Regarding Marysville’s Mayor Dave Weiser and his stealthy maneuver around his citizen employers’ oversight: I am flabbergasted at his actions. Several questions beg answers from the mayor and his cohorts on the council.
First, why did he fail to disclose information he possessed which was vital to the decision-making process of the voters? The information was about a candidate, Tom Grady, whom he publicly supported. While Mr. Grady certainly deserves the presumption of innocence unless proven guilty that our legal system espouses, he has admitted in writing to covering up financial irregularities while working for his employer, Albertson’s. That in itself shows a lack of judgment, which would disqualify Mr. Grady from public office in the minds of most thoughtful voters. In whose interest was Mr. Weiser acting when he chose to hide that information from the voters?
The second question is why the precipitous rush to swear in Mr. Grady under the most unusual circumstances? And why did three council members vote to continue this highly unusual swearing-in process after Mr. Grady was placed under investigation of felony forgery? Where do their loyalties lie? Mr. Weiser’s response that “it was legal” doesn’t really satisfy the citizen’s right not to be treated like his subjects.
It is legal for a corporation to avoid its debts by selling its assets, but not its liabilities, to another corporation, then dissolving the original corporation. Shuffle the officers a little and continue to do business, perhaps in the same location. Perfectly legal but not ethical or even moral, and it deprives the original creditors of their constitutional right to due process, since the original corporation never goes bankrupt. Mr. Weiser’s peevish complaints about the protestors at the Dec. 10 “swearing in” seems to indicate that he knows who he works for, and it isn’t the voters.
There are a lot of questions about judgment here, good and bad, for Mr. Grady, the mayor and the other supporters of Mr. Grady. Not the least is what does NormaJean Dierck know about council matters that make it so important to keep her off the council that you would cover up damaging information about her designated replacement? I would remind the voters that if these people are still in office after the next election, you have no one to blame but yourselves.
Marysville
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