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By: Michael de Yoanna

Category: Panorama, Politics

Posted: June 8, 2010 10:54 AM

Fort Collins: Where Bicycle Racks and Climate Change Are Un-American?

Things are getting crazy in Local Governmentland---namely, Fort Collins, where last month the city clerk approved petition forms attempting to recall City Councilwoman Lisa Poppaw, giving her critics until June 18 to collect 1,086 valid signatures that could oust her. Her crime? Supporting city environmental efforts, including a Climate Action Plan, according to the Fort Collins Coloradoan. The paper's own editorial board has called the recall effort "harassment," as Poppaw is inexplicably singled out for legislation that other council members also supported. In May, the paper wrote: "The statement of recall filed to justify asking voters to remove Poppaw reads like some one-world government conspiracy theory out of the 1960s." But that hasn't stopped residents like Stacy Lynne, whose letter to the newspaper accuses Poppaw of supporting an international organization for local governments and the Climate Action Plan of supposedly destroying business. For instance, Lynne writes, the plan "includes goals of eliminating personal-vehicle travel. Six vehicle spaces were removed for on-street bicycle parking. This costs surrounding businesses $1,800,000 annually." While that figure certainly deserves scrutiny, Lynne sums up the crux of the recall effort against the councilwoman: "Poppaw's allegiance to foreign organizations and foreign goals is costing taxpayers millions of dollars and is a violation of her sworn oath to honor the Constitution." While other residents praise Poppaw, as well as her fiscal responsibility, in more letters to the newspaper, Poppaw herself is on the defense. Her website includes a plea for campaign donations. She writes: "I'm proud of my record protecting essential services, protecting our environment, and making sure our taxpayer dollars are spent in a fiscally responsible way---with accountability and transparency."
Comments

"Manmade Climate Change" is the biggest scam ever and all those perpetuating it should be prosecuted. Ft. Collins appears quite sane compared to the raving enviro lunatics in Boulder.

I have studied intensely the "globalists" very successful efforts to create a monolithic world government system right down to the local level. There are hundreds of quotes from the globalists themselves or their agents that document what they are up to, and what they say in these quotes is not only un-American but "treason" for any public official who supports globalists aim at any level.

I applaud Ms. Lynne for holding her representatives accountable for diverting Ft. Collins resources to support ICLEI's agenda here and in Loveland, and raising her neighbors' awareness of where their representatives' actual allegiances.

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