The fact that you chose to exercise your right to dissent as a public citizen via your election website and taking out ads, is legal. It is democratic. We more than trust your ability to get all of the rules and paperwork reporting done, made public or whatever is necessary (rather than just a response to odious threats).
It is regrettable that the bad guys used your right to dissent to smear the candidates that you and thousands of us all support. Then again, we knew the cronies have done many such things in the past and the incumbents have always denied everything at all times. No surprises. Discussing Doug Manchester sucking up all newspapers is just a local version of the graphic at the top. Nothing to see here folks.
We all have suggestions for better ways you could have done things, Jim Kydd. We have dozens of people anxious to critique each other at the drop of the hat. Right now we want you to have all your proper paperwork filed. We all have to say that putting stickers on things without permission isn't right. Done.
No doubt you and the people behind the Dump Stocks efforts never intended to hurt Lisa Shaffer or Tony Kranz whose campaigns have stayed far away from this effort. But, diversity is the heart of civic engagement and in no way means choices are always binary. Not all choices are yes / no, black / white, off / on, us / them . . . you get it.
The good news is the community has hit the tipping point. And, Jim, it is worth the 10 coins each month to buy a subscription to the Coast News.
