Council member McCoy's rant Tuesday night, July 16, 2008 highlights why Council is at the table looking at either raising taxes or service fees without increasing benefits or services to the citizens for the money it wants. The people are the economy; they create the money Council spends, it is their money, not Councils. Council's phony claim is the source of all the acrimony these days between Council and conservatives. This control of the economy by the Council Bloc instead of the People whose property the money is, is the root of controversy triggering conservative blogs and web sites. Councilman McCoy is applying old Senator Joe McCarthy's guilt-by-association technique to peg conservatives with the Longmont Report. Although funny, Longmont Report does step over the line at times and its lack of civility sometimes parallels the same lack of civility demonstrated by the anti-free enterprise attacks against the Union Reservoir Project. But does Councilman McCoy condemn those attacks as phony patriotism? No.

This exhibition of anti-Americanism flies in the face of the Councilman's Oath of Office opening the question: Is there no honor or decency left in local politics? The exaggerations and misrepresentations by this public official hurt the economy and promote class warfare. There are good people on Council and we are relying on them to restore decency and honor to restore a better community here at home by demanding an end to outbursts such as this one summarized on YourTube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZCYOHBXmkw.