Wal-Mart opponents need outside adviser

I find it ironic that there is more concern in Kenosha where the new Wal-Mart might be located than there is regarding where fire trucks and ambulances should be located.  Those folds relying on the city fathers to listen to their concerns really need someone to champion their cause.  That person should be from the “outside” because of the “expertise” he will bring.  Think I’m kidding?  Several years ago, the city hired a consultant from Colorado to determine where the airport fire station should be located.  His recommendation?  Build it on the land the city already owned at the airport.

My suggestion is that the folks opposed to Wal-Mart contact the fire chief and have him devise a plan to ‘re-deploy” the store to another location.  With his wizardry with numbers and ability to move fire trucks, ambulances and personnel around like chess pawns, it should be relatively easy to convince the city fathers that the store should not be built at the current projected site.  After all, they’ve been pretty mesmerized by him so far.  Sam Walton, meet Matt Weber.

Richard A. Bosanko

Taken in its entirety from Voice of the People in the February 20, 2006 edition of the Kenosha News