Boulder's Gang of Four on Longmont's City Council were elected on an anti-developer political cause. Soon after achieving a voting block majority Longmont Mayor pro tem Karen Benker gave the Key to the City of Longmont to a development consortium far more powerful than Longmont's sovereign Housing Authority making her a proxy vote for the City of Boulder on Longmont City Council. Like old New York Tammany Hall, Boulder's developer has access into City process to strongly influence the actions of Longmont Community Development and Longmont Housing Authority. The City of Boulder's agent operates within Longmont City government through the modus of a non-profit developer incorporated by Boulder's City Attorney, a Boulder County Commissioner and a Boulder Lending & Secured Transactions Attorney. In its beginning this private entity disguised like a Central Intelligence business cover enterprise to hide government involvement in private business started as a non-profit corporation named Boulder's Best, Inc. today is re-named The Thistle Group, LLC, the operating group accomplishing, withfull cooperation of Boulder's Gang of 4, de facto annexation of Longmont for outsourced Boulder Low-Income Housing.
The exodus from Boulder keeping it a high-tax, low-prosperity zone comes from the 10% rationing of homes for Boulder's working poor who eat, need shelter and multiply. Public funds, private charity and government grants are channeled through BHP to assist the intentional population migration of economically segregated to Longmont in accordance with Boulder's Danish plan restricting the amount of ground available to the free market in order to boost its value. Boulder's manipulation of 90% new housing pushed 56%-60% of Boulders Affordable housing into Longmont between 1990 and 2000.
This economic migration to the North East increased the average drive time to work in 2000 to18 minutes increased Boulder County's carbon footprint another 7 by minutes driving time per vehicle in 3 years times. Meanwhile the volume of driving increased in 36 months by 50%-60% County and City streets. So the effect of the real change already on City Council is simply replacing private capital fueled developers with government controlled "non-profit developers" such as Thistle to facilitate outsourcing of Boulder's low income housing to Longmont. Election of Juday would only increase the margin against right reason on Council. Thus Longmont will become less competitive with surrounding cities which will mean fewer choices for goods and services, higher prices and tax sharing of the City's own scarce revenues with Boulder.
I believe a vote for Gabe Santos is a vote for the whole community'schildren and grand-children's rights in the future to live and work in their ownhome town, if they choosewith equal opportunity, without being government contract employees.