I sent the following letter to the editor to the
Deckard Propaganda Machine South Missourian News on January 18th.
Re: "Thanks But No Thanks" in the 1/18/07 South Missourian News.
I was at the January meeting of the Thayer city council. Your article leaves out a few important incidents.
1. As reported in the January 11 West Plains Daily Quill but not in the South Missourian News, Bob Grimes expressed his desire at the meeting that "people [presumably meaning the people who elected him] shut up" about questions regarding the grant application process and "leave him [Barton] alone."
2. Mayor Allen Deckard complaining about the quality of people we have in Thayer. According to the Quill, the exchange went something like this:
Grimes said Barton oversees most of the city’s grants and “people around town are stabbing him in the back,” adding Barton should no longer carry the responsibility if his work is not appreciated.
“That shows what kind of people we have (in Thayer),” Deckard said . . .
3. The mayor reportedly accusing a member in the audience of slander, yet providing no evidence to support the accusation. Unfortunately, these outbursts did not make it into either paper.
It is the right of citizens to hold their government accountable, and to be informed.
But I have a solution to any questions about the grant application process, and many other questions a citizen might have about our city government -- a top-to-bottom independent audit of the city and all it's departments, including Utilities.
This would clear up any questions citizens have about how the City of Thayer is spending our money.
If you agree that a city audit is needed, contact your alderman. They are:
Bob Grimes
Buddy Rogers
Mike Harber
Steve Alford.
Or contact the mayor's office at city hall. He can be reached by phone via the city clerk's office at (417) 264-3921.
John Hutchison
Thayer Taxpayers Association Blog
It should have come out in yesterday's paper.
They didn't print it.
I placed a call to David Cox to find out why.
He didn't return my call.
They just proved me right when I call them the Deckard Propaganda Machine.
Jan Sisk Lawrence did not even attend that meeting, but you wouldn't know that by reading her article. Instead, she just parrotted the information that was spoonfed to her by the mayor's office. And this isn't the first time this has happened.
But they don't want you to know that.
After this, I wouldn't buy that paper if it printed
next week's lottery numbers.
# posted by The Last American @ 10:08 AM
