At Tonight's Lisbon Council Meeting Will There Be Redemption For A Redemption Center?

By Peter Reuter
  The Lisbon Reporter

Tonight at 7:00 pm at the Lisbon Town Office Building the Lisbon Town Council will be holding their regularly scheduled 'puppeteer ensemble'.  The regular cast is expected but wonder if there might  be a cast member strategically absent for another voting session like last time.  You see, or rather didn't see, and lord knows you can't really miss her, Councilwoman Gina Mason there.  That was the night that the Puppet Master, Mike Bowie, had the voting all arranged for a tie, which would let stand the actions of "Evil" Eldridge to keep the paperwork trail flowing to legally/illegally take a man's property.  A process of the most unscrupulous kind.  But considering the perpetrator the shoe fits like it was custom made.


A few questions certainly come to mind that would make this type of action by any town council most unethical at best.  The man is running a redemption center from one building and has rental property adjacent to this prime real estate location right in the heart of Lisbon Center.  At the first traffic light in Lisbon as you travel south on U.S. Route 196 from Lewiston.   But by a tie vote of 3 to 3 at the last council meeting, one of the yeahs being that of a very discerned Vice Chair Lori Pomelow the motion to stop the action by the town to take this businessman's property was not halted.

This longtime multiple business owner from Lisbon even had retained a lawyer to present their very reasonable solution to a stupendous problem created by mass confusion in the Town Office.  But no go.  

Public out cry over this situation has echoed through the valley at a rapid pace.  Calls have been made, letters have been written, and gestures have been thrown about the injustice that was done to a Lisbon Business owner. Remember the motto: "A Great Place To Live And Do Business"?  Perhaps there is another hidden agenda for this issue. 

Will there be another inside land sale issue like recently transpired with fellow councilor LaRochelle for a supposedly well advertise sale, according to Evil Eldridge, that no one saw?


Will Vice Chair Pomelow resign amidst this latest controversy to plague the "Bowie Puppets"?


Will Lisa Ward get nominated to fill the vacant seat if Vice Chair Pomelow does in fact bail out like she has threatened to us so many times before?




You as citizens in town might just want to attend the meeting tonight at 7:00 PM sharp to witness all of this for yourself.  After all what else is there to do in Lisbon on a Tuesday Night?  A lot of recent ribbon cutting ceremonied businesses have closed doors and left the town high and dry with the monies loaned to them to open. Many buildings have been evacuated and excavated leaving holes in an otherwise tight community.  Even Reny's so once championed to open up in Lisbon decided to go elsewhere.  But you don't hear about that stuff from councilor Gina Mason. No she has forgotten how much she was apart of that 'show'.   What's next for Lisbon? More new police cars or fire trucks?  


The coffee is boiling over, doesn't anyone smell it burning yet?


Only you citizens can make a difference if you want to.


Will there be 2 council seats open for this years voting?  So far 3 candidates have stepped up to the plate and taken out papers?  


Will there be a "BowieVoteSpoiler" thrown in for good measure?


And what about Brooks?  When will that old fart retire, again, and just leave Lisbon alone?  Probably not until he has sucked the last penny out of every taxpayer in Lisbon.


Don't pad the situation by some babbling for minutes on end and say nothing.  We only have asked for all of the facts to be presented in a concise manner.  We The People, the voter's in Lisbon can make rational decisions when all of the facts are presented to us.  But to keep going like has been since the inception of a Town Council form of government in this Town is a complete and utterly disgraceful insult to the generations of families that live and still try to work here.


So stop the malarkey and give us the chance to vote on the Town Budget just like we do for the School.

You the Town Council Members have stalled long enough with your quasi surveys etc.  Maybe we ought to just try another recall for the whole damned bunch of you. Bet that might bring out the 30% needed if not more.