At the Clearfield borough council meeting, Councilman Reddinger asked our mayor if she thought that it was a good use of taxpayer money defending the borough against her law suit. Instead of asking this question to our Mayor, he should be asking it of those members of the council who voted to ask for her resignation and stripped her of the duties that she was elected to perform. It was their actions and not the actions of our Mayor that prompted the lawsuit and they should bear the responsibility for it and not her.
This is the United States of America and not some third world nation where lawful elections are undermined by disgruntled groups of individuals unhappy by the performance of said elected leader. These nations are often referred to as “banana republics” and when you attempt to change the outcome of a lawful election by stripping an elected official of the duties that this official was elected to perform because you don’t like the results of the election, then a “banana republic” is what you are in danger of becoming.
Not once in over a year’s time has the borough council offered a public explanation of what they are accusing our mayor of doing. If there is no explanation, then there must be no proof of any misconduct.
Once again, when you act on rumor, gossip and innuendos in a heavy-handed manner, you are in danger of becoming a “banana republic”. No one in Clearfield should want this unsavory reputation – and those of us signing this letter certainly do not. And what were the motives behind asking for the resignation of the mayor on the day of Gov. Ed Rendell’s visit to Clearfield? Perhaps just another example of the lack of judgment that seems so problematic with this borough council.
Dennis Miller, Clearfield
Paul Dietzel, Clearfield
Duane Berry, Clearfield
