My agenda is not to defame the mayor and City Council. I believe they do a fine job of it on their own. Their actions or inactions speak louder than opinion letters in the Kent Reporter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Finally, a Kent citizen (Ms. St. Louis) has defended the mayor and City Council’s agendas and took the time to submit a letter to the Reporter. I was beginning to think the mayor and City Council supporters had left Kent?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Since when is questioning our politician’s actions or inactions considered defamation?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Since when are politicians immune from constructive criticism no matter how uncomfortable it may seem?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Since when is censorship a good thing?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
My questions and concerns on the salary and compensation program are still unanswered and they probably will not be addressed by the current regime. It is rather disturbing how quickly the initiative was approved and implemented.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It would be interesting to conduct a job approval poll for the mayor and City Council, my “guesstimate”, their approval numbers would be way south of 50 percent and not very pretty.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
With that being said, thank you Ms. St. Louis for sharing your views on my so-called diatribe of hate. I appreciate the fact that you took the time to write and take a stand.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In addition, you are one of the very few individuals of Kent (that I am aware of), who is actually OK with the salary increase that was hastily ramrodded through the system in the interest of recruiting and retaining top talent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Another Kent oxymoron?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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