Dear Editor,

I am writing about an event that I had with my local council in the Clintonville Borough that happened October 3rd, 2006. It was announced at the previous meeting that there would be an opening on the council as one of the members was voted in to be Mayor. I circulated a petition throughout the town to seek public support as I wanted the townspeople to understand that I was serious about representing them and so the council would see that I have support. I had 69 signatures on my petition. In the 2005 election I was going to run for Council but decided to throw my support towards the other write in candidate so that he could win the election as two write in candidates could have caused us both to lose. I took the petition to the council the night of their meeting, and when the proceedings started I told the Council president that I had a petition and had the 69 signatures on it would he like to take a look at it. I was totally snubbed and told that he could care less if I had a petition and that he didn’t want to see it, and said that if anyone else wanted to see it they could take a look at it. One of the council members had already nominated another so he couldn’t nominate another person. The council’s duty is to represent the townspeople’s interest and be their voice, and 69 people had spoken and said they wanted me to help them by filling the seat that was vacant. The council failed in this aspect of their responsibility because none of them would look at the petition. I’m not upset that I was snubbed and poorly treated, but that the townspeople of Clintonville were snubbed and told that their opinion doesn’t count. The two people that were nominated, the one that was picked lost the last election and is the council president’s wife. I just ask the people of Clintonville to remember this next year when they are at the polls.