Some Much Deserved Front Page Action...

The Tazer is tickled today...it seems we've managed to piss off the right people! This is from the comment box:

"At the rate comments seem to be degrading here, the Tazer is beginning to sound mighty beligerent and uninformed.Or is it that this page is mostly about bashing the mayor and/or any attempts at maintaining control over meetings?What has this blog accomplished besides decent within our community?"

My goodness, The Tazer is flattered!

Dear "anon" (or whichever political slug was given the task of posting this),

For the billionth time: THERE IS A STANDING INVITE FOR ANY CITY OFFICIAL TO EITHER POST OR BE INTERVIEWED BY THE TAZER, UNEDITED TO DISPUTE ANYTHING WRITTEN HERE AND/OR INFORM THE READERSHIP.

If we're so "beligerent" and uninformed, would you mind posting for the readership exactly where we're uninformed? This is a problem that has bothered many, including the Tazer for some time...

If you're going to complain or make statements like the one above, support the discussion style nature of the Tazer and add facts to back your statements. Making general ones like the aforementioned make you seem desperate to try and either discredit or quiet this blog, neither of which will happen anytime soon. The Tazer promises not to edit your facts, we will leave them as you send them to us and main page them.

The Tazer doesn't disagree with the Mayor attempting to control the flow of a council meeting, and we do understand that yesterday's session was about budget business. What we've seen over time though, is a Mayor who seems to very quickly become agitated with the same people she is suppose to serve, and then become downright nasty when they may not understand her sometimes vague explanations for why they are being asked to stop talking.

Not cool, especially with an elder who was simply fed up with the LACK OF ACTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY that her public servants show on a daily basis.

Which leads to the next point: You believe we bash the mayor, when in reality, this blog is the first publication to have enough sand to call out ANY city official who isn't doing their job. It wouldn't matter who was in the office, if they were performing like Mayor Anderson has, they would be called out on a daily basis if warranted. You see, election time is when the "piper gets paid" for lack of a better term, and people's failure to do their job as public servants is magnified because they are asking us to RE ELECT THEM AGAIN, even though some may be completely incapable of being effective in service.

Mayor Anderson and others write their own ticket my friend, good or bad. We simply keep people informed and offer commentary on how good or bad a job they do. Again, our offer still stands as highlighted above...and, as of now, NO ONE has taken The Tazer up on it.

The final line is our favorite: "What has this blog accomplished besides decent within our community?"

If you consider giving people an open forum for discussion and the ability to vent and share their feelings about the COMPLETE LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY in this city to be "decent", The Tazer openly wonders what you consider "unity in our community" to be. The Tazer will not let lazy fat cats get away with not doing their jobs or pimping our city by keeping it chaos or simply not giving a damn, even if you (or anyone else) considers that to be "decent".

In closing, The Tazer awaits health discussion and disagreement if it inspires people to take action to improve our city. People are allowed to share their feelings here, and barring some outright threat of violence against another person or property, we will allow those comments to stand.