Attorneys favor those in control
I am an active member of the Westside Community Association. It seems to me that City Attorney Mike McMahan is confused. I can understand that since he is supposed to represent the citizens of Chattanooga, their City Council and their mayor equally and simultaneously.
According to your reporter, Cliff Hightower (article Metro front, Aug. 25), McMahan said that our president, The Rev. Leroy T. Griffith, gave him a petition with the proposed ordinance on it but "with zero signatures." The petition Griffith gave him was from the WCA to the City Council asking that it consider our proposed change in the city's zoning code. That petition was introduced by Councilman Andrea McGary and was referred to council's Legal and Legislative Committee for it consideration and recommendations to the council for action. It still is there lazily lingering in political inaction.
Our ordinance was then submitted to the Hamilton County Election Commission as an initiative petition for its action regarding its conformity with laws regarding placement on a ballot, according to state law, the governmental first step in the initiative process.
Because lawyers work for those who hire and fire, it's no wonder city attorneys seem to benefit governors over the governed.
KARL KENDRICK
Romney out of step with times
What a potential diplomat we have in Gov. Mitt Romney.
No sooner had he arrived in London than the whole world was exposed to his Olympic-sized gaffe. Ire quickly rose from the prime minister, mayor of London and the British press and pubic.
Shortly thereafter, he met with Labour Leader Ed Miliband, and appears to have forgotten his name. Worse happened when he disclosed to the press his private meeting with British spy chief Sir John Sawers. If President Obama met with him, and he probably did, nobody heard about it.
All this will not be forgotten by the English people aware of the reference to their country in (Romney's) book: "Britain is just a small island that doesn't make things people want to buy. Its roads and houses are small."
The experience of my travels in England, Scotland and Wales would seem to contradict everything Romney had said. This "small island" produced some of the world's greatest literature, and the British Empire, which once controlled much of the world.
Demonstrating a cold war mentality and an inability to deal with reality, Romney's foreign policy adviser and staff refer to Russia as the Soviet Union which ended in 1991.
JOHN BRATTON, Sewanee, Tenn.
But why then is all of Mr. Obama's past left completely in the past and why is Mr. Romney's brought up and out, such as his book? Keep on grasping and you will convince yourself to again vote for a man with a proven record, proven to not help the economy, not product jobs and begin a new and higher level of taxation such as we have never seen. And do not forget what else he's done "nobody heard about." Romney illicits just what the current President wants, hate for those who have worked and become wealthy and do not need the government to bail them out. Yeah Mitt Romney is out of touch with all who think the government has all the answers.
Livn4life, how funny. "Romney illicits..." Actually, Romney's secrecy about his taxes, policies, and plans ELICITS doubt and suspicion about the caliber of his character. You are supporting little more than a glossy cardboard cut-out for the Presidency of the United States.
Romney doesn't trust the American people enough to reveal his tax returns or the truth about the billions$ he made by stripping domestic companies of assets, firing workers, and sending the money out of the US and into secret accounts. Illicit, indeed.
Live4, what part of President Obama's past has been left in the past by the right wingers? You pips have left no stone unturned, and you still can't dig up anything of use to use against him. You've tried to dig up every and anything negative on the president from the time he was born and where to the present. The only thing you clowns haven't brought up is if he was a difficult child to potty train, or was he tit fed or bottle fed.
I see, like most from your ilk, you find it difficult to refer to the president as PRESIDENT OBAMA.
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