I don’t know it all

I don’t know it all.  But there are some things that I wish I did.

I can answer a lot of questions.  Ask me why, there’s no sun up in the sky?  That’s an easy one.  Stormy weather.  Ask me what can help propel Lansdale to the future it deserves?  That’s an easy one, too.  The Madison Lot project.

Think you may have seen that line before?  Well, I said it at Wednesday’s parking authority meeting, and it was quoted in The Reporter’s front page article on Friday.  The parking authority voted on Wednesday, and approved the Madison Lot plans.  But just barely.

With a three to two vote, Dan Dunigan was joined by John Chirico and John Siegler in voting for this project.  A project they had worked on for 18 months.  

But oddly, the two other gentlemen on the parking authority Thomas Work and Todd Brown voted against approving those same plans.  Now remember, these two men had been for the project all along.  So why the change?

I don’t know.

When asked by Dan Sokil of The Reporter to explain their no votes, he only got a “no comment.”

I think the people of Lansdale deserve to know why these two men pulled a 180 and tried to scuttle this important project.  “No comment” doesn’t cut it for me.  And it should be noted that Tom Work is also a Republican candidate for Borough Council.  Making his silence even more unusual.  And suspect.

Do I have a guess?  Well, yes.  My answer would paraphrase Lansdale’s new slogan.  My answer would be, “Politics in Motion.”

To allow election year politics to get in the way of a project that is so good for our borough on so many different levels is wrong.  

Mr. Work and Mr. Brown – please explain yourselves.  Because I don’t like not knowing why.