To the editor:

Do you remember when: you were on the other side of the dais, speaking out against decisions made by the mayor and council?

Do you remember being angry when you only had three minutes of citizens input, and your concerns “allegedly” were not heard?

Do you remember not having a chance for rebuttal?

Do your remember being frustrated enough, then deciding to run for city council representative to be a “public servant?”

Do you remember thinking or saying that you could and would make a difference? For the people? With their input?

Do you remember the platform you ran on? What promises you made? What you wanted to accomplish if elected to be our public servant whether half term, one term or more?

Do you remember walking door to door during your campaign spreading the “good news” that you could be better than your counterpart? That as a public servant, you would listen and act upon our concerns? That you would have town hall meetings to better inform us? That you would do everything in your power to make Cape Coral a better place to live for all of us? That you would respect our opinions and spend our money wisely?

We are in a deep recession. Together with input from everyone, we can recover! Not by taxing and spending, but rather by diminishing fat from the ever ballooning budget.

“If you say you can, you will; if you say you can’t, you won’t!”

Erick Kuehn

Cape Coral