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Kudos to Paul Menter on this piece off the Aspen Daily today.
"I’ve disappointed Jack Johnson. I’m so distraught. In his Jan. 27 Aspen Daily News column Jack seeks understanding for why as city finance director I did not warn the council prior to my departure in December 2007 about decisions they made between 2008 and today.
The right question to ask is 20 years from today, when valley residents are living with a desiccated Castle Creek, its ecology slowly deprived of the water it needs by a poorly planned and overpriced hydroelectric plant, will anyone care what Jack and I wrote about each other?
My guess is no.
Jack’s implication that as finance director I misrepresented facts about the Castle Creek Energy Center (CCEC), and now choose to use that information against the city is, to use Jack’s own word, sophistry; or to use mine, deceitful nonsense. Remember, Jack was the elected council member who tried to deprive his constituents of property and voting rights through the “Ordinance 30” and “Instant Runoff Voting” debacles, memorialized by his now infamous declaration to IRV detractors: “First we vote, and then we shut up.” The pot is clearly calling the kettle black.
So let us return to the important issue — the environmental impact of the CCEC, and the city’s attempt to bypass comprehensive environmental review, putting at risk local ecology in order to take credit for a symbolic statement against global warming...." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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