Letter to the Editor: Support Joe Adams for Village Trustee
Winnetka resident Lee Ann Rechtin urges residents to attend the Annual Town Meeting, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Skokie School auditorium.
I am one opinionated gal, and although I typically share my ranting’s and musings with my closest friends, today I feel compelled to reach my fellow Winnetkans because I sense we have a divisive undercurrent coursing through our town and the latest neighbors with battle scars are Village Trustee nominee Joe Adams and challenger Patrick Livney. Somehow, the position of Village Trustee has been twisted to become a vote for or against affordable housing. That issue was asked and answered by our community last April; this election is about determining who is going to represent each one of us, acting as Trustee and setting Village policy through the adoption of ordinances, resolutions, motions and budgets. A Trustee is not a volunteer position…
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1:24 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
I was at the meeting last night. What a circus act. Joe Adams was polished and professional and clearly has the education, local experience and personality to weather Winnetka's storms (rainy or political). Pat Livney is not an engineer, said "coaching" and "listening" is how he volunteers locally and admitted to losing $90 million in pension funds and seemed to just shrug that off as "oh well." … more ›