Carol Stone’s Special World
November 26, 2009 1 Comment
Sunnyside Council Member Carol Stone must live in a “special world”, where she does not know anyone who did not vote for her. She is also emulating tactics from Al Gore’s failed bid for the Presidency in 2000.
She was quoted by the Daily Sun News as saying:
“A lot of the citizens told me they don’t feel it’s possible that my opponent got that many votes,” she said. “They don’t know anyone who voted for him.”
By “him”, she is of course referring to Don Vlieger, who is the certified winner of the election in her district.
Now, Carol Stone has ponied up $344 to have the County Auditor do a hand recount of ballots. She has inferred that the process of electing Council Members is somehow tainted.
As a candidate during this election cycle, I did not see this. In fact, we had two incumbents lose, and one that was narrowly re-elected. Carol Stone just can’t accept the fact that there is a large group of citizens that don’t like the job she has done on the Sunnyside City Council. (Hundreds of voters cast ballots for her opponent.)
The incumbents did not fair well in any of the contested races. It is clear there is much discontent with the Council in Sunnyside. However, in Carol Stone’s special world, she does not seem to know anyone who voted for Don Vlieger. Her “supporters” do not know anyone who did either.
This reminds me of what a liberal mainstream news reporter said of the 1972 landslide election of Nixon:
“I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know…”
Carol Stone is proving that she is just as out of touch as the infamous reporter who did not know anyone that voted for Nixon.
Yes, it was a close election. No Carol, you did not get a runaway victory over Don Vlieger. He beat you, fair and square. Your failure to recognize this diminishes you. It also causes voters to doubt the integrity of the process, which saddens me. Stop your whining, and pardon the pun, Stone-throwing; and deal with it.
The citizens you claim to care about will be better served by having a smooth transition into the next term of the City Council.
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It does not seem that Stone could have lost this election??? Just because her first run she lied about her opponnent. Then she comes out and said that she was for the poor and needy. And the first thing she did was turn in her 72 year old widow woman for what she called a messy yard. You do not help the old and poor by turning them into the city. You go to their house with your pickup (which she has ) and asks to help them clean it up !
Ms Stone really let her council position go to her head. She did not want to be just a council member, but a elitest in this city. She would go to building sites and check up on every job and talk to the contractors. Many contractors were aggravated that she bothered them. She thought she should do the building department’s job and the city manager’s job ! If she would let some of that air out of her head and come back to earth. Just possibly she could have done her job as she promised she did.
Ms Stone was never voted in for her abilities in the first place. She was voted in for friendship and it proved friendship can kill a city! Ms STone some how does not realize that she is not liked by the people who believe in running a city within the boundaries of the law. Not running a city by Stones laws.