Place 5

Now is the time to run for City Council. You can put your name in until March 12th. Place 5 is currently occupied by Stormy Higgins, whose votes are among the most liberal with respect to spending taxpayer monies and creating new budgetary reasons to spend future monies. Moreover, he was a driving force behind the current Smoking Ban.

I urge--beg, even--someone with fiscally conservative values to run against Mr. Higgins, whom I actually respect quite a bit as a person, but who clearly does not understand how to reign in spending and protect individual rights. I also urge voters to recognize such a candidate and vote for him or her.