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Some more on the Carra v. Ramsay CA feud:

“I really hope that he will work with us again,” said Shmyr. “I really can’t understand why he did this.”

Carra, however, says Shmyr is being either “disingenuous or insane.”

He says she and another member of the community association came to his office a while back and yelled at him for two hours telling him that he had no right to speak at one of the community meetings, that he is only “allowed to speak to the board.”


He gave numerous examples of “dysfunction” on the community association. They would ask him if he would help them “fight the Stampede.” His point, no. “I will help you dialogue with the Stampede, not fight with it. It’s like getting in a fight with an 800 lbs. gorilla, you’ll probably lose, so you need to make the gorilla your friend.” Never mind that the gorilla is already a pretty darned good citizen.

As for Carra, he says he has had other aldermen tell him that they have done what he has done (severed ties with dysfunctional groups or people) only they never made that public. I called a couple of aldermen and they confirmed that there are some people it’s just a waste of time to deal with.

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