ANTELOPE VALLEY: PUBLIC FORUM : VOTERS SEND `RESOUNDING' MESSAGE.Congratulations, Mr. Jim Ledford, on your ``resounding'' victory. I sincerely wish you the best of luck and I hope that you will concede to and focus your future efforts on the ``perception'' that trouble is brewing brewing: see beer. in Palmdale. Almost half of the voters had no problem recognizing the perception as fact. Now there's a percentage to be concerned about. The clear threat imposed by Kevin Carney car·ney n. Informal Variant of carny. to your position, in an off-year election fraught fraught adj. 1. Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama. 2. with apathy apathy /ap·a·thy/ (ap´ah-the) lack of feeling or emotion; indifference.apathet´ic ap·a·thy n. Lack of interest, concern, or emotion; indifference. , should send an equally ``resounding'' message to you as well as the City Council - one that should not be dismissed nor ignored. A substantial percentage of the citizens of Palmdale are telling you that they expect more from their city government, and its leader. Our voices will be heard once again in two short years should the message go unheeded. The eyes of Palmdale will be watching you and the council closely over the next two years and the expectations will be higher than you have ever had to strive for. Whether our numbers grow or not will depend completely on whether this city progresses to the next level or remains stuck in the status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. . Michele Lejeune Palmdale |
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