a burnt piece of toast turns into a family of five dead due to smoke inhalation qualifies. That's just me.
I do like the "wheeze into the microphone" statement though.
Poll, thanks for the rebuttal. Your proposal for "MAINTAINING" the number would be good if these spineless councilfolk would slow down the mindless greenspace expansion of our fair burg. The expansion northward (to your new domain?!)) sucks resources -- roads, cops, firemen, sewers, etc. -- all to a part of town that KILLS Dist 150. It's plain bad government. When will they realize??!?!?
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