Mort's At It Again

 

Just saw the posts about someones complement regarding my past civic efforts and your related criticism. I'll do what I can to clear things up for you. Habitat for Humanity (national) was founded by Millard Fuller from Georgia in the 60's. He was a devout Christian and a successful  businessman who used both those skills to bring the current Habitat concept to life. I think his church went on a few cruisades to Africa to build housing for the poor and he came back with the basic concept. Jimmy Carter got involved once it was well establish and then became a spokesperson before, during and after his presidency. He's still involved but since he's now older his involvement is probably pretty much diminished. Middletown's Habitat is now 15+ year old and has built more than 60 homes for familys who can afford to pay a mortage. One has to assume the local Habitat organization has had some effect on the number of  Section 8 claims. If you would like to get involved, give Gene Snow (board president) a call at 424-6464. As to your anonymous criticism from behind the curtain, Id like to see all of those who post on this forum use their real names. I'll be back later to try and correct more of your mis-information about TVM & SOS. Stay tuned.

 

 

 

However, I along with many others in Middletown do not miss you point. We all know this place has a lot to fix before it can return to the status it once held.  Since there seems to be a number of  individuals and institutions that can't or won't change the status quo because of their vested interests or ignorance of what's needed to turn our ship of state, here we are again. 

 

What I've been doing lately about this situation has been to write a fairly regular column in the MJ that try's to expose the BS that's hard not to miss. My MJ column of July 26th. delt with the smoke & mirrors used by the dominant members of the Charter Committee to bring us a two-for-one ballot about dumping the ward system and changing the size of council at the same time. I've more than a dozen column's this year about similar examples of civic hipocracy

 

As you say, the constant "drum beat" of the same old "good news" doesn't change a thing that changes anything, but  if you check around, you'll discover the majoritiy of the columns I write and will continue to write deal with many of the same issues that annoy us all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let's hope this continues, or we air our differences constructively.

 

JUST SAY NO IN NOVEMBER

 

 

 

So let me ask this if the Council had given the go ahead to put this on the ballot back in July, what would be the difference between where we are now and where we would have been last month?  I just am not getting all of this excitement over this Petition.

 

It either passes or fails and the people have had their say, as it should be.

 

 

That decision would mean that people who signed the petition would see a DIFFERENT issue on the ballot(not necessarily as the petitions that were signed)?

 

Doesn't sound legally correct imo