The Circus has Begun!

I'm a City of St. Helens employee. Am I afraid of retaliation? Absolutely! I've seen and heard things that turn my stomach upside down. I'm disgusted in the behaviors and personal agendas of several councilors. Not everything they've done is bad, don't get me wrong but I will say, LOUD AND CLEAR, that Morten and Barlow are not the upstanding citizens they have heralded themselves to be; Locke takes full advantage of his power in office, abusively; and Grant...well, his attendance and participation in City Council meetings and his activities as "commissioner" of the Library and Arts & Culture are sorely lacking to say the least.

St. Helens needs good sound leadership! A council that trusts its staff; a staff that has extensive experience and/or years of schooling to become the qualified administrators they are. If you were to research the background of Morten and Barlow, you will find no government experience, yet they voted themselves in as “commissioners”. You won’t even find that they served on a city board or committee.

You will hear Bill Eagle speak. You will hear other people who claim to know what’s happening. They DO NOT KNOW the details. Sally Gump and Kim Bauer have done their research. They have done extensive reading and listening. They have both seen the Council at work, especially Morten and Barlow.

If you care about your town, you will RECALL DOUG MORTEN AND PHIL BARLOW and you will NOT RE-ELECT KEITH LOCKE OR CHARLES GRANT! Randy Peterson has been a sound mind on the City Council for many years, as was Don Kallberg, Ron Youngberg, Jim Huff and many others before them. The City needs leaders that can lead not try to own the City.

City employees, business owners, and many leaders in this community are afraid to sign a recall petition for fear that retaliation may come in many forms. These same people who work very, very hard to make St. Helens a nice community to live in, fear that speaking up against Morten and Barlow will cause them to lose their job, lose their business or lose “something” by speaking out.

Isn’t it obvious what Morten and Barlow are like? They are suing Sally Gump for exercising her American right to recall elected officials. YES, THAT’S WHAT I SAID! SUING A CITIZEN FOR EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT TO RECALL!!! AND threatening to sue every person who supports it. It’s absolutely ludicrous. It’s just a circus with buffoons. And what a joke…they want to meet with Sally Gump and her “people” to mediate. Mediate what??? The facts are the facts. They don’t belong in office.