Mayor Making Things Up?

"The Mayor sent another campaign email in which he said "We get a lot of people trying to get our city council to spend money on things that don't work; things we cannot afford; things we do not need." When asked to name what those things are, all he could come up in an email response with was "it's a long list." Surely he can be more specific than that ..." Lisa Shaffer's FB page.

Only a sampling was given of this latest note called a newsletter. The mayor uses words like weapons. But, he isn't a wordsmith by any means. There is no respect for words, language, spelling or structure. Words are to cast confusion, accuse, patronize and misdirect.

Damnit! Words matter.  History matters. Numbers matter. Truth matters.

So many words in council chambers have lost meaning. We are more than familiar with decorum, offensive, team, process all being used to mock the true meanings. A clean sweep could mean a fresh start to redefine what words mean.

In ancient China, the arrival of a new dynasty was accompanied by “the rectification of names,” a ceremony in which the sloppiness and erosion of meaning that had taken place under the previous dynasty were cleared up and language and its subjects correlated again. It was like a debt jubilee, only for meaning rather than money. Source