IS YOUR COUNTY BOARD MEMBER ETHICAL AND REPRESENTING YOUR DISTRICT??

     Do you know who your county board member is?   Do you know where your county board member resides or how to contact them?  Is your County board member living within the district they are representing?

     Geographical residency requirements of elected officials is set up for several reasons.  One reason is protect voters from fraudulent candidacies.  They are also intended to ensure that candidates are familiar with the local political climate and can identify important constituent concerns.  At the County Board level this is simply breaks down to the candidates understanding their neighbors issues and concerns.  The concept of domicile is frequently used to assess whether a candidate satisfies the residency requirement.  Domicile is generally defined as the combination of maintaining a residence and the intent to remain in the location.  Simply put: the candidate actual resides within the district they represent and not set up a fictitious residence while living in another.

     Why have we decided to address this issue?  Over the last few months it has come to our attention that two of our local County Board members Mr. Sam Franklyn (R1) and Mr. Dave Bellis (R3) are actually residing outside the districts they represent.  An interesting note is that Mr. Randall Reis (formerly D2) has resigned due to change in his residence during this same time period.   Why have Mr. Franklyn and Mr. Bellis not resigned as well?  Why have they stayed in political office knowing that they are violating the residency requirements?

     In speaking with several local political operatives within our community it has been brought to our attention that both County Board chairman Les Post and well as Republican County Chair Laura Kent Donahue are fully aware of these gentleman living outside the districts they represent.  Why have they not stepped in and intervened to protect your rights as citizens, taxpayers and voters of this county?

     Pure and simple it is for political gain.   They are trying to drag these resignations out past the August deadline so they can appoint someone of their choosing to these two seats.   In doing so they are denying the citizens of both district one and district three the right to choose who represents them.  Fear that you the voters will exercise your right to elect someone outside their sphere of influence is why they have carried out this charade for so long.  

     Shame on you Mr. Franklyn, Mr. Bellis, Mr. Post, and Ms. Donahue for denying the fine citizens of our county their right to elect their own representation as well as have their voices heard on how their county tax money is spent!!!

MOORE LIES!!

Recently there has been a noticeable lack of quality in the city of Quincy's drinking water.   The Moore administration as well as Alderwoman Heinecke have fabricated a couple reasons as to why this has occurred.

The Moore Adminstration states:

"The issue has to do with low flows in the river and dry conditions"

Alderwoman Terri Heinecke states:   "With the low levels of water, the algae in the water is pretty high so they are putting more chlorine than they normally do in the water to kill the algae. "

Apparently these rocket scientists failed to fact check their statements.   A simple scan of The Army Corpse of Engineers data and the USGS shows data quite the contrary on both flow rates and water level.  

Note the water level at Lock and Dam 21 has been high for at least the last two weeks.

Note that with the increased water levels there is a direct correlation to the water flow rates at Lock and Dam 21.

Note that the river stage in Quincy is still slightly above normal stage at the Quincy Riverfront.

Yesterday, the Quincy Herald Whig is quoted stating  "For the second time in three years, the taste of the city of Quincy's water has residents reaching for the bottled variety and businesses changing how they serve their customers."

Interestingly enough the Moore Administration has been at the helm during these same three years.

If they are going to lie about the details do you really believe them on the overall picture?

MOORES SCORECARD: F

The Moore Administrations idea of a SCORECARD (which he campaigned on) is a novel idea and the concept has some merit.   You look at what your currently accomplishing and try to improve upon those numbers.  You don't throw out old lists.   You don't eliminate projects from those lists once they have reached a certain hypothetical deadline to make your numbers look better.  You report on all areas, not just the ones you know you can improve on and use for future political gain or political ads.  
You MAINTAIN the same level of service that the public expects while trying to do so in a more efficient manner and focus on a few specific areas.  This isn't what is happening in our fair town as seen in our last article.

Normally we wouldn't make a big deal about orange barrels being placed somewhere around town as it means something is being fixed or about to be fixed.   Not in the case of these three!!  These three barrels have been sitting untouched for well over a year now.  They are an eye sore and obviously indicate a piece of our cities infrastructure that the Moore Administration has NEGLECTED!   Mayor Moore should get on the cities website, find HIS scorecard, and give himself an F!

4TH & PAYSON

400 BLOCK OF SOUTH 7TH

6TH & JEFFERSON

MOORE TRASH!!

     The Moore Administration has made two public statements though the local newspaper in regards to nuisance abatement and tall grass.   They are quoted in the Quincy Herald Whig articles on both September 18 2015 and again most recently on March 16th 2016 stating that they will send nuisance abatement notices to residents who's grass is taller than 10 inches.   They are also quoted as stating that a multitude of notices have been sent out both last year and this year to property owners.  These property owners are charged $60 an hour for city crews to clean up said yards.

While you are out enjoying this beautiful Memorial Day weekend please take a drive by the 22nd and Chestnut area and look at our CITIES reservoir.

How do you ask your citizens to maintain their own properties when the Moore administration is unable to maintain CITY PROPERTY???    How does the Moore Administration justify fining citizens for grass over 10 inches when it is unable to maintain its own property to under 30 inches???  

We are all for a beautiful city!!!   Being born and raised in this beautiful community (unlike our current mayor) we are greatly saddened by the filth and decay that has come upon this city as of the last couple years.  Quincy needs to get its pride back but that can't done by the Moore Administration saying one thing and not following it up with actions.  To stand behind a podium and state you want this city to be beautiful is one thing but REAL LEADERS lead by example not hollow words!!

Maybe Mayor Moore saddened by not winning the "Tree City USA" award in 2014 has decided to go after the "Garbage City USA" designation.  Sure appears that way.

APRIL FOOL

SPECIAL DELIVERY

DECEPTIVE LITTLE LEPRECHAUN