Good morning.
Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 55. Sunrise is 7:17 and sunset 6:00 PM for 10h 43m 34s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 54.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1746, the College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
Consider the following scenario:
A robber walks into a bank and presents a note to the teller. The note reads GIVE ALL YOUR MONEY. The teller activates a silent alarm, and the police arrive. Noticing the approaching officers, the robber pulls an eraser from his pocket, and makes a quick alteration to the note that he gave the teller.
The police question the robber and the teller describes the attempted robbery. The robber denies everything and tells the officers that the note he gave to the teller will prove his innocence. An officer looks at the altered note, and finds that following the erasure the note now reads GIVE ALL.
“See!” the robber explains. “It says right there: GIVE ALL! I was simply being motivational, and trying to encourage the teller to do her best work today!”
The police arrest the robber.
No reasonable person would believe the claim that erasing words erases intentions or prior actions.
In the same way, after Councilman Jim Allen offered 5 pretexts in 6 minutes for hiring a lawyer, and after he falsely denied requesting termination as part of an agenda item, no sensible person would believe that merely removing the words from an agenda item would remove the intentions behind them. See Allen’s Childish Pretexts and Councilman Allen’s False Denial. That is, however, what Councilman David Stone requested to do at the 10.3.2023 session of the Whitewater Common Council.
Two hours into that session, Stone proposed that
I would like to make an amendment as the item 25, remove the word called termination and replaced with personnel. So it reads personnel matters.
See Video @ 2:02:19.
And poof! The word termination is gone. The intention, however, cannot be so easily removed.
A reminder: Whitewater deserves better from its common council majority; this city is better than its council majority. Whitewater deserves better from its community development authority’s majority; this city is better than that authority’s majority.