Hell no! Bill Lover, Rick Ensey, Micah Cawley and Kathy Coffey should all pay $625 each for their roles in their behind the scenes caper. And if Bruce Smith had a smidgen of honesty, he’d offer to chip in and make it $500 each for the funky five.
In one of Smith’s recent editorials he laments the fact that they didn’t follow through and have a court decide. I, too, wish a court would have made the decision. There’s no doubt that with the smoking gun emails that they would have been found guilty.
Of course, Bruce and his puppets would have screamed that the judge must be a liberal! After being found guilty either by a jury or judge, the city would then have many thousands in attorney fees to pay compared to the relatively cheap $2500 they ultimately settled for.
B.S. drones on to accuse the Yakima Herald of misreporting the story! Truth is, it is Bruce Smith that is misreporting. He’s trying valiantly to spin the misdeeds into a “lobbying effort”. All four council members (Lover, Cawley, Ensey, Coffey) are guilty of conspiring behind the scenes to further their agenda. Bruce Smith being the great guru knew they were crossing the line and went to great lengths to make sure all 4 weren’t in the same coffee shop at one time. Instead he lined them up and coordinated individual meetings. It’s too bad for Yakima that these four are so easy to manipulate by the great puppet master.