Posted 26 August 2004 - 12:32 AM
Cybertrano,
The Council members have been criticized for not posting on this website. Andy has posted, I have requested that others post my e-mails to them, on particular issues. I have not posted because, unfortunately, much of the information that does get posted here, and is listed as fact, is, in fact, INCORRECT. I am posting directly for the first time. I have not posted in the past because I would have felt compelled to post comments about all the incorrect information that appears here, and that would be a full time job - and I already have 3 of those. Anyone who wants to communicate with me should contact me directly - I always respond.
Your reference and inclusion of a posting by Mr. Fish from just before the election in 2002 is amusing - and that is about all. As a result of that posting, and the several hundred people Bob sent that too, he got an e-mail from me. When I got the e-mail that Bob sent, I immediately responded, faxed him a copy of my campaign filings (which he already had) and told him that the next communication he would get would be a slander or libel suit from my attorney. Unfortunately, as a result of a virus on my laptop, shortly after that e-mail and subsequent to the posting on this website, I am not able to send you Bob's response. I can tell you what the jist of it was. Bob had gotten copies of all of my campaign filings and he knew - either that or he can't add - even though the addition is already done on the form - that my total campaign contributions were just under $15,000, and that the claims he made about expenditures of the Chamber of Commerce were also false, so his e-mail was an apology, the day after the election. - I must admit that I do not know the exact number as I did not receive the checks, my treasurer did. In fact, I can not to this day tell you who contributed. Since I don't know who contributed the reportable amounts, greater than 150 dollars, I don't know who it is that I supposed to owe a "payback" to.
For the record, there is a limit of $150 per person for political contributions to Folsom City Council races. Anything under $100 dollars goes into a general listinng and anything over $100 must include the name, occupation and business address of the contributor. From review of my filing - which I would ask my treasurer to provide to anyone who wants it, it will be obvious that most of my campaign money was in small donations, from long time Folsom residents, who believed I did a great job representing them while I served on the planning commission and while I served my first 4 years on the Council. So, the posting by Cybertrano is a reiteratiom of false information from Bob Fish, and, if I see it again, I may have to make good on my bringing my attorney into this.
There are a lot of places to get CORRECT information from - why not go to a good source, instead of relying on rumors and innuendo. It is really good to see debates take place here, but most of you never bother to get the facts - or you believe people like Bob Fish. What is funny it that, every couple of weeks or so, I meet someone in the grocery store, or they send me an e-mail that says they moved here a year ago - as in ONE year ago, they moved to a really cute little small town and we are allowing too much growth and destroying our cute little town. I moved here 20 years ago, to a cute little small town, before Lexington Hills (I live off Willow Creek, way before Mitchell park was developed - all we had was City Park), long before Natoma Station, Briggs Ranch, Broadstone or even Blue Ravine existed - when the population, including prisoners was only 13,000 ( I was appointed to Planning Commission in 1994 and elected to Council in 1998), so if you moved to a cute little small town in the past 10 years - then we must be doing something right. If you have ever watched or attended a Council meeting, you may think I am too opinionated, too pushy or whatever - but I go to sleep at night knowing that I have never told a lie, never gone along with the BOYZ for the sake of going along, never done anything that is not in the best interests of the RESIDENTS of the City of Folsom and never been particularly good at politics.
I will defend to the death, the right of Folsom to gain control of the inevitable development south of Highway 50. I encourage you all to go to the county supervisors meetings, as they are redoing their general plan - you know, that thing that Bob keeps telling you has been cast in stone, and can never be revised. I will also defend what I believe is in the best interest of most of us. I will do it directly and honestly and I will respond to whatever questions come up. However, I will not put up with any further accusations that my opinion is effected by development interests, political contributions or any ambition for either re-election to the Council or election to so-called higher office. I AM NOT RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION RIGHT NOW, I HAVE NEVER CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT ANYTHING I HAVE SAID DURING PREVIOUS CAMPAIGNS, and threatening not to vote for me in the future means nothing to me. I will never support anything that I believe is not in the best interests of most of the residents of the
City of Folsom. In fact, if I am ever crazy enough to run for re-election, you should assume I have gone competely insane and you should not vote for me. In the interim, I will continue to work my butt off for the best interests of the residents of Folsom within the region, on the Regional Sanitation District Board and as the Chair of the Rail JPA, past chair of the Sacramento Transporation Authority, past chair of the Sacramento Groundwater Authority and any other arena in which I represent the City of Folsom.
Please feel free to contact me directly with any questions or comments yo may have, and keep in mind, this forum is not a private conversation, and if you are making "public comments" you owe everyone a duty to ensure that your statements are either verified as being correct ane truthful or are expressed as your opinion.
Kerri Howell
Folsom City Council Member
Speaking Always and Forever the whole truth and nothing but the truth
