Voters, because of your relentlessness in questioning him about his record, Council Member Rick Mohrig has been forced to defend his terrible record. He is now furiously backpedaling and on the defensive. Thank you, citizens!
The ever-malleable Mohrig has slimily shifted from his unsuccessful strategy of ignoring his record to instead grossly distorting his record. In a few instances (the Ebenezer Road rezoning and denying District 3 a voting location), Mohrig actually (tries to) entirely flip the script and to morph himself from villain to hero. These are acts of desperation.
Mohrig has added two new defensive web pages to his campaign website. There is little factuality and lots of fakery. Provided below are links to both pages. You might be questioning why I would give Mohrig access to my wide readership. The answer is that Mohrig is his own worst enemy. His assertions (aka lies and innuendo) are easily refutable and further underscore the case for electing Phil Cranmer (and Carol Cookerly, who has strongly called out Mohrig for his bad behavior). Mohrig assumes voters are morons who can be easily duped. I hold the opposite opinion. I have always trusted the discernment of Milton’s voters . . . and I am confident they will elect Cranmer and Cookerly. It’s NOT a difficult choice. I am quite sure voters will NOT countenance a corrupt and dishonest hack politician like Mohrig.
Through anonymous emails and posts, Mohrig’s surrogates are parroting Mohrig’s lies and innuendo. Their anonymity begs the question: Should/will astute voters trust anonymous and clearly slanted communications that provide little/no substantiation or sourcing?
At a new web page entitled “Refuting Mohrig’s Two New Campaign Website Pages: Facts Matter and Highway 9,” I debunk Mohrig’s six defenses of his terrible record. You can view my new web page by clicking on the navigation menu in the upper left-hand corner of the blog, or you can click on the following link:
Refuting Mohrig’s Two New Campaign Website Pages: Facts Matter and Highway 9
My next six blog posts will address Mohrig’s defenses of his record one-by-one. I first begin with Mohrig’s feeble defenses of his land-use record.
Long-time readers know that my steadfast position on land use is hardline. I would NEVER recommend any candidate that did not largely share my positions on land use in Milton. My positions are shared by Phil Cranmer and Carol Cookerly. Conversely, Rick Mohrig has an abysmal, documented land-use record . . . a record he is now twisting. At his campaign website, Rick Mohrig has made several egregious but also easily falsifiable assertions about land use in Milton. Today, I address the worst of these assertions . . .
False Assertion #1: Rick has protected Milton from high-density development.
This is the lie that most has me seeing red. Why? Because, I (along with former council members Laura Bentley and Julie Bailey) led the opposition to both rezonings to higher density housing that Mohrig SUPPORTED. In response to these existential threats to the community, I started this blog and posted two petitions that have garnered over 2,700 signatures. I KNOW the TRUTH . . . and so do the many citizens that engaged on these rezonings. In the instance of sewer being extended on Hopewell Road, Mohrig goes silent when asked about it. Following is a link to my blog post about this sewer extension:
In the second instance of sewer extension–the Ebenezer Road rezoning–Mohrig simply LIES, creating a completely fabricated narrative (that is the opposite of the truth) by ONLY focusing on the second Ebenezer vote where he REVERSED his first Ebenezer vote. I wrote an entire blog post debunking Mohrig’s heroic myth about the Ebenezer rezoning. Following is the link:
Mohrig Votes For Ebenezer Rezoning: Cluster Housing & Private Sewer . . . Watch Video
After repeatedly being called out, Mohrig has finally acknowledged the first council rezoning hearing for Ebenezer on April 25, 2016, and his vote for sewer extension (to allow higher density). However, he asserts that the April vote was the “first unofficial vote” in advance of a “final” vote in June. This is complete nonsense. There is no such thing as a “first unofficial vote.” It is completely fictional. Conveniently, Mohrig does NOT mention that Lockwood vetoed the first rezoning . . . and that is the only reason the rezoning appeared again before council on June 20, 2016, where Mohrig REVERSED his first vote to approve sewer extension and higher density. See the following from the Milton Herald.
Mohrig was the villain, not the hero, in the Ebenezer rezoning. Had Mohrig voted to DENY, the rezoning would have failed (in a 3-3 tie) . . . and Lockwood would not have needed to veto the rezoning. Instead, Mohrig’s vote to APPROVE was the deciding vote that kept this divisive issue alive for another 8 weeks, causing tremendous acrimony in the community.
Mohrig’s ginormous Ebenezer lie is quite audacious but also quite stupid. The Ebenezer rezoning set the stage for the biggest battle I have ever witnessed in Milton. Many hundreds of citizens were engaged on both sides of the Ebenezer rezoning. They know the truth, so I am flummoxed that Mohrig would float such blatantly false assertions. However, this sort of deception is classic Mohrig . . . he just covers up his initial lies with more and bigger lies. Mohrig thinks voters are stupid and easily duped. Prove him wrong by voting for Cranmer and Cookerly.
Tomorrow, I will debunk False Assertion #2: Little/nothing can be done about the increasing commercial blight in the Highway 9/Deerfield/Windward corridor. Stand by . . .
Advocating Against Sewer Extension and High Density,
Tim
Note: I am including a pdf file that provides my refutation of all six of Mohrig’s defenses on his record on land use, elections, and campaign collusion. I urge readers to circulate this file to family, friends, and neighbors. We must not let Mohrig get away with distorting his record and smearing his opponent.
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