Pettit has previously revealed his contempt for government, regulations, the environment and public employees and today he unbuttoned his anti-regulatory raincoat and flashed his disdain for public meetings law in a comment at The World.
I admire Mr. Sanne’s near fanatical obsession with public meeting laws. In a sincere effort to serve all Coos County residents Mr. Sanne filed two ethics complaints against the all-volunteer members of the Structure Committee, who contributed hundreds of personal hours to find answers to our County’s looming budget crisis. Mr. Sanne has shown little interest in helping address the budget issues. However, if elected, we can depend on total and complete transparency to our County’s demise.
Every girl knows better than to trust a man who says, “trust me”, rather than give a coherent fact based explanation but that is just what Pettit expects everyone to do with his claims about the county at a recent chamber luncheon.
‘If you get a skilled county administrator, there are things that person could do that would result in some tangible dollar savings on an immediate basis,” Pettit said. ‘Employees are dealing with issues an administrator could solve. Solving those issues makes the employees more effective, and more efficiencies result in more savings.”…Pettit said. ‘Trust me.”
Herein lies the problem with the current board, the county counsel and the appointed committees… the public have no confidence in their judgment. We DON’T trust their judgment, their ethics, their skills or them!
Meanwhile, it appears that the ridicule Pettit attempts to heap on the government doesn’t extend to his business obtaining a $25,000 urban renewal grant to freshen up the storefront windows at the motorcycle shop. Yeah, that will turn out to be a good investment for the taxpayer.
What is the difference between a republican that wants to save tax payers from a too large government, taking too much of your money, and a republican that will take those same tax dollars and get some personal use out of them?
none.
This is a good example.
Haven’t the Messerles’ been on the public dole forever? All these guys suck from the public teat, every damn one of them.
“Al Pettit says ”
County gets dire assessment”
Um, did you wipe yer chin after that declaration in public Al? Was Mothers Milk dripping from yer snout as you said thank you, if you did, for our tax dollars in the sum of $25 grand?
Are you really that unaware of your surroundings? The condition of our schools, our roads, our entire infrastructure, that you feel entitled to suck up another $25 thousand grand from us?
Old Al doesn’t think it is so dire he can’t suck up another twenty five grand from us, huh Al?
‘Splain that to us Al.
Al Pettit is a Welfare Queen.
So Al, you think you deserve $25,000.00 from the taxpayers for your private enterprise?
How the F is that a free market Al?
Messerle would prefer to have to public pay for his development schemes, or let property owners pay for his company moving fish bearing streams without a permit… he will probably get paid to do the mitigation work too
Oh wow, a wealth of information here.
Firstly, Al? You don’t need a trench coat sweetie, a short shawl should suffice.
Secondly, hello to Ima, the definitiion of a Libertarian is they are Republicans who smoke pot and like sex. A little humor today.
As far as Al goes, I hope EVERY single public worker, or family member of a public worker understands what Fred and Jon and Al want. They want your jobs. They don’t WANT you to be working in the Annex, or the Courthouse, or the other departments. These clowns are attempting to do away with local government, and it’s high (sorry Al) time we called them out on it. They will destroy the framework of this county, and it won’t work, if it did, they’d be printing glowing stories about communities who have done so. Until they do, shut the F up ! And they sit in their brand new $1.5 mill. diggs downtown Coos Bay paid for by We The People. Amazing isn’t it? They come on here to insult those of us actually doing the paying, then they whine because they want more.
I want and support a functioning government and her workers, I do not want Jon Bartons’ fat fingers any further down MY pockets. Neither of us would enjoy it.
In response to Mr. Pettit’s $25,000 grant, there are other examples of this and how these people operate. 12-14 years ago, Mr. Messerle approached the county to open up an old right-of-way between Anchor Road and West Catching Lane. The reason – He had a spring that he wanted to develop and bottle water for retail sales. Fortunately, the decision makers at that time didn’t feel the benefit to the public justified this expenditure and declined his request. If he really felt this was a viable option, I’m sure the county would have let him open the right-of-way at his expense.
This registered Libertarian (whatever that is) belives that, to succeed, we must gather behind a single candidate for each office. And that candidate is not Main or his appointed friends Parry and Messerle.
Salmonologist is right! Messerle is widely despised if the feedback I receive is any indicator… we will see whether money really can buy votes
I find it amusing that these people are basing their logic for wanting to restructure county government on the 20% of employees who returned their survey. Does that mean 80% are satisfied with current county government and didn’t reply or they just don’t care enough to give their input? I suspect they have seen through the clouded information being put out and find this process not worth their time. We’d be in a world of trouble if 20% of our citizens dictated the course of the county’s future.
Typical – Al huffs and puffs about government intrusion and then is the first in line with his hand out. Urban renewal dollars spent on a motorcycle dealership – ludicrous. Especially when that 25k could have done several things for several people instead of benefitting just one greedy man. I’m looking forward to seeing the newly spruced up windows at the motorcycle shop soon!
And you can tell that Mr. Pettit was using what he learned from this very blog to try and deflect questions and issues that will inevitably come up, now that some folks in Coos County aren’t walking around with their heads up their asses and know what he and his cronies are up to. He’s gunning for the County Exec position, or has a ditto-head ready-to-go, and if I were the head of one of the county’s departments like roads, water, sheriff, etc, I would be highly offended that Al and the BOC think that I don’t do a good enough job and need another highly-paid, irrelevant supervisor. These men (and a few ladies) are pathetic, giving lip service to “loving their communities” and then doing everything possible to grab and run – suckling from the gov’t teat while pointing their fingers at others -it’s time for the residents of Coos County to move up from the hind teat and get rid of these selfish, dishonest leeches. I can’t wait for the election – and I’ll be surprised if Fred wins. I do not know one person that will vote for him.
Granted, I don’t spend my time hanging around groups of scared, old white folks listening to am talk radio or Fox “news”, but I do know people that are close to him and wouldn’t think of voting for him. We’ll watch the election process closely.