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NIMBY or Palestine? If you’re watching a speaker at the public comment portion of City Council meetings, you usually have to choose just one. But now Ann Arbor has a council candidate that embodies both of these hot local causes. Third Ward Green Party candidate Pete Schermerhorn supports a greenway, opposes loans to developers like the Broadway Village one and laments a “pro-development-at-almost-any-cost environment,” although he does support a reconsideration of accessory dwelling units and some development downtown. He also calls for “divestment from oppressive governments such as Israel.” And if that isn’t enough, he “helped found a simplicity circle.”
Pete is a great guy and would make an excellent representative.
posted by Worker Bee on September 20th, 2006 at 12:09 pm eIs that Lee Siegel?
posted by Dale on September 20th, 2006 at 12:25 pm ewhat is a simplicity circle?
posted by Alex(andra) on September 20th, 2006 at 1:01 pm eDale,
posted by tom on September 20th, 2006 at 1:06 pm eouch!
Alex(andra): it’s not like a complication square, I’ll tell you that much. It’s not much like a conflict triangle. It’s kind of like a diplomacy oval, in a way.
posted by Nitro on September 20th, 2006 at 1:23 pm ePete S. also supports divestment from Sudan, along with dangerous ideas like “Encouraging students to register to vote in Ann Arbor”.
posted by David Boyle on September 20th, 2006 at 1:26 pm eWe better watch this guy.
Nitro: That’s awesome. I love geometry!
posted by Alex(andra) on September 20th, 2006 at 1:54 pm eI will refrain from making the obvious comment about “simplicity” and this candidate.
posted by Dave Cahill on September 20th, 2006 at 1:59 pm eD. Cahill - he knows simple… it s complex he has to work on.
posted by anon on September 20th, 2006 at 9:24 pm eSpeaking of Israel, happy Rosh Hashanah!
David Boyle
posted by Shana tova umetukah 5767! on September 22nd, 2006 at 6:20 pm eI hope that people who are serious about politics here in Our Fair City will run in Democratic primaries. It’s a waste of everyone’s time and effort to take any other route.
posted by Dave Cahill on September 23rd, 2006 at 12:23 pm eTo be fair, here is another religious holiday happening the same weekend, also largely from the Middle East.
Happy Ramadan! Salaam alaikum!
David Boyle
posted by Ramadan mubarak 1427! on September 23rd, 2006 at 8:54 pm e