THE "SUPPORTING CAST"! LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!

At the end of my last blog I mentioned a cell phone video of Mark Ceminsky threatening to call the Sheriff to remove two citizens from Town Hall. Well, there’s more to the story.

When the two citizens arrived at Town Hall, our public building was locked, not allowing anyone to enter. The C/I “work group” was already inside. Presently, the TKDA Planner, Merritt Clapp-Smith, arrived. As the door was still locked, she waited outside, chatting with the two citizens.

Eventually, Butch Hansen came to the door to let the Planner in. He indicated to the two citizens that they could not enter. However, those two citizens ducked under his arm and went in anyway. Then ensued the confrontation. Along with Ceminsky, Hansen is also on the cell phone video telling the two citizens that they cannot be there and they cannot even observe the meeting. Eventually, he told Ceminsky “let them stand out here all night.” He then went into the small room off the lobby. Ceminsky stayed around with his problematic threat to call the Sheriff. He even went out to the vestibule and feigned calling the sheriff, as it appeared to the two citizens. Evidently, he thought he could convince them to leave. When that didn't work, he finally gave up and went into the small room with the others.

The two citizens who only wanted to stay on top of the (unfortunately) C/I agenda-and-results-driven process (instead of an open, welcoming, listening process) went home.

This is how these two elected officials have treated the public. Supposedly their public. Is this the kind of representation that is welcoming and puts serving the citizens of the Township first? I think it is sadly lacking.








Here’s an incident that should make every citizen take notice:

Right after the end of the October Board meeting, a supervisor rudely suggested to one of the two citizens involved in the above incident that she should “just go home!” When I protested this supervisor’s treatment of a citizen, he then turned on me, eventually even resorting to calling me slurs as I was leaving, perhaps thinking I could no longer hear him! But I could.
All this happened to be caught on the recording of the meeting! Who was this “warm and fuzzy” supervisor? None other than BUTCH HANSEN. Unbelievable, yet there it is on the recording!

I REALLY don't think any person deserves to be exposed to that kind of treatment from anyone, much less her own governmental official!