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jdelphiki wrote on 2/26/2010 9:04 pm

You can call me whatever you want. I'm not Dave, but as much as it seems to fill your fantasy, if you have to imagine me as someone else, I guess you have to. Sorry I can't be who you want, but hey, if it makes you feel good...

As far as the post being deleted, though, you'll have to ask the proprietors here. It's their website and if you end up making insinuations that I'm actually an elected official in Gardner when I'm not (and have repeatedly told you so when you try to goad me with it), Avis or Peter may decide that your inaccuracy, however much it helps your fantasy, is inappropriate and delete your post.

Is that clear enough?

To: jdelphiki wrote on 2/26/2010 8:34 pm

Why o Why?

Diana wrote on 2/26/2010 7:27 pm

It was disappointing as I drove through town that there wasn't a bigger turn out for the rally. I was hoping for more support.

jdelphiki wrote on 2/26/2010 2:03 pm

Because you say so, Judith?

We've all seen the depths your integrity and propaganda plumb.

jdelphiki wrote on 2/26/2010 11:42 am

Certainly, Linda Meisinger is free to spend $24,000 of her own money to make sure that the five candidates she ran in the last election could get elected. No personal gain in that, nope.

I find it pathetic that the very same people who complain about big money being used to influence Gardner politics somehow defend Linda buying two Council seats. Raise your hand if you think that Take Back Gardner would have fared nearly as well if the five candidates had each spent $1000 (the money raised by them NOT provided by Meisinger) in the last election? Anyone?

So now we see the hypocrisy come out in full bloom. It's only okay for someone to invest in an election as long as you AGREE with their politics.

And since you bring up the whole "trucking industry employees", I challenge you to come up with the figures showing a direct, to-the-pocketbook benefit for any of these "trucking industry employees". Think you have it? Good!

Now I challenge you to prove that whatever tenuous, connect-the-dots relationship between the Intermodal and these "employees" somehow affects them more than trying to block the Intermodal would help Linda Meisinger's Main Street Dolphin Song shop. Seems like she might see that trucks driving through downtown as affecting her business more than some perceived trickle-down raise that might happen to the "trucking company employees".

But let's just say that you're right and Meisinger isn't just in it for the benefit of her shop. Then why did she try to buy the election?

It certainly wasn't for the 72% of the voters who voted FOR annexation. It certainly wasn't for the taxpayers and all that tax revenue that's going to end up filling Edgerton's city coffers. Was it for the health of a city that she doesn't live in and can't vote in?

Or was it that she's simply trying to inflict her activism onto our town, spending outrageously so that she can do as the anti-Intermodals threatened in 2006 - take over the City Council?

We STILL have yet to hear directly from Shepherd and Peters as to who's paying for their numerous, ill-fated lawsuits against the recall. Clearly, it's well-funded, to be able to cointinue to file appeals, even after the election is going on, even though the odds of their winning were ridiculously slim, given the grounds on which they chose to sue.

Someone out here said that Shepherd and Peters are paying for it all themselves, along with all the signs and mailers.

Clearly, since I'm not a lawyer, I know of no real legal requirement for them to tell us where they're getting the money to sue and sue again and to run their "don't recall us" campaign.

But as a citizen, and as someone who has seen the repeated claims that other Council members have been bought or influenced by outside money, I would think that Shepherd, Peters, AND Meisinger would want to make their finances clear...if for no other reason than to remove the very real perception that Meisinger's money continues to support and influence Gardner politics.

Is THAT too much to ask in a city where such claims of financial influence are tossed around so easily?

As a citizen of Gardner, it IS our business.

Hey J. wrote on 2/26/2010 11:13 am

JDEL, so what exactly is it you think L. Meisingg is getting for her purchase. Drovetta's handlers at least get the key to the city vault with their purchase. What non-transparent well funded legal action that they were forced to take are you refering to? The one that they are paying for and don't need to inform anyone, especially you. It's none of your business JDEL.

jdelphiki wrote on 2/26/2010 10:08 am

Ah. I get it, Judith.

You have selective vision. You can perfectly ignore the misrepresentations of fact that John Shepherd made in his soapbox columns published in Gardner News, but let Steve Hale try to defend himself, and all the sudden HE'S the underhanded one?

Since you brought up how badly you say people operate here in town, what do you have to say about whichever Council member it is that appears to be leaking information to Gardner News?

Is THAT underhanded?

Or how about Shepherd, Peters, Thompson, and Take Back Gardner secretly planning to rewrite Gardner government to give themselves powers that they couldn't win outright in election?

Underhanded enough for you?

Then let's ponder the cash Linda Meisinger spent -- at $24K, 80% of the entire Take Back Gardner campaign budget -- in order for her flood of candidates to take over enough seats of the city government so she could get her way in town.

Or the apparently well-funded, but non-transparent efforts in blocking a legal election while voters are already voting.

Is even THAT underhanded enough for you?

We won't even talk about the local newspaper whose reporter seems to keep writing campaign copy for the same folks that her dad hangs with on the Council (and in the elections). And we won't talk about the supporters, like yourself, who go as far to even attack people's religions, just because you don't like them.

No, Judith, we understand the kind of city YOU want Gardner to be. You demonstrate it every day with your behavior, and every step you take toward "punishing" the people you decide you don't like, makes that city into the very thing you claim to despise.

One can only surmise that you really WANT Gardner to turn into the cess pool that you keep actively trying to make it into. I'm just glad that you don't have any more help than you appear to.

Why would someone want to lower wrote on 2/26/2010 9:14 am

themselves to the level under which you operate? I may have to suffer a wrong but I refuse to be a part of the wrong. Mr. Hale in his recent e-mail to John Shepherd clearly shows how he and Drovetta operate along with their Beasley lynch mob - don't ever expect a decent person to buy into that. Again, the stench from City Hall gets stronger every day and it comes from what is inside of it and the lack of sustainable moral values.

jdelphiki wrote on 2/26/2010 7:46 am

Then why spend all that effort trying to run down everyone and everything in town?

You won't buy anything from Gardner businesses, you despise most of the people who have been involved in Gardner government, you insult Gardner citizens and go out of your way to try to ruin their lives by posting as much humiliating dirt as you can find on them.

If you're unable to move out of town, how is that making Gardner a better place for you to live in? More to the point, what have you done that actually helps Gardner be a better place to live?

You've told us all before that you're unable to move anywhere else, but it's baffling the amount of time and energy you spend looking at the negative or creating even MORE negative than that which you see.

Instead of trying to tear apart Gardner, why not use your passion and energy to build it up? To make the best of the cards that you're forced to play by not being able to move somewhere else? Wouldn't that make more sense?

If I had the money to leave, I would be wrote on 2/26/2010 7:27 am

out of here faster than lightning. These past years have shown what a lowlife, scummy place Gardner is and certainly will not be getting better.

Chuck Norris wrote on 2/25/2010 8:14 pm

Youtube or not, Internet threats will not keep me or my family at home tomorrow. They won't keep me out of the polls on Tuesday either. The TBG clowns are getting kicked to the curb in spite of of the threats and intimidation tactics carried out by the PeterHuggers. The fact that they are so nasty makes it clear why they should be shown the door.

Ryan Beasley wrote on 2/25/2010 7:10 pm

John and Mary have a very loyal following in this town. I don't think we should get our hopes up with this win. We need to get the people out to vote. Spread the word!

KL wrote on 2/25/2010 6:24 pm

Way to go recall committee! Lets not let them dowwn Garner, get out adn vote Yes to recall John Shepherd, Vote yes to recall Mary Peters. VOTE YES ON MAR 2!!!!!

Yeah, I want a clear picture wrote on 2/25/2010 6:18 pm

of the lowlifes involved and to see who the Drovetta/Hale huggers are.

Checkbook wrote on 2/25/2010 5:08 pm

Didn't you already post this story about a month ago?