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Please vote . . .
with your heart and common sense.
Please vote . . .
with your heart and common sense.
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Hi,
I am a senior citizen and Petaluma has been
my home for the past 35
years. I love Petaluma. It is a wonderful City with plenty
of history and wonderful people. Like everything else or anywhere
else, politics is not perfect in Petaluma. Sometimes a group of
people can govern a city and if no one pays attention, bad regulations
can become laws.
It happened in Petaluma in 2004 when a
group of people with too much
influence with City Council drafted an ordinance that Council passed
unanimously. The result has been high cost to the City and
citizens of Petaluma and the death of hundreds innocent animals.
You can find out more here: Petaluma Feral Cats
And please vote . . .
with your heart and common sense.
I like Samantha Freitas as a person, however, as a member of the
Petaluma City Council, in my opinion and experience, I don't think she
is responsive to her constituents. I don't think Samantha Freitas
should be awarded a seat on the Petaluma City Council.
In 2004 the Petaluma
City Council voted unanimously
to adopt an inhumane law that banned outdoors cats from almost the
whole city of Petaluma. The ordinance was drafted by
Petaluma Animal
Shelter Manager, Nancee Tavares and a group of Shollenberger Park
Docents and modeled
after organizations such as ABC and PRBO. (Read about it here)
Soon after adopting the ordinance, animal shelter began the
extermination of Petaluma outdoor cats.
Recently Samantha
Freitas
met at my home with a group of concerned citizens and we
spoke solely about the ordinance and feral cats. Samantha Freitas
was not on City Council in 2004 and I don't know how she would have
voted had she been, but I know that if the ordinance came to council
now, I think feral cats would have a fair chance with Samantha
Freitas. She is an animal lover and now understands the plight of
Petaluma feral cats.
Marcelle Guy
What others say:
Published:
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 6:22 a.m.
As published in the Press Democrat
Vote for Burton
Copied here with permission from Diane
Reilly Torres
EDITOR: People
don’t realize how Petaluma’s layoffs and service cuts
will affect them and why it is so important to elect City Council
candidates who are fiscally responsible.
Karen Nau and
Samantha
Freitas with the rest of the current City Council established goals and
priorities for 2008. A top priority was to ensure the fiscal strength
of the city by planning for the impact of the state fiscal crisis. In
February, the council was given an update on revenues and expenditures
of the city. They were told “expenditures will have to be monitored
very carefully over the balance of the fiscal year to not exceed
budget,” overtime must be watched closely to remain within budget, and
revenues are anticipated to be flat due to the housing crisis, yet Nau
and Freitas were surprised when told about the budget shortfall.
Petaluma has made
the most drastic cuts in Sonoma County.
Spence
Burton’s years of financial experience balancing a million-dollar
budget, his expertise in negotiations with people and his willingness
to make the City Council his only job makes him the most qualified
candidate.
Vote for Spence
Burton. Burton will make Petaluma a better place to live for all of us.
DIANE REILLY TORRES
Petaluma
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