The new Sammamish Review is out today, if you don’t have access to the tangible version of it, you can always see it online HERE. One of their stories is on the Initiative & Referendum vote. You can read that article HERE.
And, in what was a play on a Christmas story we all know well, former Planning Commission member, Joe Lapinsky, sent in a pretty funny editorial to the Review which was published today. If you’ve got the time, it’s worth the read:
DIRECT LINK TO THE EDITORIAL IS HERE where you can comment on the letter if you’re so inclined.
Text of the Editorial published in the Review:
A Sammamish poem about government
Borrowing heavily from Clement Clarke Moore’s, “A Visit From St. Nicholas:”
‘Twas the night before a City Council meeting, when all through City Hall
Not a council member was stirring, not even the tall;
The council’s agenda was posted to the city website with care,
In hopes that citizens soon wouldn’t be there;
The citizens wrestled with worry all night in their beds;
While visions of an unaccountable City Council danced in their heads;
When out in the grass roots there arose such a clatter,
The public sprang from their beds to follow the chatter.
With the shine of computer screens on their eyes,
Some Citizens for Sammamish started to cry,
Their wondering eyes had found a solution,
It was the Washington State Constitution.
By using a provision from 1912,
The citizens knew everything would end well.
As the citizens turned off their computers and lights,
They knew they finally had their rights.
They whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
Now, Seattle! Now, Redmond! Now, East King County!
On, Issaquah! On, Bellevue! On, 85 percent of the citizens of King County!
The citizens of Sammamish wish to share in your bounty.
Like their neighbors in adjacent ‘principalities,”
Sammamish citizens had found a way to check council members’ responsibilities.
They shouted from their lawns’ manicured grass —
“Vote yes, on initiative/referendum, this needs to pass!”
Joe Lipinsky
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