STORM DEBRIS REMOVAL

As many of you know the recent wind from Hurricane Ike crippled our community in many ways. Over 300,000 without power, some for as much as 10 days, and major damage from fallen trees and debris. Not to mention the number of homes completely totalled or needing serious rehab work just to live in them.

First I would like to thank ALL the emergency crews and Lg&E personnel for their great efforts during this time of crisis in our community and the endless hours they put in working to restore basic services for us all.

I would also like to say thanks to all the citizens in our community for their efforts as well. It has been a long time since I saw so many people work together. Neighbor helping neighbor enemies now friends. It was a lesson that indeed we can all work together when necessary.

Which brings me to this.

Mayor Abramson in his infinite wisdom decided he would help with debris removal in the Louisville city limits as usual but would not do anything for the County people.

If we are to be one community why then does he continue to act like merger never happened and chooses to ignore the County people. Today a few weeks later I still see trees down everywhere, debris that has not been cleared, and people asking, even begging, for help with no response from this Mayor other than to say sorry that is your problem.

It is a pathetic example of his leadership for the WHOLE community.

While I understand that this was a serious situation, and one unforeseen here, I also believe the Mayor dropped the ball by bragging about how many people were working together in this community while at the same time not working for all he was elected to represent.

It was a blatant hypocritical moment and one we have come to expect from this Mayor.

Of course we have come to expect that from his cronies as well such as District 14 Councilman Bob Henderson, District 12 Councilman Rick Blackwell, and District 13 Councilwoman Vicki Welch who voted against an emergency ordinance to help County residents with debris removal.

These people were elected to represent the County residents in their districts and have failed miserably in this regard. In an emergency situation we depend on our leaders to help us. By voting no on this ordinance they said hey we are better than you help yourself.

Do they deserve reelection for ignoring the people of their districts in times of crisis?

I certainly hope we remember this at the polls.....