Godfrey continues with economic improvements

Is there any intelligence out there

Just wanted to write a follow-up comment. I have been following the comment board and have not read anything productive. Similar to other arguements, the people who oppose Mayor Godfrey must resort to personal attacks. Instead of making a comment regarding my points the opposition allegedly tries to drag out my scouting record. What relevance does that have to the topic? None. My goal for Ogden is growth, controlled growth. And the best resource for growth is taxes brought to the budget by business, not increasing property and education taxes. So for those out there with only criticism, keep blathering. But for those out there with real ideas start talking because we have two options for the future: continue with Mayor Godfrey and his economic development plan, or ask a lot of questions and diminsh as a city. 

And for the record I too was against the gondola from down-town to WSU. And since that is the only meaningful point keep trying.   

As Long As It is Payed For

Note: not everyone who disagrees with Godfreys city vision could be considered a naysayer.

I am pro !ADVENTURECITYOGDEN! all the way. I want to see the ice climbing tower in August, with dozens and dozens of climbers. I want to see a velodrome with gonzo-motocross-archery range, I want to see a giant base jump air-powered catapult up on the cliffs above 9th St. River trail? Make three! Zip line from Malans to the Frontrunner?  Sure!  Personal airship tours of the northern Wasatch? World Class Giant Bike Jump?  w00t! You want to make Ogden friendly to outdoor Enthusiasts, we say bring it.

You know, though, all this will eventually make Ogden like Boulder, CO. This town will end up so over-the-top liberal, like Park City but with Ogden firearms, naked dancing at !ADVENTURECITYOGDEN! parties, all night hot-tubbing LSD parties  with the Swedish triathlon team and the Nigerian skateboarders and Ogden's sons and daughters.  Yep, the world is welcome here.

Our only demand is that Ogden uses good and solid conservative economic principles, and no taxpayer dollars, in the promotion and development of !ADVENTURECITYOGDEN!  

Oh, and Paragliding Snow Betties.

NATE WELCOME

Nate, you're exactly right. No sense bickering with Ogden detractors- they will never ever get it.

Make sure to come over to the site for the Ogden Revitalizationalist http://junctioncitynews.blogspot.com

Nate

I've known you for years and I can't ever remember you being over the top about Scouts.  Congratulations if that is what you've found in adulthood.  Here is what the Boy Scout Oath states:

On my honor, I will do my best to do by duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.

Mayor Godfrey is none of the above.  He makes me, and I know others, sometimes question the quality of people the Mormon church (which I'm a memeber of) has to offer.  He is so manulapitive and will use people however he needs to to get what he wants.  He is not looking out for Ogden's needs as much as he is, his own.  When he is out of office and someone is left to clean up his mess, I wonder if you will all think he is such a boy scout!

Well,

   Well, Nate, when you post things like this --- "I know some out there would still love to see old rotting buildings and deserted fields that remain, well, deserted." --- you pretty much announce to readers that you don't have much to say that should  be taken seriously.  You seem to have drunk the Godfrey Gaggle Kool Aid which convinces all who drink it that any who dare to disagree with the mayor about a particular project or idea must necessarily therefor be "anti-Ogden" or "against everything" or would prefer to see downtown Ogden "rotting" instead of thriving. Which is nonsense.

   Your refusal to recognize that people can differ with the Mayor about what might be the best course for Ogden without necessarily being "anti Ogden" because they disagree explains to me why you feel so comfortable in the Godfrey Gaggle camp. You doubtless fit right in with the Mayor who apparently believes "my way or the highway!" is a sound model for urban management.

   Don't know why you felt you had to drag the Boy Scouts into this, but as a former Boy Scout, and Cubmaster and Scoutmaster, I seem to recall something about a motto  --- "Be Prepared", wasn't it?  Don't know how you read that, Nate, but seems to me it suggests strongly that research ought to precede conclusions, that before acting on something, you ought to have considered, carefully, the probable consequences and potential unanticipated ones as well.   I have a hard time matching up that reading of  "Be Prepared" with proposals to sell of the city's largest park to real estate developers in order to raise some of the $35 million needed to build a flatland gondola tourist ride from downtown to WSU.  Or matching up that understanding of "Be Prepared" with a plan to use hundreds of thousands in public funds to build an out door year round ice climbing popsicle on a downtown streetcorner. Both recent Godfrey obsessions.

Thanks

Thanks for writing this, Nate. I look forward to reading your letters in the future, when you have a point.

Because you were involved

From what I hear you were really involved with scouting and would know all about that philosophy....too bad you can't hear the real sarcasm in my voice.