The Emperor Has No Clothes
Like the Emperor in the famous Danish Fairy Tale by Hans
Christian Anderson, Pacific Mayor Cy Sun must surround himself with people who
tell him that he is doing what only a very few wise men can see is right. It’s time for the citizens of Pacific to
stand up and let him know that the Emperor Has No Clothes.
I originally gave Mayor Sun the benefit of the doubt and
believed that once he took office he would discover that all of the lies he was
encouraged to spread during the election were false and that he would apologize
to the voters for misleading them. The
problem is, if you only surround yourself with people who either share the same
delusions or are manipulating your delusions for their benefit, you will never
recognize the truth. You will
figuratively walk around in the nude believing you are wearing clothes made of
the finest material. You not only are unable to see your delusions, but you are
unable to see the impact you are having on the city you claim to care about.
I love this great city of Pacific. It pains me to see the struggles it’s going
through currently and I do fear it might be in its death throes. It pains me to
see us go from a city that was well respected regionally, was able to fight for
and win very competitive transportation funding to fix its roads and was
recognized nationally for its efforts to protect its citizens to a city that is
ready to fold. Even those people who
have always stated that “elections have their consequences” would be amazed at
how dramatically Mayor Sun has destroyed this community. The City’s Insurance
Company made it very clear; there will be no insurance as long as Cy Sun
remains in office. Without his immediate
resignation the city will not have coverage as of January 1.
Some people that are behind Cy Sun have claimed our city is
better off disincorporated.
Those people may find they shot themselves in the foot as losing
our city will most likely result in higher property taxes, a reduction in
services and no representation. You will
not see less government with disincorporation; you will only see the loss of
local control and of leaders who live right in our community and put our
citizens first.
It is amazing how much our city has lost in less than a
year. Millions of dollars that we had
secured in 2011 for widening Stewart Road, sidewalks on Milwaukee Blvd. and
other projects seem to have disappeared because of Mayor Sun’s lack of
leadership. Some great staff members
that put our citizens first and helped us efficiently move our city forward
have now left and have gone to work for other entities. When Mayor Sun took over we were a city that
not only had a balanced budget but was able to build more than $500,000 in
reserves at the same time other governments were still drastically cutting
personnel. We followed a philosophy of
sound fiscal management that built budgets around very conservative revenue
estimates and constantly looked for ways to provide better service for less
money. We now are a city that has fewer services but has to increase taxes to
present a balanced budget; that does not sound like fiscal sanity to me. Most of all we have gone from a city that was
respected for what we had accomplished or what we were doing, to one that is a
laughing stock not only regionally but across this nation. You can no longer blame the City Council or
others for the crisis our city is in.
The Insurance Company made it very clear that this is on your shoulders.
Mr. Mayor YOU HAVE NO CLOTHES. It is time for you to resign.
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