Like, for example, the item on the COW agenda on Monday to ban cell phone use while driving (only hands-free devices allowed). So if I am caught driving while holding my cell phone and talking on it, can I say I didn’t “intend” to break the law? Can I say I didn’t “know” the law applied to me? Can I get a bunch of citizens to get up and testify that I was talking to them on the phone and that it was really really really important and they called me, so technically I wasn’t breaking the law?

Just askin.

You missed the opportunity to open with “You ain’t nothin’ but a houndog.” Maybe next time.

We can’t speak for anyone else in the community, but we have never sought a pound of Frimark’s flesh because (a) the City’s ethics ordinance doesn’t list that as one of the penalties for violation; and (b) the prescribed $1,000-$5,000 fine going to the City works just fine for us.

But if you’re going to implicate our “total agenda, whatever that is,” we think you owe our readers a description of what that agenda might be – and we have no problem with your quoting liberally from any of our previous posts over the past five years as evidence of it.

While you’re at it, can you also please explain how enforcing an ordinance that the City Attorney concluded was violated by Frimark would “hurt the town”?

Finally, we have no “political vendetta against Howard Frimark.” The voters eliminated any reason for that this past April.

The whole thing stinks. The mayor should have been the people’s voice but he failed.

Schmidt is different in that he didn’t seek the office of Mayor as a promotional tool for himself and his “local business”…

…but the Schmidt campaign, despite press releases to the contrary, was fundamentally based upon the message, “I’m not HOward! Vote for me!”…and I believe that “campaign promise” remains fulfilled.

What Mayor Schmidt has so far failed to understand is, campaigning is easy…governing is hard…and if you let political consideration and personal feelings cloud your policy thinking…well…you’re a gonner.

What a joke.

Mayor Schmidt, I worked, walked, rang doorbells, and talked to many of my friends and neighbors into voting with you.

What have you done since being elected? Appoint a friend to the City Council, created a flooding task force, where the best (paid)recommendation so far seems to be: divert the water into our parks (my ten year old came up with that same idea for free), and now you’ve “taught” a political rival a lesson.

Seems like you’ve gotten pretty good at playing politics, but have you done a single tangible thing that has improved the City of Park Ridge?

We did hear what sounded like those words, although we can’t tell for sure who uttered them.

But we understand that Mr. Trizna has provoked that kind of reaction from public officials on more than one occasion.