The Minutemen Part I

Mayor Elect Sullivan is a founder and member of The Minutemen.

Some noteworthy observations from the Minutemen web site:

The current administration: No Response to Public Input, Promotes Special Interests, Unaffordable Assessments, Taxation Without Representation.

Our mayor and our city council keep taking until we have nothing left. We have no voice here in Cape Coral (Florida), just as the colonists had no voice.

The people here go before the council and speak. The mayor and council just ignore the people as if we don’t exist.

The administration’s arsenal consists of unaffordable assessments and taxes. Like the English, the administration has a contingent of foreign troops.

The English had Hessian Soldiers. Today our mayor and council have special interest groups.

The administration has builders, large land owners construction companies like MWH and speculators.

The city manager and all his flunkies must get out of town and never look back.

What real choices do the public have when they are abandoned or even exploited by their representatives?

The first thing on our agenda must be to stop the utility expansion projects.

The projects are being used to extort money from the residents and therefore the water and waste water utilities must be taken out of the hands of a city that cannot be trusted.

We need to start a water and waste-water authority or it must be converted to a non-profit entity or a Co-op.

The Nattering One muses... Strong words indeed, and perhaps a rush to judgement...

We agree, taxation without representation has been the MO of government for many years...

Anyone who thinks this is a democracy, or government is by the people and for the people, is naive and mistaken.

Our Republic is based upon goverment by the rich and for the corporations.

The first thing on the agenda should be what Jason did for the Argonauts...

cut the many heads of the hydra off and slay it. Then revisit the Kessler audit to root out the rest of the suspects...

As we have stated before in these pages...

the UEP can be completed by in house city staff at one third of the manager at risk cost estimates.

At the plant level, the in house staff are competent, knowledgable and capable of managing the Capes utilities.

With the hydra's many heads out of the way, this will become readily apparent to Mayor Sullivan and the Minutemen.