- In 2009, Bryan’s donors gave in-kind contributions of $8414.14. Of that, $2901.88 came from “Realtors and developers” - $200 of which was an “estimated” value for letting us use an office 4 nights to make local phone calls. But even including that “contribution” the total equals less than 35% of the total contributions.
- The conversation in question (with a Solar Industry lobbyist, who was not a citizen of Longmont) was as follows:
- Bryan “We voted it down and I would vote it down again” (referring to a solar subsidy the council voted down the prior week)
- Lobbyist “Well, I urge you to reconsider...um...there’s economies that are a lot more dire straights than Longmont here that are offering up way better incentive programs then even the one you voted down...”
- Bryan “then maybe you should go live there?”
View the exchange yourself here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnTmRYef-YQ
- Bryan never visited Mexico during his 2 years in office. He was invited to Japan by Chino’s Mayor, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of our Sister City partnership. Mayor Baum stayed in the home of a Chino couple to help minimize costs. Mayor Baum chose not to attend the NLC conference in Washington DC with other members of the council - trips that cost-wise were on par with his Japan trip, because of conference fees, airfare, hotel and per diem.
- Twin Peaks Mall was in financial ruin when Mayor Baum took office. His leadership over the last two years has been cited by NewMark Merrill, who just announced their purchase of the mall, as positively contributing to their decision making process to make the purchase. Wal-Mart moved to a new, bigger location outside the Boulder County limits and has boosted Sales and Use taxes to the City of Longmont, and sales for Wal-Mart are up over 23% for the year.
The Moving Longmont Forward issue committee is registered by Teresa Lichti (740 Brookside Drive, Longmont, CO 80504,
303-684-6811). Contributors to the committee include: Karen Benker ($100), Lee Springer ($100), Jonathon Singer ($100), Daniel Gould ($75), Joan Peck ($200), Gillian Ivers-Read ($100), Padma Wick ($100), Robert Drener ($100), Jerilyn Wilson ($200), Shari Malloy ($200), Don Wilson ($200), Stephen Szabo ($500), Duane Leise ($200), Michael Flanagan ($500) and Darcy Juday ($250), whose husband, Richard Juday, was the founder in 2009 of the “Longmont Campaign Civility Committee” who created a “Civil Campaign Pledge” that among other things required signers to “refrain from negative campaigning.”
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