Quote from: HiCarry on January 06, 2012, 01:50:02 PM

Quote from: GZire on January 03, 2012, 05:21:43 PM

Quote from: HiCarry on January 03, 2012, 04:00:58 PM

I believe the City is obligated to operate the range as part of a package deal for the other lands it received from the Kaiser estate....or at least that is what we were told when we had a meeting with Kirk Caldwell, acting Mayor, and his staff, when discussing a possible public/private venture to improve Kokohead......

If it was an ordinary Mayor I would take what they said at face value, but Caldwell is an idiot.  I don't think he knows what 2 + 3 equals.

I am not sure why you believe he is an "idiot" but in terms of being "gun friendly" we couldn't have done any better for an advocate.....not only was he willing to facilitate building a classroom for use at Kokohead, but wanted to start shooting. He was particularily interested in the cowboy shoots.....

Back when he went on TV to be the City's voice for Rail he was arguing points that were clearly wrong.  I'm talking about facts represented in the City's own plan.  The other persons involved in the discussion as well as the moderator knew those facts yet he didn't.  He represented himself and by extension the City as being unable or unwilling to even have the common decency to review their own documents prior to arriving at this discussion.

When confronted with these facts rather than just saying "I will investigate this," he comes off as accusing everyone else as not knowing the facts.

This is just one incident.  After years of such behavior I personally put very little faith in him.  With Mufi you know he knows he's screwing you over, but at least he's smart enough to know what he's doing.  Caldwell..........idiot.

BTW where is the classroom?

Sorry HiCarry...............GZ went on a rantpage........

Sorry HiCarry...............GZ went on a rantpage........

No problem...as for the classroom, it was Caldwell that was pushing for it. It was his Corporate Counsel that described the terms of the trust that gave the land to the City under specific use guidelines. When the lawyer and the Parks Director kept bringing up reasons why we couldn't build the classroom, it was Caldwell that said (basically, I paraphrase...) "I just want to know how we can do this, so figure it out and get back to me so we can move forward."

With the change in the administration, I am sure neither the lawyer or the Park's guy was all too anxious to bring it up (considering all their concerted efforts to not do it...) for fear they might have to do some more work on the project.