Dishonesty plagues our city

Letter to the Editor:

Cooperation is a two way street, Carol L. Roberts. It requires conflicting ideas to compete until the best ideas win and resolve the conflict. Honesty is a good idea.

I’m very willing to cooperate with you on saving taxpayer money. 

First, I would require that you be honest. Councilmen Teske and Olsen were painfully patient for over half a year in their efforts to cooperate with the City Attorney, mayor Roll and fellow council members in addressing the contempt of court filing against the city. Neff joined in once Bill Bischoff left. 

The attorney, mayor and accomplices refuse to cooperate. They refused to inform Neff and the others that the filing had occurred. They refused to allow the issue to be put on the agenda for open discussion. They refuse to be truthful and transparent. They are the aggressors in this conflict between honesty and deceit.

Neff, Olsen and Teske are taking a course of action which costs the city nothing and they got the filing dropped for free. Why do you attempt to disrupt that process by saying they should rescind their formal complaint? Why won’t you cooperate with an honest effort at conflict resolution and a search for truth?

I applaud Neff, Teske and Olsen for refusing to cooperate with Payne, Roll, Williams, Desch and Raines’ efforts to disrupt the Stinger case by withholding public documents, illegally ignoring a subpoena, and driving up Payne’s firms legal fees without publicly explaining their reasons.  

I don’t know if someone is feeding you bad information or if you are being deceptive, Ms. Roberts. Our problem is not a contentious council, it is dishonesty.  

Cooperation based on lies is not cooperation, it is deception. Expect intelligent, honest people to be uncooperative with dishonest actions. 

Honesty wins in court too, just ask Olsen.   

D.C. Orr,

Libby