Turning a Blind Eye

I have a few questions for you tonight Mayor.

Do you think the subject and the information presented in my budget speech will make it into Mr. Hopefl’s Kmail notes of this council meeting? Or will they be excluded as I and other citizens of this community have been excluded by Kmail and its leaders?

Which makes me wonder just how in the world anyone could call Mr. Hopefl’s Kmail meeting notes an “asset” to the community as you called them at the 1st city council meeting in February?

The community of Kirkwood is not included or served by Kmail as you asserted from that dais. The facts are Kmail from its inception has been an exclusionary cause that allows no public scrutiny of what it has to present. In fact, to make matters worse its leader Mr. Williams publicly vilifies and misrepresents anyone that does not kowtow to his frequent and overbearing demands. Or, God forbid, anyone who dares to call into question anything he spews in his Kmails.

Please Mayor … remember the other members of our community you were elected to represent who have been the targets of Mr. William’s and Mr. Hopefl’s unwarranted false accusations and vilifications. Please … remember especially those sitting up there with you on that dais serving our community, since some of them have been the past targets of Mr. Williams' and Mr. Hopefl's Kmail. Please … remember our community has never seen either one of them apologize publicly for their very public, false and destructive accusations.

Turning a blind-eye to their actions does not benefit or further our community.

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Please note:

I also responded to the comments of another citizen regarding single-stream curbside recycling. I did not have a response written and prepared to deal with the misinformation presented by that citizen.

Since my comments were extemporaneous in nature, I would not want to try to recreate them here. If you are interested in understanding the reality of curbside recycling service in Kirkwood, then please see my past postings on “Recycling.”

There are now 5 posts on the subject of "Recycling" you can easily find by going to the "for posts on a specific subject" list on the left-hand side of the blog.

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I want readers to know I am not against Art McDonnell. He has been a friend, my neighborhood grocer and a fellow campaigner on a variety of causes in our community. In fact, he is the first Kirkwoodian I struck up a friendship with almost a dozen years ago when I first moved to Kirkwood.

But, I will not sit by and see the Mayor - who is elected to represent all - publicly praise Kmail and its leaders without raising my voice at the proper time. Mr. Keith Williams and Mr. Alan Hopefl and their very public, incredibly false and outrageously destructive comments in Kmail over the years, have not been an "asset" to this community. They work together on Kmail. They are the public faces of Kmail. Their "meeting notes" as well as their "dispatches" need to be held to the light of public scrutiny and equally judged accordingly.

When weighed in the balance - Kmail is found wanting.

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