Louise Smith Abuses Office, Holds Salisbury Hostage

As promised, folks, Salisbury News is delivering what media like the Behind-the-Daily-Times just can’t – or won’t! Forgive me for the length? Without the background, you won’t FULLY understand how totally messed up Louise Smith is and how TOTALLY this woman is messing Salisbury up by ABUSING her office. You heard me, ABUSING HER OFFICE! Just my opinion, but I don’t know what else you would call what you are about to read and hear.

Louise Smith did, indeed, bring last night’s work session meeting crashing to an early end, something she has done before, and if you people want to know why NOTHING is getting done in this town, I’ll give you two words:

LOUISE SMITH.

What could have brought this on, you ask? Well, I’ll tell you, again in two words:

LOUISE’S EGO.

Or maybe it’s more, in which I’ll talk about in a moment. But first, let me run this down for you. The council was discussing new towing company legislation. Some of the towing operators not only gouged the pants off people during the emergency snow route tow away this winter (allegedly as high as $1,400!!!), but some of the tow owners had established several company names so they could get on the police rotation call list more times than they should.

Here’s how it works. The Salisbury Police call the tow company to come get your call if it’s illegally parked or there’s an accident. YOU don’t get to call the company of your choice. I know, that seems stupid and unfair. But I understand the police’s position on this. They want to clear things in a hurry to avoid safety situations and if the first company they call isn’t ready to be right there, boom, they call the next ones until they find one that can come RIGHT NOW. No waiting for YOUR man to show up when he gets around to it.

Mayor Ireton and Chief Barkley have been working to get the law rewritten to be fair to the towing companies playing by the rules and to protect people from these kind of rip offs. Some tow companies went to a work session a couple months ago and Queen Louise would not allow them to speak. They wrote to the council and Councilwoman Debbie Campbell responded by meeting with them to discuss their concerns. She then shared EVERYTHING from that meeting with the rest of the council and the mayor. Once again, people like Debbie Campbell (or in other situations Terry Cohen) do the heavy lifting while Louise sits back and “holds court” and Shanie Shields leans back and grunts into the microphone.

This work session, several tow companies were present and not only would Queen Louise not let them speak, she wouldn’t even let them raise their hands when Debbie asked to see by a show of hands how many in the audience were tow company people!!! Debbie was trying to make a point and Queen Louise would have NONE of it and RECESSED the meeting!

The council returns, Debbie tries to finish her sentence and Queen Louise RECESSES the meeting again! They come back, Terry Cohen tries to ask a question about the tow companies and Queen Louise threatens HER with another recess. Debbie Campbell starts to speak again and WHAM! Queen Louise ADJOURNS the meeting! So no discussion about the Humane Society, the Onley Road Intersection, the Stormwater Utility, the Housing Board, Retirees Insurance, nothing, nada, zip. The rest of the schedule, out the window.

I swear, listening to the audio, you’d think you were listening to a boxing match, only it’s not a good guy like Fernando Guerrero delivering the body blows!

In fact, take a little more than 5 minutes of your time to listen to this audio by clicking here. You’ll hear about 3 minutes of Queen Louise puffing her own importance up by saying not enough input came from the towing companies (that she wouldn’t let speak or raise their hands). She completely discounts ANY work done by Debbie Campbell because Louise Smith is NO TRUE LEADER who gladly gives credit where credit is due but tries to steal it all for herself.

Worst of all, you’ll hear Queen Louise wringing her hands for the towing operators’ income saying they’ll be cut off the list. No they won’t, Louise, only the ones double-dipping, triple-dipping, quadruple-dipping will be stopped from doing unfair practices at the straight up towing operators’ expense, not to mention the general public’s!!! You know, the people you TOOK AN OATH TO SERVE???

Is that what you’re afraid of Louise? Do you have friends that will be forced to play by the rules? We all know how you love to break rules, Louise. You show us every meeting. I think we need a new acronym, folks:

FOL – Friends of Louise.

By Smith’s own behavior, we all now know the landlords are FOLs. Maybe she’s got some other special interests to look after, too? Oh, and to answer the reader who asked about Ireton, yes, he was at the meeting and he called out Louise’s demand for even more involvement from the towing companies to be another “fox in the henhouse” because she was pretty much demanding they write the legislation!! I have to give Mayor Ireton an “atta boy” for calling that one out. He did say he would meet with the tow owners right then and there since so many were there, which was probably a smart move to try to keep something in this town moving forward. You can listen to the complete audio on Debbie and Terry’s website, but I’ve taken the time so you don’t have to.

Just in case you folks missed it, there was a second audio associated with this meeting, because Louise wanted to be sure you didn’t miss what she was doing.

Click here to hear another fine ending to another fine mess in the city of Salisbury, courtesy of her royal majesty, Queen Louise Smith.

Yes, Louise – YOU’VE BEEN BLOGGED (AGAIN!!!)