RFP Staff
♦ Freedom of Information Act obtained emails demonstrates how “mutually terminated” City Manager Doug Paris conspired to keep Salisbury taxpayers from speaking out against the bicycle lane project on Newsome Road. In the email exchange with Post reporter Emily Ford, Paris conveniently labels taxpayer opposition to bike lanes on Statesville Blvd. as “Tea Party”. On the contrary many Salisbury taxpayers, who opposed the imposition of bike lanes on Statesville Blvd came from diverse political persuasions and simply didn’t want traffic slowed down, congested or their businesses harmed by thoughtless bicycle lanes. The email exchange by Salisbury’s former city manager Paris is typical of how the city government keeps opposition out of discussions and ramrods their agenda through.
At the Statesville Blvd “road diet” discussions the taxpayers overcame the city staffers attempts to suppress opposition with the Delphi technique, a divide and conquer technique
The FOIA email exchange demonstrating how the city government typically quells any opposition to their agendas:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2E5Ew6OLdElTkNUalNoWUplWEE/edit
