What's Wrong Mr. Mayor?

It seems like our esteemed mayor Michael Harris is now avoiding our interview. Apparently he wants this library issue to disappear. Word from his representative was that he would have a conversation with me but not an interview. When I responded with the fact that whether it was an "interview" or "conversation" the details would still end up on our blog, all communication stopped.

For those unfamiliar to the history of this, supposedly our mayor was to grant our blog an interview concerning the recent budget cuts to the Pleasant Hill library. Cuts that have made our library amongst the worst as far as hours and staffing in the entire Contra Costa County system. For those who have attended our library in the past month the affects of these cuts are very tangible. The lobby looks like a mess, there are long lines for help, and it takes two to three times as long to get a book you placed a hold on. I mean no disrespect to the librarians and volunteers who work there, they are all doing an exceptionally fantastic job with what they can do, there is just not enough manpower and hours to accomplish these tasks. Our once brilliantly efficient library seems now to run like a dilapidated warehouse in some 19th century slum village. All that was asked of our mayor was to clarify the causes and solutions to this problem.

Now, I would like to give the mayor the benefit of the doubt and say that he was simply too busy, but too much time has passed to stay with that conclusion. I am very disappointed in the mayor as I'm sure we all are. Unfortunately, it is growing clearer by the day that not only do we have a mayor who appears to be anti-education, but now appears to be anti-press. Like I wrote before, I feel as though he wants us all to forget about this issue and pretend it never happened.

Well, guess what mayor Harris, you will find we educated lot do quite the opposite in these situations. We have all read Animal Farm and 1984 and we know our alphabet past the letter C and we will not forget when laws and policy are changed. Remember mayor Harris...all voters are equal, but some voters are more equal than others.