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October 30, 2011 in Opinion, Letters
Trashed by Hession
In response to the Oct. 11 letter (“Hession listens to citizens”), where were you, Kay Cobb, when Corbin Park and the surrounding neighborhoods in Spokane were taken for granted when our alley garbage service was removed without public input in 2007.
What happened to the caring and listening attributes of Dennis Hession, who was mayor at the time and orchestrated the dilemma with disregard to the voices of its victims and the council members who stood by its members?
Do you actually believe we want the same man who is known to make wrong decisions, disrupt innocent lives and disturb our peace of mind? We want fairness, absolute honesty with complete transparency to honor the people first.
Four years is a long time to be in the hands of unprotected serenity with the chance of knowing there is a choice. Why take another risk?
Let us move in the direction to better our lot, instead of being in stupor with a familiar character. We need change. Vote for Ben Stuckart.
Scott Bershaw
Spokane
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Dazzeetrader11 on October 30 at 12:33 a.m.
Lil Scotty says..”Four years is a long time to be in the hands of unprotected serenity with the chance of knowing there is a choice. Why take another risk?”
You leave a bit desired in clarity. “unprotected serenity”? huh?
1.Drugs cannot account for this letter! Hession is anything BUT unclear. The garbage pickup in Corbin issue was the work of two verner supporters who cried like sissys when nobody else cared about the front or back alley pickup. It’s not an issue…then or now. How silly can it be when front or back trash pickup winds up being a “BIG” issue. It wasn’t then and not now. If this is a big issue, you’d have to search for little ones.
Having to take the garbage 50 ft to the alley or the street is hardly a big deal. He listen, bout bigger trucks and explained it to the neighbors. Most got thepicture. A few didn’t.
2.SO how is hiring a complete unknown with NOT ONE DAY of legislative experience a good choice?? Only in the mind of the goofiest liberal could this happen. Buck up Scott…take your garbage to where your supposed to like 4 years ago. Although. you could ask Verner to spend $5 million on new GREEN garbage trucks…like she did already. There there…happy now? Ben , being a green liberal who hasn’t had a job that might be close to prepare him for the job he wants…would likely buy a fleet of these fat burners.
Hession is the only choice of a sane group of voters.
Vote for Hession. You know it’s the right choice.
jake on October 30 at 7:50 a.m.
Well, it certainly wasn’t just two discontented neighbors who objected to Mr. Hession’s dictatorial attitude, it was several dozen.
So, a 70 year old person, having to push a loaded trash bin one to two hundred feet through the snow is a whiner? And I suppose those who value indoor plumbing are just environmental freaks.
Your logic stinks as bad as Hession’s trash decision.
Ben Stuckart is a reasonable man who will make considered choices as Council President, choices that are not tied to Spokane’s good-ol-boy mob thinking. Vote for Ben.
spokwondo on October 30 at 10:32 a.m.
Jake, the City will come to your house and take your garbage out for you if, for whatever reason, you cannot do it youself, just like they already do for many citizens throughout the City. That argument is a red herring.
The bottom line is that this decision was the right decision, and would have saved the City millions (think we could have used those extra millions in this current budgetary crisis?). And Dazzee is correct - a handful of abnoxious people with a serious sense of entitlement and a major political agenda made this non-issue into a political one, just like they are trying to do now.
misjustice on October 30 at 11:58 a.m.
I dunno…the author of this LTE equates alley garbage pick-up with peace of mind? And those put upon to put their garbage bin out on the street as victims?
A little melodramatic, don’t ya think?
Dazzeetrader11 on October 30 at 12:27 p.m.
Yes J it is! It’s a crazy confusing logic format…and yet…Jake makes up a story on a 79 yr old man might have to move his garbage 200 feet? Whatta laugher. Those lots at 150 feet deep in the Corbin Park area. Jake a liar and a mutant. 75 ft to the alley or to the street……..at most.
As the response above shows, if someone is impaired (unusual), all they need to do is call and the City worker will come get the cans.
This Hession garbage pickup story was nothing then and it’s nothing now. Verner made it a big deal so she could win 4 years ago. She lies and distorts as does Jake. Hession will listen. The guy who should be blamed for some the bad relations was John Pilcher who worked back then…he was an insufferable elitist with a huge level of self importance. Hession is fine.
He’ll do a good job.
Lulubelle on October 30 at 12:58 p.m.
Garbage controversy, Bernard St trees, Otto Zehm, MAC leadership questions……..the list goes on.
The bottom line is Dennis Hession isn’t interested in listening to much less taking into consideration what the Spokane residents, who pay his salary, have to say. He’s a “my way or the highway” kinda guy. We can’t afford another fours years of his brand of “leadership”.
Stuckart has the proven ability to listen, collaborate and get things done. I’m confident he’ll make a fine Council President and look forward to his election to office.
spokwondo on October 30 at 2:23 p.m.
Good grief. There was no garbage controversy - just a bunch of whiners with an agenda. The Bernard Street improvements have made the neighborhood sparkle. These are the kinds of issues that make outsiders look at those of us who live in Spokane like we’re crazy. Hession’s integrity and willingness to stand up for what is right and not cave to threats and political pressure are a part of what make him so good as an elected official and leader for this city.
Stuckart, on the other hand, has proven that he does not listen. Case in point - he still supported the water rate increase and $20 vehicle tab tax after claiming to have talked to thousands who were struggling to pay their bills. I guess he has to find some way to pay for all of the consessions he wiould need to make to the city unions who have bankrolled his campaign.
misjustice on October 30 at 2:28 p.m.
“The guy who should be blamed for some the bad relations was John Pilcher …”
I met that over bearing jerk once, years before he was in City Gubmint, which was enough for me. He wears tacky suits, too!
Blondscence on October 30 at 5:44 p.m.
Lulu…”Stuckart has the proven ability to listen, collaborate and get things done.”….oh? Like what?
Lulu just another left wing HACK. Nothing but fabricated far left “win at any cost” type stories from Lulu. How does it feel to be a tool for something that isn’t true Lulu?
VOTE HESSION!
Lulubelle on October 30 at 6:35 p.m.
Wondo must have missed the Spin Control article “Spokane water bill shocker: most paid less this summer” http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/spincontrol/2011/oct/27/water-bill-shocker-majority-city-customers-paid-less-water-summer-under-new-rates/
$20 tab fee?? …… how does Hession proposed to pay to fill those potholes that all good Spokanites have made a career out of bitching about?
All Hession’s got is are old ideas that failed to advance Spokane during his first try at elected/appointed office.
A tool?????….oh blondie, you’re breakin’ my heart! Boo-hoo….Nobody loves me, everybody hates me. Think I’ll go and eat worms.
Dazzeetrader11 on October 31 at 7:15 p.m.
lolol Lulu…go ahead! Protein’s good for the obese!