1. Announce with great fanfare that citizen suggestions are being sought for a name for the new home of 40 city and county departments.
2. Flatly reject the name that got the overwhelming majority of citizen votes.
3. In a carefully worded announcement that omitted mention of the former mayor's name, Mayor Tom Henry said today the building will be known as “Citizens Square."
Nothing irnoic to see here, proclaims the JG's Tracy Warner, so move it along, move it along:
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How many votes did "Comrades Square" get?
Mayor Henry said the name is "a combination" of "some" of the "most repeated" suggestions. Harry Baals got almost 24,000 of 30,000 votes cast.
And when the contest was announced, it was clearly stated that the new name had to be about community and city and county working together.
Harry Baals does NOT do that, does it?
And Zank's comment? Now he is saying Tom Henry is a communist? really? wow.......so very sad..........
Kevin, I keed I keed, I actually like Tom Henry and all his family too, they are good folks, I just don't agree with them politically.
Seems to me that if the Mayor wanted a name that reflected the fact that two governments were sharing the building, we could do better than "Citizens Square." As long as we are deriving names from multiple suggestions, "Heritiage Square" and "Citizens Place", we could better accomodate the Mayor's vision by naming the building "Fort Allen."
But we all know that all the Mayor really needed to do was show some Baals.