Recall only Orville Nelson who brings shame to Lakeside

Lakesideinfo.com Editorial

If one has any doubt about where the chaos in Lakeside emanates and who is behind the five member council portion of the recall, one has to look no further than the mayor, Orville Nelson, and his January pronouncement of the recall.

Nelson promised this recall of those who opposed him back then, at the very first council meeting to newly elected council woman Elaine Armstrong.

The current recall elections are really a dueling two-side event; a separate effort was added only after the first one was put forward. The latter is a counter-move to recall Mayor Nelson and Councilor Crockett, put forward by Calvin Walker.

Walker only did so when it was known that it would be at no extra cost to the city. That was key because Nelson’s push to recall the five councilors will cost the city over $5,000.

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So, there are actually two distinct efforts going on at once.

Voters have a number of options afforded them by means of the recall ballot on the mayor and each of the six council members that comprise the entire Lakeside city council.

First, much has been spoken in town against recall in general. Early-on that made the most sense.

When Senior Center President Kathy Gould, wife of losing city council member from the past, Buford Gould,  first filed the recall against the five councilors who oppose Nelson, it was greeted by many with a negative response. The overwhelming voice was: “No recall.”

It is clear that an out of control mayor was using the anger over the senior rent situation to that the organized seniors were feeling over the enforcement of the established rent, as puppets to snuff out those who didn’t vote his way on the council, as he stated in January.

Nelson and Gould put forward their recall against five councilors, who were acting as the necessary checks and balances on the council.

Then, add to the mix a shamefully inaccurate “newspaper” by Jessica Lloyd-Rogers with pro-Nelson propaganda.

Her ability to misinform and confuse is matched by counterpart Nelson’s  mean spirited, and violent temper, which he has shown since taking power in Lakeside.

Nelson, you’ll recall, is the one and the same mayor who threatened a fistfight against Council President Rod Schilling at a summer council meeting.

Nelson’s signature to a pledge means nothing to him

If you remember in 2006, Nelson paraded himself as a reformer, inking a promise with his own signature to a full reform package. That was turned asunder and ridiculed by the office-holding Nelson. He reasoned that politicians never follow through with promises, so why should he?

He went about hiring his friends and people who would come to owe him. He got fellow councilor Tim Crockett (Nelson’s lone supporter left on the council) a job with the water district as a then, board member and personnel director on the Water District board.

He got his friend Phil Heley a job running the sewer plant by changing the job description, which, as mandated by state law, requires that job to be held by a state certified, well trained person.

Nelson colluded with the former attorney to eliminate the requirements in the job. We all know the trouble he caused to the city as a result, including threatened legal sanctions and fines by the State of Oregon.

Nelson hired Suzy Marcy, the one and the same person who named him as the mayor candidate within the group promoting a better government in 2006 (Marcy paraded her Christianity to the group too, but couldn’t wait to pressure Nelson for a payback after the 2006 election was successful.)

We know how that ended.  Suzy Marcy was ill qualified for the job and subsequently terminated for good cause. She was unanimously fired by the six council members, including, to his credit, Tim Crockett.

It’s time to end the reign of the one who would be king. Power is too corrupting, even to the smallest level of elective office.

We urge all citizens to keep the five council members’ Rod Schilling, Elaine Armstrong, Mack Eubanks, Chrysta Swift, and Clark Anderson by voting “No” on recall.

On the other hand, the recall of Orville Nelson is justified. Knowing that there has been abuse of office and clear violations of law, one can only be led to that conclusion.

The future of Lakeside needs to be in the hands of those that want the laws to pertain to all equally, that have vision and see Lakeside as a beacon of what is good and right in a small town.

With the five council members way of governing, you see increased community involvement and citizen committees and participation. It is a more open government where secret deals and abusive spending is no longer the way.

One final note: Nelson has tragically become even more hard-hearted since his amazing recovery from a serious accident last year. His off topic and rants against his supposed enemies at council meetings display an astounding lack of decency and propriety. You will be hard pressed to find this kind of blathering–even sometimes slandering–at any other government meeting in any city in America.

Nelson’s thoughtless, relentless lies and scaremongering needs to be put to an end. Enough is enough.

More later this week on ultra-liberal Jessica Lloyd-Rogers, her past, and the unholy alliance between her “newspaper” and the professed Christian Orville Nelson.