From the Styx by Peggy Tibbetts

Mayor Moore was just boiling over with interesting comments in response to Rick Aluise’s announcement last weekend. This article appeared in the The Sentinel last Saturday (1/5):

Ex-administrator wants to be Silt’s mayor
By Mike McKibbin

The former Silt town administrator whose resignation led to a recall effort against the town’s mayor has announced his candidacy for the office in the April town election.

Rick Aluise said Friday he had no intention to run for the office now held by Dave Moore, but numerous residents kept asking him to run.

“I believe that a change is in the town’s best interest at this critical stage of Silt’s development, and I’ve agreed to run,” Aluise said.

Mayor Pro-Tem Tod Tibbetts, who led a recall committee to oust Moore, had planned to run, but he said he will support Aluise instead.

Moore said while Aluise has the right to run for office, he thinks Aluise could have conflicts of interest as mayor, since much of the town’s business crossed his desk as administrator.

“As mayor, I think he’d have to recuse himself from anything he had contact with,” Moore said.

Moore vowed to “win in a big way” in the recall and may run for the Garfield County Commission later this year …

Notice how Dave talks about conflict of interest, winning the recall, and running for county commissioner, all in the same breath. So he wants to be both Mayor and County Commissioner. Makes you wonder where his loyalties lie.

Speaking of loyalties, Dave served up this tantalizing tidbit:

… Another petition for mayor has been given out, but [Town Clerk Sheila McIntyre] said she will not release that person’s identity until it is returned. Moore, however, said the other possible candidate is Doug Williams, a Moore supporter and a former trustee. Williams could not be reached for comment Friday …

Remember Trustee Doug Williams? Doug resigned last July, just days after the Recall Committee filed a recall petition against him. The Recall Committee welcomes Doug’s return to the political arena. Should he run for Mayor, we will have the opportunity to release the irrefutable evidence we gathered for his recall. The voters have a right to know.

In spite of Doug’s questionable record, you have to wonder why he would want to run. Evidently he thinks his good friend Dave will lose the recall.