SandBoxBlogs: Aspen Daily News "City looks to the web for feedback"

AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!


(Cue sounds of rioting in the streets, chaos and mayhem everywhere...sobbing women and children....outraged husbands and fathers....)


Again:


Anonymity is a personal choice.

'Tito the Carpenter' and 'John and  Jane Doe' do not want recognition for their ideas and tips to officials and authorities. It's not safe to have recognition. 

It's not feasible in the world of 24/7 publications and media that buys ink by the barrel that are hell-bent on public exposure of anyone they can exploit in a heartbeat. 

They have lives, loved ones, jobs and personal needs that they are protecting. 

They also are voters who 'hire' those officials and authorities with their votes and pay their salaries with their taxes.  Frankly....they are so damn sick and tired of the mess so many of those officials and authorities make of the system, rules, laws and financial resources we have...they have to find a way to speak up.

If they do not, all is lost.  'Paradise' really will be doomed.

If they wanted to be a city councilman, they would be.  If they wanted to work for government, they would.  If they feel they can trust a cop they will go to that cop.  If they don't, then they will not.

Why is it that the simplicity of the 'anonymity concept' is so deliberately ignored in this valley?  Nobody in their right mind goes out and willingly paints a bullseye in center of forehead and opens themselves up to 'Conversations with Mick'.  Not in an environment where power out of control paints those bullseyes at will.

The common folks out here are right.  This isn't about the information or idea itself.  This is about wanting to know who these people out here are.  That is really what every city and county agency in this valley wants.  Is to know who you are before they will act on the public behalf.

What a sad, sad state of affairs that people cannot even give away their information to officials and authorities to use for public good because those same officials and authorities are the ones that have so violated public trust they have an entire sub-culture out here that lives in the shadows.  It really is not worth it in any way to sign up, give DNA and contact information simply so the little guys can show Mick, Rachel, Michael, Mitzi, Joe and Richard where everything from building code problems to tourism problems to crime lie within their own communities.  Here's a news flash:  The folks are giving you information that is great info and you can use that to glorify yourself in your political careers.  The folks want you to have all the credit for the tips or idea.  Run with it!  Knock yourselves out!  If the people wish to join you...they will become a community leader or politician.

Good luck with this new tell-all system, City of Aspen.  Chances are it will be as successful as the Aspen Times  forcing sign up to login, password, ability to post on walls app that "allows" public comments.

See related story here.


To read up on the brilliant new idea the City of Aspen has to 'encourage' citizens to come forward and speak up; click title.


BTW, here's a very interesting tidbit hidden deep by ACRA in this same news story off the Daily:


"It was also announced that Donnie Lee, general manager of The Gant condominium hotel, will succeed Warren Klug as chairman of the ACRA board. Klug, general manager of the Aspen Square condominium hotel, is stepping down after three years at the helm of the ACRA board...."

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent "Glenwood Springs urges denial of Thompson unitization"

What say you?

Are you weary of Glenwood Springs City Councilman Leo McKinney's claims that he and fellow council members are  'the voice of the people of Glenwood Springs' ?  Especially when it comes to all of his political manifestos such as MMJ, the response to Katrina, CIRC and the "Strawberry Days Massacre", illegal immigration, plastic bags and water bottles and just about every national political hot topic that comes down the pike?

The great news is that he's up for re-elect next year and you can remove him from office.

Gamba and GarCo BOCC are right.  Traffic is a non-issue.

The only thing more denigrating to the people of GarCo than the fear-mongering that Thompson Divide Coalition is whipping into a witch burning frenzy aimed at the gas and oil drilling industry are the politicians who condone that kind of political statement and do so under the false banner of being the voice of the people.

Here's an 'anonymous' tip for you, Leo. 

Go online and google up the instructions on how to set-up mass email.  Then solicit 'the voices of Glenwood Springs' for anyone interested in giving you an email address that they are willing to communicate with you from.

Then.....instead of stealth confiscating their voices....just simply ask them for their opinion.

It's a new and brave world out here.    

Come to think of it, how tough would it be for all councilman and commissioners to do same?

Just say NO to the Thompson Divide Coalition and say YES to environmentally conscious EnCana, SG Interests and Antero.

John Stroud:
"...Council was split on the wording, but ultimately voted 4-3 to forward the letter as written by Councilman Leo McKinney.

“I believe it is one of our responsibilities as elected officials to be the voice of the people in our community in places where they don't have a voice,” McKinney said...."  (Read more?  Click title)

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."