Tuesday Coloradans for Voting Integrity announced its plans to formally request records from the Lafayette's recent election. A spokesman for the Denver-based organization said that because of interest from numerous other groups, a Lafayette Election Task Force is forming and likely will make an announcement about its plans next week instead.
Read more - if you can stand it - here.
So I was eager to continue the discussion immediately following the election. Now it shall go off tangentially into the realm of niche watchdogs. I applaud their interest, as someone should do it, however the EastBoCo readers have made it clear this is a dead horse whose beatings have become irritating. So long, annexation debate.
Next steps: Gigantic protests during the site plan review and demands to involve the Army Corps of Engineers to do wetlands analysis. Woo hoo!
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Dan, please, if there's one thing I can't stand hearing after the establishment of a relatively enlightened middle ground here, it's that the Army Corps will have any role in the next steps. It won't, and there's no amount of cajoling or misinformation that will produce that result. Gigantic protests, fine, even great, but when we have reasonable people (thinking of Cyclorado's recent post) lining up to potentially take a stand, the last thing I want to do is presumptively lump them together with the crowd who don't care about the facts.
Okay, I take it back. Just some sarcastic venting on the issue. But can't you see it? Demands can come from anybody, no matter how outrageous or ill-informed. If some people are convinved a wetlands is in danger, they could loudly demand anything.
This is another place where the written word cannot convey the tone of voice with which a comment is made. I'll have to stick to factual and hopefully logical (and righteous!) comments here.
And the righteous shall inherit the earth, but the wetlands are still in doubt....
It will end but not before more gnashing of teeth. Remember the who/what/why that put this thing in motion.
The price of our form of democracy is that the very rules in place to safeguard the process can also be used by those intending to subvert the will of the majority while wrapping themselves in the flag and claiming the rights of the people have been violated. As imperfect as it is, it is still the best system on this earth. God Bless America!
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