CITIZEN WATCHDOG

9. You could have expected it: the mayor gets unethical kickback contracts, funnels public money (lots of it) to campaign cronies (lots of them), ignores and/or flaunts important city charter laws... violations galore. But do city hall, the city attorney, and the Reno Gazette care? No! Instead they have to nit-pick on one of the 2 councilpersons people can depend on... about how much time she spends in her apartment. How far away is the Ethics Commission? (See below for an example of their pieces of "work".)

8. The Reno Gazette had it backwards about the cop who got 21 University credit hours in just 1 month. What is germane is that it is beyond bizarre that the so-called Nevada Ethics Commission found absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that this cop got a promotion ahead of more honorably qualified officers... as a result of obviously bogus (no classes, no homework, no tests...) school credits. The currently constituted Ethics Commission has once again proven it is a joke... that needs to be replaced by regular citizens... and not the "usual suspects". ["Click" for more E.C. Whitewashes]

7. Reno city council has ORDERED Home Depot to not make more than 50 decibels of noise and to not operate any equipment between 11PM and 6AM.
This council totally ignores, on the other hand, that their Reno Airport makes 100's of decibels of noise... all day AND ALL NIGHT LONG!

6. School Bonds: Could it be that if school overcrowding gets bad enough, maybe it will help reduce the invasion? Developers and casinos do not pay their fair share for the negative impacts their businesses create. If fewer people buy their buildings or gamble in their saloons, then just maybe the cancerous growth will slow down, the invasion will slow down, and Reno will be back to where it doesn't need new schools.
Shouldn't these folks who who cause Reno's overcrowding, and thus create the need for schools, have to pay for them?

5. Do workers in Reno restaurants have to prove they are not health risks? Rumor has it that food handlers (cooks, busboys, etc) in the area do not have to go through any pre-screening to determine whether they have contagious diseases... such as the Lower Euphrates Whooping Klangeldankel or the Notorious
Oowagadoogoo Flu... in their backgrounds. Why are workers required to get Work Cards... but not Health Cards? You go figure...

4. Cronyistic corruption at cityhall never ends. On 20 April this city council, with the mayor conveniently sitting on the sideline... (so he wouldn't have to answer embarrassing questions?), voted to give the Reno mayor's campaign fund raiser ($30,000 raised already... from the "usual suspect" fat cats) a plush contract funded by citizens' taxes. Not a peep of disclosure. The contract was ostensibly for $20,000... but the "fine print" included another $125,000 that was earmarked for the mayor's campaign fund raiser.
4a. Candy Pearce spoke courageously in opposition, and she and councilman Pierre Hascheff recognized the cronyism and voted against this insult to integrity in government.
4b. Folks, no wonder the mayor's re-election juggernaut is so powerful... it's funded by the voters.
When you start seeing his billboards and TV ads, please remember that YOU ARE PAYING FOR THAT! $$$THOUSANDS OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE BEING FUNNELED TO HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN... DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY...

3. The aviation amateurs at the Reno Airport think they can get rid of their stink by dumping the Director and his right hand man. Not! Eliminating these 2 mouthpieces for the diabolical atrocities committed against innocent citizens in Rewana Farms won't save them. There will be no justice until most of their fat cat-surrogate trustee-bosses are completely removed from the Airport. Courageous citizens will continue to demand an independent investigation of the plot to confiscate federal funds to destroy the ambiance of Reno... in the name of greed and avarice... Out damn Spot!
3a. And bloated Golden-Parachute goodbye gifts are out of the question. Give them what they gave the downtrodden proletariat in Rewana Farms... a swift kick in the butt-afooko.
3b. A question stares everybody in the face: Why would they fire these people... and then confiscate citizens' funds in a $475,000 payoff scheme? Do these antics invite suspicion of blackmail? What do these 2 cronies have on their former bosses? What are they holding over their heads?
3c. How does Washoe County expect citizens to approve a huge school bond, when they waste the taxpayers' money like this. Prediction: This latest insult will be the catalyst that hammers the last nail in that coffin...

2. Questions for the current Reno mayor:
"Mr mayor (and council surrogates), it is noted beyond any doubt that downtown is dropping drastically in value... as well as the home values for any poor slobs who thought you could be a good mayor."
"What are you going to do to correct these and a myriad of other problems???"
"We want to know... now!"
"And, Mr mayor, why did you think it was a good idea to cause these conditions? Is this a payoff to the downtown casinos, lowering their assessments? Or did you really destroy property values..."

1. The current mayor must be jealous... he only likes it when citizens at Reno city council "guffaw" at HIS "antics".

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