Monday, September 22, 2008

How do you answer this kind of stuff?

From a recent letter to the editor in the Chronicle:
"These two people [Barlow & Morten] on the city council are up for reelection in November. Why in God's name are you trying to impeach them now? Who talked you into this? Why, and what was their motive to have you do it? Why did you not ask and get your own people to run against them in November?"
I get weary of reading the comments I consider ignorant. Not nasty, just ignorant. In the same letter as this quote is taken from, the perpetrators of the recall are encouraged to do their homework and, when they realize their mistakes, be big about it and admit they were wrong. People like this writer irritate me--I want to tell them they need to take their own advice!

Since I refuse to write a letter to the editor to refute or answer each and every misstatement made during this recall (and believe me, there are plenty), I'm going to use this forum to comment that Barlow and Morten are NOT up for reelection in November. That is exactly why we're trying to recall, NOT impeach them. We don't want to wait two more years until they do come up for election. No one talked me into this, and I'm fairly sure no one talked Sally into it, and thus there is no hidden motive.

The last sentence boggles my mind, "Why did you not ask and get your own people to run against them in November."

Sheesh, where to start with people like this?

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