HomeMy WebLinkAboutREDcooperph1RECEIVE DDEC 17 2010SLO CITY CLER KFrom:Allan Coope rSent:Friday, December 17, 2010 9 :53 A MTo:Ashbaugh, John ; Carter, Andrew ; Marx, Ja nSubject:Dan Carpente rDecember 17, 201 0Honorable Mayor and Council Members :Ideally your role as Council members will be to make substantive decisions for the betterment of the community ove rthe next two to four years . But in politics, "appearances" are everything . Don't let one of your first votes as a Counci lappear to be an act of "cronyism". Without speaking to the qualifications of either candidate, both Andrea Miller an dPaul Brown testified during a recent public hearing in favor of selecting Dan Carpenter simply because this was th e
"right thing to do". Dave Congalton spoke for 15 minutes on a recent radio broadcast favoring selecting Da n
Carpenter. And numerous letters to the editor of the Tribune have recommended Dan Carpenter to fill the vacan t
Council seat. The only letter indirectly in support of Patty Andreen which has been published over the past severa l
weeks was submitted by Patty Andreen . I say "indirectly", because Patty's letter primarily addressed support for th e
appointment process . She did not explicitly support her own candidacy . But contrary to Patty's suggestion that Da n
Carpenter was the "loser' in this past election, Dan Carpenter is clearly the "runner-up". And, in the worst cas e
scenario, your decision to appoint someone other than Dan Carpenter could result in a voter referendum that the Cit y
can ill afford .
Allan Cooper, Chair, Save Our Downtow n
San Luis Obispo, CA 9340 1
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