Sunnyside Council Member: Receiving Email Same As Murder
January 13, 2011 4 Comments
Monday night, Sunnyside Council Member Theresa Hancock compared receiving Email to murder. She urged Council Members to publicly repudiate citizens and others that send Email to Sunnyside Council Members. She said if they don’t, then it is the same as supporting the crazed gunman that recently sprayed bullets in an Arizona parking lot, injuring a Congresswoman, and killing numerous bystanders.
No, I am not making this up. Listen to this two-minute sound clip of Hancock’s latest rant:
It is offensive to me that local politicians like Council Member Theresa Hancock would try to use the tragedy in Arizona to further their political agenda (which apparently includes silencing critics of her positions on issues). Many readers of this blog subscribe to posts by Email (which you can also do, by clicking the button “Join the Conspiracy!”). Sometimes readers will forward posts to their friends and associates. Many times they end up being sent to Council Members.
Others in town use Email to communicate concerns to their elected representatives on all kinds of matters. This is all part of the public discourse, Ms. Hancock. In fact, the City Manager routinely gives out his Email address as a way to contact him about issues as well.
Are we to seriously believe that all of these Emails are the same as taking a 9 mm pistol to the local Safeway parking lot, and spraying bullets at people? That Ms. Hancock would even suggest such a thing is beyond disgusting and reprehensible.
I wish she spent as much time being concerned with real acts of violence, like the recent murder in Sunnyside that resulted in someone being shot 25 times in the middle of a city street. A murder that is still unsolved, by the way. Shockingly, she wants to hear requests for increasing budgets in every city department except the police department; and lashes out at anyone that sends Emails to Council Members.
If we really want to do something about what Hancock calls the “toxic environment” in Sunnyside, we will focus our efforts on bringing criminals to justice. Instead of trying to make it uncomfortable for citizens to contact their elected representatives about issues; why don’t we try to make it uncomfortable for the criminal gang members that are engaging in actual murder and according to Sunnyside’s Promise, sex trafficking in our city? Did you ever think of public safety as being something we should focus local government on Ms. Hancock?
Well, lots of us think public safety is at the core of what our local government should provide for its citizens. Frankly, I don’t give a damn whether you find my saying so to be offensive or not. It is what I, and many Americans believe our local government’s basic function should be. In addition, I don’t care how many times this message gets Emailed to you. I also don’t care how many other people Email you to tell you to focus on issues of public safety, while you continue your incoherent rantings at public meetings.
I refuse to sit idly by when you try to smear the character of people in this town that are involved enough to care about what goes on at City Hall. I will also call you out when you try to use your bully pulpit of Council Member position to compare your critics to criminals that commit heinous acts of murder.
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Wow, Hancock has gotten weird. I guess she thinks she was elected queen instead of a representative to the people! I think she has been watching Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and taking lessons from him. A good council member would ASK for emails on a constant basis to see if she is actually representing the taxpayer or herself. Looks like the position has gone to her head !
Hancock regarding the BAN on email to Councilmen. A comment from anyone reading this article would be appropriate. Hearing the sound bite was unbelievable – but true.
Thank you for providing a window into the proceedings of our elected officials…it is crucial to making responsible choices in November.
Jim Stevens
President
i-WATCH
According to Sunnyside City Councilman Hancock –
the access to elected officials (Council) should be limited – at least in the form of emails.
Yes, this is the same person who was quoted 6-4-2010 as saying, “Backroom deals by councilmember’s are exactly what the citizens fear and should be protected from.”
She says she opposes private dealings and yet, curiously discourages OPEN PUBLIC ACCESS to elected officials…email.
Possibly the “backroom deal” she was referring to was the collusive effort to influence the change of Sunnyside’s insurance carriers, that occurred 8-30-2010. In those, infamous meetings, several of the Council were blindsided with the pressure of a mandated vote after they were strategically supplied with last-minute information. Unknown to them was that the WCIA Company had already been a prearranged selection for the insurance company to replace the, then current company, CIAW. The detail of that BACKROOM deal, which began before 6-4-2010, was a classical reason for the Open Public Meetings Act (OPMA)…the very legislation that Councilman Hancock continually misinterprets as a tool to escape public inspection of her agenda.
Councilman Hancock states that Council should not accept emails…one of the most effective means of communication today with our elected representatives. She is instructing Councilmen to deny themselves access to public opinion. She is instructing them to deny the voters, an efficient and effective access to their elected officials. We might ask why Councilman Hancock is so shy about OPEN PUBLIC ACCESS to the views and actions of the Council? It is well-known that The Daily Sun News habitually fails to report her actions on the Council. An example was her most recent outburst of equating the receiving emails, by Councilmen from their constituents, as being the same as supporting a mass murderer. Unbelievable, but true. Unfortunately the public was not made aware of Councilman Hancock’s agenda.
So, her outrageous actions are secluded from the voting public. When it comes time to elect our Council the main source of information, to voters, about their history at the Council meetings is the Daily Sun News – the former employer of Councilman Hancock’s husband. Maybe that is why Councilman Hancock is choosing to eliminate all other sources of OPEN PUBLIC ACCESS that might illuminate her actions, statements, and demeanor on the Council.
Jim Stevens
I-WATCH President
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