Hal, Your beam of
light shone on the new (more like from the Dark Ages) practices initiated to
limit public input at the Glendale City Council meetings and the further
illumination by Sue Sarkis serves as a beacon (pardon the pun) for all local
citizens who recognize the value and necessity of public involvement in
governance. It brings to mind our former
president's lament that democracy is too messy and the public might be better
served by dictatorship, provided the demagogue in charge was the thankfully
termed-out W. Your moral courage in the
face of the intense and arrogant opposition from our local pols is
ever-inspiring. One of my regrets at not
being selected as a columnist for the GNP is the fact that I will not have the
opportunity to submit an interview with you. A fantasy of mine would be to moderate a televised
panel discussion featuring you, Barry Allen, Herb Molano and Bruce Philpott
that would be broadcast in heavy rotation on GTV for about a year during Dave
Weaver's upcoming re-election campaign. Oh well, I know it'll never happen. But you can't blame a guy for doing a little
dreaming. :)
Greg Wilkinson
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Sue Sarkis has summarized this issue far better than
I did!