DAILY TIMES DOES REMAKE OF LOUISE SMITH
In its article today about Louise Smith and her decision not to seek reelection, this statement appears: “She ran on a platform of lowering crime, encouraging smart growth and preserving neighborhoods.”
Apparently the writer did not bother to check the articles that ran during the 2007 election. Here’s an extract from a letter to the editor that we posted yesterday:
“According to a front page article in the Daily Times (March 9, 2007) shortly after the primary that reduced the field to 6 candidates – “Smith’s mantra is accountability. She said the city needs to be fiscally accountable and better prioritize where it spends its limited funds.” It also reported that “Smith emphasized the importance of working together on issues of affordable housing and parking” and that she was “adamantly against” the multi-million dollar TIF loan by the City to redevelop the Salisbury Mall site.
Her rhetoric made the right-wingers go ga-ga. This appeared on one such blog on the same day as the Daily Times article: “Now I know Louise a little bit because she’s one of my predecessors on the [Wicomico County Republican] Central Committee. Obviously she feels accountability is paramount, and with her background and experience I’ve no doubt she’d be quite an asset to City Council.” Shortly before the general election, Smith changed her position on the TIF deal, telling the Daily Times that she would not vote to stop it.
Boy were we fooled by Smith’s charade as a candidate and what was a brilliant campaign in which she concealed her support from developers and landlords and managed to appear closely aligned with Debbie Campbell and in support of the same positions that she held on many matters. Many voters thought that there was a ticket of sorts with Smith, Cohen and Tim Spies – and some who supported the other two worked and voted for Smith. That won’t happen again this year.”
And then we learned the truth, as discussed in that letter:
“Almost immediately upon taking office we learned the hard way just how badly Louweasel had duped us when she spearheaded the huge property tax and budget increase requested by Tilghman (and the Charter amendment that was necessary to pass those increases) and fell out with both Ms. Campbell and Ms. Cohen to form a clique with Comegys and Shields, commonly called the “3 stooges”, who danced to Barrie’s tune until the 2009 election. Since then she has been at odds with Ireton as well as Campbell and Cohen, and the 3 stooges have been a thorn in their sides.”
Read the entire letter here: http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2011/01/letter-to-editor_14.htm
10 comments:
Of course Louise has perfect attendance. She convenes and cancels meetings at HER convenience, including the regularly scheduled meeting cancelled to accomodate her "speaking engagement" don't you know. She also makes sure that she has the majority present that SHE wants.
Ah, the creation of Louweasel's "legacy" has begun. Let's see how great she becomes in the eyes of the Daily Crimes.
The Daily Times gets rid of writers once they make any cash whatsoever and then replace them with the dumb, deaf and blind who are willing to get paid peanuts. It really is sad that our local paper is this bad. Even if the writer who penned this article was a newbie, an editor at the Daily Times should have caught this before the publication of it.
What tripe this was, all concocted by Louise herself and not vetted by the article's author. I hope that she goes after the truth and the history a little harder very soon.
This blog SBYNEWS is as close as we can come to what was at one time an "underground newspaper" Though I don't always agree with what is written it is closer to real news than what the Daily Times has been.
WEASLE GO AWAY AND RADIANT IT YOUR POOL OF LIES AND POISON
No loss on anyones account since she had not done her job but still gets paid.
Of course she's not running. She has been on a cty spending binge for four years along with Comegys and Shields. She has started to talk about a tax increase this year. She will have caused it. Of course she doesn't want to be in office to be held accountable...little miss accountability and government in the sunshine. She has accepted the Linens of the Week property and will leave others to try t figure out to pay for what she has saddled Salisbury with...same for the fire boat, the bricks and much more.
Joe personally should take credit for getting rid of Louweasel and Comegy's.
Awww....Bubba won't run again!
Comegys won't run again
Still undergoing chemo, council VP looks toward new role in community
I wish Gary Comegys well, but he and Tilghman, and Cathcart, and Dunn, and Gordy, and probably a couple of others I've missed, should retire to Florida or someplace and let the rest of us have a chance to manage our city in a way that could make it a Top 100 small city in every sense of the word foor those of us who live and work here and want to stay and commit to improvement. They have put us in enough debt, denied the presence of gangs and decimated our police department, left us with a multi-million dollar WWTP that doesn't work. Give us time to heal from your policical mean spiritedness and spending mistakes and just leave Salisbury alone, please. Go off and live happy lives and let us do the same.
There is no remake for louise Smith, she is what she is and let's just say she is not what she told the voters she was! And with that said "good bye Louise".
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