Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:50:46 EST
From: Ed Williams
Subject: Lucier’s shameful failure to keep his promise
Commissioner Luciers’s comrades are leaping to his defense (Chatlist 3354) for his last-minute ducking, weaseling, or chickening out of a forum organized to discuss actions taken by Lucier and other commissioners, plus other matters of interest to the county. Their “reasons” are even sillier than the cobbled-up excuses he gave for breaking his promise to talk to a group of the people that he works for.
Gary Phillips says Lucier didn’t want to get “clobbered by an angry mob”. He further spews about “lynching meetings manipulated by outside hate groups”. (I suppose any group that disagrees with his far-left ideology is a “hate group”.) He acccuses the Citizen Forum of “racism”, presumably because most of us oppose illegal immigration.
Meg Miller says the Citizen Forum “sounds like a clan meeting to me”, and has a “paranoid racist agenda”. Who is paranoid here? She sounds not just paranoid but paranormal. (By the way, Ms. Miller, if you decide to leave the BB, and hopefully the Chatlist too, I would say “vaya con dios”)
I attended the Forum, and – as we all expected – it was a very civil discussion of the Commissioners’ ICE -287(g) resolution, illegal immigration, immigration in general and other matters. The language was moderate (nobody even called Lucier a weasel or chicken). I would estimate the attendance at about 80 – 100. The moderator asked all who lived in Chatham to raise their hands. Almost every hand in the room went up. It was clear to me from the discussion that most of us oppose illegal immigration but not legal immigration.
Lucier has done his long-term reputation some serious damage by his failure to keep his commitment. What other commitments will he fail to keep for nonsensical
reasons?
Ed Williams