Tulelake, CA— Editorial "Taking advantage of the city of Tulelake"
Let’s see, if I don’t pay my water bill who pays the bill, the city, or citizens of that city by higher rates due to costs from those who feel because they did not get a bill they should not have to pay it and lets months go by waiting for it to arrive. Instead takes the time to see what happens and then get all upset when the entire past amount comes due and they have to pay it in full or have it shut off.
Now you cannot afford to pay it, so you want to make arrangements on your terms for something, you, did to yourself and now want a break on something you had control to stop, before it got to this point.
Whose fault is it that you are now 6 months behind in your water bill? Is it the city’s fault or yours?
Let’s put the shoe on the other foot. If someone owes them money for a service or product and they did not send them a bill or an error was made and one was never sent or lost along the way should you have to pay them for what you got?
Why should they have to pay you, it is their fault they should have sent you a bill and then you would have paid it; but since they did not, that is their fault, not mine and I am not going to pay it, why should I it’s not my fault it is theirs.
Is that something an honest person would do or is that something a shady person would do? What do you think?
Then get mad and angry when someone points out how wrong you were for not just paying it in the first place, you owed the bill and it was your responsibility to pay it, bill or no bill. To even take the time to find out why you didn’t get a bill. But instead, I will just wait to see how long it takes before I get a bill, then I will pay it, when I get a bill.
So when that excuse no longer works. let us claim we had a written agreement on our terms, after all, since they have not sent me a water bill, they will never find the written agreement; then I will just say, "I lost it or I can’t find it."
In other words, the city did not send you a bill, so you don’t owe them anything. In turn, I guess the city could say, "since you don’t have a written contract and we can’t find it, it means you need to pay the water bill in full or have it shut off".
"But wait a minute I did not get a bill so I don’t feel I have to pay it". The city then says "wait a minute, it is not the city’s fault you decided on your own, to not pay your bill, when it came due with or without a bill". So whose fault is it that you are behind in the water bill, yours or the city for not sending you a bill for something you knew you owed anyway? The city’s bills go on and they have to be paid no matter what and so do yours, but if you chose to not pay it because you did not get a bill, once again whose fault is that, yours or the city’s?
Then get all up set because now you are embarrassed that every one knows you did not pay your bill by your choice, not the person that made it aware to everyone you were trying to take advantage of the city; due the past history of your father being on the city council that should get you somewhere with a political wedge in the side, after all he did a lot of good things for the city over the years and has. So, because of what he has done I get to benefit by getting out of not paying my water bill. That works for me.
Really, so now everyone knows you were trying to pull a fast one on the city due to your error, not the cities. So whose fault is it now? Oh, that is right, it is the fault of the guy who let everyone know in a pubic meeting what you were trying to do. After all, you got on the agenda and made it public, whose fault is that yours, the cities or the guy that made it public?
Where the simple solution would have been for you to come forward and privately handled the past bill and worked out arrangements that now you claimed in public you had a written agreement on. When one could not be found, whose fault is that again, yours, the cities or the guy that made it public. However, it is not your fault that you cannot find the written agreement you had with the city, it is theirs, for not having a better system to find things, that never existed in the first place, like the water bill you never received. So since, you did not receive the water bill why should the city honor a written contract they cannot find.
No instead let’s blame it on everyone else or the messenger for something we did to ourselves by not stepping up and paying the water bill in the first place, you knew it was due, so why didn’t you just pay it. No it is easier to blame it on someone else, the city or the guy who made it public at a public meeting that you requested to be on the agenda for in the first place, instead of handling it privately, between you and the city.
This same group who have no problem blaming others for the things they do to themselves and will go out of their way trying to make you into the villain for their dishonestly for something that is their own fault, not the city’s and most certainly, not mine.
If they are capable to be dishonest with the city, who else and what else are they capable of being dishonest about in the city or against another person?
Win or lose the election it does not matter now, because I am going to keep speaking out and there is not a thing they can do about trying to stop me from getting the truth out, over all of their lies. Not, just the one they told the city; but the ones they have been spreading and telling everyone else in their vindictive campaigns against those that disagree with them starting with the former Mayor Randy Darrow's recall, that was gotten under false pretenses, me, then the present mayor to this date, Tom Cordoneir and his wife Marge to Jenny the Administrative clerk to another council member, Bob Hugebanks.
Talk about a violation of the brown act when a sitting council member Dar Carroll on record reveals a private situation that was not to be made public, but was and then sits back and complains rights were violated while having no problem violating someone else’s privacy rights with the same vindictive purpose in mind. To get even or to get back at someone for exposing the truth, not only about them, but others just like them in the city of Tulelake, CA.
I have just begun to stand up for what is right and what is wrong and there is no stopping me now, election or no election.
That is what happens when you wake up a sleeping giant.
When you make things public, you get what you ask for at a public meeting on record.
Written by James Garland of Tulelake News
PO Box 772
Tulelake, CA 96134-0772
Home Phone (530) 667-4744
Cell # (530) 708-7852
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