A blog or two ago I printed the firefighters endorsement of city council candidates. They acknowledge an error was made in their initial statement. They had said: Bill Lover, Rick Ensey and Micah Cawley were instrumental in collaborating and organizing with Bruce Smith, a local Business magazine publisher, to defeat the 2009 EMS Levy. This levy would have provided the Yakima Community with 12 firefighters and one dispatcher.
The mistake is that Micah Cawley was NOT instrumental in collaborating and organizing with Bruce Smith to defeat the EMS Levy. The firefighters regret lumping Cawley in with those three and want to set the record straight.
Certainly Bill Lover and Rick Ensey and Bruce Smith worked together and with the Republican Party leaders to spread false information about the Levy. I often wonder how they can take pride in defeating a measure that they grossly distorted.
Ron, you seem very stuck on blame and demonizing. Makes you look small.
Bruce Smith had little or nothing to do with the levy failure. The levy was destined to fail for reasons I spelled out before the election…bad timing due to the economy, and not having the levy sunset.
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/01/17/time-isn-t-right-for-yakima-ems-levy
That was an editorial in the YHR on January 18th. That’s a newspaper that far more people read than the Yakima Business Times. And yet I don’t see you blaming the editorial board. Any time you start ranting about Bruce (which is about daily), you give him power he doesn’t really have.
Ron. You are a bitter man who is fixated on BS and his “puppets”. So answer this. If Cawley is just BS’s puppet, then why isn’t he in lockstep?
Ron, they can take “pride” in it because lies and distortions have become the hallmark of the failing conservative movement. This is the party that would like you to believe they are all about the flag, family values, ethics and high moral standards, but they really couldn’t live by those ideals while conducting themselves the way they have the last decade or so. Bruce Smith believes in a “corporatocracy”, not the democracy this country has fought for. His puppets on the council are reduced to jumping whenever he jerks their strings. The Woodcock Ambulance Company (a business that makes a profit whenever people are seriously sick or injured), used the puppets to defeat a levy measure that would not have affected his ambulance operation whatsoever.