More RAID fisking...

I linked to the latest op/ed piece earlier, now time for me to have some fun.

They make it so easy, especially Mrs. Gillman. Just a few thoughts I'd like to pass along.

Interesting quote here:

I don't live near Diamond Street, but it certainly impacts my travel when I take Eastern to the Airway underpass!

Mrs. Gillman, you may not live on Diamond but you do live on Seneca. You are against an infrastructure improvement that would aid those that live on Diamond and YOU. If the Kingman Crossing interchange was built you wouldn't have to bother the fine folks on Diamond and you'd get to the Airway underpass in record time.

RAID (Residents Against Irresponsible Development) is not anti-growth! Let's get that straight! We are against irresponsible growth.

Please define irresponsible growth AND who made you and your group the arbiter of such?? Run for office if you are so knowing. How is adding a traffic interchange along the Interstate irresponsible?? Kingman needs more than just one interchange for its future growth pattern. The traffic study that is out and available from ADOT has a ton of useful information, you really need to check it out as it will benefit the entire community (I'm talking infrastructure improvements alone).

We are also not a "dangerous organization" as someone wrote in the newspaper recently!

Who wrote that in the newspaper?? I know I wrote that here on this blog and I was just wondering who used that in the paper?? Mrs. Gillman if you think that the 'dangerous' comment was bad, well then now you know how many people in Kingman think about your writing in the paper.

We have no expectations of grandeur - we don't plan to run for office - we just want what we "signed up for" when we packed up and moved here. We are not a special interest group!

You're not a special interest group you say, really?? I'm sorry you can't hear me laughing behind my computer screen. What did you exactly 'sign-up' for when you moved here?? There was no such documentation or agreements that I saw when I relocated.

Here is how our Association is defined as a special interest group by Mrs. Gillman...

The Kingman-Golden Valley Association of Realtors has publicly stated their entire group is for Kingman Crossing. However, I have heard from many local Realtors that the "Association" does not speak for all of the Realtors.

Is this the best you can do?? The Israeli's and the Palestinians will live peacefully before anyone can get 400 plus Members of a Realtor Association to agree on an issue. How 'many' is many Realtors anyway?? See because I've heard from 'many' retiree's that your group is a bunch of folks that live in big houses trying to protect Seneca from more traffic... how's that for propaganda??

So, if you citizens of Kingman think you should have a stronger voice in what is happening in our city, and you believe that the Kingman Crossing interchange should be put on the November ballot, please contact us at kingmanraid@yahoo.com.

More distortion from RAID. Their group wants to put an issue on the ballot that was decided already by the city council. The council agreed to amend the land use for the city property (that the city owns) along the south side of the Interstate. On the ballot there may also be a vote for allowing the city to sell the property. The final decision to build an interchange does not rest with the outcome of these votes like they want you to believe.

The special interest groups really don't want this put on the ballot, but we believe that everyone who lives in the city of Kingman should have the right to help make this decision.

I won't speak on behalf of the efforts at KGVAR on this, other than to say a little birdie told me that nobody will be finding KGVAR standing in the way of any election.