City Council: Half of our residents are invisible in this chamber. 4/14/26. Version 2.

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 City Council: Half of our residents are invisible in this chamber. 4/14/26. Version 2.


No, I will never self-censor to avoid hurting your feelings. Not now. Not then, not ever. A citizen on or off council should not be here to please you with what they say. Constitutionally I am unable, and intellectually too limited to try and see and speak the truth as best I can and figure out how to avoid hurting the feelings of an otherwise overprivileged adult.



To try and resolve differences two council people, a senior City executive and myself met for an hour and 15 minutes last week. Although maybe they were simply extending me the courtesy of the opportunity to mend my ways.

Toward that end I accepted some homework assignments gladly, they accepted none. A one way street.

One of those homework assignments was to get more knowledgeable in the history of City Council actions. It had long been on my agenda but now it was time.

My first stop was articles in the journal covering city council actions since 2023.

After a dozen or so articles, I realized that with one exception, trailer park residents taking ownership, half of the city's residents were nowhere in the room. Not in thought, not in body. Invisible. Non-existant.

The extensive articles on the logging operation and home manufacturing that was hotly debated., Frogs were considered, wetlands, deer and other critters, hikers... and affluent neighbors. I have literally used my body to protect such things and would do it again when needed.

But half of our population rotting in poverty or desperately near thereto, no thought, no mention. The jobs that they desperately need? The revenues from business to create a buffer to protect the poor against increased fees and taxes, and crumbling infrastructure? The increased business revenues for Park and sports facilities? Not the slightest hint these thousands of residents even exist.

Their fault for not being in the room? Exactly the fault of the drowning person not being able to buy themselves a yacht.

If it hurts anyone's feelings by me speaking this now and in the future, zero responsibility will I take for that. Ignore what I say the way we completely ignore that half of our population that is the neediest.

They are half of my immediate Cortez family, the neediest part, I will continue to speak.

And shame shame shame on the media here in town, print and radio. They are either willfully complicit, unwilling to offend those with the money to buy their publications, or even worse, totally blind to half of our population. Except when they can serve their consciences by throwing up harmless crumb here or there.

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