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Vincent in desperate need of leadership
Published Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Dear Editor,
After my previous letter to the editor comparing the lack of leadership in Vincent to Jefferson County, I was accused of not having any knowledge of the situation in Vincent.
Well, actually I have attended the meetings, and the city council meetings, and some zoning board meetings.
Even more so, my family owns property on the loop, and has provided local farmers the opportunity of making their living from there.
Most importantly, my wife’s family has been a part of the Vincent area for over 100 years.
My observation is that there is a stink from city hall that only continues to get worse.
When I heard the chairman of the zoning board say there was no way the people could stop the quarry, and the mayor nodded his head in agreement, I knew the quarry had bought the city officials.
I don’t mean that everyone received bribes, some were just uninformed, and others so well directed, that they had not even considered what this monster will do to the community.
When the EBSCO experts (their credentials were well documented) gave their program on quarries, they put a very different picture on quarries than White Rock did.
After this irrefutable information on how bad the quarry will be for the community, the mayor/council still refuse to acknowledge this, refuse to consider the death nail they are driving into the Vincent community and refuse to even discuss there might be a different way to go.
Meanwhile, they seem to bask in the information that the White Rock Quarry public relations continues to spread, even while this information is based in part on half truths and outright lies.
Even while this information splits Vincent down the middle, pro quarry versus no quarry, one side of town against their neighbors on the other, still there is no response from the mayor.
Obviously there is a total lack of leadership in Vincent.
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Posted by noquarry462 (anonymous) on October 28, 2009 at 7:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)
There is even less leadership in Vincent since they have contracted with Columbiana to do their thinking for them.
Good gosh, they won't listen to the people, but they'll let someone else tell them what to do.
Posted by CCRIPTIDE (anonymous) on October 30, 2009 at 9:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
YOU GOT IT RIGHT ED, THERE IS A STINK FROM THE VINCENT TOWN HALL THAT ONLY GETS WORSE.
THE TOWN COUNCIL STANDS POISED, READY TO VOTE ON THE RE-ZONING OF WHITE ROCK MINING'S LAND, BUT THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW THE MAJORITY OF THE CITIZENS FEEL ABOUT IT. THEY HAVE NOT CONTACTED THE CITIZENS.
WHAT? THEY DO NOT CARE?
DO THEY NOT KNOW WHAT A ROCK QUARRY IS? I WONDER, WHAT PART OF A ROCK QUARRY DO THEY NOT UNDERSTAND?
YOU ARE RIGHT WHEN YOU SAY "THEY SEEM TO BASK IN THE INFORMATION THAT THE WHITE ROCK QUARRY PUBLIC RELATIONS CONTINUES TO SPREAD EVEN WHILE THIS INFORMATION IS BASED IN PART ON HALF-TRUTHS AND OUTRIGHT LIES".
I SUPPOSE THAT'S WHY THEY CONTINUE TO HOLD COUNCIL MEETINGS AT THE TOWN HALL, WHICH IS WAY TO SMALL TO ACCOMODATE THE CITIZENS WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ROCK QUARRY.
I SUPPOSE THAT'S WHY THE TOWN HALL HAS DISCONTINUED THE PRACTICE OF E-MAILING THE COUNCIL AGENDA BEFORE THE COUNCIL MEETING.
I SEEMS THAT WHATEVER IT TAKES TO SUPPRESS THE MAJORITY OF THE CITIZENS OF VINCENT, THE ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE WILLING TO DO.
IS THIS GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE?
NO! THIS IS.........I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO CALL IT, BUT IT IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
Posted by vincent4ever (anonymous) on November 11, 2009 at 10:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)
CC,
Is it not true that your partners in crime made thousand off the deal to bring a quarry into the town of Vincent. Now you are trying to extort more money by forming the Vincent Historical and Environment Society to fight a quarry. Then you claim you are a different organization for annexing the Town of Vincent into Harpersville for even more quarry money. How much money is enough for you?
YOU ARE A TRAITOR!!!!!!
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