| Orange County, CA | November 4, 2008 Election |
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Open GovernmentBy Jim GardnerCandidate for Council Member; City of Lake Forest |
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A city council should be open to the peopleOur city council has been there so long they think they rule the city. They almost never listen to what the people are saying. Rather, they listen to their own internal voice. While it's certainly necessary for a leader to pay attention to their own voice, the job of a city council member is to represent the people, not to rule over them. For example, at a city council meeting in September 2008, two of our members asked that the words "In God We trust" be added to the city signage. The others refused. Then began a debate about how the individual council members felt. But this is not the point. They should be asking "What do the people want?" Our city has no TV coverage of council meetings. They have no webcasts. They destroy copies of the audio tapes after 90- days. Etc. I am for open government. I want people involved and I will televise our meetings and put them on the web. Our city has a website and they've never used it to conduct an opinion poll. Yet every month there are issues of concern to the city for which people's opinions would be invaluable. Instead, the city doesn't seek their opinion, but simply votes their own desires. |
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