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In a 5-2 vote, with Mayor Jim Clinton and Councilor Doug Knight dissenting, the Bend City Council approved a motion finding councilor-elect Casey Roats qualified to be elected to City Council. We’ll have more in this week’s issue, online and on stands Wednesday.
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by Erin Rook, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 1, 2014
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Casey admitted last night several times in several ways that he did not reside in Bend the twelve months prior. He used four different addresses, PO BOX, business address, old address, soon to be new address…all while he lived at his parents. He held no Bend address as his residence. I DIDN’T MAKE THE RULE, but as a candidate, I did qualify by it without special consideration from friends on council, and in the city’s legal department. Special priveledge in Bend rules today. However, The Lie remains, and his appointment to Council will not help him escape the consequences of the lie he left in writing.
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Poor Rondo is failing to see the humor the rest of the nation will enjoy if the AP picks up this story
Imagine the fun headline of:
Ringo & Rondo launch RESIDERS to Rid Resort town of Roats
The story might be:
Following in Donald Trump’s fabulous successes with the BIRTHER movement, local politician’s Charlie Ringo and Ron (Rondo) Boozel have set out to prove that newly elected Bend councilor Casey Roats should not be considered an eligible resident, hence the moniker RESIDERS.
Ringo and Rondo concede that the last four Roat’s generation have been born in the Bend hospital, but note that Casey’s grandfather was not born in Bend and only lived in that town for 60 years. They also concede that there a road in town named after the Roats family, but note that it is only a few blocks long. They point that Casey’s only real connection to the community is he runs the Roats water company which his family has operated for nearly 100 years, that he has never lived in a town other than Bend, that he attended Bend schools, and that is a member of several Bend organizations.
Wow. This is the first time that “Make Local Habit” actually applied to anything in Bend.
Nice try with the underhanded legal tactics, though. You all still lose.
I have thought all along that–at some point–there HAS to be some clarity in the very important matter of who should be deemed qualified to run for public office. Because the Bend City Charter was not specific enough, the door has been opened to this very contentious debate. It has been drummed into our heads all our lives (and rightfully so) that we are a “government of laws and not of men” (John Adams). When the law is not specific enough, as is the case here, then the interpretation of how it is enforced gets muddied by politics and perceived favoritism. This is a case where, I believe, it is entirely proper for the Judiciary to step in to rule; then, it should be up to the City Council to clarify the language of the Charter.
So sorry you lost Rondo! My condolences. If only you put this time and energy into helping the people of this community.