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The Longmont Examiner received the below note detailing the activities of a current Longmont City Councilwoman and a candidate for Longmont City Council regarding their level of involvement in a costly legal battle with the neighboring town of Firestone over the Union Annexation Property. One conducted a petition drive while as a sitting councilmember and the other lied about the involvement.
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Apparently Karen Benker and Kaye Fissinger are more involved in the fight with Firestone than most people know. I read on the Longmont Advocate blog that on Sept 11, 2007 Karen Benker even sent out emails to her neighbors in Prospect stating: "Hi all, If anyone is interested in signing the citizen petition to put the Union annexation to a vote of Longmont residents, I will be on my porch this Saturday morning from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. with a petition."
Apparently also, candidate Kaye Fissinger had written in a TC editorial: Back on June 25, 2009 in a Times-Call op-ed, City Council at-large candidate Kaye Fissinger said this: "No council member organized, directed or actively participated in this effort." The effort she speaks of is the petition drive in 2007 to overturn the annexation of the LifeBridge/Union property east of Longmont." There's even a picture of the two at a meeting of anti-union petition signers (ooops, but apparently that picture was removed because SOMEONE who took the pic complained to blogger?).
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To read more about this ongoing story, read the Longmont Advocate's article: Fissinger lied about Benker's Anti-LifeBridge Involvement
Also, read the Longmont Examiner article about the City Council Election and how this ongoing legal battle over the Union Development is relative to the election: Vote! Longmont 2009 City Council Endorsements
To read more about the LifeBridge/Union annexation issue:
- Longmont Advocate's LifeBridge Union coverage
- Firestone finds way to Union
- Residents start petition and local newspaper sues city council
- City's annexations null and void
- A progressive assault on Longmont area churches
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