From Randy’s web site, this is enough for me…
Redress of Grievances:
Since it is highly unlikely that there will ever be true debate in the upcoming elections: 3 minute introductions and 3 minute answers to canned questions without rebuttal is not debate: the following list of grievances is submitted and redress is to elect Libertarian County Commissioners in Boulder County and make the changes.
In That the current Democratic County Commissioners
1.Have refused to change election of County Commissioners by the district they represent as requested, instead maintaining election at large by the whole county.
2. Have kept and maintained a tax on the citizens called the “Worthy Cause Tax” which is given to non governmental institutions at the discretion of the Same County Commissioners.
3. Have maintained a subjective and overbearing as well as exhaustive site plan review process to stop development in the county.
4. Have reduced property development rights unlawfully and then required the bartering, buying and selling of remaining rights among free citizens with the first purchase to be made from the County itself from undeveloped property purchased with tax dollars in the form of open space and conservation easements.
5. Have created special overlay districts with restrictions on historical uses. Requiring such things as new septic systems where none is needed and special use reviews of subjective nature to impair existing and future use of private properties and businesses by creating oppressive financial burdens too heavy to bear.
6. Have hidden behind the closed doors of Executive session colluding among themselves violating the Sunshine law to achieve their vision and ideal of Boulder County.
7. Have treated the public forum and public comment as a mere formality that they must endure before they proceed with their plans. In doing so they have disenfranchised entire segments of the population whose needs and desires are not represented.
8. Have treated unfairly and without equal protection the citizens of this County giving verbal undocumented approval to Corporations such as Cemex for its activities while bringing lawsuit against religious institutions such as the Rocky Mountain Christian Church at great cost for the same request.
9. Have refused to answer straight forward questions regarding Land Use Staff activities as well as their own involvement in regards to the activities of Cemex.
10. Have perpetrated legislation amending CRS 13-17-102-8 giving them the ability to bring frivolous and vexatious lawsuits against its citizens with no danger of penalty or payment of court costs and damages when they lose.
11. Have created an atmosphere of fear of reprisal by the Land Use Department on developers and landowners should they speak out against their draconian measures.
12. Have limited the right of free citizens to contract with whom they wish by withholding building permits unless contract is made with those whom the County tests, taxes and license.
13. Have appointed themselves (Ron Stewart) to high-paying jobs, skirting the normal search process, in order to ensconce their personal position on the county’s citizens in perpetuity.
14. Have unlawfully created de facto easements on private property by consistently passing land use rulings and restrictions that favor those citizens with longer residency over their newer neighbors who seek to build or expand their homes in Boulder County.
15. Have in order to preserve “the rural character ” of Boulder County and guarantee “a variety of housing stock”, unlawfully discriminated against one group of citizens by taxing the size of their homes, rather than sharing the cost with all of us.
16. Have, in the name of energy conservations and “sustainability” and with total disregard of life-cycle costs, imposed outrageous rules and regulations far in excess of most other American communities, that impede the freedom of our residents to peacefully enjoy the fruits of their labor.
17. Have attempted to stop development within the county through subversive tactics that include restricted building due to slope of property and without consent combining contiguous lots of the same ownership.
YOU MAY NOT BE PERSONALLY IMPACTED BY THE ABOVE INFRACTIONS BUT YOU SHOULD RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS NOT GOOD GOVERNMENT. IF YOU ELECT ME AS YOUR PUBLIC SERVANT I PLEDGE TO YOU.
1. GOVERNMENT THAT DOES NOT CATER TO THE VISION OF A SEGMENT OF THE POPULATION AND FOIST IT ON THE WHOLE.
2. GOVERNMENT THAT LISTENS TO THE CONCERNS OF CITIZENS AND FINDS BALANCE IN THE SOLUTIONS.
3. GOVERNMENT THAT PROTECTS YOUR RIGHTS AS INDIVIDUALS REGARDLESS OF THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY
4. GOVERNMENT THAT STAYS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES SET FORTH IN THE CONSTITUTION OF OUR REPUBLIC
5. GOVERNMENT THAT ENCOURAGES DIALOG AND SOLUTIONS AMONG ITS CITIZENS BEFORE ENACTING MORE LAWS.
6. GOVERNMENT THAT ALLOWS YOU TO BE WHO YOU ARE IN A FREE AND EQUAL SOCIETY.
Add to this Randy’s letter to the editor that was published on the Camera’s letter to the editor blog, taking on Will Toor and Ben Pearlman in regards to “telling the truth”. Note, this letter has not been published in the actual paper, only on the blog where all received letters are published.
The Boulder County Commissioner Power Troika must go.
