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Longmont Times-Call : Former Longmont Mayor Bryan Baum turns himself in on traffic warrant - Longmont Times-Call

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:11:53 +0000

I'm guessing if he was drunk that 1) he would have been arrested at the accident scene and 2) it would have been mentioned in the story. But as someone above noted, he did do what he was supposed to do. He turned himself in. Wonder how many people fail to appear for traffic court in Longmont on a daily basis, and how many of those end up the lead story in the TC? Harrassment? Maybe. With the dog story and now this, looks like the Times-Call is more interested in trying to attack than report real news.

Longmont Times-Call : Longmont IHOP shutters doors - Longmont Times-Call

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:10:09 +0000

Same experienc for us. We tried this Ihop several times and service/food was awful each time. Askfor eggs cooked medium, they came less than easy over. Ask for hashbrowns crisp, they came soggy, sitting in a bath of vegetable oil. Every visit, at least one of us had to send the plate back to get the food cooked to a state of being edible. We finally gave up and only visit Ihop when in Boulder. Longmont has too many other good breakfast places than to settle for poor service and bad cooks. Their demise is their own doing.

Longmont Times-Call : Longmont\'s tax revenues up nearly 6 percent in 2011 - Longmont Times-Call

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:22:09 +0000

Mayor Baum named 2011 The Year of Business - looks like he delievered on that. Too bad the uninformed believed in the lies of the Left and voted him out, and voted in a guy who not only has no control over the council but has already created more divisivness.

Longmont Times-Call : Crowded Boulder grocery field awaits Trader Joe\'s - Longmont Times-Call

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:30:29 +0000

Longmont has a huge retial space just off Hover that could be subdivided for a Trader Joe's and a companion store (or two). You think people wouldn't drive from Boulder to Longmont for Trader Joe's? Fans of the store will drive from Denver, Ft. Collins and all over to visit the store. They're stupid to pay the high taxes to be at 29th street - is there even a space big enough to hold them there? Come to Longmont, we have easier access, lower taxes and less competition for natural foods retailers.

Longmont Times-Call : Mayor broke no rules by signing list, city says - Longmont Times-Call

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:20:26 +0000

The City Attorney rules in favor of the guy who can vote to have him fired. Go figure. I've just lost any respect I had for Eugene. Curious what Bagley (ie, a real attorney) has to say on the subject.

Daily Camera.com: : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:59:02 +0000

You obviously didn't read the actual document he signed. It says it is being signed by Mayors. When it is signed by Mayors, he is signing as Mayor. Doesn't matter what he says in the article that brings to light what he has done. Prior tohe article I didn't see where he added an addendum to the pledge noting thaat he wasn't signing as mayor, he was signing as a private citizen. Google the story and you'll find references to the story. All of them talk about all the mayors that signed the pledge. Not "all the mayors plus one mayor who signed as a private citizen"

Longmont Times-Call : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Longmont Times-Call

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:53:40 +0000

How is it wrong? Seriously hard to have an educated discussion when one side consistantly ignores the facts and won't admit when they are wrong. I'll try and put it in the simplest terms for you (although at this point I feel like I'm banging my head against the wall). Fact 1) Our City's Rules of Procedures prohibit the Mayor and other elected officials from making statements on behalf of the city. Fact 2) Our Mayor signed his name to a pledge for Mayors only that (as you pointed out) says "We are a diverse group of mayors" thus confirming that everyone who signed is signing AS MAYOR. Fact 3) The same organization who produced the pledge has a pledge available for ordinary citizens which our mayor could have chosen to sign as an ordinary citizen. He did not, he chose to sign as mayor to the Mayor's Pledge. THAT IS HOW IT IS WRONG. How can you disagree with those facts? They are the truth, plain and simple. He was not elected to be an activist on behalf of our city. It is AGAINST THE RULES OF OUR CITY TO DO SO.

Longmont Times-Call : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Longmont Times-Call

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:25:47 +0000

You still haven't answered the question, if his intent was to sign as a citizen and not as mayor then what is wrong with him removing his name from the Mayor's pledge and instead signing the citizen's pledge? I'm fine with him doing that. Sign it every day for the next year, I don't care. And yes, I examine all the council's actions, like when Witt and Santos were wrong to limit the speech of Theresa Foster and Jeff Thompson. Neither were "attacking" in their comments but each was censored. Again, a case of Coombs not knowing the rules of the job. He is quickly proving that he is incompetant as mayor. He doesn't effectively lead meetings, he has broken rules of procedure (or allowed them to be broken) several times and stumbles and bumbles through every document he reads (have you heard about how they had to throw out one of the Mayor's Book Club readings because he couldn't read a children's book without fumbling over the words?). His term is nearly 1/8th done and it's been largely a disaster.

Daily Camera.com: : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:14:26 +0000

Have you read the pledge - here, have a look: http://www.freedomtomarry.org/expressionengine.ph... that's the document he signed. Here is his name on the pledge: http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/meet-the-mayo... please point me to where on EITHER document there is an astrisk saying, "these mayors didn't sign on behalf of their position as mayor or their city, they signed as private citizens" I'll give you a hint, it DOESN'T! He signed it as mayor. He can say in this article over and over than he signed it on his own, but he didn't. It says no where on the document that he signed it as a private citizen. He broke the rules, now fix it. Remove his name from the mayor's pledge and sign the citizen's pledge and all is good. He'll do what he intended in the first place and be signing not as mayor but as a private citizen and more power to him.

Daily Camera.com: : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:43:49 +0000

He's not allowed to sign a mayor's pledge against it either. He should sign this: http://www.freedomtomarry.org/page/s/pledge not this: http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/meet-the-mayo... one is for citizens, one is for mayors. He was not charged by the council to sign the one as mayor but he can sign the citizen pledge as many times as he wants. There IS a difference. If we allow him to break this rule, what others do we allow him to break? Can he start making policy because it makes him feel good and he's afraid that if it's brought to council, they won't pass it? Government deals in law and there are procedures to keep our elected officials from going rogue and doing whatever they please without checks and balances.

Daily Camera.com: : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:39:35 +0000

According to our Rules of Procedure, Rule 23, he does.

Daily Camera.com: : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:39:09 +0000

He can speak his mind but not sign a Mayor's pledge as the Mayor. He violated Rule 23 of the Rules of Procedure. If he wants to sign the Citizen's pledge through the same organization so be it, but he was not directed to sign the Mayor's pledge. If we had a Mayor-Council form of government he would have the power to do that without council's consent, but we have a Council-Manager which forbids him to act on his own behalf, using the Office to move a political agenda.

Daily Camera.com: : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Boulder Daily Camera

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:37:13 +0000

Please take him. This action violated our Council's Rules of Procedure because he didn't have the council's direction to sign it in the capacity of Mayor (which is exactly what he did - he's the Mayor and he signed a pledge FOR and BY ONLY Mayors and now when called on breaking the rules says he didn't do it as Mayor, only as a citizen...not possible!)

Longmont Times-Call : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Longmont Times-Call

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:23:19 +0000

Where does any law say that Bill Gates can't sign something and sign it as CEO of Microsoft? Our Rules expressly prohibit our mayor (or any member of council) from signing something inthe role of their elected position without the council voting for them to do just that. If you can show me where on the pledge it says that he's not signing it as mayor (and no, him saying it in this article is not the same - it needs to say it ON the pledge) then I will abandon my plight. But seeing as this is a pledge BY AND FOR mayors and he signed it, he is signing as mayor. AGAIN, I ask, if he wants to sign as a private citizen and not as mayor then what is your argument AGAINST him remiving his name from the mayor list and adding it to the citizen's pledge? He said that was his intent, that was his wish so how is removing his name from one and putting it on the other counter to his intent or wish? In his swearing in he said he wanted to "put emotions aside and look at data" so let's do that. Put emotions aside and look at the FACTS of the story and explain how moving his name from one pledge to the other isn't the solution here?

Longmont Times-Call : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Longmont Times-Call

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:06:58 +0000

Then he should sign the regular pledge, not the mayor's pledge. What's the argument against that?

Longmont Times-Call : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Longmont Times-Call

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:40:59 +0000

Can you post the text of where the City Attorney and City Manager both said it was OK? It's not in the article. Or did you conveniently make that up? Just because you write it in the comments of a TC article doesn't make it fact or mean it happened. Until you can provide the proof, we'll have to assume you dreamed it.

Longmont Times-Call : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Longmont Times-Call

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:26:20 +0000

I would have my same response. "I don't remember the council voting on that, he doesn't have the authority to sign."

Longmont Times-Call : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Longmont Times-Call

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:24:10 +0000

Where on the pledge does he note that he's signing it as a private citizen and not as mayor? Since it was ONLY for mayor's to sign then I guess he shouldn't have signed it, right? He's showing his ignorance by now claiming that he didn't sign it as mayor.

Longmont Times-Call : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Longmont Times-Call

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:02:07 +0000

If it was Coombs' intent to sign not as mayor, but as a private citizen, then he needs to remove his name from the Mayor's Pledge and sign his name to their pledge for all people: https://secure.freedomtomarry.org/page/s/pledge controversy over.

Longmont Times-Call : Longmont Mayor backs right for homosexuals to marry - Longmont Times-Call

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:57:39 +0000

He's not speaking for himself. The pledge he signed says, "As mayors of great American cities, we proudly stand together in support of the freedom of same-sex couples to marry. We personally know many gay and lesbian people living in our cities who are in committed, loving relationships, who are active participants in the civic life of our communities, and who deserve to be able to marry the person with whom they share their life" HE SIGNED AS MAYOR! THAT'S THE ENTIRE INTENT OF THE PLEDGE! HE VIOLATED THE RULES OF PROCEDURE!