LaSalle Insider

On Monday we held a city council meeting but apparently  our Mayor did not show up…. Ever since  he pushed to appoint an economic director he has been beating up IVAC.   He was successful in getting not only the position of Economic Director approved by his council, he also got his person approved for the position.   His position was  that we need to have are own Economic director because IVAC wasn’t doing the job.  When push  came to shove on Monday night he backed down and cast the deciding vote in favor of extending IVAC for another year….is that leadership?  If you take a stand don’t back down under pressure simply because you have to make the deciding vote!  For the record, I was against approving the position in this economy and against the person appointed due to the fact that he has no previous experience as an economic director…..he is a Tupperware salesman and from what I found out monday night , a teacher at IVCC. So much for devoting his full time  to helping LaSalle attract business. For the record he lives in Peru and his business location is in Peru.  Am I the only person who finds this rather hypocritical if his job is selling LaSalle to potential  businesses.  Let me know what you think?  Am I being too hard on our Mayor?  Leave your comments after this story…I want to know what you think….