May 5, 2003 Debate on Prop. #1 (Sultan's Change of Government)
(A non-partisan forum sponsored and moderated by the League of Women Voters)
Transcription (coming)
THE EVENT WAS ATTENDED BY APPROX. 100 PEOPLE
BOTH
SIDES HAD THEIR CHANCE TO SPEAK, BOTH "PRO" and "NO"
ABOVE: ON THE "PRO" SIDE, L to R, are ProSultan board members Jeff Kirkman, John Dick and Dr. Mark Raney)
AND THE "NO!" SIDE HAD A CHANCE TO SAY THEIR PIECE
(But the event was boycotted by Councilmembers Dusty Boucher, Bruce Champeaux [who had used "education" throughout the process], Rob Criswell and Jimmy Porter. Bart Dalmasso spoke for them all in a letter he submitted to the League. Mr. Dalmasso is a Real Estate broker, a Sultan Plannning Commissioner, a member of Sultan's Economic Development Committee, editor of the Sultanites for the Truth newsletter/PAC and Sultan's representative at Snohomish County's Ecnomic Development Council and the Evergreen Crescent Initiative who is looking out for everyone's interests, apparently.)
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ABOVE Left:
Sam Wold, owner of the historic Sultan Saw Shop |
For whatever it's worth, I'd like to offer my kudos and congratulations to Mssrs. Wold and Broughton. They had the intestinal fortitude to face the crowd and say what they thought, while others on the "NO!" side boycotted this non-partisan debate forum. To Sultan's "Leaders": It does not speak well for you that in a town where people have given several yers of their lives for the right to be heard, you turn your backs to everyone, including the voters. |
CLOSE-UP OF JOHN DICK, A PREVIOUS CITY PLANNING COMMISSIONER, A MEMBER OF THE PROSULTAN BOARD (AND A FATHER OF FIVE)
SERIOUS BUSINESS (That's what the ProSultan folks wish to have in Sultan)
