Opinion: S. Tahoe council could be filled with rookies
To the community,
It’s a grand mess the city of South Lake Tahoe is in. Actually, it’s more like a nightmare. The following could happen or will happen.
The mayor will leave the city without finishing her term. If charged with a crime and convicted, Angela Swanson will vacate her seat on the council. There will be an election in November and the two incumbents might be defeated. If the incumbents lose and the mayor and Swanson leave the council, then Tom Davis will be the lone man standing. Poor Tommy. By January, that’s when the mayor has said she will leave the city, Mayor Davis will be sitting with two new faces on the council and one empty seat for sure, maybe two if Ms. Swanson has to resign.
Bill Crawford
At that time the City Council will have to appoint to fill vacancies or call a special election. That’s not likely because it’s costly. So it is possible the city will be governed by a three-member council, at least for a while. Looks like a crazy sitcom-reality show scripted by a devilish trickster. So the audience should be prepared to hang onto their seats and not tune out, but tune in and enjoy the fun and laughs. No tears please.
Bill Crawford, South Lake Tahoe
PS: If an elected official is offered a bribe and does not report the offer, then the official can be charged with a crime. And as the playwright has said, “Fair play is a spectator sport.” And by the way, on Sept. 9, 1850, California was admitted to the Union as a free state. When I was a child it was state holiday. Times change.
Oh but let’s look the other way and reroute Highway 50! We can add that project to the unfinished convention center, the unfinished/abandoned pedestrian overpass, and let’s not forget the cities’s mandatory low-flush-takes-3-fluses toilets for which we can no longer get parts. The air polution is worse than ever; mabe is tme to resurect that toll road idea as a traffic disincentive and call it a revenue source! The biggest game in town is a twisted version of hide and seek. Some of us miss you Bill.
I would rather a rookie than Grego. Heck, I would rather a rookie than Davis. Wasn’t he on the Council when they voted us into the Hole?
Well Bill, it certainly looks like an interesting time we have coming up. Perhaps it is for the best that we have a new crop of persons to take up the challenges of our city. Looking forward to no boredom.
It would make more sense to put an end to all the chaos and higher taxes, and dissolve the city. Constantly lurching from one debacle to the next is no way to operate.
I think it’s time for the residence of the city of South Lake Tahoe to stand up and stop what is going on with our current city government. the last thing we need is our elected officials hand picking her we want first we have a hand picked city manager now we may have to city council seats open and if we don’t demand that we have a special election to fill those seats we will see the true plan of the powers that be. It won’t be Tom up there alone. I can promise you that.
If my Aunt had bowling balls she’d be my Uncle, Bill.
Thanks Bill
Wish you were still on the Council, but a new clean house would be better than what we have now.
Old King Cole will survive! Then there could be an Upton Reup!
Here’s to Rookie Power! A change in leadership is obviously due, again. Guess you’ll never stop your slanderous, negative editorials, will you, Bill?
Yet more reasons to dissolve the city- go Ted