This is how community activists make it happen. It's about time that we developed some consensus and made our presence known. I believe that we are nearly twice the size of any other district and yet no-one knows we exist - especially when it comes time to fulfill promises for community amenities. I'm confident that her one-two punch of 1) proactivity and 2) bringing people together will serve us well. I really look forward to seeing what a high energy leader can do with District One.

One sees fear and arrogance at work here. The fear is related to the ground breaking of the new fire station where Ray Treathaway was taking credit for the accomplishment. Yet the fire and police attendees, who support Angelique Ashby, knew that the truth was that Angelique, as a private citizen, made the fire station happen through her shear force of will. Treathaway, who represents this area, did not make it happen. Arrogance can be seen in the blatant and very public daytime removal of an opponents campaign sign that was in the area of the fire station ground breaking. An event chock full of Ashby supporters as well as police and fire department supporters. The arrogance is further proven by the subsequent insulting lies and rationalizations. It is scary to think that the campaign manager and city paid top aide have so little concern for the intelligence of the community that they would commit the act in broad daylight then blatantly lie about it and make statements that no-one believes. Even in light of their unethical actions a simple and honest statement would have put this issue to rest. Had one of them said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done it, it was wrong, and I'm sorry I made my candidate look so bad." We wouldn't be talking about this now. It is their hubris that makes this such an issue with the public.