Councilors Litz and Staggers had a protest vote against FEMA’s floodplain maps at Monday night’s council meeting, they knew it would pass without their votes but were basically telling Washington they didn’t approve of the way this matter was handled. The city was forced to accept this map. I sent this email to Staggers and Litz shortly after the vote, Litz was the only one to respond, I found what he had to say, interesting to say the least;
Kermit-
I applaud you and councilor Litz for voting against the floodplain map, I have been saying all along it is bogus (or something like that).
Scott L. Ehrisman
LITZ: One federal agency , the Corps is told by another federal agency FEMA they didn’t get the job done so if your house is insured in part by another federal agency HUD you must buy insurance from another federal agency. Kafka couldn’t have done it better. The trouble is the comedy of errors involves real peoples money…..blitz
ME: I do understand that the council had to vote for this (forced) but I still wish there would have been more vocal protest. I will have to say, that for once I am not disappointed in city government on this one, I am disappointed in our Washington delegation in not doing more, your hands were tied.
Good luck, Scott
LITZ: We are powerless against our Federal Government…blitz
ME: Really? Dissent is a powerful thing. It created this country.