Monday, January 28, 2008

Article covering Mayoral Forum on Saturday night...

Plenty of good information included and I believe the article captures the event really well.

Here is the link.

Here are a couple of highlights...

From the applause, laughter and numerous times the crowd said "amen" after his statements, Nugent hit on some pertinent topics with his straight talk about cutting costs and eliminating development impact fees.

He said the problems in city hall started when a former reporter for the Miner "destroyed" the campaigns of Jim Baker and Monica Gates in 2006.

This marked the beginning of the negativity that has carried through the past two years, he said, and it's the reason the Council at the time didn't put off implementing impact fees, which have divided the community since their implementation.

And...

Naming Mayor Les Byram, Vice Mayor Dave French and Councilman Tom Carter, Nugent said he couldn't get the Kingman Crossing plans off their desks. In general, he said, they wouldn't make a move unless it was politically correct.

"Then you have the group going around, the Rancho Santa Fe group - Shorts, Schritter, Bruno - doing nothing but destroying anything that comes up in this community that doesn't fit their agenda," Nugent said.

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