The latest tactic for Lisa Sweeney-Miran is to have people write to #Boulder City Council to support a diverse panel on the POP. What is diverse about Lisa? She is a white girl who has never had any personal bad experiences with police. (P. 282 of the independent counsel report)
She says she has seen others be treated with disrespect through her work with the homeless and in her position with her non-profits. But is this diversity? This describes so many people in our town who do important non-profit work.
Diversity is defined as “the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.”
This doesn’t describe Lisa at all.
In fact, she exactly like the people she decries…a white woman who lives in Boulder and owns a *1.4M house. In 2020 she made a salary of 70k from Mother House. It’s unclear if she makes an additional salary from The Lodge, her additional non-profit.
*Zillow
Abolition is not a diverse viewpoint. It’s a divergent viewpoint. It’s totalitarian and extreme and hurtful. It is a mirror to the authoritarian politics of the far right and it has no place on a panel trying to do the important work of policing.
From page 13 of the 317 page report Clay Douglas writes, “On our March 26 telephone interview, Sweeney-Miran said “abolitionist” is not a term she would use to describe herself and she is unsure what the term means because she has not used it to describe herself...
… At that time, she failed to address the statement, in John Neslage’s January 19 complaint, that “She has also added the hashtag #abolitionist to her new Mastodon account.” In an April 2 follow-up interview, Sweeney-Miran said she is not sure what a Mastodon hashtag is…
A couple years ago in 2021 when it was mentioned by @BVSDcolorado it was after a spate of deaths including this boy, Jack Swanson, who attended Boulder High:
Colorado responded by passing House Bill 1326 which increased the penalties for possessing or distributing fentanyl and will pump tens of millions of dollars into efforts to prevent overdose deaths, as well as drug treatment and education campaigns.
In he writes: COVID faded last year and the unplanned fun ended. Restauranteurs and retailers on West Pearl demanded their street back, so that customers could drive to their eateries and shops and park nearby. The complications of utilities, public safety, trash removal…
…deliveries, bus routes, and parking started to outweigh the temporary experiment of West Pearl as a pedestrian experience. So, last September, city staff re-opened West Pearl to vehicular traffic. The city received angry emails from 600 unhappy residents.
The email from #Boulder High School in response to exploding propane tanks:
Dear Boulder High School Families and Staff,
As you may have seen in the media, there have been several fires that Boulder Fire Department has had to put out in the tent encampments, just outside…1/
…of the western boundary of our school property. In the first case on Friday, student athletes were running on the multi-use path when they had to turn back after spotting the fire. On Tuesday, student-athletes were practicing at Recht Field when the fire started. 2/
…This fire resulted in students being evacuated from the field and canceling practice.
Given these developments, we are working with our partners in the City of Boulder to increase measures to ensure the safety of our students. 3/
@farahmuscadin recently resigned from her POP post in late last year after returning from maternity leave citing her desire to focus on family and care for her our-of-state parents: thetexan.news/wp-content/upl…
In 2021, a Houston arbiter found she “improperly conducting investigations into officer misconduct and dictating the questions that could be asked of witnesses during interviews to assess whether an officer had acted inappropriately.” bit.ly/3L4ApEi
@boulderweekly has a fairly balanced piece out this week on the diminished safety of #Boulder Creek and its surrounding areas. All the progressive propaganda in the world cannot withstand the opening paragraphs about the lived experience of a local 9th grader:
The piece takes opinions from citizens across the board on this issue, but there seems to be no accountability from city council for the safety problems that persist. As you know, we are passionate about taking local leadership to task on these matters.
The usual players weigh in: @DADoughertyCO reminds us we can’t jail people out of homelessness; @boulderpolice reminds us they are drinking out of a fire hose; and @JenniferLivovi1 pounds her familiar drum citing lack of services. Absent is the pull quote from @AaronBrockett12