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Ms. Clapp and Ms. Hanstad have added their Candidate Statements. Click "Ojai City Council 2008" under Resource Pages in the upper right to read them.

Ms. Horgan has added her candidate statement. Mr. Lenehan is serving overseas until the end of August - we'll get his candidate statement added upon his return.

Congratulations to Sue Horgan for finally submitting her candidate statement! She will come under close scrutiny here, but she gets points for joining the dialogue!

I was particularly interested in item #4 of her guiding principles:

"Ojai’s small town character and sense of community must be preserved."

Does she really mean this, or is it just lip service? How does she intend to apply this principle to the proposed Mallory Way Monstrosity??

Can she really be objective about that project when her husband is in league with Jeff Becker (Becker the Wrecker of Mallory Way) on the Board of Directors of Ventura County Bank??

Just to be clear, Sue submitted the statement a few days ago, but I was out of town. Any lag was due to my schedule, not any hesitancy to participate on Sue's part.

Mr. Lenehan has added his candidate statement, sent from "an Army installation in Korea." You can check it out by clicking "Ojai City Council 2008" under Resource Pages in the upper right of the page.

In the interest of fairness to the other candidates, it should be pointed out that an official Candidate Statement is limited to no more than 200-words. Mr. Lenehan's statement is over 500 words. This is not the same statement that voters will be getting in their election booklets.

This is being corrected, thanks Suza.

Suza,
Your candidate statement is 211 words...Jim

Hi Jim,
Thanks for checking.
A few standard words like the Candidates name at the top of the page are not part of the actual count. Our City clerk hand-counted the words several times and I also checked on my computer. My statement, according to the understanding we have on where the word-count starts, is exactly 200 words.

It might be of interest that the cost for publishing a Candidate statement this election was $600, payable up-front.

Candidates have the option of signing a waiver that they do not wish to publish a Statement, in which case they do not have to pay to have their name on the ballot.

In 1996 my cost for the Candidate Statement was $350.

If more people run and chip in for Statement publication, the cost goes down a bit.

Suza,
I count 204! You'd better recheck...Darlene

wouldn't it be great if people were as concerned with WHAT suza said as they are with measuring to the millimeter the number of words she used to say it....

Thank you, Darlene, did you have a chance to read my above response (comment #9) to Jim?

(I do appreciate you checking...if I did go over the County will edit it -- I'm pretty sure our City Clerk knows where to start counting!)

It would appear both Suza and Mike have exceeded the 200 word limit.

dear dr. rex humbug,

looks to me like you are having a little trouble with your addition.

suza's word count has been officially vetted by the city clerk.

and her actual statement is only 178 words.

where did you say your got your "dr.'s" degree from?

and what kind of dr. would that be? dr. of flimflam, perhaps?

I believe Dr. Humbard is correct... The stench of deceit abounds!

No stench of deceit here, except from those needing attention
for their insecurities and deception campaigns!