Close readers of the Half Moon Bay Review will remember me railing about an April 25 secret polling of San Mateo County Harbor Commissioners during a meeting called to appoint a replacement for Sally Campbell. If not, feel free to read this week's diatribe, er, editorial:
Well, the vote tallies were finally sent to candidate Sabrina Brennan -- nine working days after her first request. (Apparently, they were sent via email to the wrong Sabrina several days earlier.) Attached, you see the evidence of the incredible thought that went into the vote for one sitting commissioner. Sorry you can't see it very well, but you get the idea. Apparently, this commissioner thought only one of the seven people who presented themselves for interview deserved any consideration at all. That sort of subverts the process of ranking candidates, doesn't it? What if all four commissioners had done that? you could have had a four-way tie, for goodness sake.
The vote tallies provided to Brennan don't provide much sunshine into the processes of the commission. Only one of the four members -- Robert Bernardo -- put his name on his sheet. I continue to think it's a ridiculous way to choose people who control the public's money and I'm annoyed that they make engaged citizens file formal written requests when the commission's own work looks like something a second-grader would turn in.
—Clay Lambert, Editor of the Half Moon Bay Review
Close readers of the Half Moon Bay Review will remember me railing about an April 25 secret polling of San Mateo County Harbor Commissioners during a meeting called to appoint a replacement for Sally Campbell. If not, feel free to read this week's diatribe, er, editorial:
Well, the vote tallies were finally sent to candidate Sabrina Brennan -- nine working days after her first request. (Apparently, they were sent via email to the wrong Sabrina several days earlier.) Attached, you see the evidence of the incredible thought that went into the vote for one sitting commissioner. Sorry you can't see it very well, but you get the idea. Apparently, this commissioner thought only one of the seven people who presented themselves for interview deserved any consideration at all. That sort of subverts the process of ranking candidates, doesn't it? What if all four commissioners had done that? you could have had a four-way tie, for goodness sake.
The vote tallies provided to Brennan don't provide much sunshine into the processes of the commission. Only one of the four members -- Robert Bernardo -- put his name on his sheet. I continue to think it's a ridiculous way to choose people who control the public's money and I'm annoyed that they make engaged citizens file formal written requests when the commission's own work looks like something a second-grader would turn in.
—Clay Lambert, Editor of the Half Moon Bay Review
Close readers of the Half Moon Bay Review will remember me railing about an April 25 secret polling of San Mateo County Harbor Commissioners during a meeting called to appoint a replacement for Sally Campbell. If not, feel free to read this week's diatribe, er, editorial:
Well, the vote tallies were finally sent to candidate Sabrina Brennan -- nine working days after her first request. (Apparently, they were sent via email to the wrong Sabrina several days earlier.) Attached, you see the evidence of the incredible thought that went into the vote for one sitting commissioner. Sorry you can't see it very well, but you get the idea. Apparently, this commissioner thought only one of the seven people who presented themselves for interview deserved any consideration at all. That sort of subverts the process of ranking candidates, doesn't it? What if all four commissioners had done that? you could have had a four-way tie, for goodness sake.
The vote tallies provided to Brennan don't provide much sunshine into the processes of the commission. Only one of the four members -- Robert Bernardo -- put his name on his sheet. I continue to think it's a ridiculous way to choose people who control the public's money and I'm annoyed that they make engaged citizens file formal written requests when the commission's own work looks like something a second-grader would turn in.
—Clay Lambert, Editor of the Half Moon Bay Review