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Loveland - Oct. 16, 2011
Volunteers. It is the dedicated volunteers that make an organization work including a city. If I told you
we had someone running for city council here in Loveland that doesn’t seem to think much of the
volunteers she works with, does that person belong on a city council? How about when a group of
volunteers asks this person to cease being the liaison to Loveland’s renowned Historic Preservation
Commission? Or that was already voted off another city council (Golden)? This is the situation in Ward
II with Carol Johnson running for re-election. This is an embarrassment to our ward. We can’t have
someone who thinks so little of people representing us.
Apparently, Johnson doesn’t think too much of people with disabilities either. She rejected pleas to get
at least partial funding back to the Disabled Resource Services. She doesn’t seem to know that retired
elderly people are the major growth in population in this region. There will be more need every year to
provide that population with resources. After her vote, there was a downtown event that was to help
network folks with their business. One blind lady with a guide dog was completely ignored by Johnson.
Johnson went way out of her way to not greet this lady. I stood there and watched with amazement. It
was especially rude since the blind lady was one of the co-sponsors of the event. Maybe Johnson missed
that point, which in of itself speaks volumes!
In all, Johnson has proven herself over and over again to not be qualified for this position of city
counselor. We need someone who appreciates volunteers and understands the major population
demographics. That qualification is something she sadly lacks.
Hal Mansfield
Volunteers. It is the dedicated volunteers that make an organization work including a city. If I told you
we had someone running for city council here in Loveland that doesn’t seem to think much of the
volunteers she works with, does that person belong on a city council? How about when a group of
volunteers asks this person to cease being the liaison to Loveland’s renowned Historic Preservation
Commission? Or that was already voted off another city council (Golden)? This is the situation in Ward
II with Carol Johnson running for re-election. This is an embarrassment to our ward. We can’t have
someone who thinks so little of people representing us.
Apparently, Johnson doesn’t think too much of people with disabilities either. She rejected pleas to get
at least partial funding back to the Disabled Resource Services. She doesn’t seem to know that retired
elderly people are the major growth in population in this region. There will be more need every year to
provide that population with resources. After her vote, there was a downtown event that was to help
network folks with their business. One blind lady with a guide dog was completely ignored by Johnson.
Johnson went way out of her way to not greet this lady. I stood there and watched with amazement. It
was especially rude since the blind lady was one of the co-sponsors of the event. Maybe Johnson missed
that point, which in of itself speaks volumes!
In all, Johnson has proven herself over and over again to not be qualified for this position of city
counselor. We need someone who appreciates volunteers and understands the major population
demographics. That qualification is something she sadly lacks.
Hal Mansfield
| Johnson's Record of Service Johnson Opponent Quits Race September 22, 2007 Johnson Mistreats Constituents June 27, 2008 Johnson Attempts to Remove Williams September 7, 2008 Lashes Out At Volunteers September 17, 2009 Volunteers Try To Remove Johnson September 29, 2009 Volunteers Want Johnson Out October 3, 2009 Johnson Wants Anonymous Voting (during closed session where it is illegal) August 13, 2011 |
October 18, 2011
Below is an editorial opinion by Hal Mansfield regarding Carol Johnson's current run for Loveland City Council seeking a second
term in office. An all mail-in ballot election, residents of Loveland have now received their ballots at home and have until November
1st to return them to the Larimer County Clerk.
Johnson stands nearly alone in her re-election effort as even those she supported most during her first term in public office, like
McWhinney and the Loveland Chamber of Commerce, keep a distance from her current re-election campaign and don't
reciprocate her support. Perhaps too cunning for her own good, Johnson has attempted to shake down hotel owners (with some
success) for campaign contributions arguing she helped to direct the proceeds from the occupancy tax (hotel room tax) back to
them for advertising. Everything she has done in public office she appears to have done for herself and her current anemic
re-election campaign.
Even the Loveland Reporter Herald, which traditionally favors incumbents, has endorsed her opponent citing Johnson's attempts to
hide a division on the council regarding the choice of city manager during a closed meeting and supporting an illegal secret vote of
the council by joking they really needed electronic voting. In public, Johnson has gone to great lengths to hide behind city attorney
advice as the reason she cannot listen to commoners (Staples Farm Issue) she supposedly represents while practically becoming a
stalker seeking employment or campaign contributions from any moneyed special interest requiring city council approval for any
project.
Hal Mansfield, like Johnson's opponent Phil Farley, has volunteered selflessly for Loveland hundreds of hours and deserves our
attention when he speaks about his first-hand experience having to deal Councilwoman Carol Johnson.
Below is an editorial opinion by Hal Mansfield regarding Carol Johnson's current run for Loveland City Council seeking a second
term in office. An all mail-in ballot election, residents of Loveland have now received their ballots at home and have until November
1st to return them to the Larimer County Clerk.
Johnson stands nearly alone in her re-election effort as even those she supported most during her first term in public office, like
McWhinney and the Loveland Chamber of Commerce, keep a distance from her current re-election campaign and don't
reciprocate her support. Perhaps too cunning for her own good, Johnson has attempted to shake down hotel owners (with some
success) for campaign contributions arguing she helped to direct the proceeds from the occupancy tax (hotel room tax) back to
them for advertising. Everything she has done in public office she appears to have done for herself and her current anemic
re-election campaign.
Even the Loveland Reporter Herald, which traditionally favors incumbents, has endorsed her opponent citing Johnson's attempts to
hide a division on the council regarding the choice of city manager during a closed meeting and supporting an illegal secret vote of
the council by joking they really needed electronic voting. In public, Johnson has gone to great lengths to hide behind city attorney
advice as the reason she cannot listen to commoners (Staples Farm Issue) she supposedly represents while practically becoming a
stalker seeking employment or campaign contributions from any moneyed special interest requiring city council approval for any
project.
Hal Mansfield, like Johnson's opponent Phil Farley, has volunteered selflessly for Loveland hundreds of hours and deserves our
attention when he speaks about his first-hand experience having to deal Councilwoman Carol Johnson.