JQ,
I am certainly not bitter. I learned alot about people, the township and politics during the last 8 months. I am glad I was able to participate in the political process and have my voice heard. It was a great learning experience. Indeed there is a bit of disappointment in falling short of our goal, but that is to be expected.

My words were not meant to offend. Thinking that a bunch of Democrats would fall prey to some Republicans conspiring to oust the Democratic leadership, however, was indeed naive. You repeated the same statement that Tina made that was nothing more than a baseless attempt to rally the Democrats to vote no. Congratulations to her...it worked. If this was some Republican conspiracy, then what genius Republican was leading this effort? I participated in meetings with ANP and I can honestly say it was a group effort. There was no one leading people to believe anything that they did not already feel was true.

As for the others, I don't believe it is insulting at all to state that people are uninformed. I attended several Planning and Board meetings and there were typically very few other citizens in attendance. How can people be informed if they don't participate? I used to live east of US23. People over there don't feel part of the township to any significant degree. And again, those people do not send their children to Saline schools, so they had no equity in the outcome of the vote.

By the way, I don't get the feeling that a vote "no" was a vote of confidence for the officials. Rather, people didn't seem to feel comfortable with ousting leadership outside the normal elections. Yes there were people who supported the three, but by and large people felt that breaking laws are the only justification for ousting leadership before their terms expire. Since there were no legal proceedings against these three that could be resolved prior to August 8, then those people simply didn't have just cause in their minds to vote "yes."

Bret,
Your elected officials went door to door to the homes of petition signers to demand an explanation for why they signed. Those visits fell outside their job responsibilities. That was personal time dedicated to save their jobs. Of course you can characterize that as hard work...their jobs were on the line. The next time you have a local concern and want action, then visit a Board meeting and see how far you get.