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Letter: Council should let the people vote

The Columbian
Published: May 16, 2013, 5:00pm

I read in the May 7 Columbian story “Council denies a vote on light rail,” that the Vancouver city oligarchy is not going to allow us to vote for or against the proposed light rail. It would seem that they are tired of voters voting light rail down so they have decided in their infinite wisdom, wisdom that they decided the voters do not have, that light rail is to be crammed down our collective throats, like it or not. As planned now, it will run only three miles from the river to Clark College, serving only those in a narrow corridor near the college. This expensive boondoggle has been voted on and defeated in one form or another three times. And now the city oligarchy is apparently going to use this underhanded method to get their way without input from the voters.

In November of 2014, some of these members of the city council will be running for office again. I will not vote for anyone who is an incumbent in any setting, city, county, state, or federal, with the likely exception of Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler. And that will depend largely on how she votes on Obamacare.

Bill Fisher

Vancouver

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