We have ourselves an old-fashined slugfest. On July 12, we printed a letter to the editor from Mike Sylvester, Libertarian, CPA and a Harrison Square opponent, saying, among other things, that the city had not responded to 58 questions he had submitted about the project. Then, on July 25, we printed a letter (third item down) from City Attorney Tim Mangest that said, among other things, that "Mr. Sylvester also failed to note that he never sent the city a list of 58 questions that he continues to say he did." Now, Sylvester has several posts on the Libertarian Party of Allen County blog (just keep scrolling). This is the meat of it:
I decided browse through my email account to determine how many times I submitted this list of questions to various people over the last four months:
Sent to Pat Roller once by email
Sent to Tim Manges TWICE by email
Set to Greg Leatherman once by email
Sent to Mark Becker once by email
Sent to Councilman Tom Didier once by email
Sent to Councilman Talarico once by email
Sent to Councilman Pape once by email
Note: I have copies of each and every one of these emails...
Now, maybe there is a technical point that sending the questions to these specific elected and appointed officials is not the same as sending them to "the city." Otherwise, somebody's probably going to have to back down. I have no idea if Mike is asking reasonable questions or being (at least in the eyes of the city) a pest. But Harrison Square has not exactly been the most transparent project in the history of the city.
