Souza: Get Out Vote — No Matter How It Smells

I’m afraid our City Council has now entered phase 3 of the old adage — they think they know better than the taxpayers. Here’s just a sampling of how Coeur d’Alene’s City Council has recently avoided the voters:
• They overspent $12-18 million beyond the established city budget for this year. The overspending was to grab “opportunities.” No vote of the people.
• $4.5 million went for the privately owned Kroc Center that will cost the average family about $700 per year to join. No vote of the public was taken.
• They allowed $3 million for a park and pond in Riverstone. The park is hard to find, but a great benefit to the upscale, tax-subsidized private development that envelopes the park. No vote of the public/Mary Souza, Coeur d’Alene Press.

Full column here

DFO: How many columns in a row has Contrary Mary used the word “stinking”? If she’s gonna use celluloid cliches, she should at least spell it phonetically, like “steenkeen” — as in “Mary has written another steekeen column that distorts the facts. But who’s keeping score at home?